Environmental groups urged the United Nations on Monday to ban so-called bottom trawl fishing in international waters, calling the practice the most destructive fishing practice on the high seas. In ...

Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation puts into the atmosphere each year, researchers said on Wednesday, calling ...

Relatives of nine Japanese lost at sea when a U.S. submarine sank their fishing boat off Hawaii in February voiced anger on Saturday after hearing the captain of the submarine would not face criminal ...

To reduce their unintended take of halibut, vessels in the bottom trawl fleet have an escape hatch in their nets that allows ...

Commercial fishing on the West Coast is embarking on a new and highly controversial era this year. As of Jan. 1, trawling for groundfish will be managed under a catch-share system. Under catch shares ...

Deep-sea trawling is neither environmentally nor even economically sound, says an international team of fisheries experts. They are calling for government fuel subsidies to be eliminated in order to ...

United Nations negotiators failed to agree on a measure banning deep-sea bottom trawling, a practice that has been called highly destructive by environmental groups. Iceland, a country recently ...