A new working definition of ‘destructive fishing’ has successfully been drafted following a rigorous consultation process involving 80 fisheries experts from over 30 countries. Many policies...
Photo Banner Credit: Nicolas Job According to a new analysis of the farmed shellfish market released this week by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Maine’s farmed...
Tasmania’s salmon industry, a booming enterprise expanding along the island state’s pristine coastline, has become the subject of heated debate and controversy. The industry, now a...
by Spoorthy Raman Between spring and fall each year in coastal British Columbia, when salmon migrate upstream, the region’s First Nations manually count the number of fish...
Kona, Hawaii – Sea Pact announced today that Blue Ocean Mariculture has joined the organization as its newest member. Sea Pact is a pre-competitive collaboration of...
SEAwise, a collaborative project working to break down barriers to Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) in Europe, has published a new set of key findings. The...
Illegal fishing, overfishing, and climate change contribute to high death rates in one of the world’s most dangerous professions WASHINGTON – More than 100,000 fishing-related deaths...
By Marine Conservation Institute Decision saves remnants of fragile Oculina coral habitat found nowhere else on Earth from destruction Washington, DC – National Oceanographic and Atmospheric (NOAA)...
Concerns have been building since bigeye tuna was formally declared overfished by scientists of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in 2015....
CABFishMan has released a comprehensive review of existing methods for data collection in Northeast Atlantic small-scale fisheries (SSF). Their review sheds light on how new tech...