Ecuador is trying to protect parts of the Galpagos Marine Reserve in the wake of the arrival of hundreds of mainly Chinese fishing ships that are set up in international waters near the country’s exclusive economic zone. “We will work in a regional...

Iran's Department of Environment (DOE) has banned any trawling in the Persian Gulf, ISNA quoted Ahmad Reza Lahijanzadeh, deputy chief of the DOE for the marine environment, as saying on Monday. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fi...

Sri Lanka's Department of Meteorology has issued an advisory on strong winds and rough sea areas for several parts of the country. There is a high possibility of increased wind speed up to (60-65) kmph in the sea area off the coast extending from Trin...

Tropical Storm Isaias spawned tornadoes and dumped rain during an inland march up the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday after making landfall as a hurricane along the North Carolina coast, where it piled boats against the docks and caused floods and fires that d...

Tarannum (name changed) has many cut marks on her wrist, scars that constantly remind her of the several years she spent in a brothel where she was sexually exploited countless times. "Three years of hell," she recalls. Daughter of a fisherman from ...

The global canned seafood market has been growing at a robust pace in the last few years. A tremendous rise in the population across the globe and the rising popularity for seafood are predicted to encourage the overall growth of the global canned seafood...

The Chinese Embassy in Ecuador and oceanography experts have called accusations from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo false and groundless, after he smeared China for "illegal and unregulated over-fishing" near Ecuador in the East Pacific. Pompeo's r...

Parasites have a public relations problem. Unlike the many charismatic mammals, fishes and birds that receive our attention (and our conservation dollars), parasites are thought of as something to eradicate — and certainly not something to protect. ...

A recent global assessment of shark populations at 371 coral reefs in 58 countries found no sharks at almost 20% of reefs and alarmingly low numbers at many others. The study, which involved over 100 scientists under the Global FinPrint project, gave N...

The municipality of Dingalan, in Aurora Province, may soon emerge as the next “tuna capital” of the Philippines, after General Santos City, in Mindanao. This third-class municipality, situated 183 kilometers northeast of Metro Manila, currently has...