Scotland protects more than a third of its seas. Why is trawling still allowed?
Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one…
Divers Rescue Ray Tangled in Deadly Fishing Line–Once Freed, Encircled Them with a ‘Thank you’
credit – Andre Smits, via SWNS Underwater photographers and free divers recently rescued a mobula ray tangled in…
2025 Was ‘Year of the Octopus’ Says UK Wildlife Trust, Amid Record Cephalopod Sightings
Pia It was 75 years ago the last time there were as many octopus in British waters as…
Invasive lionfish threaten Mediterranean biodiversity. Could eating them be a solution?
Climate change and the opening of Suez Canal have in recent years opened the floodgates to invasive species…
High seas hopes meet hard realities with 2026 set to become a pivotal year for world’s oceans
While 2025 saw tidal shifts in ocean governance, 2026 is the moment of reckoning, when promises to protect…
Enormous 14ft sea monster that’s rarely ever seen washes up on beach
The massive megamouth shark is one of just 273 that have been identified since the species was first…
Mary River cod thriving in Brisbane River catchment, century after relative went extinct
A major, but endangered, apex predator has been reeled back to a south-east Queensland river catchment a century…
62,000 African Penguins Starving to Death Highlights Humanity-Driven Extinction Crisis
A study published this week about tens of thousands of starving African penguins is highlighting what scientists warn…
Fisherman Creates First Program that Lets Doctors Give Angling Prescriptions for Anxiety – Now Wins King’s Award
Tackling Minds uses fishing to tackle mental health – via SWNS After fishing turned out to be the…
Man drops camera into ocean and what it films leaves experts stunned
YouTuber Barny Dillarstone spent two nights in the Indo-Pacific region looking for underwater species considered ‘new to science’,…
‘Biggest ever’ great white shark reappears and could help solve huge mystery
Marine researchers have got one step closer to answering a major question about the ocean now that Contender…
‘Crocodile’ spotted in UK river as police launch frantic hunt to track it down
The bizarre ‘crocodile’ discovery triggered what police called their ‘strangest appeal ever’ after they began frantically hunting down…