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Indonesia reimposes ban on destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters

Basten Gokkon 28 Jul 2021

Indonesia to send more tuna vessels out into international waters

Basten Gokkon 22 Jul 2021

Indonesian former fisheries minister jailed for bribery in lobster exports

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2021

‘Mismanaged to death’: Mexico opens up sole vaquita habitat to fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jul 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Jul 2021

With growing pressures, can the Philippines sustain its marine reserves?

Leilani Chavez 30 Jun 2021

Decades of research back the value of marine reserves to Kenya’s fisheries

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Jun 2021

‘Watered-down’ plan to save Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna disappoints conservationists

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Jun 2021

Can the Japanese seafood industry reconcile their finances with nature?

François Mosnier 15 Jun 2021

Conservation solutions in paradise: Jamaica’s Oracabessa Bay Fishing Sanctuary

Gladstone Taylor 10 Jun 2021

In Gabon, a new partnership protects sharks and rays

Gaspard Abitsi, Godefroy De Bruyne, Luke Warwick 8 Jun 2021

NGOs back Maldives’ ambitious plan to save Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Jun 2021

‘Dark’ ships off Argentina ring alarms over possible illegal fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Jun 2021

Declining fish biodiversity in Peruvian Amazon affecting human nutrition

Liz Kimbrough 28 May 2021

A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal

Louise Hunt 29 Apr 2021

Two tunas and a tale of managed extinction

Mike Gaworecki 23 Apr 2021

Shark catastrophe points to failure to enact global biodiversity agreements

Anna Nordseth 19 Apr 2021

Sharks on a knife’s edge as Maldives mulls lifting 10-year fishing ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Apr 2021

Red flag: Predatory European ships help push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Apr 2021

Study calls for a marine reserve in a $500m fishing hotspot in Indonesia

Cassie Freund 23 Mar 2021
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Amid South China Sea dispute, Philippines’ Palawan is besieged by political split

Criselda Yabes, Leilani Chavez 12 Mar 2021

When Chinook salmon is off the menu, other prey will do for endangered orcas

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Mar 2021

Human impacts leave reefs short on sharks and long on moray eels

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Feb 2021
A lemur tree frog (Hylomantis lemur) in Costa Rica. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

U.N. report lays out blueprint to end ‘suicidal war on nature’

John Cannon 19 Feb 2021

A tale of two seas: Closed season is a mixed bag for Philippine sardines industry 

Bong S. Sarmiento 18 Feb 2021

In the fight to save the vaquita, conservationists take on cartels

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Feb 2021

Activists make the case that bigger is better to protect Galápagos reserve

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2021

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley, Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

Indonesia allows use of destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters again

Basten Gokkon 17 Dec 2020

Fishing fail: WTO negotiators flunk deadline to end harmful fisheries subsidies by 2020

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Dec 2020

Layers of regulations to protect European seas ‘not working,’ audit finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Dec 2020

Lobster export policy that landed Indonesian minister in jail could resume

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2020

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