This book explores the complex interplay of sounds in the sea, showing how sounds help marine life survive and how human noise can transform entire marine ecosystems. Journalist Amorina Kingdon synthesizes historical discoveries with the latest scientific research in a clear and compelling portrait of this sonic undersea world.

This report by IIED argues that seafood has been ignored in food system debates and should play a more prominent role to maximise the synergies and avoid unintended consequences. 

This research analyses blue-economy-labelled money flows disbursed between 2017 and 2021, revealing that finance is skewed towards Europe and Central Asia, and in business development and renewable energy. This highlights widespread red flags for social equity outcomes. 

This study estimates that small-scale fisheries provide 40% of global fisheries catches and 2.3 billion people with, on average, 20% of their dietary intake across six essential micronutrients. Globally, 1 in every 12 people depend on small-scale fisheries for at least part of their livelihoods, generating $77.2 billion. 

This book is an updated and revised introduction to sustainable aquaculture practices with special attention to the social, economic and environmental issues and corresponding potential solutions. 

This article explores the role of trade as a potential driver of inequitable aquatic food distribution through its analysis of global aquatic food consumption patterns, trade characteristics, and impacts from 1976 to 2019. The authors find an increase in per capita consumption of aquatic foods over this time period at the global scale, a reduction in the average consumption rate of foods higher in the aquatic food chain, and improved distribution of high value aquatic foods through structural trade patterns. The authors hope to contribute to future research on the globalisation of aquatic food systems, aquaculture and the impacts of trade on food security.

This book, coming at the end of the author’s celebrated career in social science, reflects on 50 turbulent years of fisheries management and policy in Europe, across a period in which the globalisation of trade, increasing regulation and declining fish stocks have had a radical impact on North Atlantic fisheries. The author considers the origins of the Common Fisheries Policy and the roots of its failure to deliver sustainable fisheries, the flaws of a centralised system and the consequences of Brexit for the UK fishing industry.

This report from the Good Food Institute sets out the current state of the growing seafood alternatives industry, covering the industry’s commercial landscape, investment, sales data, and consumer insights from January 2020 to June 2021. It includes plant-based, cellular agriculture and fermentation-based forms of seafood alternatives.

The Guardian newspaper has analysed 44 studies on the mislabelling of seafood. 36% of thousands of samples across more than 30 countries were found to be mislabelled. Although some errors may be accidental, the writers suggest that since most of the substitutions were cheaper fish labelled as more expensive fish, fraud is likely to blame in many cases.