The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has announced that the Ría de Arosa Galician Cooperative Society has been awarded MSC certification for its artisanal clam and cockle fisheries. The sustainability certificate has been awarded to the cooperative’s g...

A group of scientists have said that the radiation risk to Pacific fisheries from the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown is not as serious as first feared and has been exaggerated. Serious questions about seafood safety were raised when th...

While a resolution to the dispute over the Senkaku Islands (called Diaoyu by China and Diaoyutai by Taiwan) remains a distant prospect, Japan and Taiwan have managed to resolve another longstanding issue: in Taipei on April 10, 2013, the two sides signed ...

Fish is a critical source of dietary protein in sub-Saharan Africa, providing an estimated 22% of protein intake. But with marine fisheries over-exploited, African fish production is failing to keep up with rising populations. How should that gap be fille...

A pristine paradise - these are not words you often hear to describe the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria. But you get to appreciate the area’s natural beauty whilst wading across lily covered creeks and trekking deep into the forest, accompanied by bird...

The sound waves from an undersea earthquake could offer an early warning that a large tsunami is on the way. Because the sound from a seismic event will reach land well before the water itself, researchers at Stanford University suggest that identifyin...

As the world celebrates World Environment Day on June 5th, and World Ocean's Day on June 8th, countries in West Africa are working to preserve fish and sea ecosystems currently under siege. In coastal communities across West Africa, the ocean is a way ...

Sarmin, a fisherman from Karimunjawa in Central Java, says that in the past few years he has had to venture farther and farther to find fish, but continues to bring home smaller and smaller catches. Now 45, Sarmin has been fishing since he was 17. With...

The Israeli navy has arrested two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, sources on both sides said on Friday. "The occupation navy boarded a fishing boat off Nuseirat (in central Gaza), arrested the two fishermen and took t...

The Costa Rican Fisheries Institute (Incopesca) this week sent for publication a decree that prohibits all fishing in the Gulf of Nicoya, in northwestern Costa Rica, from July 1-Sept. 30. The ban affects a region where most of the country’s fishermen...