Our findings show that 10 trawl fisheries catch in the order of hundreds of birds, seven fisheries caught thousands, and one fishery caught tens of thousands of birds annually. "The total bycatch ...

Bycatch is a lightning-rod issue in Alaska. Halibut stocks have declined, and the amount of halibut discarded by the Bering ...

Bottom trawling is a common way to fish off the coast ... and 30 to 40 percent of the deep-sea catch is usually dumped. Hidekatsu Suzuki, an associate professor at Ishinomaki Senshu University ...

Trawling boats—those that catch species living on the bottom, and those that target pollock—often snag species they don’t intend to, what’s known as bycatch. Regulators reported this ...

Bottom trawling is a type of fishing where heavy nets are dragged along the ocean floor to catch fish, damaging the ocean seabed and releasing carbon. Scientists from the US and Australia have ...

In the wake of news that a New Zealand bottom trawler destroyed coral in the international waters of the South Pacific, Greenpeace and the DSCC are today revealing the cost of trawling in zone ...

The Bering Sea groundfish trawl fishery is the largest fishery in the United States, and the largest food fishery in the world. Walleye pollock makes up the majority of the catch, along with a variety ...