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Churna Island as seen from the mainland.

With coral-rich Churna Island now an MPA, Pakistan takes baby steps on ocean protection

Ayaz Khan 1 Jul 2025
Julio and Isaac Blanco fish octopus along the coast of Asturias, Spain, using traditional nasas cages.

Two coasts, one struggle for octopus fishers battling overfishing and warming waters

Davide Mancini, Paola Margu 30 Jun 2025
Rashid Mohamed Rashid

What happens to artisanal fishers when a deep-sea fishing port comes to town?

Anthony Langat 27 Jun 2025
Every humphead wrasse has unique facial markings with distinctive black lines around the eyes and squiggly patterns on the face.

Vanishing giants: The Indian Ocean’s biggest fish need saving (commentary)

Melita Samoilys 25 Jun 2025
The humphead wrasse is one of the largest reef fish that can grow to about 1.5 metres (about 5 feet) and weigh up to 190 kilograms.

Endangered humphead wrasse gets a lifeline from facial recognition tech

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jun 2025

As a fishing port rises in Kenya, locals see threats to sea life, livelihoods

Anthony Langat 23 Jun 2025

Red tape fouls a coastal community’s fight to protect fjords in Chilean Patagonia

Ana Cristina Alvarado 23 Jun 2025
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

Whales still aren’t ‘eating all the fish’ (commentary)

Peter Corkeron 18 Jun 2025
A moray eel in the coral reefs of the Daymaniyat Islands, Oman.

When our oceans can’t breathe, a sea change is needed (commentary)

Fred Boltz / Jeffrey Griffin 9 Jun 2025
A worker carries a yellowfin tuna on his shoulders at Dong Gang wholesale fish market, Taiwan.

Bumble Bee asks court to dismiss lawsuit alleging forced labor in tuna supply chain

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2025
Joseph James, chairman of the Yurok Nation, the largest Indigenous tribe in California, says of Blue Creek watershed costing $60 million, “You have to smile a little bit when you realize you’re buying back your own land, right? Yes, it’s a hefty price tag, but it’s also priceless.” Image courtesy of Matt Mais of the Yurok Tribe.

In a big win, Yurok Nation reclaims vital creek and watershed to restore major salmon run

Justin Catanoso 5 Jun 2025

Pay-to-release program reduces shark deaths, but backfires in some cases

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2025

Tuna fishing devices drift through a third of oceans, harming corals, coasts: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 May 2025
Marine invertebrates collected by researchers at a private marina near Los Angeles in 2023

The blobby little sea squirt that stowed away across the Pacific to California

Maya L. Kapoor 23 May 2025

How extreme droughts could redefine the future of Amazonian fish

Tiago Mota e Silva 19 May 2025

New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms

Edward Carver 15 May 2025

Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará

Lobato Felizola 15 May 2025
NC State PhD student Bethany Wager catching and tagging a False Albacore for The Albie Project. Image courtesy of American Saltwater Guides Association.

Angling for answers, this saltwater fishing group boosts research for better conservation

Erik Hoffner 12 May 2025

There’s something fishy about ‘blue economy’ proposals for sustainable marine management (commentary)

Philippa Louey 9 May 2025
Sardines caught by fishing vessel. Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank

World’s top seafood firms lobby against ocean conservation measures: Report

Edward Carver 8 May 2025

Dredging and pollution threaten fishing in the Niger River

Mariam Sanogo 8 May 2025
A whale shark (Rhincodon typus). Image courtesy of Iris Ziegler.

Tuna talks bring wins for Indian Ocean sharks, but more needed, experts say

Malavika Vyawahare 1 May 2025
Fishers bring in their catch in Tran Vinh Nghia, Vietnam, in 2010. Image courtesy of United Nations Development Programme via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Southeast Asia’s fisheries thrive despite decades of overfishing warnings: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 29 Apr 2025

Indian trawlers leave Sri Lankan small-scale fishers a ravaged, bereft sea

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Apr 2025
A fish release conducted for a recent study on fish migrations in the Mekong River.

Vital Mekong fish corridors tracked for first time, but funding cuts threaten future research

Anton L. Delgado 18 Apr 2025

How Mexican fishers are protecting an endemic oyster — and its ecosystem

Gonzalo Ortuño López 17 Apr 2025
Women in Timbul Seloko village, Central Java, help with the permeable dam project.

In an ancient Javanese sultanate, coastal women battle climate fallout

Irfan Maulana 16 Apr 2025
At his home in Seaview Park, Deon Warnick services ringnets, which are used to catch West Coast Rock Lobster, for a friend of his.

Fishing rights, and wrongs, cast small-scale South African fishers adrift

Barry Christianson 15 Apr 2025
In Port Victoria Seychelles, a stevedore prepares tuna to be lifted off of a vessel via net and crane. Image by UN Women/Ryan Brown (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Seychelles becomes first country to comply with fisheries transparency standard

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025
The families of fishers gather on Jan. 3 for a communal meal provided by the Talara Fishermen’s Guild.

Peruvian fishers sue for additional compensation after big December oil spill

Miguel Ángel Valero, Sandra Incio 2 Apr 2025

‘Substantial’ transshipment reforms adopted at North Pacific fisheries summit

Edward Carver 31 Mar 2025

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