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If necessary, community people buy fish from the market to meet their protein demand, but they do not catch fish from springs.

Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction

Rafiqul Islam 19 Jan 2024
An oceanic whitetip shark.

Global shark deaths increasing despite finning bans, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Jan 2024
A coral reef and its residents in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Image ©Greg Asner/divephoto.org.

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Ana Spalding, David Obura, Diva Amon, Minna Epps, Rhett Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila 16 Jan 2024
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia offers lobster larvae exports to Vietnam in exchange for investment

Basten Gokkon 13 Jan 2024
Bottom trawler Ivan Nores

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jan 2024
A school of snappers under a pier

AI and satellite data map true scale of untracked fishing and ocean industry

Elizabeth Fitt 10 Jan 2024

U.S. mining companies leave lasting trail of contamination across Peru

Roberth Orihuela 10 Jan 2024
A black bear fishes for salmon.

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Jan 2024

Finance and support are key to fishers adopting eco-friendly gear, study shows

Basten Gokkon 3 Jan 2024
A dugong.

Sumatran dugong hunter struggles to adapt to changing times

Dody Hidayat, Yogi Eka Sahputra 3 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024
A 50m fishing trawler off the coast of Ghana, patches of rust on its blue hull, a small grey inflatable with US and Ghanaian marines coming up astern. Image by Jeff Atherton/US Navy via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Fisheries observer turns up dead in latest incident in Ghana waters

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 28 Dec 2023
A whale shark.

Still on the menu: Shark fin trade in U.S. persists despite ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Dec 2023
A mugger crocodile in India.

Could mugger crocodiles be brought back from regional extinction in Bangladesh?

Rafiqul Islam 27 Dec 2023
Roque Regis, one of Paraiso’s community leaders, stands on a bridge through the bay's mangroves.

Causeway threatens mangroves that Philippine fishers planted as typhoon shield

Michael Beltran 21 Dec 2023
A school of hammerhead sharks.

‘Shark dust’ helps researchers ID threatened species in Indonesia fish trade

Cassie Freund 19 Dec 2023

Indonesia delays enforcement of widely panned fisheries policy

Basten Gokkon 17 Dec 2023
A blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus).

The ex-shark fishermen teaching schoolkids how to protect the environment

Claire Turrell 15 Dec 2023
An Indigenous person in a boat.

Vast new MPAs are PNG’s first to be co-managed by Indigenous communities

Ian Morse 14 Dec 2023
Fishers in San Agapito barangay on Verde Island in Batangas province prepare their nets in September.

Philippines oil spill may reverberate long after cleanup declared complete

Jewel S. Cabrera 13 Dec 2023

With Indonesia’s new fishing policy starting soon, fishers still mostly unaware

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2023

Lombok sand mine corruption probe continues as Indonesia to resume exports

Fathul Rakhman 1 Dec 2023
An African wedgefish (Rhynchobatus luebberti) landed by artisanal fishermen and sold in Songolo (Critically Endangered, IUCN Red List). Credit: Godefroy De Bruyne

Congo’s waters are hotspot for endangered sharks & rays, reveals data from artisanal fishers

Molly Herring 28 Nov 2023
Commercial fishing vessels in Thailand. Image via pxhere.com (public domain).

90 NGOs question Thailand Prime Minister on fisheries deregulation plan (commentary)

Steve Trent 23 Nov 2023

Report shines partial light on worst labor offenders in opaque fishing industry

Edward Carver 21 Nov 2023
Roger and Matt store the days catch after a day of reefnet fishing in Legoe Bay, off the shore of Lummi Island Washington.

Last of the reef netters: An Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery

Liz Kimbrough 21 Nov 2023

Indonesia launches new front in climate campaign focusing on seagrass

Basten Gokkon 21 Nov 2023
Salmon attempt to make it up the falls at Bridge River Rapids on the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia.

Fish out of water: North American drought bakes salmon

Ruth Kamnitzer 20 Nov 2023
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia welcomes new Singapore regulation to help curb lobster smuggling

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2023
A sperm whale calf swims near the surface in waters off Dominica.

Dominica set to open world’s first reserve centered around sperm whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Nov 2023
Swordfish off the Florida Coast. Image courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Fisheries managers should act to protect swordfish this month (commentary)

Rick Moonen 8 Nov 2023
Rice farmers in Vietnam

Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2023

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