The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has said that the development of the people of Balochistan is among the top priorities of the federal government. One of the major concerns of the local fishermen is of the illegal fishing trawlers that has been...

Supporting innovations in the food system in Rwanda is the goal of a UN-backed initiative launched in the capital, Kigali, on Wednesday. The IGNITE Food Systems Challenge comes amid worsening food insecurity in East Africa due to rising conflict, clim...

An organization of small-scale fishermen in the Philippines has expressed its opposition to importing fish for typhoon-hit areas, calling instead for aid to restore its members’ livelihoods and the lifting of an order imposing a closed fishing season on...

A Scottish haddock fisherman is one of twelve from around the world to star in a new sustainable seafood cookbook from the Marine Stewardship Council, the organisation responsible for the world’s leading sustainable seafood ecolabel. The new cookbook...

In the small fishing village of Abdul Rehman Goth on the outskirts of Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi, fisherman and lifeguard Asif Baloch walks along the beach, scanning the shoreline for ghost gear that may have washed ashore. On the clear beach, h...

Fisherfolk in India have strongly objected to the draft notification issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on November 1 to make amendments into the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification, 2019. The ministry had ...

Over 600 fishermen in Sri Lanka’s former northern war zone have switched to sea cucumber farming, a booming trade, in the coastal belt of Jaffna and Kilinochchi where a Chinese firm started a hatchery five years ago. China’s joint venture Gui Lan h...

Costa Rica has cultivated a reputation for natural beauty, and chances are its name calls to mind lush mountains, beautiful beaches, and sustainably grown coffee. That image is partially the result of an environmental protection program the country i...

A collapse of fishery stocks in the South China Sea due to overfishing and climate change could fuel serious tensions and even armed conflict, one of the authors of a new report on the topic has warned. “The simmering conflict that we see in the Sout...

Pierre Failler, Director of the Centre for Blue Governance at the University of Portsmouth, UK, has been named UNESCO Chair in Ocean Governance. The Chair will help meet global challenges for the successful implementation of the UN Decade of Ocean Scie...