The only California native gamefish that remains overfished is the yelloweye rockfish, but even this is slated for recovery ...

I saw just how effective gillnets and trawl nets were while working as a fisheries technician many years ago in Utah. The gillnets were called experimental nets because they had ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...

Federal fishery managers will vote today on whether to allow rock shrimpers to drag trawling nets along a protected Florida seafloor with rare deepwater coral reefs found nowhere else in the world.

A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its ...

A new poll shows a majority of New Zealanders want the fishing method of bottom trawling banned, but Oceans and Fisheries ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina's sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...