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“We have two choices: to abandon hope and ensure that the worst will happen, or to use the opportunities that exist and contribute to a better world. It is not a very difficult choice.” Fisheries, science, 🌊 🏊🏼‍♂️ , 🏄🏽‍♂️, 🚲 & Dub http://www.franciscoblaha.info

“They think they know better than those they’re supposed to represent, and that often leads to their worst failures” newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/06/a...

Dr. John Hampton hits (as usual) the nail on the head in this blog, where he quotes extensively from one of the jobs I'm most proud of, in my consultant career, the FFA / MRAG Quantification of IUU Fishing in the Pacific Islands Region - a 2020 Update www.iss-foundation.org/about-issf/w...

Now, a proliferation of challenges to free navigation is threatening the world’s open trading system www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Stoked to see this at least 10 of my pictures in this multimedia essay by UNDP with a great headline! undp-nature.exposure.co/the-power-of...

The campaigners who say “ban it all” and the contractors who say “it’s basically empty down there” are both flattening a story that refuses to be flat. That refusal is exactly why this review paper is worth reading. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/6/...

“abhorrent” is a good word not only to describe this case, it most of actions of the National-ACT lead government decisions www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

UNDP and the FFA have released a major report documenting 20 years of work in tuna fisheries management – a story of unprecedented collaboration between scientists, government, fisheries workers, NGOs, and international development partners. (and some nice pictures 😎) www.undp.org/nature/publi...

Hi RNZ and the rest of NZ Media - please could you spend your time actually focusing on the politicians who are responsible for cold, damp, miserable homes and refuse to regulate the food and power oligarchies, instead of gleefully putting out these stupid articles like clockwork every year. #nzpol

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a serious problem in ocean fisheries worldwide, and the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) — home to the world’s largest tuna fishery — is no...

Neoliberalism's attempt to make self-interest into a governing philosophy has proven to be a disaster, writes Dame Anne Salmond, but alternatives do exist

Beginning in 2000 with the first UNDP-supported, Global Environment Facility (GEF)-financed, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)-executed project dedicated to enhancing oceanic fisheries mana...

Belt-tightening, as it turns out, is location-specific. It affects you if you’re in a state house. It doesn't if you’re in the house of representatives.

A legal boffin who was consulted on the government's law change that would prevent companies from being sued over climate change explains his opposition.

The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency has released a major report documenting two decades of transformative work in tuna fisheries management – a story of unprecedented collaboration between scientists, government officials, fisheries workers, NGOs, and international development partners. Pacific Power: A 20-Year Journey of Regional Leadership in Tuna Fisheries distils hard-won lessons from the Oceanic Fisheries Management Project, revealing how regional solidarity and science-based decision-making have turned the Western and Central Pacific Ocean into a global model for sustainable fisheries governance.

The fishing practice of bottom trawling has become a political issue as environmental groups call for further restrictions. Rex Chapman, skipper of the Tokatu, Sealord's largest fishing vessel, spoke ...

I’ve been interested in this topic for a while, and when my friend Gilles sent me this paper , Glover, A.G. et al., 2026, “The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining,” Current Biology 36, R400–R4...