Subsidies that hinder enhancement of national fishing fleets should be banned, Namibia's fisheries minister Bernhard Esau, has said. Esau made these remarks during the commemoration of World Ocean Day on Saturday, where he said these subsidies are harm...

Ghost Fleet, a documentary film that zooms in on the stories of Southeast Asian migrant workers who were rescued from forced labor situations aboard Thai fishing boats, is already having an impact on viewers, according to Patima Tungpuchayakal, co-founder...

Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) General Manager Dr. Terney Pradeep Kumara said Sri Lanka’s corals are faced with an imminent threat of destruction due to climate change, pollution and illegal fishing methods. Observing that 90 percent of ...

The deputy director of South Africa's Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) has highlighted her department's signing of an anti-shark finning letter recently addressed to the CEO of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The letter, ...

The media, both local and foreign, have recently quoted Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti as saying that Indonesia is the world’s largest tuna supplier. The statement has gone viral on social media, but data and facts are neede...

Lawyers in Taiwan launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the industrial conglomerate Formosa on Tuesday, on behalf of thousands of Vietnamese whose livelihoods were ruined by a toxic spill that devastated fish stocks. Formosa's huge steel plan...

Planet Earth is in crisis, and we're all in it together. One million species could soon face extinction. Climate change is accelerating at a breakneck pace, already affecting about half of all threatened mammal species and a quarter of threatened birds...

People from the villages hugging Penang's southern coast have fished the seas off the Malaysian island for generations, scooping up prawns and digging out crabs to feed its food-loving residents. The fishermen know the vagaries of tide and wind, and th...

On a moonlit night off Italy’s coast, fishermen are hauling in the usual catch: cuttlefish, red mullet and plastic waste. But this time, they won’t throw the rubbish back. The trash instead is being collected, analyzed and, where possible, recycled...

Mangroves are incredibly productive coastal ecosystems found in the tropics and subtropics. These dense green forests are known for their bizarre-looking roots that poke up into the air from shallow water. Among the meshed webs of roots are fish nurseries...