The European Commission has welcomed the outcome of the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) which closed today in Antalya, Turkey. Despite calls…
By 2030 an additional 37 million tonnes of fish per year will be needed to maintain current levels of fish consumption for an expanded world population. Because traditional capture fisheries…
A Japanese whaling fleet has begun a five-month expedition that environmentalists say will hunt humpback whales for the first time in decades.
The Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) welcomed the major step forward in protecting the Antarctic marine environment agreed last week at the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Meeting (CCAMLR) which concluded…
East Asian countries are importing between 50% and 90% more Russian sockeye salmon than Russia is reporting as caught, according to a new report from WWF and TRAFFIC, the wildlife…
A Regional fishing watchdog has decided to set fishing quotas for an endangered toothfish species currently exploited in the southern areas of the Atlantic Ocean.
Fish and shell fish landings at Mar del Plata, Argentina’s main South Atlantic fishing port totalled 368.859, tons in the first ten months of the year, which represents a 4.5%…
A team of inventors from the US state of Rhode Island has won the fourth annual WWF International Smart Gear Competition for an invention that could save fish and other…
Australians fear that the world's only known white humpback whale could be slaughtered as Japan's whaling fleet prepares to embark on its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean, reports the…
Today, the European Commission has adopted its annual proposal on next year’s guide prices for fresh and frozen fisheries products as well as the Community producer price for tuna for…