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‘Decolonizing conservation’: Q&A with PNG marine activist John Aini

Basten Gokkon 12 Jul 2018

Krill fishing companies pledge to protect key food of Antarctic animals

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Jul 2018

Investigation reveals illegal trade cartels decimating vaquita porpoises

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2018

Shark fisheries hunting dolphins, other marine mammals as bait: Study

Basten Gokkon 13 Jun 2018

Government subsidies serving to prop up destructive high-seas fishing: study

Basten Gokkon 8 Jun 2018

Indonesia targets illegal fishing vessel owners under new bill

Basten Gokkon 31 May 2018

Fishing gear poses the greatest danger to young great whites off the West Coast of the U.S.

John Cannon 22 May 2018

Scientists highlight 9 potentially new reef fish species off West Papua

Wahyu Chandra 14 May 2018

Indonesia’s crackdown on illegal fishing is paying off, study finds

Basten Gokkon 23 Apr 2018
Sea lamprey caught during testing of a fish passage at the Afsluitdijk dike in the Netherlands. Image ©Ben Griffioen-WUR/IMARES.

Fish tales: Six amazing journeys to celebrate World Fish Migration Day

John Waldman 20 Apr 2018

Deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo spreads to the open sea

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2018

Indonesia investigates deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo

Basten Gokkon 3 Apr 2018
A weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), native to southern Australia’s coastal waters. Photo by Katieleeosborne via Wikimedia Commons.

Australia opens vast swaths of famed marine parks to fishing

Mic Smith 29 Mar 2018
Gentoo penguins on Greenwich Island, part of the South Shetland Island group, Antarctica. Photo by Paul Hilton/Greenpeace.

“Save the Krill” urges Greenpeace report

Kim Smuga-Otto 23 Mar 2018

In Bali fish die-offs, researchers spot a human hand

Luh De Suriyani 22 Mar 2018

Analysis: U.S. call to drill off all coasts, economic and ecological folly?

Saul Elbein 14 Mar 2018
Koh Rong Sanloem, one of seven islands that make up Cambodia’s new Koh Rong Marine National Park. Photo by Wikirictor via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia creates its first marine national park where pirate fishers prowl

Matt Blomberg 12 Mar 2018

Plastic not so fantastic for Bali’s iconic manta rays

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2018

Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2018

Easter Island votes for world’s newest marine reserve

Jack Elliot Marley 27 Feb 2018

On an island of plenty, a community tempered by waves braces for rising seas

Ridzki R. Sigit 27 Feb 2018

New maps reveal industrial fishing in over half of world’s oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2018

Duterte orders navy to fire on foreign poachers in Philippine waters

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Code for cod and tech for tuna at the 2018 Fishackathon

Colleen O'Brien 8 Feb 2018
A boy uses several mosquito nets to catch fish in the coastal waters near Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by R.C. Browmick.

Fishing with insecticide-laced mosquito nets is a global phenomenon

Benjamin Graham 6 Feb 2018
A local volunteer plants a mangrove sapling at the Trapeang Sangke inlet. The best time for transplanting is July, the peak of the wet season when the estuary is least salty. With a full team of volunteers, 4,000 saplings get transplanted in the most productive months. Photo by Matt Blomberg for Mongabay.

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Matt Blomberg 31 Jan 2018

Do catch and release-induced abortions harm shark and ray populations?

Jack Elliot Marley 26 Jan 2018

The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2018

Indonesia buckles to protests against seine fishing ban

Basten Gokkon 25 Jan 2018

Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018
Pacific bluefin tuna. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A Pacific bluefin tuna sold for $323,000. Can the species be saved?

Bonnie Waycott 12 Jan 2018

UN General Assembly adopts resolution to move forward with high seas treaty negotiations

Mike Gaworecki 26 Dec 2017

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