Big farms are under pressure to address the problem of dying salmon in Norway's vast fish-farm industry Article 913 words 9 votes
How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed Article 3545 words, published Jan 31 2024 21 votes
How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now. 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 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 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 Article 664 words 8 votes
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species 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 Article 1674 words 7 votes
Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring Article 879 words 23 votes
US federal grants will replace tunnels beneath roads that let water pass but not fish Article 582 words 16 votes
Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins Link 38 votes
Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly twenty-nine tons from 10,000 sharks seized conservation Link 15 votes
Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end Link 19 votes
The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue Link 5 votes
Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death Article 690 words, published May 9 2023 12 votes
Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment sustainability Article 761 words 4 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 Article 446 words 4 votes
Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones Article 938 words 3 votes
Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses 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 Article 1338 words 6 votes
Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks? 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 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 Article 929 words 6 votes
Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season 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 conservation Article 1316 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 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 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 Article 54 words, published Feb 4 2022 5 votes
Humble suckers: Pacific lamprey have survived five mass extinctions but are now under threat conservation Article 2130 words, published Jan 26 2022 2 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 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 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 pollution.water Article 336 words 9 votes
Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores pollution.water Article published May 27 2021 5 votes
An invasion of king crabs from Russia into Norway created a lucrative fishing industry – and difficult choices Article 1392 words 6 votes
Does it make sense to grow fish in indoor tanks? Inland farms offer an alternative to diminishing wild Atlantic salmon stocks, but the price tag is higher carbon emissions. Article 1338 words 4 votes
Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales conservation Article 576 words 6 votes
Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott Article 415 words, published Jul 21 2020 14 votes
Destroying a way of life to save Louisiana: The state’s $50 billion plan to re-engineer its coastline may wash some fishing communities off the map climate change Article 5730 words 4 votes
Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits Article 903 words, published May 1 2020 6 votes
Catch me if you can: The tale of a notorious fishing vessel shows just how difficult combating illegal activity at sea can be conservation Article 4684 words 5 votes
Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading Article 1078 words 6 votes
Trawlers return to Pacific Ocean fishing area in rare environmental success story conservation Article 964 words, published Dec 26 2019 7 votes
Sea temperatures off the Angolan coast have warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius in the past century, decimating the once-booming fishing town of Tombwa climate change Article 3401 words 5 votes
Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch sustainability Article 851 words 4 votes
The sea is running out of fish, despite nations’ pledges to stop it conservation Article 998 words 10 votes