Daniel Pauly, Anna Luna Rossi and Fabrice Teletchea at the 2025 International Congress on Aquatic Sciences in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Sea Around Us team exposes coastal ecosystem pressures at Saint Pierre and Miquelon congress

November 4, 2025November 5, 2025

Daniel Pauly, Anna Luna Rossi and Fabrice Teletchea at the 2025 International Congress on Aquatic Sciences in Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Photo by Studio Briand Photographe | Archipel Développement.

The Sea Around Us principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, and master’s student, Anna Luna Rossi, made a splash in Saint Pierre and Miquelon by participating in the fifth edition of the International Congress on Aquatic Sciences, which took place from September 28th to October 2nd, 2025.

The congress was structured around four main themes—fishing and aquaculture, citizen science and education, aquatic biodiversity, and maritime transport —and hosted 48 presentations, all of them meant to foster exchanges between researchers, businesses, and citizens, with a particular focus on young people.

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Sea Around Us publishes preliminary results of catch reconstruction update

August 12, 2025August 12, 2025

Starting in the second half of 2024, the Sea Around Us team embarked on a large-scale project aimed at reviewing the catch reconstructions available in the database for every maritime country and territory, and updating them to 2022.

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Industrial fishing vessels, Dakar, June 2023

Foreign overfishing fuels Senegal’s deadly migration crisis to Europe

July 18, 2025July 21, 2025

Port of Dakar. Photo by Garth Cripps ©, Coalition for Fisheries Transparency.

The decades-long overexploitation of the marine fisheries resources of most West African countries is one of the top drivers of illegal immigration to Europe via deadly routes through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Indian Ocean fisheries fuel global nutrition — but the benefits are leaving the region

July 14, 2025July 15, 2025

Mogadishu’s fish market. Image by AMISOM Public Information, Wikimedia Commons.

Indian Ocean fisheries are vital for global nutrition as they provide 12 per cent of wild-caught seafood worldwide which, in turn, corresponds to nearly 30 per cent of all calcium from seafood, 20 per cent of vitamin A, 15 per cent of iron, and 13 per cent of vitamin B12.

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Sea Around Us launches catch reconstruction course to empower global fisheries research

June 4, 2025August 19, 2025

Sea Around Us data users interested in learning how to perform a catch reconstruction update now have access to a suite of free video tutorials.

The step-by-step guides, available in English with carefully curated subtitles in Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Spanish and Turkish, (with more languages on the way), are presented in an easy-to-understand animated video format led by a researcher named Ola.

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