As world leaders prepare to attend the third U.N. Ocean Conference here next week, scientists are urging them to take action ...

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

As the world prepares to celebrate World Ocean Day, National Geographic is making waves with the premiere of Ocean with David ...

China’s fishing vessels appeared to conduct 44% of the global fishing activity during this period, Chinese vessels accounted ...

On the political front, however, EU lawmaker Christophe Clergeau of the Socialists and Democrats, who heads the parliament's ...

The U.S. wants to mine the deep sea. But economists warn that leaders aren't taking the full value of the oceans into account ...

As we celebrate World Ocean Day, new research shows the role that the ocean twilight zone plays in keeping the planet healthy ...

Despite the federal government having dredging completed ahead of this year’s spring lobster season in North Rustico, P.E.I., ...

Let’s get one thing straight: this is not the Atlantic. What works for lobster boats on the East Coast does not seamlessly ...

The paper, led by University of Exeter (UK) professor Callum Roberts, argues that all extractive activities in the high seas -- including commercial fishing, deep-sea mining and oil exploration -- ...

Canada has lifted a three-decade moratorium on commercial cod fishing, but there are signs Atlantic stocks have not fully ...