NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders end bottom ...

The Tasman Viking, a bottom trawling vessel that pulled up protected coral in international waters two years ago, has been issued an international fishing permit by the New Zealand government this ...

Hull, a port city in northern England, was once one of Britain's most important fishing centres. From the 19th Century, deep-sea trawling shaped its economy and daily life, with thousands relying on ...

A recent meeting of the intergovernmental body that manages fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean failed to confer new protections for the Emperor Seamount Chain, a massive and richly biodiverse set of ...

A growing debate over bottom trawling is putting the future of Aotearoa’s marine environment under the spotlight, with scientists warning that the fishing method can have significant and long-lasting ...

Egypt has become one of the first countries in the Mediterranean region to move ahead with implementing a ban on deep-sea fishing to depths between 800 and 1,000 m. Twenty years after the ...

Researchers are studying three deep-water shipwrecks off Turkey's southwestern coast to piece together how goods moved ...

Canada will not follow other countries in supporting a ban on bottom trawling in the deep seas, says Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn. In a statement Friday afternoon, Hearn said an all-out ban ...

Far out on the high seas, on any given day, hundreds of fishing vessels drag huge nets, big enough to snag a 747 jumbo jet, across the ocean bottom, vacuuming up 150-year-old fish, flattening ancient ...

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways Christian Elliott A variety of marine creatures and unique features can be found in the ...