Caribbean spiny lobster. Photo by James St. John, Wikimedia Commons.
Most of The Bahamas’ signature seafood stocks are being fished harder than the sea can replace them, a new paper led by Sea Around Us researchers and published in Frontiers in Marine Science shows.
Bottom trawler. Photo by Lisa, Flickr.
A new study suggests the hidden climate costs of bottom trawling in European waters may far outweigh its economic benefits, raising questions about the future of one of the world’s most widespread fishing practices.
Endemic Antipodean albatross. Photo by Oscar Thomas, Wikimedia Commons.
World Oceans Day (WOD), the initiative proposed in 1992 by Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and officially recognized by the UN in 2008, aims to catalyze collective action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate.
From left and top: Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares, Heliana Teixeira, Phoebe Koundouri, Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis, and Sílvia C. Gonçalves.
The Sea Around Us manager, Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares, is one of the editors of a new research topic in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science titled “Women in Marine Science: 2026.”