Sunset (yellow) moon wrasse. Photo by John Turnbull, Flickr.
Fish can look “bigger on average” even while they are actually shrinking due to warming waters caused by climate change.
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New report sheds light on how fish grow in a warming, low-oxygen world
Grouper. Image created with Adobe Firefly.
Aquatic animals that breathe through gills — including most fish and many invertebrates — are the backbone of life in oceans, lakes and rivers. They support biodiversity, shape food webs and sustain fisheries that feed millions of people worldwide. Understanding how these animals grow, reproduce and survive is therefore essential to understanding how aquatic ecosystems work — and how they continue to support human societies.
Between profit and principle: Fatal Watch exposes the human price of the global tuna industry
Labour and human rights abuses, overfishing, unreported, unregulated and illegal fishing, all spurred by subsidies provided to distant-water fishing fleets, are some of the most pervasive practices linked to the global seafood industry.
Witnessing and reporting on all of this are fisheries observers. Often scientists – marine biologists or ecologists –, fisheries observers are tasked by national frameworks, regional bodies, or international fisheries organizations with gathering information that supports sustainable fisheries management. Some are hired by the fishing companies they monitor.
Animal-welfare models fail to account for fish’s need for oxygen
Helostoma temminckii or kissing gourami. Image by Jörn, Wikimedia Commons.
A new essay published in Issues in Science and Technology argues that current animal welfare science and policy frameworks overlook a fundamental aspect of the lives of fish and other aquatic “water-breathing” species — and calls for a shift in how governments, researchers, and industry assess humane treatment in aquaculture, research, commercial fisheries, and in the wild.
A film festival on the sea in a landlocked French town
Daniel Pauly at the DocumenTerre Film Festival in Montignac-Lascaux , November 2025. Photo by DocumenTerre.
The 16th edition of the DocumenTerre Film Festival, which takes place on an annual basis in Montignac-Lascaux in southwestern France, had, this year, a special focus on the oceans.