Spain banned all bottom fishing in Cabliers Bank, a biologically rich area in the Alboran Sea within the Western ...

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through ...

They both live in deep sea environments close to New Zealand, and the blobfish is often incidentally caught during bottom trawling for orange roughy,” Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust Co ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

This Next Friday August 22nd, R/V Falkor (too) from the California based Schmidt Ocean Institute, departs with a team of scientists from Uruguay’s main University for a month long expedition to ...

Little action to address bottom trawling in MPAs, though UK to consider partial ban Urgent need to establish MPAs in the high seas, which would rule out deep sea mining ...

As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in ...

Most encounters happen when one accidentally gets caught in deep-sea trawling nets or when remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) capture footage.

This is particularly evident in industries like logging and deep-sea trawling, which both destroy fragile ecosystems in huge areas on a daily basis.

Humanity has only explored 0.001% of the deep sea, according to a May 2025 study.Getty Images Reporter The Trump Administration signed an executive order late last month aiming to fast-track ...