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Two men stand on a beach in front of a fishing boat
Under Threat

The Mexican community who saved a mollusc from collapse

close up of a clump of oysters in a gloved hand
Biodiversity

Restoring Hong Kong's oyster reefs: a photo story

Communities

The community restoring Kenya’s seagrass meadows

The expansive coastal shallows of the Banc d’Arguin National Park make it one of the world’s most important wintering grounds for migratory wading birds such as dunlins and curlew sandpipers
Protected Areas

Banc d’Arguin: A blue carbon custodian

Plastics

Plastic river: Following the waste that’s choking the Chao Phraya

Under Threat

What’s killing South Africa’s seals?

Biodiversity

In pictures: Marine species on the brink

Aquaculture

China’s coastline in transition

Deep-sea mining

Species threatened by deep-sea mining

Protected Areas

Chile’s latest marine park

Under Threat

Call of the Blue: the fragility of marine life – in photos

What We Eat

60 days at sea

Aquaculture

Inside Xiangshan’s struggling fishing industry

Tourism

Zhejiang fishermen switch to tourism

Jellyfish. Bobbing along on the ocean surface, plastic bags are mistaken for jellyfish by hungry turtles.
Culture

Plastic fish

Overfishing

Chinese aquaculture is driving fisheries to the brink

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IUU fishing

Indonesia struggles with agreement to stem illegal catch

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fisheries

Kenya looks to mariculture as fish demand outstrips supply

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Plastics

Oil interests impede plastic treaty progress

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Communities

Mining sand for cash in Sierra Leone is costing the environment

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