On at least four occasions, the same fishing boats killed Hector’s dolphins then went out and killed more. Despite the ...

Bottom trawling is a destructive fishing practice which involves dragging a net - some so large it could fit a Boeing 747 plane - across the seafloor to catch fish. It disturbs sediment ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake spoke about illegal fishing by Indian boats in the island nation’s ...

The boards are called otter boards, and the whole rig is an otter trawl, the most widely used towed bottom-fishing gear. These fishers are, on an industrial scale, the last hunters of wild things ...

The government says it wants to tackle the pressing issue of rapidly declining fish populations so that it can rejuvenate the local fishing industry and make it sustainable. Dr Andy Cornish, Director ...

Bottom trawling for fish like sole and crustaceans and dredging to maintain harbors disrupts the seafloor, causing a cascade of chemical changes that reduce the ocean’s ability to sop up climate ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Environmentalists who filmed deep-sea coral destruction attribute it to NZ Greenpeace says footage was taken at Mt Longva in ...

According to the most recent work by the USGS, prey fish numbers in Lake Michigan look slightly better, well, not so much ...

Sri Lankan Tamil leaders urge India to ban bottom trawling to resolve fisheries conflict, impacting fishermen and marine ...

Bottom trawling is a destructive fishing practice which involves dragging a net - some so large it could fit a Boeing 747 plane - across the seafloor to catch fish. It disturbs sediment, destroys ...