An international team of researchers gathered in the FISHGLOB Consortium has released a new dataset that presents standardized information from publicly available scientific bottom trawl surveys conducted in the waters of 18 countries from 1963 to 2021 and covering over 2,100 fish species.
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Shark alert: Global study documents increasing trend in shark mortality, identifies pathways to save threatened species
Sharks have persisted as powerful ocean predators for more than 400 million years. They survived five mass extinctions, diversifying into an amazing variety of forms and lifestyles. But this ancient lineage is now among the world’s most threatened species groups due to overexploitation in poorly regulated fisheries and the proliferation of wasteful finning practices.
2023 blog posts
Making an inaccessible text available
In his quest to provide support to his Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory, the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, has written a short foreword to the 1974 chapter “The Tactics and Strategy of Growth in Fishes” published by Derek Iles in the book Sea Fisheries Research.
Large subsidized fleets operating in the Indian Ocean plunder fisheries resources crucial in food-insecure communities
A few big players in the Indian Ocean Rim are disproportionately accessing the region’s fisheries resources through harmful subsidies while limiting the access to those resources of small-scale fleets from nutrient-insecure countries.