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November 28, 2018

AUDIO: No Blue Economy Without Conserving the Oceans

November 28, 2018

Making a Fashion Statement With Fish

November 28, 2018

Marine Waste is Turning the Earth into a Plastic Planet

November 28, 2018

VIDEO: Canada Supports Global Effort to Sustain Oceans

November 28, 2018

Q&A: From a Burden to an Asset, Including Youth in the Development Space

November 14, 2018

Q&A: All Sustainable Development Goals Relate in Some Way to the Oceans

IPS correspondent Carmen Arroyo interviews PETER THOMSON,…


by Carmen Arroyo

November 12, 2018

Lack of Funds Prevent Ugandan Communities from Investing in Cage Aquaculture


by Wambi Michael

Japan joins Kenya as a co-host of the Blue Economy Conference. Kenya's Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma (left) met the Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono on October 6, 2018 in Tokyo. Credit: The Nation

November 6, 2018

Africa’s Giant Blue Economy Potential

Mr. Toshitsugu Uesawa is Japan’s Ambassador to Kenya and…


by Siddharth Chatterjee and Toshitsugu Uesawa

The Fisheries Sector in the Caribbean Community is an important source of income. Four Caribbean countries have done an inventory of the major sources of mercury contamination in their islands. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS

November 5, 2018

Caribbean Looks to Protect its Seafood From Mercury


by Jewel Fraser Fraser

Stingrays, which can be found in the Indian Ocean which surrounds the Seychelles. This flattened fish is closely related to sharks. The Seychelles has become the first country in the world to issue a blue bond, focused on funding sustainable use of marine resources. Credit: Nalisha Adams/IPS

October 31, 2018

Seychelles Issues World’s First Blue Bond to Fund Fisheries Projects


by Kanis Dursin

October 29, 2018

Sustainable Coastal Fisheries in the Pacific Depends on Improving Sanitation


by Catherine Wilson

Rahti Begum a fisherwoman sells fish on a roadside in Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir state in India. She says she will be the last woman in her clan to sell fish. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS

October 25, 2018

Kashmir’s Fisherwomen Live Between Hope and Despair


by Umar Manzoor Shah

With the high demand for fish by the tourism sector, Barbados imports the majority of the fish consumed here. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS

October 24, 2018

Barbados Looks Beyond its Traditional Sugar and Banana Industries into the Deep Blue


by Desmond Brown

Dr Sylvia Earle, an eminent marine biologist and explorer has strong views on how nations needs to work to save what the United Nations calls the lungs of our planet.

October 4, 2018

Saving the Lungs of Our Planet


by Gordon Radley

Every winter dozens of bull sharks come to Mexico’s Mayan Riviera to breed. A single bull shark can give birth to up to 15 young. They are the only species of shark that can live in both fresh and salt water.

October 4, 2018

Saving the Kindergarten of Sharks


by Gordon Radley

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