One species of shark made history today at the close of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s annual meeting of governments that share a practical and financial interest in fish stocks in the region. The oceanic whitetip, an open-ocean species with a distinctive white tip on its dorsal fin, became the most comprehensively protected shark on the planet.

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“Chilean sea bass” is on the menu and in grocery stores, but before you pick up a knife and fork, consider that your dinner may have been fished from one of the last pristine environments on Earth.

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Members of Pew's global shark conservation team traveled to Bangkok, Thailand in March for the 2013 meeting of delegates to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES. In these dispatches, Elizabeth Wilson writes about the importance of the meeting and what success means for sharks around the world.

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Pacific bluefin tuna have been overfished for decades, with little or no management, and the species has declined to dangerously low levels.Scientists estimate that the number of Pacific bluefin has dropped by 96.4 percent since fishing started.

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On World Penguin Day, take this short quiz, and discover what you have in common with your feathered friends of the Antarctic. Please remember to take action to protect their homes.

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For the second time in 25 days, a major tuna fishing vessel that is suspected of fishing illegally was denied permission to land its catch in a port in southeastern Africa.

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On World Penguin Day, held annually on April 25, penguin lovers, conservationists, and scientists all unite for one common purpose—to celebrate these amazing birds and to draw attention to the need to protect them.

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The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission is a regional fisheries management organization responsible for the management of tuna and tuna-like species in the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas.

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A recently launched Southeast African partnership to crack down on illegal fishing in the Indian Ocean continues to produce early victories. On March 26, the government of the Seychelles Islands denied port entry to the South Korean tuna fishing vessel, Premier, due to suspected illegal fishing.

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This summer, two dozen countries and the European Union will consider creating a series of reserves around the Ross Sea and the East Antarctic marine areas. If created, these reserves will be the largest in the world.

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Chile has become a party to the Port State Measures Agreement, a major international treaty to combat illegal fishing.

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Five species of sharks and two species of manta rays will now be subject to international trade regulation under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, a move that could save these threatened species from total collapse.

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Members of Pew's global shark conservation teams have traveled to Bangkok, Thailand for the 2013 meeting of delegates to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES. In this dispatch, Angelo Villagomez visits Bangkok's local fish market in the city's Chinatown.

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Over the past several years, there has been a across a common argument against regulating threatened shark species in trade—that enforcement is impossible because agents can’t identify whether fins are from endangered or nonendangered species. Meet the scientists who have proved this wrong.

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