Three Indonesians who were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf in Sabah in January 2020, have been rescued by Filipino forces on Thursday (March 18). The Indonesian Foreign Ministry in a statement said the three from Kabupaten Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi were rep...

New dates have been announced for the UN Biodiversity Conference, now scheduled to take place from 11-24 October 2021 in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. The three meetings that comprise the 2021 UN Biodiversity Conference: the fifteenth meeting of t...

Vietnam was issued a yellow card in October 2017 by the European Commission (EC) because of rampant illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities by Vietnamese fishermen and fishing vessels. Since then, following its carding system, the...

The federal government of Canada has announced funding for a dozen projects in western Nova Scotia to buoy the province's struggling fish and seafood processing sector. Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan says the $4.85 million for 12 projects at 11 c...

Adhidhi Achyuth has been recognised as “the first transgender person in India’s fisheries sector to start an entrepreneurial initiative”. The recognition comes from the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), who provided her with a ...

Four batches of seafood sold on online food delivery platforms, including Ele.me, Meituan and JD Daojia, failed quality tests for excessive cadmium, Shanghai's market watchdog announced today. A batch of squid sold on Ele.me and three batches of portun...

Activists from the Korea Federation of Environmental Movements and the Korea Radiation Watch Center share findings of their analysis of radioactive contamination in Japanese farming, livestock and seafood products in 2020, on Wednesday, at KFEM’s Hoehwa...

During the World Oceans Week (WOW) last June, Too Big To Ignore (TBTI), a global research network and knowledge mobilization partnership to promote and revitalize sustainable small-scale fisheries, partnered with local, national, international and inter-...

It’s been well established by now that the agricultural systems producing our food contribute at least one fifth of global anthropogenic carbon emissions—and up to a third if waste and transportation are factored in. A troubling new report points to a...

Armed gunmen suspected to be from the Democratic Republic of Congo have invaded fishing communities on Lake Albert in Western Uganda district of Hoima, abducting at least 16 fishermen. The invasion took place on Sunday at Kaiso landing site of Mbegu pa...