Scampi fishing in the North Sea is driving a “largely invisible” climate cost by disturbing carbon that has been buried in seabeds for thousands of years, scientists have foun ...

The Hauraki Gulf is back in the spotlight, as National leaves the commercial fishing industry sweating - and confused ...

The Hauraki Gulf is back in the spotlight as National promises to reverse their own fisheries policy, leaving the commercial fishing industry sweating – and confused.

New Zealand First has hit out at National after its coalition partner promised to campaign on stronger fishing protections in the Hauraki Gulf. National's conservation spokesperson Tama Potaka laid ...

A FISHERMAN was arrested when he fell overboard while fleeing a Coastguard patrol which spotted his boat allegedly violating fishing laws in a prohibited maritime zone. The Coastguard yesterday said a ...

As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping large cement blocks in near-shore waters. These not only snag trawling boats’ ...

New polling shows overwhelming support from New Zealanders for a ban on bottom trawling in the South Pacific high seas, says Greenpeace. The Horizon polling, commissioned at the end of 2025, reveals ...

This year, countries, including the UK and Ghana, committed to bans on the destructive practice of bottom trawling. That’s where weighted nets are dragged across the ocean floor to scoop up large ...

This notice is to remind you that the winter bottom trawl survey of the Maine Research Array Wind Energy (MeRA) Area is scheduled to begin the week of January 12, 2026 and run through February 28, ...

It’s said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To some, a long-snouted, murky white, boneless bottom feeder native to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers – known as the pallid sturgeon – might not ...

The factory trawler Unimak pulls into port on May 30, 2025, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The bottom trawler delivered a catch of yellowfin sole to a freezer storage facility. Image by Loren ...

Government ministers say that the UK will not implement an outright ban on bottom trawling, despite announcing plans to do so less than four months ago. Bottom trawling is a particularly destructive ...