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Cambodia sea turtle nests spark hope amid coastal development & species decline

Gerald Flynn 1 Feb 2024
Tuna and bycatch on a purse seiner in East Pacific Ocean.

Critics push for more transparency at RFMOs that govern high seas fishing

Edward Carver 31 Jan 2024
Hammerhead shark

DNA probe uncovers threatened shark species in Thailand’s markets

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jan 2024
A trawler in Bangladesh.

Overfishing leads to decline in Bangladesh marine fish stocks & diversity

Abu Siddique 30 Jan 2024

Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2024
A Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus).

Report: Human tragedy stalks the prized Honduran lobster industry

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2024

Kenyan villagers show how to harvest more octopus by fishing less

Diana Wanyonyi 24 Jan 2024
If necessary, community people buy fish from the market to meet their protein demand, but they do not catch fish from springs.

Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction

Rafiqul Islam 19 Jan 2024
An oceanic whitetip shark.

Global shark deaths increasing despite finning bans, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Jan 2024
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia offers lobster larvae exports to Vietnam in exchange for investment

Basten Gokkon 13 Jan 2024
Bottom trawler Ivan Nores

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jan 2024
A school of snappers under a pier

AI and satellite data map true scale of untracked fishing and ocean industry

Elizabeth Fitt 10 Jan 2024

Finance and support are key to fishers adopting eco-friendly gear, study shows

Basten Gokkon 3 Jan 2024
A 50m fishing trawler off the coast of Ghana, patches of rust on its blue hull, a small grey inflatable with US and Ghanaian marines coming up astern. Image by Jeff Atherton/US Navy via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Fisheries observer turns up dead in latest incident in Ghana waters

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 28 Dec 2023
A whale shark.

Still on the menu: Shark fin trade in U.S. persists despite ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Dec 2023
A mugger crocodile in India.

Could mugger crocodiles be brought back from regional extinction in Bangladesh?

Rafiqul Islam 27 Dec 2023
A school of hammerhead sharks.

‘Shark dust’ helps researchers ID threatened species in Indonesia fish trade

Cassie Freund 19 Dec 2023

Indonesia delays enforcement of widely panned fisheries policy

Basten Gokkon 17 Dec 2023
An Indigenous person in a boat.

Vast new MPAs are PNG’s first to be co-managed by Indigenous communities

Ian Morse 14 Dec 2023

With Indonesia’s new fishing policy starting soon, fishers still mostly unaware

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2023
Commercial fishing vessels in Thailand. Image via pxhere.com (public domain).

90 NGOs question Thailand Prime Minister on fisheries deregulation plan (commentary)

Steve Trent 23 Nov 2023
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia welcomes new Singapore regulation to help curb lobster smuggling

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2023
A sperm whale calf swims near the surface in waters off Dominica.

Dominica set to open world’s first reserve centered around sperm whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Nov 2023
Swordfish off the Florida Coast. Image courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Fisheries managers should act to protect swordfish this month (commentary)

Rick Moonen 8 Nov 2023
A bronze-winged jacana amidst overgrown water hyacinth.

Nepal’s water hyacinth helps exotic fish invade, harming native species: Study

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Nov 2023
A turtle over coral reefs off the coast of Australia.

Not MPAs but OECMs: Can a new designation help conserve the ocean?

Edward Carver 6 Nov 2023

Key Indonesian fish populations depleted & new assessments needed, study shows

Basten Gokkon 31 Oct 2023
Two Antarctic fur seals playing at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia.

Amid record melting, countries fail again to protect Antarctic waters

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2023
A green turtle swimming in the waters of New Caledonia.

New Caledonia expands strictly protected coverage of its swath of the Pacific

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Oct 2023
Fishermen on a fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea.

Can aquaculture solve the Mediterranean’s overfishing problem?

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Oct 2023
Tuna and bycatch on a purse seiner in East Pacific Ocean.

Report: Half of MSC-certified ‘sustainable’ tuna caught with controversial gear

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2023
A North Atlantic right whale mother with calf.

As population ‘flattens,’ North Atlantic right whales remain at risk

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Oct 2023

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