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As of Jan. 1, it is no longer legal to fish for sharks in Hawaiian waters.

A marine scientist in Hawaii says the Phoenix Islands Protected Area is incredibly strategic in the Pacific, especially in this age of climate change.

The Vanuatu government is unhappy with France after French fishing vessels were spotted fishing illegally near Aneityum, and the Matthew and Hunter islands.

Tickled by sunlight, life teems at the ocean surface. Yet the influence of any given microbe, plankton, or fish there extends far beyond this upper layer.

Three companies conducting tuna purse-seine fishing in the Federated States of Micronesia have obtained Marine Stewardship Council certification...backed by the Federated States of Micronesia National Oceanic Resource Management Authority (NORMA) –completed a 12-month independent assessment

“PNMS belongs to the Palauan people, ours to benefit from and so if the intent of this bill to open up the marine sanctuary is to aid the economic recovery, we support that but we have to go back to the Palauan people to say, is it really going to benefit us as a people,” said King Sam, Director

Once again, a proposal to amend the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act (PNMS), a landmark conservation legislation Palau is known for, to allow foreign fishing within the Palau’s EEZ, is being entertained by OEK.

A vast seabird colony on Ascension Island creates a "halo" in which fewer fish live, new research shows.

Over the last month, the Guardian has run a major investigative series examining the extractives industries... in the Pacific.

Contradicting concerns from longline commercial fishing operators in the Pacific region, tuna industry revenue actually increased following the expansion of two large U.S. marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Pacific Ocean, a new analysis shows.