Climate change is altering familiar conditions of the world's oceans and creating new environments that could undermine efforts to protect sea life in the world's largest marine protected areas. The changing conditions also have cultural and economic implications for the people whose traditi
The Samoa Conservation Society (S.C.S.) has thrown its support behind efforts by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (M.A.F.) to stop the catching and selling of undersized marine species. Officials from the Ministry, in a joint operation with the Police last week, swooped on sellers
A new project in Wellington aims to regenerate the region's seaweed forests. Nic Toki mentioned the Love Rimurimu restoration project recently during Critter of the Week. Mountains to Sea executive director Zoe Studd talks to Jesse about their work and what they're doing.
The dual impacts of over-fishing and climate change appear to have resulted in the depletion of fish stocks on various common fishing grounds used by local fishermen from Titiana village, in the Western province of Solomon Islands...In response to poor catches, villagers are now looking more at r
Surrounded by water and facing a precarious future, Kiribati is learning from Samoan limu harvesters how to improve their livelihoods. Sapeti Tiitii has just finished helping her eighth village build a seaweed farm, this one on the island of Savaii.
Islands are useful model systems for examining human–environmental interactions. While many anthropogenic effects visible in the archaeological and paleoecological records are terrestrial in nature (e.g., clearance of tropical forests for agriculture and settlement; introduction of nonnative flora and fauna), native peoples also relied heavily on marine environments for their subsistence and livelihood.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) has lifted the beche-der-mer ban, reopening the harvest period for a year, starting today.
Concerns had been raised from residents in Muri regarding cages holding sea urchins locally known as “avake” (Tripneustes gratilla) in Muri lagoon.
Police are yet to lay any charges against a Chinese man allegedly behind an illegal sea cucumber harvesting operation at his Vaitele residence, the Acting Police Commissioner, Papali'i Monalisa Tiai-Keti has said...The sea animal is prized as a delicacy in countries such as China where it can com
Coromandel's Eastern Peninsula community is outraged commercial fishing boats, donning pirate flags, are harvesting scallops in a rāhui zone. They were spotted in the area yesterday, which has been under a voluntary rāhui since December to allow scallop beds to recover.