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Sea lamprey caught during testing of a fish passage at the Afsluitdijk dike in the Netherlands. Image ©Ben Griffioen-WUR/IMARES.

Fish tales: Six amazing journeys to celebrate World Fish Migration Day

John Waldman 20 Apr 2018

Scientists stumble upon hundreds of octopus moms in the deep sea

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2018

‘Boom and bust’ cycle of deep-sea trawling unsustainable, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Apr 2018

Audio: Bowhead whales in the Arctic sing hundreds of complex songs

Mongabay.com 6 Apr 2018

You don’t need a bigger boat: AI buoys safeguard swimmers and sharks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Apr 2018

Brazil creates four massive marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2018

‘Ropeless’ consortium aims to end entanglements of declining North Atlantic right whales

John Cannon 29 Mar 2018
A weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), native to southern Australia’s coastal waters. Photo by Katieleeosborne via Wikimedia Commons.

Australia opens vast swaths of famed marine parks to fishing

Mic Smith 29 Mar 2018

Under the sea: Life is the bubbles in newly described deep-reef zone

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2018
Undifferentiated catch at a landing site in Karaikal, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Amanda Vincent/Project Seahorse.

‘Annihilation trawling’: Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent

Rebecca Kessler 27 Mar 2018

Study reveals the Pacific Garbage Patch is much heftier than thought — and it’s growing

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2018
Gentoo penguins on Greenwich Island, part of the South Shetland Island group, Antarctica. Photo by Paul Hilton/Greenpeace.

“Save the Krill” urges Greenpeace report

Kim Smuga-Otto 23 Mar 2018

Microplastic pollution in world’s oceans poses major threat to filter-feeding megafauna

Mike Gaworecki 23 Mar 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

Exploring humanity’s deep connection to water, plus the sounds of the Sandhill crane migration

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2018
Local fishers in the fishing town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Will Madagascar’s industrial shrimp trawlers make way for local fishers?

Edward Carver 14 Mar 2018
Koh Rong Sanloem, one of seven islands that make up Cambodia’s new Koh Rong Marine National Park. Photo by Wikirictor via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia creates its first marine national park where pirate fishers prowl

Matt Blomberg 12 Mar 2018

Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2018

New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

Vanishing species deserve our few cents (commentary)

Katarzyna Nowak 27 Feb 2018

Seychelles announces two new marine protected areas the size of Great Britain

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

Watch: A minke whale’s view of the Antarctic

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2018

Queen conch dying out in the Bahamas despite marine parks

Jim Tan 16 Feb 2018

Illegal ‘white gold,’ South Africa’s abalone, pouring into Hong Kong: TRAFFIC

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Indonesian police bust Chinese nationals with 200 kg of turtle shells

Wahyu Chandra 12 Feb 2018

Whale of a tale: Protecting Panama’s humpbacks from ship collisions

Andrew J. Wight 8 Feb 2018
A boy uses several mosquito nets to catch fish in the coastal waters near Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by R.C. Browmick.

Fishing with insecticide-laced mosquito nets is a global phenomenon

Benjamin Graham 6 Feb 2018
Mantaray, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Corals thrive on remotest islands in the Galápagos

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 31 Jan 2018

Do catch and release-induced abortions harm shark and ray populations?

Jack Elliot Marley 26 Jan 2018

The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2018

Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018

Belize imposes offshore oil moratorium to protect reefs

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2018

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