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 ...

The Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina sued the state in 2020, leading to a trial that began in January. There is a long-standing conflict between the state's commercial and ...

KENDRAPARA: Around 1,500 carcasses of Olive Ridley turtles have recently washed ashore along the nearly 15 km of coastline from Hukitola to Eakakula beach within the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in ...

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.

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 different-sized mesh ...

As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping large cement blocks in near-shore waters. These not only snag trawling boats’ ...