Marine Life

For hundreds of small fishermen living near this delicate area, sustainable fishing is a necessity for their survival. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

World Ocean Day: Bangladesh’s ‘Silent Island’ provides a fisheries model for the future

Nijhum Dwip and the 3,188 km² expanse surrounding the island is more than just water. It is a biologically rich ecosystem that supports species like dolphins, rays, marine turtles, threatened...

FILE PHOTO: A mother and calf vaquita, a critically endangered small tropical porpoise native to MexicoÕs Gulf of California, surface in the waters off San Felipe, Mexico in this handout picture taken in 2008. Paula Olson/NOAA Fisheries/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo

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Extinction alert issued for Mexico's threatened vaquita porpoise

The Nautica, a replacement oil tanker for the decaying FSO Safer, arrives in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen July 17, 2023. REUTERS/Adel al-Khadher/File Photo

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Most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen: UN

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Nearly 100 pilot whales strand themselves on an Australian beach; half have died despite efforts

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Biggest contributors to marine plastic pollution

FILE PHOTO: "Wuru," a four-year-old female Dugong, swims in her tank at the Sydney Aquarium June 4, 2009. Dugongs graze on sea grass in tropical waters and are sometimes labelled "Sea cows" although their closest living relative is the elephant. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

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Nearly 10% of marine life threatened with extinction -Red List

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New rainbow-coloured fish discovered off Maldives coast

50 years old Bosun (a senior crewman) Anis does not care a penny about wild sea. He is obsessed with the thoughts of his beloved daughters. All of them are eligible to get married. In the next sign off, he must make that arrangement. God knows whether he can manage that or not. I took this picture in a stormy weather on north Pacific and suddenly this big wave covered us within a few seconds.

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