Swimmer’s 1600km mission to end bottom trawling and protect the ocean

Ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler is gearing up for an unprecedented 1600km ocean swim from North Cape to Wellington in a ...
Scientific American

Ocean Trawling May Release Locked-Away Carbon

CLIMATEWIRE | Dragging giant nets along the seafloor to catch fish — a practice known as bottom trawling — has long been criticized by environmentalists as destructive to underwater ecosystems. Now, ...
Forbes

Here’s How Much Carbon Emissions Are Caused By A Popular—And Controversial—Fishing Method, According To Study

Annual carbon emissions from bottom trawling—a popular fishing method used to capture seafood at the bottom of the ocean—is equivalent to around 40% of annual transportation emissions in the U.S., a ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Seabed Trawling May Be Spewing Huge Amounts of CO2 Into the Atmosphere

Bottom trawling is a polarizing fishing practice that involves dragging heavy nets and equipment across the seafloor. Davide Pischettola / NurPhoto via Getty Images A controversial fishing method may ...
SeafoodSource

Coalition of fishing groups, NGOs criticize MSC recertification of Amendment 80 Fleet

A coalition of nonprofits, fishing organizations, and tribal groups are criticizing the recertification of the Bering Sea ...
Bristol Herald Courier

Their View: Bottom trawling harms the ocean — and the climate

The destructive effects of ocean-bottom trawling are easy enough to imagine from any basic description of the practice. Heavy nets 100 yards wide, equipped with weighted rollers and steel doors, are ...
Yahoo

Harvard Scientist Trawling Ocean Floor for Possible Alien Spacecraft

Harvard's resident UFO hunter thinks he and his team may have recovered tiny fragments of an interstellar visitor at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean — but there's still lots to be skeptical about. As ...
The Columbian

Scientists trawl ocean floor, find scary creatures, lots of garbage

Two-and-a-half miles below the ocean near Australia, there is crushing pressure, total darkness and a collection of some of the strangest creatures on the planet — if you’re willing to go find them.
NPR

Large Parts Of Pacific Ocean Reopened For Trawling

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with fishing captain Brad Pettinger about successful groundfish conservation and the reopening of bottom-trawling in the Pacific Ocean. Decades of overfishing destroyed much ...
Mongabay

Trawling: destructive fishing method is turning seafloors to ‘deserts’

Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop up everything in its path. Previous research has ...