Fish and other marine organisms, though deeply affected by human activities, don’t respect human borders. The ranges of many commercially important species in fact straddle the borders of countries’ ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Over fifty million people work on our oceans around the world and over 80% of the goods we consume are delivered by vessels navigating them. But when it ...

The conservation and management of biodiversity in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction is one of the major conservation issues facing the international community. The threats posed by ...

The scale of the bycatch slaughter is a key factor in helping build global support for BBNJ. Another hugely harmful practice ...

A new paper suggests that regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) haven’t done a very good job setting up systems to conserve fish stocks and broader ecosystems. The paper questions RFMOs’ ...

Euronews looks ahead to 2026, from the High Seas Treaty and deep-sea mining to ocean summits and EU marine policy. View on ...

Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization that produces investigative stories about human rights, environment and labor concerns on the two thirds of the ...

The agreement on marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, also known as the high seas treaty, was reached in 2023 with much fanfare in marine conservation circles, partly because it ...

Sarah Lothian does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Far out on the high seas, on any given day, hundreds of fishing vessels drag huge nets, big enough to snag a 747 jumbo jet, across the ocean bottom, vacuuming up 150-year-old fish, flattening ancient ...

They were the catch of the day. A pair of frightened fishermen were dumped in the ocean when their boat flipped over in 8-foot swells off the coast of Puerto Rico on Saturday — and only saved in the ...

Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood receives funding from the Scottish Funding Council through the University of St Andrews and the PEW Charitable Trust. Following two decades of fierce negotiations, over 60 ...