When fishing companies go trawling, an industrial fishing method the involves dragging a fishing net across the seafloor, they wreak havoc on the lives of countless ocean creatures. These ...

In Scotland, the fishing practice of scrapping ocean bottom continues despite promise - Scotland has designated 37% of its ...

(CN) - Hook-and-line fishermen urged the 9th Circuit to overturn new federal regulations that give 90 percent of the Pacific groundfish catch to large-scale companies. U.S. fishing quotas are governed ...

WARRENTON, Ore. — A rare environmental success story is unfolding in waters off the West Coast. After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen — those who use nets to catch rockfish, ...

For decades, the North Pacific trawl fleet has dumped millions of pounds of salmon, halibut, sablefish and crab while targeting pollock, sole and flounder. The North Pacific Fisheries Management ...

A little silver fish — the Atlantic sea herring — is causing a ruckus in New England fishery management circles. That's because the population has shrunk dramatically. A number of the Cape's small ...