The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. CNN: What is bottom trawling and why is it so damaging to the ocean – specifically the mesophotic zone? Emmanuelle Périé-Bardout ...

The authors argue that the information gleaned from their study could be invaluable to future scientists "for evaluating the reduction of bottom trawling effort as an effective ocean-based climate ...

“Only recently, we have discovered that bottom trawling also unleashes plumes of carbon, which otherwise would be safely stored for millennia in the ocean floor,” says Dr Trisha ...

Bottom trawling is an extremely destructive method of fishing, causing severe, long-term damage to the sea-bottom ecosystem, releasing planet-heating carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and increasing ...

Restrict and phase out trawling in ecologically sensitive areas to allow depleted fish populations to recover. Legislate to ban trawls in all waters off Alaska’s coasts contacting the bottom for ...

"Our findings about the climate impacts of bottom trawling will make the activities on the ocean's seabed hard to ignore in climate plans going forward," she added. The study found that ...

Fishing organizations from 14 European Union countries, representing a community of 22.000 fishing people and 7,000 vessels launched last week in the European Parliament the European Bottom ...