A new global study warns that the climate cost of seabed trawling is still largely unknown, and researchers say urgent action is needed to close the data gap. The work is part of the Convex ...

The UK's first national conference on kelp ecology is being held in Brighton. Kelp forests once covered vast areas of the ...

The amount of carbon released by seabed fishing worldwide is uncertain ... that use towed nets dragged along the seafloor, such as trawling and dredging. These methods are the main way that ...

Campaigners say governments should ban damaging practices in marine protected areas (National Geographic) Rebecca Speare-Cole6 days ago Bottom trawling is causing deforestation on the seabed ...

The project was launched after the implementation of a new bylaw prohibiting trawling in a 117 sq mile (302 sq km ... Freediver Eric Smith said he had observed changes in the seabed across the last 50 ...

Human use of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea is visible on the seabed and can significantly ... human impacts were caused by bottom trawling, especially by trawl marks from otter trawls ...

Allowing bottom trawling in areas means other forms of fishing, like hand diving for scallops or putting pots on the seabed, can’t take place. If you were to restrict trawling in the area three ...