Really. Fishing activity now covers at least 55 percent of the world’s oceans — four times the land area covered by agriculture — and can now be monitored, in near real time, to the level of... Read more
JOAL, Senegal — Once upon a time, the seas teemed with mackerel, squid and sardines, and life was good. But now, on opposite sides of the globe, sun-creased fishermen lament as they reel in... Read more
Incentives that are designed to enable smarter use of the ocean while also protecting marine ecosystems can and do work, and offer significant hope to help address the multiple environmental... Read more
Scientists seek to ensure survival of coral reefs outside of protected areas by calling for a minimum target of 500 kilograms of fish biomass per hectare Fish are the key ingredients in a ne... Read more
Scientists from the University of York have released a report highlighting the gap between declining wild fish supplies and healthy eating advice recommending more seafood. While the health... Read more
Overfishing and pollution have pushed life in the high seas to the brink of collapse, according to a new report from the Global Ocean Commission. “The oceans are a failed state,” David Milib... Read more
“You don’t realize how interdependent species are until it all unravels” Florida State University researchers have spearheaded a major review of fisheries data that examines the domino effec... Read more
The results from a set of international studies may now revolutionise fishing regulations. Many popular measures to combat overfishing help conserve mostly small juvenile fish. The results f... Read more
The work demonstrates how extinction and overfishing threats from multispecies fisheries can be identified decades before valuable species are over-harvested and populations decline Threats... Read more
Will we soon be forced to eat jellyfish? Since the beginning of the 2000s, these gelatinous creatures have invaded many of the world’s seas, like the Japan Sea, the Black Sea, the Medi... Read more
Co-management partnerships are having considerable success A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and other groups on more than 40 co... Read more
Of all the sea’s many problems, overfishing should be the most fixable. ACIDIFICATION, warming, the destruction of coral reefs: the biggest problems facing the sea are as vast, deep a... Read more
In an effort to save the world’s oceans from overfishing In an effort to save the world’s oceans from overfishing, many countries now require commercial fishing vessels to... Read more
How to pillage the oceans deliberately, and by accident Read more
Image via Wikipedia The time when we could do anything we want anywhere we want in the oceans is over For decades the seas off U.S. shores have been roiled by controversies over where to dri... Read more
