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Council agrees to open rare Florida coral reef to shrimp trawling

The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world.

In Scotland, fishing trawlers scrape the seabed despite protection promises

Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as marine protected areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones. Fisherman Bally Philp, who works off the ...

The fishing practice of scrapping ocean bottom continues despite protection promises

Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as Marine Protected Areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones ...

In Scotland, the fishing practice of scrapping ocean bottom continues despite protection promises

Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are protected from industrial fishing methods that have devastated seabeds elsewhere. “The inshore archipelagos on the West Coast of Scotland used to ...
Saints Wire

Florida opens rare ivory tree coral reef to shrimp trawling

The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world. Is it worth protecting?

Why the fight over shrimp in NC could just be getting started

A surprise proposal in 2025 to ban shrimp trawling in the state's inland waters prompted a fierce pushback from fishermen and ...
Ohio's Country Journal

Lake Erie sportfish are thriving

The indices are a key piece of information used by the inter-agency Lake Erie Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission ...
Frontiers

Increasing lifting-bag mesh size to reduce codend occlusion in Australian whiting (Sillago spp.) trawls

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Some small-meshed fish-trawl codends require so-called 'protective', 'strengthening' or 'lifting' bags for structural support, but ...
Greek City Times

Turkish Fishing Boats Spotted Illegal Trawling in Greek Waters

Turkish fishing boats have once again been illegally operating inside Greek territorial waters, triggering strong reactions from Greek fishermen and officials. Video footage broadcast on Monday ...
Richland Source

Ohio anglers celebrate strong 2025 Lake Erie Walleye, Yellow Perch hatch results

Lake Erie walleye fishing is buoyed by above-average hatches in eight of the past 11 years. Credit: Ohio Department of Natural Resources COLUMBUS – Results from the 2025 Lake Erie trawl surveys ...
Morrow County Sentinel

Lake Erie’s future looks bright

If you’ve spent any time on Lake Erie in recent years, you already know the fishing has been special. The latest results from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife help explain ...
The Delaware Gazette

Hatch results released by ODNR

Results from the 2025 Lake Erie trawl surveys revealed the walleye hatch as the sixth largest of the past 38 years, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.