Fishing communities on small islands in the Java Sea and farther afield have long complained that large purse seine vessels are encroaching on traditional fishing grounds. On Sembilan Island, between ...
Civil society activists have questioned whether a sanctioned alternative to the seine net will help fish stocks recover in Indonesia’s fishing zones. Fishers on Java’s northern coast are struggling to ...
The IUCN has declared the first ever marine fish extinct after an assessment led by Charles Darwin University (CDU) experts. In a disheartening discovery, the elusive Java Stingaree (Urolophus ...