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

Two NGOs allege that bottom trawling is at odds with biodiversity conservation and France’s legal commitments to protecting ...

Photo courtesy of Scott Crawford East Maui residents are proposing the creation of a protected fishing area for Kipahulu to help regulate harvesting practices and increased foot traffic and to ...

Bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which vessels drag weighted nets along the seafloor, has long been condemned by ...

Led by scientists at UC Santa Barbara, a system-wide evaluation of California’s marine reserve network finds conservation ...

When you get confidence in fishing, you can ride it ... focusing on shallow water in protected areas, such as the northern stretches of the lake and backwater canals, will be key.

European leaders have received a fresh call to ban destructive fishing practices in marine protected areas (MPAs) and to ...

The bill creating the Protected Marine Area, Blue Hole, in the South Atlantic and currently under consideration in the Argentine congress has received strong criticism from the Argentine fishing ...

such as illegal fishing and mining. According to Mexican law, the SEMARNAT has one year to publish a protected area’s management plan after a decree is issued, but this deadline has passed ...

Marine protected areas have emerged as a leading tool for ... which suggests that the protection from fishing really does help boost their population health. Biomass can change in two ways ...