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Linda Ingham with Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in Japanese driftnet, north Pacific. Photo © Greenpeace / Roger Grace

A marine protected area can ban fishing boats. It cannot stop drifting gear

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jul 2026
A striped dolphin caught in a driftnet off the Azores, North Atlantic.


Seeking swordfish, catching dolphins and whales: EU pushes to rein in driftnets

Victoria Schneider 8 Jul 2026
A pineapple sea cucumber (Thelenota ananas).

Illegal fishing takes a toll on Australia’s sea cucumbers

Madeline Shaw 7 Jul 2026
A group of fishers upon returning from a fishing trip in the port of Mosteiros on Fogo Island. Image by Alice Pistolesi for Mongabay.

Cabo Verde program and its fishers have been protecting the sea for 10 years

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 7 Jul 2026
A fin whale captured off the coast of Lüderitz, Namibia, in 2014. Image courtesy of Sara Golaski for the Namibian Dolphin Project.

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding

David Brown 6 Jul 2026
Fishing on the Kaptai Lake

Declining carp fishes in Bangladesh’s Kaptai Lake leave small-scale fishers struggling

Sifayet Ullah 3 Jul 2026
Crew members from Southeast Asia work to unload fish on purse seiners in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2023.

Indonesia’s ratification of fishing labor reforms will also boost conservation (commentary)

Muhamad Nour 2 Jul 2026
Giant Salmon Carps in Laotian market. Image by Peter Cunningham via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Recent discoveries of ‘lost’ Mekong giant salmon carp renews hope for the fish

Naina Rao 1 Jul 2026
Four men stand in muddy water holding a brown fishnet full of fish.

Aquatic animal and terrestrial meat trades now almost on par, FAO report finds

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Jun 2026

Women patrol Tanzania’s Pemba waters in a community-led push to protect the sea

David Akana 27 Jun 2026
A fisher at Saude Beach in Kochi. Image by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

India’s fishers confront homegrown ‘ghost gear’ problem

Robert Bociaga 26 Jun 2026
According to Lovin Kobusingye, the women who catch, process and sell fish are still largely missing from conversations about Africa's growing blue economy. Photo: Environmental Justice Foundation.

A trailblazing Ugandan championing women in African fisheries: Q&A with Lovin Kobusingye

David Akana 26 Jun 2026
African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 26 Jun 2026

Asia’s shark and ray hotspots remain poorly protected, study finds

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jun 2026
Mohammed Abu Daya, center, measures one of several spinetail devil rays (Mobula mobular) caught in Gaza in 2016, after spending time at sea collecting data with the fishers who caught them. Image by Wissam Nassar, ©Save Our Seas Foundation.

Studying giant devil rays through war in Gaza: Interview with Mohammed Abu Daya

Lyse Mauvais 22 Jun 2026
Night time scene from the annual Hareed Festival in the Farasan Islands, an archipelago in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi parrotfish festival stretches scientific & traditional ecological knowledge (commentary)

Laila Shaaban 18 Jun 2026
A cross section of canoes after fishing in Marshall, Liberia. Image by Edward Blamo for Mongabay.

To help combat illegal fishing, 15 countries commit to sharing fisheries data

Elodie Toto 18 Jun 2026
A humpback whale fluke.

Protect Antarctic krill to preserve the health of Africa’s coastal communities (commentary)

Carmen dos Santos 17 Jun 2026
Purple sea urchin on the Gaiola MPA sea floor. Image courtesy of Maurizio Simeone.

How a popular spaghetti dish is threatening Italy’s marine ecosystem

Manuela Callari 16 Jun 2026
A fisherman walks, left, with his catch as needlefish hang at right at the Shimoni port, in Kwale county, Kenya

To improve its floundering fisheries, Kenya boosts data collection on artisanal fleet

Anthony Langat 12 Jun 2026
Residents in East Lombok plant mangroves. Image by Ahmad H. Ramdhani/Mongabay Indonesia.

In Indonesia’s Lombok, fishers find food security tied to mangrove reforestation

Ahmad H. Ramdhani 11 Jun 2026
A West African seahorse (Hippocampus algiris) is a vulnerable species found in West Africa

Four alleged wildlife traffickers arrested in Guinea, dried seahorses and shark fins seized

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jun 2026
Some of the more than 4,000 fishers who make their living in the waterways of Elephant Marsh. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Malawi’s Elephant Marsh: The challenge of protecting a wetland that sustains thousands

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
A school of albacore tuna gathered by a seine net, off the Seychelles. Photo by Marc Taquet

Tuna are rebounding. The work is far from done.

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jun 2026
A blue-spotted bamboo shark photographed in Madagascar in 2025. Image courtesy of Tsarahasina Fanomenzana.

New records of ‘lost’ bamboo shark confirmed in Madagascar

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jun 2026
Harbor seals

Fisheries and climate research would be hit hard in Trump’s proposed budget

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jun 2026
The blue shark is one of the widest-ranging sharks in the world, and its meat is the most commonly traded in commercial markets. Image courtesy of Prochym/Adobe Stock.

Shark Meat Nation

1 Jun 2026

Global sand demand is outpacing nature’s ability to replenish it, UN says

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2026
Yakama leader Davis Yellowash Washines

Davis “Yellowash” Washines, Yakama elder who spoke for the river and salmon

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 May 2026
Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand

What is happening to Thailand’s famous giant nets

Lucia Torres 30 May 2026

Tracking Lucero: Scientists follow a rare Eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtle

Bobby Bascomb 26 May 2026
Amazonian migratory catfish for sale at the Ver-o-Peso market in Belém, Pará. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Countries push new protections for the Amazon’s iconic migratory catfish

Gustavo Faleiros 25 May 2026

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