A landmark agreement has been reached to end high seas bottom trawling, one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices, in nearly a quarter of the world’s oceans. Renaca, Chile – A landmark ...

A Labour MP has called for a blanket ban on “bottom trawling” of seabeds in marine protected areas (MPAs), which she said destroys fragile ecosystems and habitats. Katie White compared bottom ...

Bottom trawling 'like ripping up an orchard to pick an apple'. Destructive bottom trawling involves dragging heavy nets and metal work across our seabed and destroying fragile ecosystems. A Labour MP ...

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.

Two NGOs allege that bottom trawling is at odds with biodiversity conservation and France’s legal commitments to protecting marine ecosystems. View on euronews ...

This means that 98% of Chile's exclusive economic zone, EEZ, will be protected from bottom trawling. Undersecretary Pablo Berazaluce indicated that the Government of President Bachelet has shown ...