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Despite Rhetoric, Ecuador's Laws Contribute to Sharks' Decline
[By Guillermo Ortuño Crespo] "Better an honest enemy than a false friend," the saying goes. Unfortunately...
Coastal and Marine Carbon Offsets are Taking Root
[By David Adam] Where there’s muck there’s brass”, goes an old saying from northern England. Brass is slang f...
By Cutting Fuel Subsidies, China Takes Major Step on Fishery Reform
[By Zhou Wei] Shandong and Fujian provinces recently announced they will start paying “fishery stewardship...
China Puts Limits on its Distant-Water Squid Fleet
[By Zhou Chen] On April 1, China started restricting boat numbers in five squid fishing grounds, including in the Southeas...
Can "Green Corridors" Help Cut Shipping's Carbon Footprint?
[By Isabelle Gerretsen] At last year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, 22 countries, including the UK, US, Germany and J...
With IUU Fishing Rampant, Ghana May Lose Access to EU Seafood Market
[By Zubaida Mabuno Ismail] Among Ghana’s fishing communities, tradition has dictated that one day a week remains fre...
UN Meeting Sets Sights on Global Plastics Treaty
[By Jessica Aldred and Aron White] In Nairobi this month, the world’s governments will discuss the path towards the first...
Chinese Companies Are Combining Offshore Wind With Fish Farms
[By Gao Baiyu] Last year, China installed more offshore wind capacity than any other nation for the third year r...
ISA Punts on Deep Sea Mining Regulation as Deadline Approaches
[By Todd Woody] As the International Seabed Authority meets in person this month for the first time in nearly two yea...
COP26 Deal Sees Progress on Ocean Protection
[By Jessica Aldred] Marine conservationists have welcomed an “important and hard-fought-for win” as the ocean was i...