To what extent does bottom trawling impact the seafloor of the Baltic Sea—and how quickly does it recover? Two new studies ...

Greenpeace drops nine large rocks to create a barrier to bottom-trawling fishing vessels.

Behind a trawl fishing boat, a vast net can spend hours scraping the seafloor, funneling schools of fish toward a narrow bag at the back. A single tow can bring tens of thousands of pounds of seafood ...

Tens of thousands of underwater mountains dot the ocean floor around the world. A few break the surface, such as the Hawaiian ...

Bottom trawling in UK marine protected areas hit 37,200 hours in one site alone in 2025. Greenpeace dropped granite boulders into the Southern North Sea MPA -- the UK's most trawled offshore protected ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study found seamounts in Chile’s Juan Fernández Archipelago remained degraded 25 years after bottom trawling took place there, while an ...

Our scientists calibrate and test systems during a 2-day cruise ahead of the fall Bottom Trawl Survey. Hauling station onboard the Henry B. Bigelow. Here a crew member watches video feeds of the back ...

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 ...

Offshore wind energy development has the potential to play an important role in U.S. efforts to combat the climate crisis and build a clean energy economy. The vast majority of U.S. offshore wind ...

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 new paper refutes previous findings on the amount of CO2 released from the seabed by bottom trawling. The previous paper made significant headlines around the world on release in 2021, as it equated ...