The Chinese distant water fishing fleet is comprised of thousands of trawlers working far from Chinese shores, often engaging in illegal fishing from the South Pacific to Western Africa.

Following a stop in Fiji in late January, the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon (WHEC 717) continue their South Pacific patrol in support of counter-Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported fishing and ...

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) was established by Proclamation 8336 of January 6, 2009 (Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument), and then ...

HONOLULU — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a ...

Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, about halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa, part of a national monument. A hui of Hawaiian cultural practitioners called Kapa‘a, along with the ...

Repeals the “Management of the Marine National Monument” section of Proclamation 9173 (Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Expansion), which appropriated the Pacific Remote Islands Marine ...

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) HONOLULU — Environmentalists are challenging ...

2024 was a record year for tropical tuna catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, thanks to a big increase in skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) catch, and stocks are considered healthy. So when the ...

A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders ...