The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) made progress on harvest strategies and its ...

WWF also believes ICCAT should ban the retention of North Atlantic shortfin mako shark and limit fishing quotas for blue sharks in line with scientific advice, to avoid overfishing.

a South American nation that borders the South Atlantic. Across the ocean in countries such as Senegal and Morocco, he said ...

In the late 1990s, swordfish had been so overfished in the North Atlantic Ocean that its population ... to industry that could contribute to overfishing. Experts also said the meeting went badly ...

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which ... fish aggregating devices that can lead to overfishing, in a concession to European industry interests.

The North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC ... is home to mackerel and herring populations that are subject to overfishing. Image by Harvey Barrison via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

France's fisheries minister has called for an investigation after a spillage of more than 100,000 dead fish off the country's Atlantic coast. Video footage filmed by environmental activists shows ...

The U.K. government has been urged to end overfishing and restore ocean health in a new report. The study by the non-profit Oceana says ministers should set a new legally binding, science-led ...

Catch limits were implemented for the first time in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2012, but they're not enough to protect bluefin. Since 1970, western Atlantic bluefin tuna have declined by about 70 ...

and overfishing throughout their range has driven their numbers to critically low levels. Atlantic bluefins are warm-blooded, a rare trait among fish, and are comfortable in the cold waters off ...

Bluefin tuna are an ocean-going fish that grow up to 10 feet long and can ... bluefin are being push toward extinction by decades of overfishing. The International Union for Conservation of Nature ...