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Angelshark (Squatina squatina) in Spain by Michael Bommerer via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY4.0).

Brazil cities order endangered angelshark meat despite fishing ban

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025
Mobula munkiana rays in the Sea of Cortez. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Guarding Mexico’s blue frontiers: A conversation with Alejandro González

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jul 2025
Mamiraua reserve. Image courtesy of Thiago A. Lacerda via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Community patrols can slash environmental crime by 80% (commentary)

Caetano Franco 21 Jul 2025
Julio and Isaac Blanco fish octopus along the coast of Asturias, Spain, using traditional nasas cages.

Two coasts, one struggle for octopus fishers battling overfishing and warming waters

Davide Mancini, Paola Margu 30 Jun 2025
A brittle star (Gorgonocephalus sp.), recognizable by its numerous abundantly branched arms, attached to a white coral (Desmophyllum pertusum).

First-ever assessment highlights threats to Atlantic cold-water corals

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Jun 2025
Artisanal fishermen fishing in Senegalese waters, not far from Madeleine Island.

Illegal fishing and its consequences: the human toll of migration in Senegal

Elodie Toto 30 Jun 2025
The humphead wrasse is one of the largest reef fish that can grow to about 1.5 metres (about 5 feet) and weigh up to 190 kilograms.

Endangered humphead wrasse gets a lifeline from facial recognition tech

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jun 2025
Glass eels are a juvenile form of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), a species that undergoes an incredible 10,000 kilometer (6,200 mile) migration. Photo courtesy of Alessandro Cresci.

Glass eel smuggling booms despite bans, leaving species on the brink

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Jun 2025
Coral reef in Vietnam.

Major coral loss in Vietnam’s first marine protected area: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 20 Jun 2025
Waziri Mpogo harvests sea cucumbers at his ranch in Tanzania's Mafia Island. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Tanzania’s Mafia Island eyes sea cucumber farming to prevent extinction

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2025
Fishers camp in grass shelters at Mbenje Island, which is located 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the beachshore of Lake Malawi, in a cluster of fivesix islands. – Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Community-led system boosts fisheries in a corner of fast-depleting Lake Malawi

Mongabay.com 14 May 2025

Warming seas and illegal trawlers threaten West Africa’s fishing future, study warns

Victoria Schneider 6 May 2025
Fishers bring in their catch in Tran Vinh Nghia, Vietnam, in 2010. Image courtesy of United Nations Development Programme via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Southeast Asia’s fisheries thrive despite decades of overfishing warnings: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 29 Apr 2025

Indian trawlers leave Sri Lankan small-scale fishers a ravaged, bereft sea

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Apr 2025

How Mexican fishers are protecting an endemic oyster — and its ecosystem

Gonzalo Ortuño López 17 Apr 2025

Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Apr 2025
Fishing vessel. Image courtesy of Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank.

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

Edward Carver 28 Mar 2025
A judge watches a cockfight in Peru.

How Peruvian cockfighters could tip the scales for endangered sawfish

Sierra Garcia 25 Mar 2025
Keith Davis, an American fisheries observer, disappeared on a Taiwanese-owned, Panamanian-flagged vessel in 2015. Image courtesy of Mark Benjamin.

‘Fatal Watch’: Interview with documentary makers on fisheries observer deaths

Edward Carver 20 Mar 2025
Fishermen in Marshall, Liberia, prepare nets for fishing. Image by Edward Blamo for Mongabay.

Liberia to start industrial shrimp fishing, worrying artisanal fishers

Edward Blamo 5 Mar 2025
Image of fisherwomen selling fish at a market in Kerala. Image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

India’s fisherwomen getting left behind by blue economy policies

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2025

Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline

Maxwell Radwin 17 Feb 2025
A bottom trawler works in Dutch waters of the North Sea.

Lawsuit is latest push to curb bottom trawling in protected European waters

Edward Carver 13 Feb 2025
Zulkifli Dalimunthe pulls in the net he cast the previous morning.

Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink

Tonggo Simangunsong 11 Feb 2025

Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern India

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jan 2025
A bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae).

New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2025
fishers carrying a boat back to shore after a fishing trip

‘Shifting baselines’ in Cabo Verde after 50 years of declining fish stocks

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2024
Fishing boats in Chimbote, Peru.

Traditional fishers in Peru guard the coast from illegal fishing

Leslie Moreno Custodio 5 Dec 2024

Conservationists see progress for swordfish, problems for sharks at Atlantic fisheries summit

Edward Carver 25 Nov 2024
Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) at an aquarium in Norway in 2015. Herring

Leaders fail to address overfishing near Europe at ‘fraught’ international meeting

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2024

Brazil police identify fish trader behind Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira killings

Shanna Hanbury 12 Nov 2024

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

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 Oct 2024

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