Today, June 8, is World Oceans Day, when stakeholders around the world stop to reconsider the value of ocean conservation. This year’s theme is “Planet Ocean: Tides are Changing”—making ...

This year’s marine heat waves and spiking ocean temperatures foretell big changes in the future for some of the largest fish in the sea, such as sharks, tunas and swordfish.

Sumaila said not only does a fish bank ensure future generations have food to eat but it would protect ocean biodiversity, which is crucial in the fight to limit global warming.

The Saya de Malha Bank remains unprotected by any major binding treaties largely due to an anemia of political will by national authorities and a profits-now costs-later outlook of fishing interests.

An oft-touted claim from high-profile sources says that there will be more plastic than fish in the world's oceans by 2050.; The claim came from a 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation ...

Fish are dying of suffocation in oceans and rivers. What’s causing it? The mass die-offs, which can occur naturally, are becoming more common around the world—and scientists say humans are to ...

Why you may find dead fish along the banks of the Sandy River Smelt are anadromous, meaning they hatch in freshwater rivers, spend much of their adult life in the ocean, then return to the same ...

UBC economics professor and author Rashid Sumaila, who published a study on the fish bank concept a decade ago, will address the third United Nations ocean conference in France next week. Sumaila, who ...