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Parrotfish in a seagrass meadow in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Image courtesy of Benjamin Jones.

Seagrass meadows may offer coastal communities a more nutritious catch than reefs

Rajeev Tyagi 16 Oct 2026
Wandering albatrosses on South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean that’s a key breeding spot for this and other albatross species. The species’ population on the island has declined significantly in recent decades.

Nations at southern bluefin tuna meeting stop short of adopting new seabird protections

Edward Carver 15 Oct 2026
A Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), a commercially important fish, was once abundant, but its numbers have dwindled in Belize and throughout the Caribbean, and it’s now critically endangered. Image courtesy of Connor Holland/Ocean Image Bank.

Belize looks to the deep sea to complete its 30% ocean protection pledge

Marco Lopez 15 Oct 2026
A Peruvian artisanal fisher poses with a jumbo flying squid. Image courtesy of National Society of Artisanal Fishing of Peru (SONAPESCAL).

From paper parks to lasting protection, here’s what works in marine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2026

Supreme Court declines to hear the case of a lobster fisherman who opposes boat tracking

Associated Press 14 Oct 2026
Fishers pose with squid on a Chinese squid-fishing vessel.

Chinese squid tied to labor abuses finds an easy route into Western markets

Francesco De Augustinis 14 Oct 2026
A photo taken on July 19, 2026, shows Sorn Srenh, deputy chief of Koh Sdach commune, who has turned grassroots action into a model for marine conservation. Image by Eung Sea for Mongabay.

Community action to protect Cambodia’s seas: Interview with commune leader Sorn Srenh

Eung Sea 12 Oct 2026

Damming the Xingu

12 Oct 2026
The Peruvian government launches the 2025 anchoveta season with a 3-million-ton quota, the second-highest in the last 13 years. Image by Ministerio de la Produccion - Produce via Flickr. Public domain.

A chemical kept fishmeal from catching fire. Then scientists raised cancer concerns

Ian Urbina 9 Oct 2026
Fishers at work in artisanal fishing pirogues with seine nets off the Senegalese coast, Kafountine, Casamance. Image © Clément Tardif for Greenpeace.

Fishmeal factories take Senegal’s fish from the dinner table

Ian Urbina 9 Oct 2026
Angelshark, commonly called peixe anjo in Brazil, (“angel fish” in Portuguese), continues to be sold at stalls in the Porto Alegre Public Market. Image courtesy of Alex Rocha/PMPA.

Endangered angelshark is still traded in Brazil despite import ban

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Oct 2026

South Korea strengthens migrant fisher protections. Advocates are not impressed

Andrew Jeong 8 Oct 2026
Humpback whale

International Whaling Commission rejects push to revive commercial whaling

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2026
Viernamese fishers in a boat.

Vietnam’s fishers face rising costs, declining catches and a contested sea

Minh L Tran 2 Oct 2026
A humpback whale back surrounded by murres and other seabirds off the coast of Alaska, with a fishing vessel in background. As warm waters reduced offshore krill, whales moved closer to the coast, where crab fishers set their traps and cast their nets, leading to a spike in whale entanglements.

New global maps chart 40 years of ocean heat and acidification extremes

María Paula Rubiano A. 29 Sep 2026
A yellow-eyed penguin.

As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets

Edward Carver 28 Sep 2026
Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026
Bajau/PELITA member Well uses the Pocong, an octopus shaped fishing lure, to try and tempt an octopus out of the reef.

How freediving helps Indonesia’s Bajau preserve traditions and conserve marine life

Maddy Bolt 21 Sep 2026
Small-scale fishers with their gear on a beach in Sri Lanka.

46% of wild-caught fish could be fed to farmed fish and shrimp by 2040, says report

Francesco De Augustinis 21 Sep 2026
Herring are unloaded from a fishing boat in Rockland, Maine, in 2015.

US move to loosen restrictions on fishing could harm vital ecosystems, experts warn

Jules Struck 18 Sep 2026
A newborn Irrawaddy dolphin calf, approximately three days old, was seen on Feb. 17, 2026

Mekong’s Irrawaddy dolphins find cautious hope amid a river in crisis

Eung Sea 17 Sep 2026
Mending fishing nets in Vietnam

Fishers bear deep costs of plastic pollution in Vietnam, but could help turn the tide

Carolyn Cowan 16 Sep 2026

Report links fishmeal production to decline in key species for Guinea-Bissau communities

David Brown 15 Sep 2026
shark fin

Panama looks to science, fishers, and the law to protect its sharks and rays

Monica Pelliccia 14 Sep 2026
A tuna catch on board an Ecuadorean purse seiner in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands, with fishers in background.

Pacific bluefin tuna will get some help as countries agree to new harvest strategy

Francesco De Augustinis 14 Sep 2026
Xingu River stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi).

‘Forgotten fauna’: Little known river sharks and rays face increased extinction risk

Malaka Rodrigo 10 Sep 2026
Fishing vessels in Dunedin, New Zealand.

New Zealand put fishing boats under camera surveillance. Will it stay the course?

Edward Carver 9 Sep 2026
Phillip “Bibido” McCarthy. Image courtesy of ABC Kimberley/Dunja Karagic.

Indigenous knowledge helps reveal the ties between reefs and mangroves

Anthony Ham 6 Sep 2026

Marine conservation collides with mining in Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich Moramo Bay

La Ode Risman Hermawan 4 Sep 2026
Guman-ri resident and haenyeo Kim Choon-hee walks along the village coastline on Aug. 15, 2026, looking at debris suspected of coming from the nearby construction. Image by Andrew Jeong for Mongabay.

South Korea’s ‘sea women’ seek justice after marine habitat devastated by harbor work

Andrew Jeong 4 Sep 2026

Global sea surface temperatures reach a record high, again

Bobby Bascomb 28 Aug 2026
Researcher Ben Williams deploys a hydrophone on a degraded coral reef in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Tim Lamont.

Blast fishing destroys reefs. Underwater microphones can help detect it

Syris Valentine 26 Aug 2026

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