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WWF is calling on the European Commission to ensure maximum efforts are made to conserve Atlantic bluefin tuna and sharks ahead of an annual meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.

UK seafood entrepreneur Toby Baxendale is investing in Hawaii-based Kampachi Farms, after meeting owner Neil Sims at the 2012 Offshore Mariculture Conference.

Canadian and Peruvian researchers have found that Peruvian anchovy is much more valuable as food for human consumption than as fishmeal.

Seafish is challenging new advice from the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) which advises consumers to avoid eating North Sea cod because it should still be on the fish to avoid list.

How fish fare during their first weeks in the ocean has a significant impact on their ability to survive into adulthood, says the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

A new international report has concluded that the acidity of the world’s ocean may increase by around 170% by the end of the century, bringing significant economic losses.

The Alaska salmon fishery has earned MSC re-certification after a third party assessment by Intertek Moody Marine (IMM) determined that it meets the standards of a sustainable and well managed fishery.

Federal fishery management officials have voted to set 2014 catch levels of Pacific sardine off the US West Coast at 33% below what they would have been under the existing management regime.

Small boat fishermen in Ramsgate UK have seen the volume of quota available to them increase by 25 tonnes, thanks to a pilot project run by the Fish Producer Organisation and the…

An INTERPOL alert has been circulated to all 190 member countries, after a method of shark finning aimed at avoiding detection of illegal practices was identified by Coast Rican authorities.

WWF Pakistan is to support Maldives in its efforts to provide sustainable management of tuna in the Indian Ocean during the next three years.

A new Fishermen’s Community & Training Centre (FCTC) in the Maldives will nurture the country’s pole-and-line fishing communities through the provision of fisheries training and education.

An FAO-coordinated project to improve the health and sustainability of tuna fisheries worldwide has been approved.