Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as marine protected areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling ...

Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as Marine Protected Areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones ...

Environmentally damaging fishing practices continue across Europe even in protected areas, conservation groups say. View on ...

Bottom trawling is causing deforestation on the seabed, campaigners have warned as they push for widespread bans on the fishing method across the UK and Europe. Several leading ocean organisations ...

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 ...

In 2023, commercial fishing vessels spent more than 33,000 hours operating in the U.K.’s offshore marine protected areas, mainly using trawling and dredging methods. Bottom trawling is permitted in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seabed damage caused by dredging off the coast of Scotland. Howard Wood / Community of Arran Seabed Trust ...

This article explores the decline of Scotland's marine ecosystems due to industrial fishing methods like bottom trawling. Fishermen like Bally Philp are witnessing a drastic reduction in fish stocks ...

When it comes to news about fishing, bottom trawling sparks some of the most dramatic stories. In September, for instance, Greenpeace activists took it upon themselves to drop 18 boulders weighing up ...

The bottom trawling fishing technique is more harmful to the environment than previously thought, according to a new study. While it has long been known that this method captures fish indiscriminately ...

Roughly a quarter of all wild-caught seafood is brought to market using a fishing method called bottom trawling, in which weighted nets are dragged along the seafloor to catch cod, haddock, hake, ...