Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Amanda Vincent is a Rolex Awards Laureate. Every day, thousands of fishing boats around the world drag huge weighted nets ...

Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy announces its second annual Lowcountry Bottom Fishing Rodeo taking place on Saturday, Oct. 10 at the James Island Yacht Club. Proceeds benefit Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy’s ...

You’ll get no argument from me that not only is bottom fishing on the tamer side of Chesapeake Bay angling, it can also be at times outright boring. It doesn’t take a whole lot of skill, effort or ...

Bottom trawling, or the use of heavy nets to scrape the ocean floor for fish, has a detrimental effect on sea life and marine ecosystems. Despite that, the practice still provides over a quarter of ...

Ward made the discovery using a remote-controlled underwater robot -- armed with cameras, lights and sonar -- while he was on board a 225-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Also on board were Coast Guard ...

Destructive bottom trawling fishing, which involves dragging large nets along the seafloor, could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas under new Government proposals. Marine and ...