The hidden way commercial fishing adds to climate change. By Lauren Leffer Published Mar 28, 2025 2:00 PM EDT Image: Johner Images/Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...
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The UK says its sea are protected. We Built an App to Track Fishing in ‘Protected’ Seas
Around the UK, hundreds of marine protected areas (MPAs) appear on maps as blue sanctuaries for ocean life. In theory, these sanctuaries should function like national parks for the sea, enabling ...
When fishing companies go trawling, an industrial fishing method the involves dragging a fishing net across the seafloor, they wreak havoc on the lives of countless ocean creatures. These ...
Six mussel trawlers at Venø in the Limfjord pull large amounts of seabed up into the water column. The cloud of sediment (seabed) leads to an increased release of carbon dioxide and causes poorer ...
The fishing practice of bottom trawling continues in European marine protected areas (MPAs) despite conservation concerns over its destruction of seabed habitats and indiscriminate catches. Four NGOs ...
Note to readers: This is Part 5 in a five-part series. The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently met with Jose H. Leal at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel. Leal is ...
Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day reminds us that the smallest to the most devastating actions will have ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Trawling vessels pursuing fish are damaging marine ecosystems in Canada’s West Coast waters and could be operating illegally in some cases, and yet ...
Previous studies have found that trawling, and other seafloor disruptions, release greenhouse gases. However, this prior research has focused on the organic carbon: basically the decaying muck at the ...
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