Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File photo of a trawler net full of fish. A new UBC study says many endangered species are caught in bottom trawlers. (Credit: ...

Trawlers targeting flatfish in the Bering Sea deployed underwater web fences this summer to try to keep killer whales from getting entangled in their nets pulled along the ocean bottom. During a ...

A view of fishes seized 27 December 2007 at the port of Abidjan, from two Chinese ships, "Far East I" and "Far East II" (seen in background), which were intercepted using 'bottom trawling,' ...

While the deep-pocketed trawling industry rakes in millions, indigenous Alaskans, small-scale fisheries, and the state’s ecosystem are being left out to dry. This article was originally published in ...

More than a quarter of the wild seafood that the world eats comes from the seafloor. Shrimp, skate, sole, cod and other creatures — mostly flat ones — that roam the bottom of the ocean get scooped up ...

Thousands of ocean species are being caught in bottom trawls, including many that are listed as threatened such as the critically endangered giant guitarfish, the zebra shark and at least three sea ...