Study helps nations plan for protein alternatives as fisheries decline A new study co-authored by the Wildlife Conservation Society identifies countries most vulnerable to declining coral reef fisheries from a food-security perspective while providing a [...]

Allows the smaller fish to escape. The invention, named Safetynet, was invented by Dan Watson, a former student at Glasgow School of Art and helps guide juvenile fish inadvertently caught in the nets to safety. [...]

Rebuilding global fisheries would make them five times more valuable while improving ecology, according to a new University of British Columbia study, published today in the online journal PLoS ONE. By reducing the size of [...]

IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional [...]

It has not previously been possible to prove the exact origin of any particular fish   Powerful and versatile new genetic tools that will assist in safeguarding both European fish stocks and European consumers is [...]

Co-management partnerships are having considerable success A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and other groups on more than 40 coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific [...]

Of all the sea’s many problems, overfishing should be the most fixable.   ACIDIFICATION, warming, the destruction of coral reefs: the biggest problems facing the sea are as vast, deep and seemingly intractable as the [...]

The report highlights the huge potential of a marine-based economy   The report highlights the huge potential of a marine-based economy some five months before world governments meet to discuss pathways to sustainable development at [...]

The oceans cover 71% of our planet, with over half with a depth greater than 3000 m. Although our knowledge is still very limited, we know that the deep ocean contains a diversity of habitats [...]

Analysis shows training wild fish to herd is economically advantageous. Ranching cod off the coast of Iceland is far more financially sensible than conventional fishing methods or keeping the fish in cages, according to a [...]

“Plan B 4.0” outlines ways we can support healthy soils, forests, rangelands and oceanic fisheries, as well as ways to conserve the Earth’s biological diversity. Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization is a 90-minute PBS documentary based on [...]

Global warming is a coral reef migration. As the globe warms, many temperature-sensitive species have to adapt or expire. Many in the scientific community have been particularly concerned about coral reefs. A new study in the [...]