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EDF plan to develop a scientific foundation for improved adaptive management.

EDF provides a fishery status evaluation and roadmap for reform in the face of climate change.

Climate change threatens key life support systems of our planet — and the ocean is no different. Read EDF Oceans' Fisheries for the Future blog series, where we discuss sustainable fisheries management for a climate-impacted world, through nine concise blogs on various topics.

Healthy oceans help sustain the planet, feed the world, alleviate poverty and support fishers and their communities, even in the face of climate change. EDF works with partners worldwide to strengthen and preserve the health of oceans and the fisheries reliant on them.

One-page summary of EDF's NASDA report.

Fisheries are critically important for nutrition, food security and livelihoods of people around the world. With climate change expected to alter fisheries worldwide, building climate-resilient fisheries is key—read about five pathways governments and stakeholders can take so fisheries can thrive and continue to provide needed resources.

In Chile and Peru, EDF works in collaboration with the main fishing actors to promote resilient and sustainable fishing.

The world's oceans are taking heat from climate change. We must act now so that wild fisheries can thrive.

An online report with greenhouse gas flux data from rice and non-rice cropping systems from four agro-ecological regions in India. Published by Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY.

EDF guide to choosing seafood that can help support fishing communities around the world — and protect the environment too.

If you take care of fish, you’re taking care of a world where people and nature can prosper together. It is not too late to think this way. Believing we can make a difference is essential.

By giving fishers long-term and secure rights, we can make sustainability a priority. EDF explains how we can reverse the overfishing crisis.

Equipping boats with digital tools could help stem fishing industry losses while targeting the biggest threat to our oceans — overfishing.

The world’s oceans have the potential to be significantly more plentiful even in the face of climate change, according to a study in Science Advances.

The Principles are designed to provide investors with certainty about the specific challenges and enabling conditions in wild-caught fisheries, while also generating confidence that building environmental and social sustainability into fisheries will yield a strong return on their investment.

This report from EDF and the Nicholas Institute at Duke University defines the core challenge for fisheries finance, or the "fisheries finance gap", and explores opportunities to combine different types of capital in in support of sustainable wild-capture fisheries

The International Fisheries Information Network provides expert data analysis and policy guidance on the relationship between fishery management and outcomes.

EDF has developed a guide to help EU fishermen, fishery managers and regulators find ways to successfully implement Common Fisheries Policy requirements.

EDF blog featuring discussions of resilient land and water systems that allow people and nature to prosper in a changing climate.

The Framework for Integrated Stock and Habitat Evaluation (FISHE) is a step-by-step process for providing scientific guidance for the management of data-limited fisheries.

Guide to fish choices that are good for consumers and the oceans

The Fishery Solutions Center (FSC) is a team within EDF’s Oceans program that designs and develops innovative fishery management tools and strategies to support efforts to reverse overfishing and restore our oceans to abundance. The Fishery Solutions Center (FSC) is a team within EDF’s Oceans program that designs and develops innovative fishery management tools and strategies to support efforts to reverse overfishing and restore our oceans to abundance.

EDFish blog is the voice of oceans experts at EDF working around the world to create thriving oceans that provide more fish in the water, more food on the plate and thriving fishing communities.