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Fishers catch fish in a net in their aquaculture enclosure.

Overuse of antibiotics in Bangladesh aquaculture raises health concerns

Masum Billah 21 Nov 2024
Water pollution due to the frequent movement of minerals-laden vessels and tourism-based houseboats through the sanctuaries contributes to the decline in Tanguar Haor’s fish diversity.

A Ramsar site in Bangladesh fast loses its fish diversity amid government inaction

Sadiqur Rahman 19 Nov 2024
Mario Motiño Sr. (front) and Mario Motiño Jr. (back), are trying out the new spears.

A father and son duo fight invasive lionfish on a Honduran reef

Fritz Pinnow 18 Nov 2024

Coral biodiversity hotspot at risk from fossil fuel expansion, report warns

Ashley Yeong 13 Nov 2024

Peruvian fishers help red sea urchins recover from overfishing

Geraldine Santos 12 Nov 2024
Boats of Tangerang's fishermen, who are starting to have difficulty going to sea.

An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded

Irfan Maulana 8 Nov 2024
Shrimp caught in the wild.

Indonesia fisheries minister eyes aquaculture expansion under Prabowo

M Ambari 6 Nov 2024
A boat arrives at Chikombe Beach with a haul of fish from Mbenje Island – . Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

How a lineage of chiefs built a thriving fish oasis in Lake Malawi

Charles Mpaka 4 Nov 2024
Nya Dosem, a specially prepared smoked fish made from snowtrout (Schizothorax genus).

In Bhutan, a smoked fish tradition helps sustain a vanishing ethnic group

Choki Wangmo 4 Nov 2024

Salmon is ‘everything’ for Lummi Nation highlighted in new PBS documentary

Liz Kimbrough 1 Nov 2024
Nets, ropes, buoys and other bits of fishing equipment bursting out of decaying bags.

Startups replace plastics with mushrooms in the seafood industry

Claire Turrell 29 Oct 2024
Antarctic terns (Sterna vittata)

More krill fishing and no new protected areas for Antarctic seas after latest talks

Francesco De Augustinis 28 Oct 2024

Debate over Chile’s fisheries law exposes industry influence on fish management

Francisco Velásquez 25 Oct 2024

China’s Pacific fleet reportedly using squid ship as hospital to evade scrutiny

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 Oct 2024

Javan fisherwomen lead fight against marine dredging amid fears of damage

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2024
A dugong.

Cambodian fishers-turned-citizen scientists monitor marine mammal deaths

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Oct 2024

‘Mermaids’ dive to study and protect Mexican fishing grounds

Astrid Arellano 2 Oct 2024
Drought-stricken river in the Capoto-Jarina Indigenous Territory in the Upper Xingu region of Mato Grosso on September 12th, 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace

Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns

Amanda Magnani 1 Oct 2024

Celestún refuge fights illegal fishing & helps revive species in Mexico’s Yucatán

Astrid Arellano 1 Oct 2024
Fishermen in Robertsport in 2009.

Plan for close season rings alarm bells for Liberia’s artisanal fishers

Edward Blamo 26 Sep 2024

Six months after first Houthi ship sinking, attacks slick Red Sea with oil

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Sep 2024
In community fisheries reserves, fish scouts or guards patrol the rivers to remove illegal nets and enforce local rules. Fish monitors record catches that are taken legally to track the state of their local fish stocks. Photo courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

As southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is key (commentary)

Gail Thomson 22 Aug 2024

Argentina weighs new MPA to curb international fishing frenzy in ‘Blue Hole’

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2024
Women in the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve fish for crabs on the Mocajuba River in the Amazonian mangroves of northern Brazil.

Brazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage

Sarah Brown 19 Aug 2024

Mexican fishing industry rep killed after denouncing illegal fishing

Maxwell Radwin 5 Aug 2024
A fisherman casts his net at a beach in Chennai, India.

WTO negotiations flounder — again — over banning unsustainable fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 31 Jul 2024

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024
Shelly Boyd, a Sinixt woman, co-leads the annual salmon ceremony at Kettle Falls and keeps tradition alive by singing songs that have been sung there for millennia.

A tribe once declared ‘extinct’ helps reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River

Anna Dulisse 30 Jul 2024

Peruvian bills could imperil marine biodiversity & artisanal fishing, experts say

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Jul 2024
A fisherman feeds his net into the Mekong River on the Thai-Lao border by Chiang Saen.

On heavily dammed Mekong, tracking study tries to find where the fish are going

Anton L. Delgado 24 Jul 2024
Service in Östersund.

How Europe’s only Indigenous group is inspiring a greener Christianity

John Last 17 Jul 2024
Fishermen in the Sundarbans do not have internationally-recognized rights.

Sundarbans fisherfolk are battered by cyclones amid fishing bans

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Jul 2024

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