Another factor contributing to the crisis is illegal fishing. Often owned by Chinese companies, large trawlers violate exclusion zones reserved for local fishers, while using banned small-mesh nets.

Bottom trawlers are filmed towing nets with a heavy chain along the seafloor, indiscriminately catching creatures in their path and churning up dense clouds of carbon-rich sediment. Yet ...

As small Liberian fishing craft are dwarfed by industrial trawlers off the west coast of Africa, Sir David argues: “This is modern colonialism at sea. Some 400,000 industrial vessels now hunt ...

We see seascapes that have been protected from trawlers slowly coming back to life. And of course, we see the man himself. Speaking towards the end of the film, from a grey and miserable British ...

Mr. Njie noted that industrial fishing trawlers are banned from operating within 9 nautical miles of the Gambian coast, yet violations frequently occur. He said empowering local fishers to ...

The pictures will display how the chain that trawlers drag behind them scours the seafloor, forcing the creatures it disturbs into the net behind. The process also releases huge amounts of carbon ...

The film includes several scenes of these trawlers at work, and if the earlier footage was like a magical sci-fi, this is pure, unvarnished horror. It’s impossible not to be moved and – as ...

Sailing trawlers were already being replaced by steam powered trawlers during the first decade of the twentieth century but the main turning point for the Brixham sailing trawlers came with WW1 and ...

All fishing boats and trawlers currently at sea have been ordered to return to shore as a precautionary measure. The ban coincides with a high alert issued at Pakistan’s three major ports ...

David Attenborough has issued a rallying cry to protect the oceans in a film released to coincide with his 99th birthday.