Trawling nets snap up all kinds of ocean life by accident, decimating species that we don’t even eat. Isn’t it time that technology be used to help end this? Fishing trawlers are good at catching fish ...

Sperm and northern bottlenose whales were frequently observed following a trawler off the coast of Newfoundland to feed on fish escaping from the net as it was hauled in, according to a study ...

The super trawler Margiris is an environmental “experiment” and the conditions placed on it by the government don’t go far enough to protect dolphins, seals and other protected species, fisheries and ...

It's called the halibut excluder — a scary name for a nifty device, especially if you're a hapless halibut caught in a cod trawl net off Kodiak Island. The island's fishermen are working with ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A vessel seized for fishing in an off-limits area in Indonesia may have also been using a type of trawl net that’s been banned for its destructive ...

Sperm and northern bottlenose whales were frequently observed following a trawler off the coast of Newfoundland to feed on fish escaping from the net as it was hauled in, according to a study ...

In Cambodia’s Kep Archipelago, fleets of trawlers dragging weighted, electrified nets have reduced the area’s once sprawling seagrass meadows to a sludgy underwater wasteland and sent fisheries into a ...

When Skipper Bill Hayes brings up his trawl net from the bottom of the Bering Sea, he often finds halibut mixed in with the yellowfin sole and other fish he pursues with a Seattle-based trawler.

Michel Kaiser is the Chair of the International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) for the Dutch pulse trawling project. The ISAC is an independent body whose function is to scrutinise the science ...