Small-scale fisheries in Malaysia. Photo by Jamie Oliver – WorldFish, Flickr.
A week before Brussels’ Ocean Week and a few months before the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, a group of researchers published the results of an unprecedented scientific effort: they redefine the concept of ‘sustainable fishing’ and propose eleven ‘golden rules’ that radically challenge the flawed notion that currently prevails in fisheries management.
Dr. Wanja Nyingi, lead of the Freshwater Hub at the Sea Around Us – Indian Ocean.
The Sea Around Us – Indian Ocean at the University of Western Australia has just launched a Freshwater Hub — an initiative dedicated to investigating the sustainable management and conservation of freshwater resources in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
After the collapse of herring and cod stocks in the western Baltic Sea, flatfish such as plaice, flounder, and dab now dominate the catch. However, they can’t replace the lost catch of cod and herring. Photo by Ilka Thomsen, GEOMAR.
As the abundance of global fish populations continues to deteriorate, top fisheries researchers are calling for simpler yet more accurate stock assessment models that avoid overly optimistic scientific advice, which ends up encouraging overfishing.
River fishing in Ontario, Canada. Photo from Pxhere.
The Sea Around Us has published the first product in a massive undertaking that started in 2022: reconstructing the world’s freshwater fisheries catches.
Angel shark on the cover of the journal Fishes.
Three potential Critical Angel Shark Areas or CASAs have been identified in the Eastern Mediterranean, specifically in Türkiye’s Fethiye Bay and Antalya Bay, which are part of the Turkish Riviera, and the Çanakkale or Dardanelles Strait, in the northwestern part of the country.