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Coral reefs seen along the coast in an aerial photo.

New approach to restore coral reefs on mass scale kicks off in Hawai‘i

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jun 2024

Bali’s rapid coastal erosion threatens island’s ecosystems & communities: Study

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2024
Torosiaje fisherman's octopus harvest.

Indonesia’s Avatar sea nomads enact Indigenous rules to protect octopus

Sarjan Lahay 20 Jun 2024
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024

Ghost nets haunt marine life in Malaysian marine park, study finds

Ashley Yeong 13 Jun 2024
An anchored trawler offloads its catch to a smaller boat within the Koh Rong Marine National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Efforts to save Cambodia’s coast tread water as fish stocks plummet

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 12 Jun 2024
A phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis? (commentary)

Dr. David Koweek, Dr. Sara Nawaz 10 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024

Indonesian fishers mount a community-led fight against destructive fishing

Fathul Rakhman, Wahyu Chandra 4 Jun 2024
Keo Vannob returns from fishing to his home in Botum Sakor National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Fishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 4 Jun 2024
Fish catch, Thailand

Thai plan to relax fishing law stokes fear of return to illegal catches, worker abuse

Carolyn Cowan 31 May 2024
A trawler docked in a harbour in Scotland.

Bottom trawling in U.K.’s marine reserves, legally, is apparently a thing

Logan Rance 31 May 2024
Middle Long Cay fishing outpost. Photo courtesy of Maria Palomares.

In Belize, flawed conservation measures threaten small-scale fishers’ livelihoods (commentary)

Maria L.D. Palomares 30 May 2024
Trawlers docked outside the port city of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 May 2024
Trawlers docked outside Sihanoukville. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Small-scale fishers lose out to trawlers in race to catch Cambodia’s last fish

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 May 2024
Baby bonga shad (Ethmalosa fimbriata).

As catches fall, Sierra Leone’s artisanal fishers turn to destructive practices

Josef Skrdlik 27 May 2024
A shark in French Polynesia.

18 years on, how are sharks faring in French Polynesia’s shark sanctuary?

Amélie David 24 May 2024

Fishers decry ‘underhanded’ new initiative to protect Mexico’s vaquita

Daniel Shailer 24 May 2024
A type of ophidiiform

Twilight zone fishing: Can we fish the ocean’s mesopelagic layer?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 May 2024
Egrets at a landfill in Riau.

As plastic talks wrap up in Canada, fishers in Indonesia count the costs

Falahi Mubarok, Yogi Eka Sahputra 8 May 2024

Indonesia resumes lobster larvae exports despite sustainability, trade concerns

Basten Gokkon 7 May 2024

‘Our life support system is at risk’: Interview with ‘Her Deepness’ Sylvia Earle

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2024
Hagar Kudzordi Widow of Samuel Abayateye, looks at photos of her deceased husband, hoping to get answers. Image by Gideon Anku

No answers for Ghanaian fishery observer’s family months after suspected death

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 2 May 2024

Mangrove forestry only sustainable when conservation zones respected: Study

Carolyn Cowan 1 May 2024
Hagar Kudzordi Widow of Samuel Abayateye, looks at photos of her deceased husband, hoping to get answers. Image by Gideon Anku

Who was Samuel Abayateye, the fishery observer missing in Ghana

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda, Gideon Anku, Leslie Cauquais, Majid Alidu 1 May 2024
A wall decoration depicting a 'Bagnarota', a historic worker in the fishing sector of Bagnara Calabra.

Fewer fish and more rules lead to illegal catches, Italian fishers say

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 26 Apr 2024
A member of the Ghanaian maritime police observes a vessel suspected of fishing illegally prior to boarding it as part of a U.S.-Ghana combined maritime law enforcement operation in 2014. Image courtesy of Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0 Deed).

Fishing by dodgy fleets hurts economies, jobs in developing countries: Report

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 26 Apr 2024
A recovering scleractinian coral reef on Hancock Seamount in the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge, just inside U.S. waters. Research shows that seafloor ecosystems can undergo some recovery from the effects of bottom fishing if they are protected for 30 to 40 years afterwards. Image courtesy of A. Baco-Taylor and E. B. Roark, National Science Foundation, with Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory pilots T. Kerby and M. Cremer.

No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific

Edward Carver 22 Apr 2024
A whale shark in Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.

Annual ocean conference raises $11.3b in pledges for marine conservation

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2024
Fluorescing and bleached reef in New Caledonia in 2016.

Global coral bleaching now underway looks set to be largest on record

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Apr 2024
Clownfish at Komodo.

It will take 880 years to achieve UN ocean conservation goals, at this rate (commentary)

Angelo Villagomez 15 Apr 2024
Satellite image of dredging in South China Sea

Island-building and overfishing wreak destruction of South China Sea reefs

Carolyn Cowan 8 Apr 2024

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