The United Nations haveagreed on a common framework for establishing marine protected areas on the high seas in a move celebrated as a breakthrough in the fight to stop overfishing and preserve marine biodiversity.

The European Commission has banned the import of seafood from Cameroon to the European Union, punishing the country for its lack of action against illegal fishing. The ban will stay in effect until Cameroon complies with the EU’s Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing regulation.

The Gulf of Guinea is safer than it used to be, with a steady decline in piracy incidents and armed robbery at sea reported in the past year.

Two French organizations are accusing a former government official responsible for negotiating access to African tuna fisheries of having been recruited by the largest tuna lobby in France.

As war with Russia continues to rage In Ukraine’s east, Kyiv’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is battling corruption in the unoccupied regions of the country.

Democratic and Republican senators crossed the aisle in Washington tointroduce a bill aimed to cut down on illegal, unregulated and unlicensed (IUU) fishing.

After President Biden released last month a memorandum detailing his administration's dedication to fight Illegal, Unlicensed and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, U.S. officials have been speaking out against the scourge worldwide.

Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who was last month murdered in the Amazon along with British journalist Dom Phillips, had found out that municipal officials were involved in illegal fishing and poaching on protected Indigenous land in the Amazon,Brazilian journalists say they were told by sources.

An international nonprofit organization has released the first ever globalmap of so-called ‘dark fleets,’ or fishing vessels that do not broadcast their location or appear in public monitoring systems. The map is exposing the extent of illegal fishing worldwide.

Spanish and French fishing vessels were found to have been illegally fishing in the exclusive economic zones of Somalia, India and Mozambique, claims a newreport by the Blue Marine Foundation, an NGO dedicated to marine conservation.

Labor abuse is rampant in both legal and illegal fisheries, researchers found when they looked at conditions at some 792 ports in a new study published in the academic journal, Nature Communications.

Some first saw it as a wall of light upon the waves, others a series of blips popping up out of blue on radar screens, while most only saw its effect in their waters being almost entirely depleted of fishing stocks.

Starting next month, the U.S. will ban Mexican fishing vessels from calling in U.S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico over concerns about illegal fishing.

A global investigation showed that the illicit fishing trade fuels transnational organized crime activities such as the trafficking of humans, drugs, and explosives, Interpol reported.

After the close of the 2021 Climate Change Conference (COP26), activist groups are saying that despite the focus on healthy oceans and maritime sustainability, one pressing topic remained unspoken -- illegal fishing.

A massive shipment of illegally harvested mollusks was intercepted by Spanish authorities, Spain’s civil guard revealed in a statement Tuesday.

So-called “dark fleets” - thousands of ships that switch off their tracking beacons in order to remain invisible to authorities while illegally fishing, have descended from China and other countries on Argentine waters, Oceana, an NGO that covers global maritime issues reported.

More than 100 international and local organizations devoted to the preservation of marine wildlife raised their voice against a possible lifting of an 11 year ban on shark fishing announced by authorities in the Maldives.

Chinese-owned fishing companies cheated the Ghanaian government out of millions of dollars a year in fishing license revenues by using shell companies to fraudulently obtain lower-priced local licenses, according to a new study by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).

Several Indian Ocean states have accused the EU’s distant water fishing fleet of engaging in neo-colonialism after the union called for weaker conservation laws while its ships plunder the bounties of the Indian Ocean.