Scientists trying to map the Pacific Ocean floor get an unexpected assist from the world’s second-largest…
Category: Maritime
Marine industry news: shipping; fishing; oil extraction; seafloor mining etc.
Plastic in the fish we eat
The oceans are now a soup of trillions of barely visible pieces of plastic From surface…
British fishing industry in crisis
UK Fishing industry faces an exports black hole over red tape More than 70 per cent…
Is blue energy about to ride a wave?
Tide and wave energy may be the missing link to Britain’s carbon-free future Orkney’s fast-flowing tidal…
Destructive bottom trawling happens in 98% of the UK’s Marine Protected Areas
All but one of Britain’s Marine Protected Areas suffer damaging bottom trawling and dredging A new…
Empty seas: oceanic shark populations plummet
A new study finds a steep decline in global shark and ray numbers For millennia, the…
Small group of companies dominate the ocean economy
Most of the revenue extracted from the oceans is concentrated among 100 multinationals Dubbed the “Ocean…
Researchers develop novel way of measuring ship noise
Light quickly scatters underwater but sound can travel for hundreds of miles Many marine organisms rely…
Underwater robot cleans ships to cut emissions
A ship may look elegant as it cuts serenely through the waves but a look below…
Seabirds killed in Namibian waters reduced by 98 percent
This stunning conservation success story comes after a decade of work Namibia’s longline fisheries were among…