Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a global nutrition expert of Indian descent has won the prestigious 2021 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking research in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems. Thilste...

South American governments need to do more to protect their sovereign waters from illegal fishing, Pablo Ferrara tells Axios. Ferrara is an arbitrator at the Permanent Court of Arbitration for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and a prof...

Today, Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA), Chair of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, and Representative Garret Graves (R-LA) introduced the Illegal Fishing and Forced Labor Prevention Act to combat illegal, unregulated, ...

Coastal desalination plants are a source of drinking water for an increasing number of people around the world. But their proximity to the ocean can cause disruptions from events like riptides and oil spills. Such disruptions reduce the productivity, life...

The plant-based alternative seafood company New Wave Foods recently released its seaweed-based shrimp to restaurants across the United States. The company says the product, which is made with sustainably sourced seaweed and mung bean, can be sauteed, frie...

The Channel island of Jersey has proposed delaying new post-Brexit restrictions on French fishermen and the French government will respond in writing in the coming hours, French Seas Minister Annick Girardin said on Tuesday. Last week Girardin suggeste...

President Joko Widodo met with fishermen in East Java last week for a discussion on fishing gear policy, infrastructure and how the COVID-19 pandemic had affected their business. After inspecting the fish on display at a market at Brondong National Fis...

Hundreds of fishermen staged a protest on Sunday at Gwadar Press Club against the Japanese government’s decision to release contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. They carried placards and banners inscribed with th...

Fishermen affected by the dredging activities at the new Lamu Port in Kenya have threatened to disrupt the commissioning of the port slated for May 30 this year. The fishermen accused the government of failing to pay them Sh1.76 billion in compensation...

For more than two years, a couple of proposed laws have been floating in and out of the Costa Rican congress regarding tuna reform for the foreign purse sein net fleets that fish Costa Rica’s marine economic zone, which is 11 times greater than the coun...