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Sri Lanka is surveying the financial burn that comes with being blacklisted by the European Union - according to a spokeswoman, the island nation has taken a revenue hit of USD 75 million (EUR 68 million) since January, when the EU placed a ban on fish caught by Sri Lankan vessels.

Sri Lanka is surveying the financial burn that comes with being blacklisted by the European Union - according to a spokeswoman, the island nation has taken a revenue hit of USD 75 million (EUR 68 million) since January, when the EU placed a ban on fish caught by Sri Lankan vessels.

As oceans empty, Kenya fishermen must adapt or disappear.

Reef fisheries can continue to provide food and income despite corals being lost to climate change, according to new research conducted in the Seychelles.

Coastal researchers examine resource scarcity and poverty traps in coastal tanzania.

Why should we try to protect the coral reefs?

Hilsa: The fish that is being loved to death.

What Kenya's government can do to protect, and benefit from, ocean resources.

In coming decades as coastal communities around the world are expected to encounter sea-level rise, the general expectation has been that people's migration toward the coast will slow or reverse in many places.

Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) are often undervalued and unmanaged as a result of a lack of data. A study of SSFs in Menabe, western Madagascar in 1991 found diverse catches and a productive fishery with some evidence of declining catches. Here we compare data collected at the same landing site in 1991 and 2011. 2011 had seven times greater total monthly landings due to more people fishing and higher individual catches. Catch composition showed a lower mean trophic level in 2011 indicating overfishing, the true extent of which may be masked due to changes in technology and fishing behaviours. Limited management action since 2011 means these trends have likely continued and an urgent need for both greater understanding, and management of these fisheries remains if they are to continue providing food and income for fishing communities.

* Fish catch before and after covid curfews was evaluated in gear and reserve management. * Curfew regulation compliance was higher near the reserve than gear managed sites. * Catch rates and incomes were variable but displayed greatest increases adjacent the reserve. * Rates of changes after the curfew mostly followed the longer-term trends in catches. * Curfew accelerated long-term declines in CPUE in gear-restricted but not reserves fisheries.