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Fishing

July 2024

  • An employee carries a blue shark into cold storage at Miami Pescado, Cananéia.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

    Despite curbs on certain species, trade in the cheap fish is booming. But worried conservationists say most people do not even realise they are eating shark

June 2024

  • A bird's eye shot of a woman squatting on a rocky beach, sorting through plastic using a pink sieve.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

    One of the world’s most remote populations must deal with a flood of multinational plastic, much of it tossed overboard by the factory fishing ships hoovering up sealife just offshore
  • The harbour in Omoe, a fishing community on Japan's north-east coast. Aquamarine waters can be seen below small white fishing boats against the background of rich green trees and a blue sky

    Waves of change: Japan’s female fishers fill the gap in a struggling industry

    Although women are helping to address a desperate labour shortage, they face resistance in a sector dominated by men

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Save our seas: five ways to rewild and conserve the ocean

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘Where do sharks hang out?’: the race to find safe spaces for the Galápagos’ ocean-going predators

    • A supreme court case about fishermen could throw government into chaos

May 2024

  • Marina Gibson standing in a river, flyfishing

    ‘I just want to be equal’: female angler takes on elite men-only flyfishing club

  • Fish fillets bought in Australia during the research

    Threatened species and chips? Other fish frequently sold as flake, Australian study finds

  • Jackass Penguin, Stony Point, Betty's Bay, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa / (Spheniscus demersus)<br>FKNHCP Jackass Penguin, Stony Point, Betty's Bay, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa / (Spheniscus demersus)

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Penguins in peril: why two bird charities are taking South Africa’s environment minister to court

  • A salmon leaping as it tries to get past a weir in full flow

    The age of extinction
    Migratory freshwater fish populations ‘down by more than 80% since 1970’

  • Scotland’s vulnerable marine life not properly protected, campaigners warn

  • On our plate
    Scaling up: the app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘I’m happy we’re not killing them any more’: Ireland’s last basking shark hunter on the return of the giants

April 2024

  • Navagio beach in Zakynthos, Greece

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks

  • Two fishermen onboard a trawler with nets full of shellfish

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Conservationists condemn France’s protest over UK’s bottom-trawling ban

  • A man in a yellow oilskin jacket on a beach carrying two very huge crabs, while small fishing boats are anchored in an inlet. In the background are snow-topped mountains

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Crabs, kelp and mussels: Argentina’s waters teem with life – could a fish farm ban do the same for Chile?

  • two men standing outside

    Canada: Indigenous fishermen left to walk shoeless after officers seized boots

March 2024

  • A trawler lowers its nets to catch demersal fish

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters

    Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to ‘destroy whole ecosystems’
  • Fishers line the banks of the Narrabri Creek

    The rural network
    Carp Diem: targeting the ‘perfect invasive species’ one fishing competition at a time

    2.3 tonnes of carp were removed from the Narrabri creek in north-west NSW at the annual carp muster – but experts say it won’t make a dent
  • A small fishing community in Negros Oriental from the air.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘If we can’t fish any more, we’re going to die’: the volunteer sea patrols protecting precious Philippine waters

    Dedicated groups called Bantay Dagat aim to conserve the abundant marine life surrounding their thousands of islands, which has been under pressure for years from intensive overfishing
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