MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.

A verdict May 2 from an international tribunal points a way forward for fisheries managers to protect entire ecosystems, an increasingly critical part of their responsibilities as pressures on the oce...

The ban is the latest in a long line of challenges for Malaysia’s fishing industry, including piracy

ICES advises that the VME closures in NEAFC regulatory areas (RAs) achieve long-term sustained in situ biodiversity/ecosystem benefits as long as these closures remain in place. All VME closures in NE...

The Southwest Atlantic lacks a regional fishery management organization, leaving one of the world’s largest squid fisheries at risk of overfishing during high seas migrations. This article reviews mea...

Jeroen Steenbeek of EU-funded EcoScope project partner Ecopath International Initiative has published his PhD thesis, entitled Ecosystem modelling for the ocean decade – facing the challenge (Cum Laud...

Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....

The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) made history last week by adopting harvest control rules for Adriatic sardines and anchovies, the first for this organization. Until now, ...

Abstract. Effective management of ocean resources is crucial for achieving desired ecological, economic, and social outcomes. Marine ecosystem-based manage

Mackerel and herring in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, near Europe, have been dramatically overfished for many years, endangering the stocks and creating potential knock-on effects for marine mammals a...

Last night in London, discussions unfolded during a side event co-hosted by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) in association with The Pew Charitable Trusts and BirdLife International to mark ...

Good scientific advice is the fuel that drives the engine of fisheries management. When managers want to develop comprehensive, long-term policies for measures such as catch limits or gear restriction...

The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is the only worldwide intergovernmental forum that examines international fisheries and aquaculture issu...

The North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission has moved toward ecosystem-based management, but the fate of overfished pelagics is still up in the air.