By: Lizette Alvarez BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — For 15 years, officials, environmentalists, fishermen and boaters have struggled to put together a plan to protect one of South Florida’s jewels […]
By: Alicia Villegas Spanish seafood supplier Ricardo Fuentes e Hijos harvested the world’s first land-farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna in early December, the company’s deputy director David Martinez told Undercurrent News. […]
By: Elizabeth Paulat Many of us have seen the photos of plastic refuse in the ocean, the large islands of bags and waste that collect at tidal crossroads. Yet when […]
The US Navy is developing a robotic fish drone that mimics the behavior of a blue fin tuna, but looks like a shark. Top speed: 40 knots, or about 46 mph. […]
Above: The IUU fishing vessel Taruman held 143 tons of illegally harvested Patagonian toothfish (Chilean sea bass). Credit: Australian Customs Service Dec. 16, 2014 Today, the Presidential Task Force […]
By: John Donovan 28 April 2014 An historic legal hearing will begin on 29th April 2014 which will hear evidence from the UK lawyers representing 15,000 Nigerian fishermen from the […]
ORVALLIS, Ore. — Albacore tuna caught off the Oregon shore after the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan was destroyed in a 2011 earthquake had slightly elevated levels of radioactivity […]
The Pacific bluefin tuna has fallen to historically low levels in recent years — a victim of heavy fishing and Japan’s boundless appetite for sushi. A new assessment published Monday estimates that bluefin […]
AUSTRALIA – Port Lincoln fish farmer Cleanseas Tuna is ahead of schedule and expects to turn a maiden operating profit this financial year as production and sales of kingfish surge […]
Posted by Paul Rose in Pristine Sease For the month of April 2014, National Geographic Pristine Seas expedition leader Paul Rose will lead a group of key scientists and filmmakers, together with National Geographic Emerging Explorer Andrea Marshall and the Marine Megafauna Foundation, to explore, survey, […]
By: Darryl Fears The seafood on your dinner plate is starting to look a little fishy. A new study that examined illegal and unreported marine harvests brought into the United […]
NASSAU, Bahamas — Creating a better future for The Bahamas is more than just transforming the culture. It’s also about preserving our environment. This week, the environmental team at Baha […]
Pacific nations must cut the number of licences they give to foreign fishing fleets if they want to save the local industry, say fishermen. Fiji’s tuna boat owners say Pacific […]
By: James Whittaker | james.whittaker@cfp.ky Research from Little Cayman suggests that large grouper and nurse sharks are starting to prey on lionfish – a potentially game changing development in the […]
The U.S. has laid claim to 2.5 billion acres of coastal seas, but that vast area produces very little seafood for Americans. Therein lies a dilemma: should the U.S. cultivate […]
A normal yellowfin tuna larva not long after hatching (top), and a larva exposed to Deepwater Horizon crude oil during embryonic development (bottom). The oil-exposed larva shows a suite of […]
By: Rebekah Marcarelli r.marcarelli@hngn.com Jamaica has reported a noticeable decline in the population of invasive lionfish, which have been putting coral reefs and local species in danger for years. About […]
City Washington, D.C. Port State Measures Agreement will strengthen inspection standards to keep illegally caught fish from reaching market The United States Senate on April 3 took a strong stand in the […]
By: Arjun Walia Bronwyn Delacruz , a high school student from Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada discovered that a variety of seafood, particularly seaweeds, are littered with high levels of radiation.(1)(7)After […]
Fish living on coral reefs where carbon dioxide seeps from the ocean floor were less able to detect predator odor than fish from normal coral reefs, according to a new […]
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