Bottom trawling in the North Sea . Image by Ifremer.
The 4 billion tonnes of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in the depletion of over 560 million tonnes of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health, new research has found.
As of 2025, about 75 per cent of the Sea Around Us team is comprised of women and in the past 25 years, of the over 200 people from more than 40 countries who have worked for the project, 59 per cent have been women.
Crystal clear water in the Maldives. Photo by wardyboy400, Wikimedia Commons.
The Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia and ProtectedSeas Navigator, a free, interactive map of marine regulatory information worldwide, have partnered to expand users’ access to marine protected area (MPA) information.
William N. Eschmeyer and his Catalog of Fishes. Images by the California Academy of Sciences.
By Daniel Pauly, Rainer Froese and Nicolas Bailly.
The Quantitative Aquatics and Sea Around Us teams lament the passing of W.N ‘Bill’ Eschmeyer (1939-2024), the founding editor and namesake of the Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes (ECoF).
