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Study examines how the Atlantic surfclam is successfully adapting to climate change

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2019
Fishers roll out a red purse-seine net in Mangalore, a major fishing harbor in southwest India. Some of the country’s coastal states are beginning to regulate purse seine fishing boats, especially the size of the net mesh to ensure juvenile fish don’t get caught. Image by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar.

Rattled by sardine stock crash, India begins regulating its fisheries

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar 11 Jul 2019
A North Pacific right whale. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

Listen to the first-ever recordings of right whales breaking into song

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jul 2019

Film that fish: Stereo-video speeds surveys of marine fish communities

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Jul 2019

Ocean currents spin a web of interconnected fisheries around the world

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2019
Fishermen arrange their gear in Tombo. Many local artisanal fishermen supported the recent one-month closure of Sierra Leone’s waters to fishing by industrial vessels. Image by Uzman Unis Bah for Mongabay.

Was Sierra Leone’s one-month fishing ban enough to replenish fish stocks?

Uzman Unis Bah 3 Jul 2019

New eDNA sampling system aims for cleaner, more efficient field research

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jul 2019

Japan resumes commercial whale hunting

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2019

In India’s Sundarbans, communities shrink as their island sinks

Erin Stone, Lisa Hornak 1 Jul 2019

Six endangered North Atlantic right whales died last month alone

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2019
A tourist boat in Donsol joins several others in search of whale sharks. Image by Nina Unlay.

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

Nina Unlay 28 Jun 2019

Researchers discover right whales singing for the first time ever

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2019

Altered fish communities persist long after reefs bleach, study finds

John Cannon 28 Jun 2019

Southeast Asian countries pledge to tackle marine plastic waste crisis

Basten Gokkon 27 Jun 2019

Crackdown after Sri Lanka bombings may help in fight against blast fishing

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jun 2019

Sponges supply DNA for new method of monitoring aquatic biodiversity

Lakshmi Supriya 26 Jun 2019

Having taken a toll in Chile, salmon industry arrives in Argentina

Michelle Carrere 25 Jun 2019

Recreational divers help researchers track movements of rare stingray

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2019

Canada passes ‘Free Willy’ bill to ban captivity of all whales, dolphins

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2019

Caribbean nations boost protection for extremely rare largetooth sawfish

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Jun 2019
A short-finned pilot whale in the Canary Islands, Spain. Image by Gustavo Perez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New pilot whale subspecies revealed: Q&A with marine biologist Amy Van Cise

Rebecca Kessler 7 Jun 2019

Healthy reefs, healthy people: Community-based marine conservation in Papua New Guinea (commentary)

Jonathan Booth 7 Jun 2019

Microplastics a key factor in Sri Lanka’s plunging fish stocks, survey shows

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 7 Jun 2019

Twice as many fishing vessels now, but it’s harder to catch fish

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jun 2019

For artisanal fishers, fish fences are an easy, but problematic, option

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2019

Small-scale women seaweed farmers ride the rough tides of climate change

Imelda Abano 3 Jun 2019

New nets make shrimp trawling more sustainable in Latin America and Caribbean

Michelle Carrere 3 Jun 2019
Red-billed tropicbird (Phaeton aethereus) at Abrolhos Marine National Park. Image by Mia Morete via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Brazil green-lights oil prospecting near important marine park

Thais Borges 31 May 2019
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile pledges to make its fishing vessel tracking data public

Marianne Messina 31 May 2019

Underwater ultrasound scanner to support manta conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 May 2019

For migrating songbirds, ‘baby shark’ is more than just an annoying tune

Shreya Dasgupta 22 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

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