Thiruvananthapuram: Unchecked deep-sea shrimp trawling off Kerala may be damaging marine ecosystems, fish stocks and fisher livelihoods, scientists ha.

A ban on deep-sea fishing in parts of the Atlantic rich with marine life has been upheld by the EU’s General Court. It means these areas will remain restricted to help preserve vulnerable species and ...

As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping ...

A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its ...

A GIANT cardboard cod toured the winter streets of Kingston Upon Hull. Written across it in blood-red paint were the words: “It’s not the fish you’re buying, it’s men’s lives.”The winter of 1968 was a ...

With companies attempting to get permits to mine in the Pacific, is it possible that such devastating activities will be given the green light?

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...