MARINA DI RAVENNA, Italy (AP) — On a crisp morning off the coast of Marina di Ravenna, the Adriatic Sea glistens under the sun as marine biologist Linda Albonetti stands in a gently bobbing boat.

Imagine heavy nets, many miles wide, scraping the ocean floor, trapping all marine life in their wake. This is called trawling. It's a common fishing method that scientists say is devastating the ...

Around an island off mainland Taiwan, shrimp trawlers hauled in their nets and started sifting through their catch. A deep-sea predator with "very large" eyes caught their attention - and for good ...

Trawlers off southern India caught a deep-sea creature with a regrown tail later identified by scientists as a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet down in the Arabian ...

A recent illegal fishing incident in the Eastern Aegean involved seven Turkish trawlers operating in Greek waters near ...

A conservation group is preparing to sue the federal government for allegedly failing to protect killer whales from trawlers in the Bering Sea. The trawl fleet in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands ...

A view of the deck of a docked factory trawler, taken from above. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which manages federal fisheries off Alaska’s coast, wrapped up its February meeting ...