Third-generation fisherman Fumio Suzuki sets out into the Pacific Ocean every seven weeks, not to catch fish to sell, but to catch fish that can be tested for radiation.
Consumers are increasingly aware of the environmental impacts of their seafood purchases and want to make the right choices,” said Martin Purves, MSC Southern Africa Programme Manager.
Tuna is in trouble. It's is one of the world’s favourite fish, and the staple protein of millions, but it is overfished globally.
A recent Green Times article focuses on Dr Sylvia Earle, one of the most famous marine biologists in the world who in her lifetime has spent more time underwater than just about anyone else on the planet.
It's been three years since the BP oil spill, and new truths have come to light - from deep down inside the ocean.
Could we ever fully appreciate and value the essential role which the oceans play in our world’s ecology and the future health of our planet? The Sea Pledge Saldanha to Sodwana Coastal Tour aims to generate opportunities for local communities who depend on the ocean.
Illegal fishing scandals and human rights abuses linked to South Korea’s fishing industry have earned the country a bad reputation that is jeopardising its fish trade with the US and the EU, Greenpeace East Asia said.
Last Thursday, members of the SA Whale Disentanglement Network were called in to help free a 9m humpback whale that was entangled in fishing ropes north of Cape Town. The fact that there even needs to be such a team speaks volumes about the wastefulness of SA fishermen.
This amazing video, taken during a manta ray dive off the Kona coast of Hawaii, shows a bottlenose dolphin, tied up in fishing line, asking a human diver for help, and the diver carefully freeing him.
Future of Fish is a nonprofit that is helping entrepreneurs who hope to reinvent the seafood industry by attacking problems throughout the long supply chains used by today's industrialized fisheries.
We know that our oceans are currently being depleted by the international reliance and consumption of fishmeal. Yet the production of fishmeal has remained relatively constant over the past two decades, consuming about a third of the global catch of fish.
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) today agreed to measures that, if appropriately implemented by tuna longline fishing vessels, will result in significant reductions in albatross mortality.
Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, celebrity chef and food campaigner, tackles the subject of "discard" - and the waste of fish in our oceans.
Right now, Atlantic bluefin tuna are being pushed to the brink of extinction by overfishing, yet many sushi restaurants continue to serve it.
The end of seafood by 2048! The ocean without fish. Imagine the global consequences. The award winning film THE END OF THE LINE by Rupert Murray had me sitting at the edge of my seat €“ and swallowing back the tears.
'Congratulations to South Africa€™s seafood consumers. By insisting on sustainably harvested fish and seafood you are significantly driving change.€ This is the message from Dr Samantha Petersen, project manager of the Green Trust-supported Sustainable Fisheries Programme.
'The maximum potential from the world's oceans ... has probably been reached.€ So reads the FAO World Fisheries Report for 2008. 76% of the world's ocean fish stocks, including South African line fish, are exploited at or above sustainable levels.