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Covert Creatures: The Clandestine Lives of Seahorses

First global assessment finds highest-grossing tunas and billfishes most vulnerable to extinction

11 challenges facing 7 billion super-consumers

Small marine fish need protection too

Fishing industry exceeds Atlantic bluefin quota by 141 percent

Poor in Madagascar see fish plundered for foreign consumption

Marshall Islands creates world’s biggest shark park

Sowing the seeds to save the Patagonian Sea

California moves closer to banning shark fin trade

Honduras protects sharks in all its waters

Ocean prognosis: mass extinction

What does Nature give us? A special Earth Day article

Giant fish help grow the Amazon rainforest

15 conservation issues to watch

Mitsubishi and Walmart agree to clean up fish sourcing practices

Coral crisis: 75% of the world’s coral reefs in danger

Arctic fish catch vastly underreported (by hundreds of thousands of metric tons) for 5 decades

The ocean crisis: hope in troubled waters, an interview with Carl Safina

Record high fish consumption keeps populations imperiled

Italy and Panama continue illegal fishing, says new report

Japanese firm is deadliest for marine life, says Greenpeace

Bluefin tuna gets record price ($396,000) at Japanese auction

Sustainability of Antarctic toothfish fishery, legitimacy of Marine Stewardship Council called into question

Fisheries commissions’ ability to manage diminishing tuna stocks called into question

Growing Atlantic dead zone shrinks habitat for billfish and tuna, may lead to over-harvest

UN report urges fishing subsidy reform

World has run out of fishing grounds

Thousands pledge to boycott restaurants serving bluefin tuna

‘Environmental and social aggression’: oil exploration threatens award-winning marine protected area

Environmentalists: fishing quota could be death sentence for bluefin tuna

Beyond gloom: solutions to the global coral reef decline

World needs to protect 32 million square kilometers of ocean in two years

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