Imagine heavy nets, many miles wide, scraping the ocean floor, trapping all marine life in their wake. This is called trawling. It's a common fishing method that scientists say is devastating the ...

On Cambodia’s coast, fish catches have dropped precipitously in recent years, and so have small-scale fishers’ incomes. Small-scale fishers say commercial trawlers have been illegally entering their ...

A Russian ship fired on a fishing trawler during a military exercise, killing 3, a source told local media. Official sources said only that the trawler had caught on fire, and that one person was ...

Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Alaska’s Bering Sea since May. Conservationists say more needs to be done to prevent such deaths. They ...