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For the first time ever, we’re farming more seafood than we’re catching: FAO

Elizabeth Fitt 3 Jul 2024
Stilt mangrove roots in West Bengal's Sundarbans.

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

Niladry Sarkar 19 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024

Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2024

Indonesian court jails environmentalist for flagging illegal farms in marine park

Basten Gokkon 4 Apr 2024

Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2024

In Raja Ampat, pearl farming balances business and ecological sustainability

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2024
A salmon farm in Bugoynes, Finnmark, Norway.

Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report

Francesco De Augustinis 27 Feb 2024

New environmental rules for Chile’s protected areas rile the salmon industry

Barinia Montoya 9 Feb 2024

Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2024
Smooth-coated otter

Camera-traps help identify conservation needs of Thailand’s coastal otters

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jan 2024
Altasea is a marine renewable energy and conservation technology hub on an old wharf in the port of Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Altasea.

Marine conservation technology hub rises from old L.A. wharf (analysis)

David Helvarg 20 Dec 2023
Fishermen on a fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea.

Can aquaculture solve the Mediterranean’s overfishing problem?

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Oct 2023

An ‘aquatic moonshot’ in Vietnam aims to fight livestock methane with seaweed

Michael Tatarski 11 Oct 2023
Fish farm in Saronic Gulf, off the Greek coast.

At sea as on land? Activists oppose industrial farming in U.S. waters

Edward Carver 26 Jun 2023

Indonesia to expand ‘smart fisheries’ program aimed at empowering communities

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2023
A Maluku fisherman shows his catch of skipjack tuna.

Indonesia looks into tuna farming to boost aquaculture, reduce overfishing

Basten Gokkon 13 Jun 2023

In Chile’s Patagonia, another salmon plant angers water defenders

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2023
A fresh tilapia from Lake Toba, where the fish are raised by small farmers and large companies, for local consumption and for export to countries like the U.S. Photo by Drriss & Marrionn/Flickr

Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities

David Njagi 8 Feb 2023
The author poses/hides in a mangrove at low tide. Image by Morgan Erickson-Davis.

Top mangrove news of 2022

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2022
A school of fish.

Tech companies work to make fishing, aquaculture more sustainable

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Dec 2022
Sand is pumped into Boeung Tompoun as residents are forced out from the lake.

Cambodia’s elites swallow up Phnom Penh’s lakes, leaving the poor marooned

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Oct 2022
Close up of men chanting at a protest in Cayar, Senegal. Image © Greenpeace / Annika Hammerschlag.

Fished out at sea and smoked out on land, Senegal fishers take on a fishmeal factory

Lawon Olalekan 6 Oct 2022
A fisherman shows off his catch at a market in Indonesia.

Record-breaking seafood production must undergo a ‘blue transformation’: FAO

Elizabeth Fitt 11 Jul 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022
A fish market in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fish-farming practices come under scrutiny amid surge in aquaculture

Nick Rodway 6 Jul 2022
Sugar kelp hanging on its growing lines. Image courtesy of Claudia Geib for Mongabay.

‘The return of land to Indigenous people is key’: Q&A with Shinnecock Kelp Farm’s Tela Troge

Claudia Geib 20 Jun 2022
Green-lipped mussels. Image courtesy of Adrian Midgley via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous, ingenious and sustainable aquaculture from the distant past to today

Mike Gaworecki 2 Jun 2022
Clownfish can reportedly lay clutches of over 1000 eggs.

Pilot program tries to get U.S. aquariums to raise their own fish, not catch them

Ashley Stumvoll 21 Apr 2022

‘We have a full pharmacopoeia of plants’: Q&A with Māori researcher Nicola Macdonald

Monica Evans 18 Mar 2022

Kelp, condors and Indigenous conservation

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2022

Indonesia on track with peatland restoration, but bogged down with mangroves

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Feb 2022

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