Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the specimens to scientists, Paramasivam Kodeeswaran and T. T. Ajith Kumar wrote in ...

Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered ...

They didn’t know it, but they’d just discovered a new species. Trawlers off the coast of southern Japan dropped their nets in the Okinawa Trough several times between 1978 and 1980.

They didn’t know it, but they’d just discovered a new species. Trawlers off the coast of southern Japan dropped their nets in the Okinawa Trough several times between 1978 and 1980.

They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from safe. In a first-of-its ...

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

Last week, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee renewed calls to ban bottom trawling, dredging and mining for aggregates on the seabed in what are known as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The ...

"During trawling ban period, deep-sea fishing is rampant, seemingly carried out by people from Thiruvananthapuram and Colachel areas. They are violating law using fake registrations on traditional ...

Greenpeace activists paint "ocean killer" on the hull of Sealord’s Ocean Dawn while it was bottom trawling in the Chatham ...