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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A controversial bill that has been making its way through the North Carolina legislature would ban shrimp trawling in sounds, ...

David Attenborough, beloved broadcaster and naturalist widely recognized for his inspiring nature documentaries, recently stirred some heated reactions via his 2025 documentary "Ocean with David ...

Most studies on the effects of fishing gear on the seafloor have been focused on trawl and dredge fisheries. A significant portion of the landings of finfish and shellfish from U.S. coastal waters ...

The world’s oceans are massive and critical carbon sinks that absorb roughly one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions humans generate by burning fossil fuels and reshaping Earth’s landscape. New ...

An international group has taken a close look at how different types of bottom trawling affect the seabed. It finds that all trawling is not created equal—the most benign type removes 6 percent of the ...

About a quarter of the world’s seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a net along the ocean’s shelves and slopes to scoop up shrimp, cod, rockfish, ...

The recent explosion of public interest in marine fisheries—driven in large part by the controversial success of Seaspiracy—has put the fishing industry firmly in the global spotlight, but has also ...

Oceans not only provide important ecosystem services, including climate regulation and nutrient cycling, but they also serve as a major contributor to food and jobs. Yet human actions in the oceans ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Using satellite tracking data, researchers have come up with new maps showing the impact of trawling in 24 regions around the world. Trawling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock David Attenborough, beloved broadcaster and naturalist widely recognized for his inspiring nature ...