Opinion & Insights

“If you’re interested in conservation, you’d better be interested in conflict. So argues Dr. Tim McClanahan, one of the world’s most highly cited fisheries academics.

The Jeddah Agreement to the Djibouti Code of Conduct brodens its scope to include a range of illicit maritime activities. Somalia is the most recent state to sign on, reflecting the increasing recognition that states must comprehensively govern their martime spaces.

World Fisheries Day highlights the centrality of fisheries to food security, economy, and culture in coastal communities.

Analysis of satellite imagery used to require specialized technical skills, a computer with massive processing capabilities, and lots of time and money. Not anymore.

Somalia lays half a world away from the tropical Pacific Ocean, but El Niño-driven changes in the Pacific affect marine fisheries in Somali waters.

The world’s ocean coalition is increasingly recognizing that ocean health and human security are inextricably linked.

Our team’s on-going field work on Lake Victoria was designed to look at big fish – Nile perch, tilapia, and the Lake’s biggest catfish, the imposing Bagrus docmac – and little fish alike. Several team members, both on the boats and abroad, are madly (quite literally) obsessed with biodiversity of th...

Secure Fisheries’ mission of improving fisheries governance in order to eliminate the root causes of organized political violence, particularly in fragile and post-conflict states, supports the goals of SDG 14.