It also impounded 10 mechanised boats used by the fishermen for bottom trawling, a commonly used method of fishing in the Bay of Bengal and India in general. According to an analysis by the ...

There is growing public support for marine protection across Europe as 73 per cent of people support a ban on bottom trawling ...

In the Commons, Ms White said the Marine Protected Areas (Bottom Trawling) Bill, which proposes to “ban bottom trawling in ...

Sri Lanka announced on Wednesday that its Navy has intensified patrolling around the international maritime borders to prevent Indian fishermen from engaging in illegal bottom trawling in the island ...

The French government, supported by the European Union Fisheries Fund, pays for the fishermen’s time. Europe’s plastics industry provides special debris-collecting trawl nets (which cost from $23,000 ...

A Labour MP has called for a blanket ban on “bottom trawling” of seabeds in marine protected areas (MPAs), which she said destroys fragile ecosystems and habitats. Katie White compared bottom ...

CHENNAI: For the first time since the crisis of mass Olive Ridley turtle deaths broke out, a joint night patrol team on ...

This means that 98% of Chile's exclusive economic zone, EEZ, will be protected from bottom trawling. Undersecretary Pablo Berazaluce indicated that the Government of President Bachelet has shown ...