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Animals New Zealand

1. September 2024

We Can Fish Without Harming Our Seabirds!

More robust measures, notably regarding surface longline fishing, have been adopted to better protect the 145 seabird species calling New Zealand home, including the endangered albatross, while safeguarding fishers’ livelihoods.

Environment

Environment Greece

7. May 2024

Pledging Billions, All to Protect Our Oceans

At the 9th Our Ocean Conference in Athens, Greece, delegates from states, organizations, and philanthropic funds pledged $11.3 billion to protect oceans through commitments such as establishing marine protected areas (MPAs), combating illegal fishing, protecting marine biodiversity, and fighting climate change.

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Animals South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

15. April 2024

No Fishing Here, to Keep Species Under the Sea Thriving

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, a British overseas territory located north of Antarctica, is imposing new no-fishing zones within its existing marine protected area, expanding the prohibition of krill fishing in those frigid South Atlantic waters.

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Incoming Atlantic puffin with stockpile of fish

Animals The World

25. January 2024

Best Prediction of Fish Populations? Ask the Seabirds!

For the first time, fishing managers are using seabird behavior to predict the size of marine fish populations.

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Animals Australia

17. January 2024

Intelligence Caught On Camera: Dolphins Are Even Smarter Than We Think

Off the coast of far southwestern Australia, researchers have filmed dolphins cleverly taking fish used as bait from crab pots and nets, a behavior that might have started some 20 years ago.

Environment

Environment USA

31. October 2023

Fishing Got a Lot Easier for This Tribe

For the first time in over a century, members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in Washington, the United States, were able to fish coho salmon as their ancestors could on a free-flowing river for tribal and subsistence use.

Society

Members of the Raporo Ainu Nation observe asir cep nomi,

Society Japan

20. October 2023

Indigenous People Across the Pacific Hold Hands to Fight for Their Fishing Right

With the collaboration of America’s First Nations, Japan’s Raporo Ainu Nation has reclaimed its historical rights to fish salmon, extinguished some 140 years ago.

Environment

Environment Alaska

11. October 2023

Here, Boats Are Going Green, Too

A commercial fishing community in Alaska is transitioning toward electric fishing vessels, powered by low- and zero-emissions propulsion systems.

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Animals USA

18. September 2023

We’re Giving Our Endangered Whales Stronger Protection

As the Pacific humpback whale is endangered and is highly susceptible to deadly entanglements off the West Coast of the United States, an agreement has been reached to reduce such hazardous traps for the massive marine animal.

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Animals USA

1. July 2023

Endangered Blue Whale Makes a Big Comeback!

The waters off the coast of Southern California, the United States, are once again home to an increasing number of Pacific blue whales, proof that concerted efforts to protect the marine giant have been successful since the 1970s.