Today’s oceangoing trawlers draw elements of design from all over the marine landscape — and maritime history. Their efficiency, flexibility and near-universal appeal have been influenced by fishing ...

Picture this: A person subsistence fishing on the Kuskokwim chooses to fish for salmon to sustain their family when the river is closed. They risk having their net, buoy and harvest confiscated by ...

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 ...

Imagine heavy nets, many miles wide, scraping the ocean floor, trapping all marine life in their wake. This is called trawling. It's a common fishing method that scientists say is devastating the ...

Most people would agree: a bottom trawler is a trawler that drags the ocean bottom. Apparently, to those who make the rules, it’s more complicated than that. Trawlers that drag the bottom between 40% ...

The beach in Dakar, Senegal is empty except for a group of singing fishermen, pushing their colorful wooden boat back to shore. The windy weather has kept many on land today – including Mamadou Mbaye, ...

A conservation group is preparing to sue the federal government for allegedly failing to protect killer whales from trawlers in the Bering Sea. The trawl fleet in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands ...

Up to 70% of fishing boat crews operating out of the north’s ports are from overseas ...

A trawl vessel sits at the dock in Kodiak this summer. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) Federal managers shut down a major Alaska fishery Wednesday after two Kodiak-based boats targeting ...

While 37% of Scotland's waters have been designated as marine protected areas, only a small fraction have management measures in place to enforce that protection, according to environmental groups.