FishBase launches Genetic Diversity Risk Indicator (GDRI), empowering managers to detect invisible threats to ocean health November 2025 — In the face of overfishing, climate change, and habitat loss, a critical component of species survival often goes unmeasured: genetic diversity. Today, FishBase announces the launch of the Genetic Diversity Risk Indicator (GDRI),…
The 19th Hellenic Conference of Ichthyologists, held in Ioannina, Greece from October 30 to November 2, 2025, celebrated the forefront of ichthyology and fisheries science. Among the highlights was the inaugural presentation of the Rainer Froese Award, established to honor the legacy of Dr. Rainer Froese (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for…
GEOMAR researchers identify systemic weaknesses in EU fisheries management and are calling for quotas to be set independently of national interests 22 May 2025/Kiel. Every year, total allowable catches (TACs) and fishing quotas are set across Europe through a multi-step process – and yet many fish stocks in EU waters…
United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), 9-13 June 2025, Nice, France–co-chaired by the governments of France and Costa Rica “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean” Together with several partners, Mundus maris is hosting a side event in the Green Zone, particularly in the space ‘Atoll participatif’…
A week before Brussels’ Ocean Week and a few months before the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, a group of researchers published the results of an unprecedented scientific effort: they redefine the concept of ‘sustainable fishing’ and propose eleven ‘golden rules’ that radically challenge the flawed notion that currently prevails in fisheries…
By Rainer Froese I thought the background story of our recent publication ‘New developments in the analysis of catch time series as the basis for fish stock assessments: The CMSY++ method‘ may be of interest to young scientists. It all started in 2011, when I was visiting Daniel Pauly at…
A recent update introduced to the CMSY methodology used for assessing the status of fish stocks has proven to be more accurate in predicting the catch that a population can support than highly-valued data-intensive models. In a paper published in the journal Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, the international team of researchers that shaped the…
Every year, on June 8th, people around the world come together to celebrate World Oceans Day. It is a poignant reminder to all of the vital role that oceans play in our daily lives. Covering 70% of the earth’s surface, they serve not only as the Earth’s lungs –producing a…
An annual list of marine fish and bivalves that serves as a guide to German consumers on what they can purchase and eat with a clear conscience –those currently with large and healthy population sizes and are fished sustainably, or in short, the ‘good fish‘, was recently published as a…