This year"s controversial whaling season has come to an end, with Japan capturing and killing a total of 177 whales amid global outcry.Click on the link below to read the full story.
Fiji is introducing a series of tough new ocean conservation measures to preserve fish stocks.
The seafood industry has largely stayed out of negotiations for a new international treaty that would allow for marine protected areas (MPAs) on the high seas, said the leader of the main industry organization participating in the treaty process.Click on the link below to read the full story
As you bite down into a delicious piece of fish, you probably don"t think about what the fish itself ate " but perhaps you should. More than 50 species of fish have been found to consume plastic trash at sea.Click on the link below to read the full story.
Skipjack prices in Bangkok have risen to $2,100 per metric ton while other regions are leading at $2,200. The expectation is that Bangkok will soon follow this lead.
Recreational fisheries can play a significant role in the population dynamics of threatened fish species, but have received much less research and management attention than commercial fisheries.
Federal fisheries managers rejected a petition to list Pacific bluefin tuna as endangered this week, concluding that the species is stable, despite its historic low numbers.Click on the link below to read the full story.
Conservation proposals that were submitted to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) but not addressed at its recent meeting in Mexico need to be tackled at the next meeting...Topics that still need to be tackled following the July meeting include the introduction of conservation mea
During the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) meeting that took place in Mexico City last week, no measures were agreed to tackle the decrease in Pacific bluefin tuna...Click on the link below to read the full story.
Raja Ampat " an island chain in Indonesia"s West Papua province " is world-renowned for its beautiful and unique marine biodiversity. But its marine mammals have not received much attention...Click on the link below to read the full story.
