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Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), photographed in Yonaguni, Japan.

Top ocean news stories of 2025 (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana Spalding, Erin Skoczylas, Vanessa Constant 24 Dec 2025
Shark meat is prepared for distribution at CEAGESP in São Paulo city. Image by Philip Jacobson/Mongabay.

Mongabay shark meat investigation wins national journalism award in Brazil

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2025
Sand mining in the Mekong

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 23 Dec 2025

A flood of logs post-Cyclone Senyar leaves Padang fishers out of work

Jaka Hendra Baittri 20 Dec 2025
Artisanal fishing boats. Image by Mongabay Latam.

Drug gangs in Ecuador and Peru also involved in shark fin trafficking: Report

Shanna Hanbury 19 Dec 2025

The lab-in-a-backpack busting illegal shark fins: Interview with Diego Cardeñosa

Philip Jacobson 18 Dec 2025
A child touches a freshly caught albacore tuna in Vairao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, in January 2024. Image by AP Photo/Daniel Cole.

Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore & seabirds

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2025
A double-hooked blue shark.

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2025

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 Dec 2025
Artisanal fishers pull in a fishing net.

Artisanal fishers in Liberia question benefits of new tracking devices from government

Edward Blamo 15 Dec 2025

Study finds more ‘laggards’ than ‘leaders’ among high seas fisheries managers

Edward Carver 12 Dec 2025

Global manta and devil ray deaths far exceed earlier estimates: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Dec 2025
Mangroves within the Douala-Edéa Wildlife Reserve.

As fish catches fall and seas rise, Douala’s residents join efforts to restore mangroves

Ngala Chimtom 11 Dec 2025

South Greenlanders speak out on rare earths interests

Arina Kleist, Julia Rignot, Sandy Watt 11 Dec 2025
A juvenile white sturgeon in Canada.

With a target on their bellies, can California’s sturgeon survive?

Laurel Neme 10 Dec 2025
Fishing gear. Image courtesy of Thomas Merritt via Unsplash.

‘Myopic’ fisheries managers toy with a new ‘tragedy of the commons’ (commentary)

Charles Clover 9 Dec 2025
Small-scale fishers unloading buckets of fish from their boats in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Healthy oceans are a human right (commentary)

Nathan Bennett 1 Dec 2025

Indigenous knowledge and science join forces to save the choro mussel in Chile

Barinia Montoya 1 Dec 2025

45 more shark species up for CITES protections; tight vote expected

Philip Jacobson 26 Nov 2025

How community custody empowered Ecuador’s crab catchers and revived its mangroves

Alexis Serrano Carmona 26 Nov 2025

The roughed-up roughy fish (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 26 Nov 2025
Oceanic white tip shark. Image courtesy of Mark Royer, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

For sharks on the brink of extinction, CITES Appendix II isn’t protective enough (commentary)

David Shiffman 20 Nov 2025
Nassau grouper.

Study finds important Nassau grouper spawning site in Belize near collapse

Marco Lopez 20 Nov 2025

Pakistan declares its third marine protected area, but has a long way to go

Ayaz Khan 17 Nov 2025

West Africa’s oceans get $68 million lifeline amid fisheries decline

Elodie Toto 12 Nov 2025
Fishing boats with nets, Grenada, Caribbean Credit: Hugh Whyte / Ocean Image Bank.

Embrace ‘blue’ foods as a climate strategy at COP30, fisheries ministers say (commentary)

André de Paula, Salvador Malheiro 11 Nov 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025
Hagar Kudzordi Widow of Samuel Abayateye, looks at photos of her deceased husband, hoping to get answers. Image by Gideon Anku

A fisheries observer disappeared at sea. His family still waits for answers

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Image by Dr. Wayne Trivelpiece via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Norway’s proposal to double krill harvests raises tension at Antarctic conservation summit

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2025
A shark is hauled into the hold of the Pedra da Grelo, a Spanish longliner targeting swordfish in the south Atlantic ocean.

Report finds dangerous mercury levels, highlights mislabeling in shark meat sold in EU

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Oct 2025
Missing fisheries observer Samuel Abayateye.

Two years later, no closure for family of missing Ghanaian fisheries observer

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 29 Oct 2025
A diamond squid, which is found in both epipelagic and mesopelagic zones.

Global conservation body takes first step to protect ocean’s twilight zone

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Oct 2025

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