UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Calling the International Maritime Organization an “obscure UN body”, US President Donald Trump, told the United Nations yesterday in New York that his administration had been forced to intervene and stop the...

SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa’s trawl fishery for hake, which supplies both local and international markets, has been certified to the Marine Stewardship Council’s Standard for environmental sustainability in wild-capture fisheries, for...

SOUTH AFRICA: Calling for a cross-sector approach to address incidental seabird mortality across the country’s fisheries, a new action plan proposes the development of joint funding mechanisms and common platforms to share monitoring data...

For the second year running and just one day after World Krill Day, the Antarctic krill fishery has been shut down early, a stark warning sign that the management of one of the world's largest and fastest-growing fisheries urgently needs to...