Somalia bans fishing trawlers from its waters ~enviro Article 2306 words, published Apr 11 2024 9 votes
How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed ~enviro Article 3545 words, published Jan 31 2024 21 votes
How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now ~enviro Article 893 words, published Jan 3 2024 27 votes
Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing ~enviro Article 77 words 10 votes
How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours ~enviro Article 643 words 9 votes
Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities ~enviro Article 664 words 8 votes
Life on Europe's only open Schengen border with Russia – in the Barents Sea, Russia maintains cordial relations with NATO neighbours over fishing rights ~life Article 956 words 7 votes
Björk and Rosalía have collaborated on a new song to benefit activists fighting against industrial salmon farming in Björk's native Iceland ~music Article 643 words 6 votes
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species ~enviro Article 1376 words 9 votes
Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural Icelandic regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations ~enviro Article 1674 words 7 votes
Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring ~enviro Article 879 words 23 votes
US federal grants will replace tunnels beneath roads that let water pass but not fish ~enviro Article 582 words 16 votes
Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins ~enviro Link 38 votes
How geoducks, one of the largest and most expensive clams, are farmed | Vendors ~food restaurants Video 13:06 10 votes
Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly twenty-nine tons from 10,000 sharks seized ~enviro conservation Link 15 votes
Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end ~enviro Link 19 votes
The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue ~enviro Link 5 votes
Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death ~enviro Article 690 words, published May 9 2023 12 votes
Walrus Freya killed by Norway gets Oslo sculpture – online campaign earlier raised $25,000 to make the statue ~arts Article 52 words 6 votes
Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment ~enviro sustainability Article 761 words 4 votes
Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish. Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them. ~science biology Article 557 words, published Jan 21 2023 8 votes
Norway's Supreme Court could set a legal precedent for control of the natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic ~news norway.svalbard latvia Article 446 words 4 votes
Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones ~enviro Article 938 words 3 votes
Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses ~enviro climate change Article 575 words 16 votes
The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us ~enviro Article 1338 words 6 votes
Norway's exports reached a record in July, driven mainly by natural gas prices that have soared – higher fish and metals exports also contributed ~finance Article 404 words 4 votes
Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks? ~enviro conservation Article 956 words, published Nov 7 2017 5 votes
Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism ~enviro Article 38 words 4 votes
After a four-year hiatus, Iceland's last remaining whaling company will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials ~enviro Article 929 words 6 votes
Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season ~enviro Article 811 words, published Jun 14 2022 2 votes
Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored ~enviro conservation Article 1316 words 6 votes
In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom ~life.women Article 1541 words 6 votes
Iceland's plan to end commercial whaling is driven by falling demand but also a fifteen-year-long campaign aimed at their biggest consumers of whale meat – tourists ~enviro conservation Article 1071 words 4 votes
Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018 ~enviro Article 349 words 5 votes
Commercial whaling in Iceland could be banned within two years, after a government minister said there was little justification for the practice ~enviro Article 54 words, published Feb 4 2022 5 votes
Humble suckers: Pacific lamprey have survived five mass extinctions but are now under threat ~enviro conservation Article 2130 words, published Jan 26 2022 2 votes
The search for what's harming Florida's beloved bonefish ~enviro conservation Article 1991 words 4 votes
UK has reached an agreement with Norway and the EU over how to divide fish stocks in the North Sea next year ~news norway scotland united kingdom Article 6 votes
The ingenious ancient technology concealed in the shallows ~humanities.history Article 3578 words 7 votes
Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts ~enviro conservation Article 575 words 5 votes
Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day ~enviro Article 946 words 11 votes
International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish ~enviro pollution.water Article 336 words 9 votes
Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman ~science biology.marine Article 58 words 14 votes
Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores ~enviro pollution.water Article published May 27 2021 5 votes
UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year, with the industry warning that hundreds of crew members will be left out of work ~news norway politics united kingdom Article 38 words 8 votes
Scottish fishermen have increasingly turned to fish auctions in Denmark to avoid having their deliveries to the EU blocked by post-Brexit red tape ~finance Article 306 words 6 votes