Council votes 12-1 to allow shrimp trawling on Oculina Bank

Members of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted Friday to approve two amendments allowing shrimp trawling on ...
WPTV

Council members with financial ties to vote on reopening protected coral reef to shrimp trawling

A vote this week could reinstate shrimp trawling for the first time in decades in a protected area off the coast of Fort ...
WFLX

Federally appointed council votes to reopen rare, protected reef to shrimp trawling

Members of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted Friday to approve two amendments allowing shrimp trawling on ...
The Herald-Sun

The rise and fall of ‘Shrimpgate.’ NC’s trawling controversy explained.

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 ...
E&E

NOAA ignored trawling impacts on Alaskan seafloor, lawsuit says

NOAA Fisheries violated federal law by allowing corals, sponges and other seafloor habitats in the Gulf of Alaska to be damaged by unchecked bottom trawling, a lawsuit filed Monday by environmental ...
Salon

Trawling for trouble: How fishing along the seafloor significantly worsens climate change

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 ...
KTVB

Trawling's devastating effects featured in 'Ocean With David Attenborough'

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 ...