Türkiye’s Gökova Bay shows what happens when bottom trawling is banned. What can other European countries learn? View on ...

The first study to measure the full economic value of bottom trawling in Europe's waters calculates that the destructive ...

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Greece is leading Europe in banning the destructive practice of bottom trawling, says a new study published in National Geographic.

The ban around Beachy Head East MCZ brings new protections to marine life.

The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged a trawl net across the seafloor, ...

Bottom trawlers drag giant nets across the ocean floor, releasing stored CO2 and killing up to 75 percent of the marine life ...

More than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, with estimates suggesting the true number could be nearly double, according to the world's first global inventory. Published in Reviews ...

More than a quarter of the wild seafood that the world eats comes from the seafloor. Shrimp, skate, sole, cod and other creatures — mostly flat ones — that roam the bottom of the ocean get scooped up ...

Highly protected muddy seabeds are home to twice as many species than those exposed to damaging fishing, a study off Scotland ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...

The government will formalise the prohibition of trawling inside the 200 metre isobath by September, turning what has been used as a management tool into law.Agriculture, fisheries, water and land ...