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Greenland shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate, gets long-awaited protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Oct 2022

Indonesian program pays fishers to collect plastic trash at sea

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2022

‘Destructive & flawed’: Claire Nouvian on bottom trawling’s many impacts

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Oct 2022
A man in a boat in Bodo

Element Africa: Diamonds, oil, coltan, and more diamonds

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2022

Indonesian lobster larvae bound for Singapore reveal role of smuggling network

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 29 Sep 2022
Fish Loading and unloading activities.

Indonesia’s sustainable fisheries push sails into storm in Java Sea

Asad Asnawi 27 Sep 2022
A crew of cantrang fishermen unload their cargo.

Java fishers struggle with seine net ban amid rising costs, falling profits

Asad Asnawi 26 Sep 2022
A mugger crocodile.

Nepal’s mugger crocs face ‘senseless’ turf war over dwindling fish resources

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2022

Faced with grouper, snapper decline, Indonesia adopts harvest strategy

Wahyu Chandra 23 Sep 2022

A millennial advocate pushes for a youth-led digital future for Indonesian fisheries

Gafur Abdullah 22 Sep 2022

Indonesia to update conservation efforts for aquarium favorite cardinalfish

Basten Gokkon 21 Sep 2022
A right whale and its calf.

U.S. charts course for adopting ropeless fishing to reduce whale deaths

John Cannon 21 Sep 2022
The recently described box jellyfish

Sri Lankan study identifies new jellyfish, sparking interest in the species

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Sep 2022

Fish return to Southern Brazil after trawling ban

Naira Hofmeister 19 Sep 2022
A deep-sea fish.

Europe moves to protect deep-sea sites in Atlantic from bottom fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Sep 2022
Cambodia's fisheries and food security are at stake as dams continue to blight the Mekong River

Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 15 Sep 2022
Commercial fishing vessels in Thailand. Image via pxhere.com (public domain).

Thailand’s contentious plan to curtail bottom trawling unfolds in slow motion

Kannikar Petchkaew 14 Sep 2022

Indonesia urged to update fisher training program to international standards

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2022
Fishermen going out to the river

For lightning-prone communities in Bangladesh, new warning system may not be enough

Rafiqul Islam 9 Sep 2022
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022
Migrant fishers haul a shark aboard DOF’s Long Xing 621 vessel in the mid-Atlantic in September 2021. Image by Tommy Trenchard for Greenpeace.

Indonesia pursues agreements to protect its fishers on foreign vessels

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2022
A soft coral garden in west Greenland.

Greenland’s sustainable halibut fishery may threaten newfound corals, sponges

Amandas Ong 6 Sep 2022
Greenpeace called for FCF to commit to reform sustainable policy of fisheries

Illegal fishing, worker abuse claims leave a bad taste for Bumble Bee Seafood

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Sep 2022
A blacktip reef shark swims among smaller fish

Maldives shark-fishing ban tested by ebbing support from small-scale fishers

Malavika Vyawahare 1 Sep 2022
Residents paddle a boat down a flooded street in Bojongasih village.

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

Donny Iqbal 31 Aug 2022
Fishers in a boat in the Malampaya Sound mangroves.

Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines’ Palawan

Keith Anthony Fabro 29 Aug 2022

Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2022
Hak Bopha of Roka Koang commune watches out over the Mekong River where sand mining barges pass by

Mining the Mekong: Land and livelihoods lost to Cambodia’s thirst for sand

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 29 Aug 2022

A fisheries observer’s disappearance sheds light on a bigger problem

Blanca Moncada Pesantes 26 Aug 2022
A young fisherman uses a legal net.

Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 26 Aug 2022

Indonesia announces plan to protect 10% of its seas by 2030, and 30% by 2045

Basten Gokkon 26 Aug 2022
Fishermen haul their catch from the boat.

In Sumatra, rising seas and sinking land spell hard times for fishers

Tonggo Simangunsong 16 Aug 2022

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