Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are increasingly being used

The Republic of Palau has been announced as the winner of the Future Policy Award 2012. Palau received the Award in recognition of two outstanding marine policies, Palau’s Protected Areas Network Act, initiated in 2003, and its Shark Haven Act from 2009...

The Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) has called for more effective management of the trawler fishing sector in Asia in order to balance the need to sustain marine fishery ecosystems with the demand for feeds for aquaculture. Meeting in Da Nang, ...

WWF’s Smart Fishing Initiative has presented today a new, simple, effective and inexpensive way to use satellite data with the aim to monitor global fisheries activities and curb illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing practices, one of the bi...

Some Ghanaian fishermen who strayed into the territory of neighboring Ivory Coast have been arrested by the Ivorian authorities for trespassing. They were arrested on Sunday. After attacks on a military check point at Noe, an Ivorian border town nea...

It's just after 11am and a group of young men, some bare-chested, others wearing tattered T-shirts, rush in carrying fresh fish of all kinds: some carry their catch on their head; others dangle the fish by their tails. They quickly unload before rushing b...

Un-employability of educated youth among fishing communities with their inherent ability going to seed, decline of traditional fishing methods and erosion of fishermen villages depriving space for fishing economy are among the salient observations of a ma...

Chinese ships plied the waters of a disputed island chain on Monday, Japan's coastguard said, as a fleet of Taiwanese fishing boats set sail for the area, vowing to stake Taipei's claim. The flotilla, set to arrive Tuesday morning, will further complic...

The Union Government of India has decided to promote cage culture to boost fisheries production and has chosen the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) to undertake the task, according to CMFRI Director G. Syda Rao. After a research revi...

The Persian Gulf, Libya, and Pakistan are at high risk of food insecurity in coming decades because climate change and ocean acidification are destroying fisheries, according to a report released on Monday. The report from the campaign group Oceana war...

China is seeking investors to expand fishing, tourism and oil and gas exploration around three disputed island groups in the South China Sea, state media said yesterday. Officials in the new offshore district of Sansha in Hainan province planned “intens...