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Results of an EDF poll exploring Florida voters' views on aquaculture.

Results of an EDF poll exploring California voters' views on aquaculture.

Results of an EDF poll exploring American voters' views on aquaculture.

Voters reject extreme stances on both sides of the aquaculture debate, with the overwhelming majority preferring the proposal above to either immediately opening federal waters or forever keeping them closed to aquaculture.

Voters reject extreme stances on both sides of the aquaculture debate, with the overwhelming majority preferring the proposal above to either immediately opening federal waters or forever keeping them closed to aquaculture.

A recent poll conducted by Environmental Defense Fund and Global Strategy Group shows that voters overwhelmingly support doing research into aquaculture to understand its benefits and risks and set the appropriate standards.

Infographic on aquatic foods from EDF and partners.

EDF is ensureing that any expansion of offshore aquaculture in the United States is done in the most environmentally sustainable way possible.

EDF landscape analysis of the technological 'state of play' as well as current activity relating to the use of new and emerging technologies to help solve common fishery-related challenges at the global, regional and national levels, including the individuals, organizations, countries and technology service providers engaged in these activities.

EDF supports the New England Fishery Management Council’s work on Amendment 23 to the Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) Fishery Management Plan (FMP)to reform monitoring in the groundfish fishery.

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.

EDF is seeking a suitably qualified technology and services provider to work with EDF's Smart Boat Initiative and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to design, implement and test a "smartpass" camera system that is capable of identifying and enumerating recreational fishing vessels leaving and returning to ports in Oregon. Read more here.

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.

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.

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.

New technologies cannot themselves fix the fisheries crisis that we face. But as EDF lays out in this report, they do open an unprecedented window of opportunity to dramatically broaden access to the fishery management approaches that have been proven to work.

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.

A new bio-economic model shows the great promise of sustainable fishing.