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. 

The NGO Feedback found that the Norwegian farmed salmon industry consumes nearly 2 million tonnes of whole fish from the wild. It imports this from West Africa, a region facing acute food insecurity. 

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 special issue of the Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Ethics collates four articles in critical ocean studies, indigenous, anti-colonial, queer, gender and intersectional approaches to marine and coastal sea farming. It highlights inventive and societally relevant traditions in feminist STS, environmental ethics, blue – and multispecies humanities and the long histories of indigenous peoples’ connections to coastal areas.

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 research estimates that wild fish used for aquaculture feed is 307% higher than industry has previously claimed. When including fish mortality, this figure rises even higher. These findings challenge the food security and sustainability implications of aquaculture. 

The USDA’s Economic Research Service was uprooted from Washington, D.C., in a controversial move that gutted its expertise and reshaped its mission. This article explores the political motivations, the exodus of talent, and the agency’s struggle to rebuild.

Julian Baggini delves into the best and worst food practices in an array of different societies, past and present from hunter-gatherers in Tanzania to astronaut food. Extracting essential principles to guide how we eat in the future, it calls for a for a pluralistic, humane, resourceful and equitable global food philosophy.