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Nation of Palau protecting 80 percent of its ocean waters
(Photo: LuxTonnerre/Flickr) Midway through December, 2015, the Pacific Island nation of Palau created a marine protected area (MPA) the size of California, helping to conserve tuna populations and a...
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2016 Peter Benchley Ocean Award recipients announced
Great minds and passionate ocean advocates will again be recognized this year at the world’s preeminent honors for ocean conservation: the 2016 Peter Benchley Ocean Awards. Last year Dr. Daniel Pauly...
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Sea Around Us study finds 30 per cent of global fish catch is unreported
Countries drastically underreport the number of fish caught worldwide, and the numbers obscure a significant decline in the total catch . The new estimate, released today in Nature Communications,...
View ArticleThe Missing Fish
The trailer for a new documentary about Danial Pauly and the Sea Around Us has just been released. Produced by the Living Oceans Foundation, the documentary — “The Missing Fish” — traces Pauly’s...
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Media following Global Paper
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net On Janurary 21st the Sea Around Us published in the journal Nature Communications the results of over a decade of research. Data were collected...
View ArticleTry our Mapping Tool
Want to see where countries fish around the world? And where they fished globally through time — from 1950-2010? Watch the above tutorial on how to use our interactive Mapping Tool. And to use the...
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Try our interactive graphs
The Sea Around Us provides interactive graphs that display a wide variety of catch information. Users are able to view, analyze and download data and references across multiple regions, including...
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Invasive Species, The Mediterranean, and Sea Around Us Research
Silverside puffer fish (photo: FishBase) The recent expansion of the Suez Canal in August 2015 doubled its shipping capacity, yet many scientists are worried that an increased flood of invasive species...
View ArticleHow Fish Breathe
Water holds about 30 times less oxygen than air—and water that’s being warmed holds even less for fish to breathe. In the video above — produced by Oceana — hear Daniel Pauly describe how warming...
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West Africa and Recreational Fishing
If you scroll through Twitter or scan YouTube in any West African country, chances are you’ll find many recreational fishers shooting video or snapping images of their latest slippery, gilled prize....
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A growing garbage problem
Credit, Charos Pix, Flickr. Many people have heard of the Great Pacific garbage patch, the amorphous mass of plastic waste that according to conservative estimates, is the size of Texas, and floats...
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Poaching in Palau
A recent front page story in the New York Times highlighted both the successes and perils that small island nations face when confronted with foreign fishing poachers. The story, titled “Palau vs....
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New Mapping Tool update
The Sea Around Us updated its mapping tool with two new features to allow for easier use. The mapping tool allows users to view where in the world countries fish, and how their fishing has changed...
View ArticleMapping Tool: Tutorial
To better understand how the Mapping Tool works, take a look at this 5 minute YouTube tutorial. The Mapping Tool allows users to: View the catch of multiple countries at the same time. View multiple...
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Interactive graphs include reported catch line
The Sea Around Us interactive graphs now have a new feature. A black line that indicates reported catch is now visible in the graphs.. This can be used to better gauge the difference between...
View ArticleA look back at Daniel Pauly’s Ted Talk: The Ocean’s shifting baseline
Take a look at Daniel Pauly’s Ted Talk from 2010: The ocean has degraded within our lifetimes, as shown in the decreasing average size of fish. And yet, as Daniel Pauly shows us onstage at Mission...
View ArticleA rejoinder to comments on “Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine...
Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller Sea Around Us University of British Columbia On January 19, 2016 the journal Nature Communications published our paper titled “Catch reconstructions reveal that global...
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The ‘Bandit 6’ have all been caught
The last vessel of the infamous ‘Bandit 6’ poaching ships will no longer be illegally catching toothfish, after the Kunlun, a large rusting boat, was recently seized by Senegalese authorities. The...
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Workshop allows teachers and scientists to learn new skills in the Philippines
In early March teachers, marine biologists, and fisheries biologists from the Philippines descended upon the Davao del Norte State College in Panabo City, Philippines, to take part in a three day...
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The imperative for increased monitoring of fishing vessels
“The ocean remains the least observed part of our planet” writes Douglas J. McCauley, in a recent Science Magazine article that outlines the issue of monitoring fishing boats in regions of the ocean...
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