Most studies on the effects of fishing gear on the seafloor have been focused on trawl and dredge fisheries. A significant portion of the landings of finfish and shellfish from U.S. coastal waters ...

The recent explosion of public interest in marine fisheries—driven in large part by the controversial success of Seaspiracy—has put the fishing industry firmly in the global spotlight, but has also ...

Authors Benjamin S Leonhardt, Patricia M Dieter, Steve A Farha, Kristy R Phillips, Timothy P O'Brien, Darryl W Hondorp, Peter C Esselman, Charles P Madenjian ...

About a quarter of the world's seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a net along the ocean's shelves and slopes to scoop up shrimp, cod, rockfish, ...