SeafoodSource

GFCM, Spain field testing “flying doors” to reduce impact of bottom trawl fisheries

The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) has partnered with the Spanish government to test semi-pelagic ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Bottom-trawl fishermen who snagged orcas try ‘echoreflective’ netting

This story was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, in partnership with The Seattle Times and Northern Journal. Read the series here. In the ...
Mongabay

European bottom trawling costs billions every year in climate impacts, study finds

Europe’s fishing industry makes around 180 million euros ($210 million) every year in profits from bottom trawling, which involves dragging heavy fishing gear along seabeds. But a new study found when ...

Charities call for bottom trawling ban as report reveals damage to marine havens

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has joined environmental campaigning charity Oceana UK in calling for a ban on bottom-towed fishing ...
The Conversation

Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study

You might remember newspaper articles in 2021 claiming that towing nets over the seabed to catch fish (known as bottom trawling) releases as much carbon as all flights taken each year. It turns out ...
Mongabay

No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific

A recent meeting of the intergovernmental body that manages fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean failed to confer new protections for the Emperor Seamount Chain, a massive and richly biodiverse set of ...