In this fabled place, Indigenous stewardship and satellite data come together to protect one of the world’s most remote marine ecosystems.

On Feb. 24, Argentina acceded to the Cape Town Agreement, marking a major breakthrough for global fishing safety and ushering this long-awaited treaty one step closer to reality.

Ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) transparency exposes who controls and profits from fishing vessels, helping deter IUU fishing, improve governance, and close regulatory loopholes.

Irish scientist Mark John Costello, based at Nord University in Norway, looked at the evidence of economic benefits on 50 existing marine protected areas in 31 countries. Can protecting parts of our o...

Artificial intelligence is already transforming ocean governance. Now it’s time for governments to use it.

Artificial intelligence is already transforming ocean governance. Now it’s time for governments to use it.

Transparency will be key to turning commitments into protections that ensure sustainable use of our shared ocean, says Global Fishing Watch’s Tony Long

Transparency will be key to turning commitments into protections that ensure sustainable use of our shared ocean, says Global Fishing Watch’s Tony Long

Pirate fishing, oil spills and other undetected crimes are destroying ocean ecosystems -- but we can't stop what we can't see. Harnessing the power of satellite data and AI to catch maritime offenders...

YAOUNDÉ  (July 11, 2025) – Yesterday, eight African nations — Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria — adopted the Yaoundé Declaration, commi...

The deep-sea footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill covered an area almost nine times greater than previously reported.

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Evolutionary change driven by intensive fishing led cod to ‘shrink’ from average 40cm length in 1996 to 20cm in 2019 Overfishing has led to a collapse in the eastern Baltic cod population, but over the past three decades the size of the fish themselves has also been dramatically and mysteriously shrinking. Now scientists have uncovered genomic evidence that intensive fishing has driven rapid evolutionary changes that have contributed to these fish roughly halving in average body length since the 1990s. Continue reading...

A Thought Piece by the Global SSF Intermediary Collective for the Blue Economy Finance Forum and United Nations Ocean Conference 2025.. PDF to flipbook converted using heyzine.com

Tucked away from other beach management units in Kenya’s Kwale County lies Mwamdudu beach, a fishing village amid mangrove channels and estuaries, where local fishers cast their nets for prawns and ot...

When we think of food systems, we often picture farms, fields, and grazing livestock. But oceans, coasts, and inland waters have nourished communities far longer and today they underpin the lives and ...