Policy-making for fisheries and ocean conservation under climate change.

Focusing on global marine conservation process and sustainable blue economy, “Blue Pulse” initiates the first issue of the Year of the Ox.

Blue Pulse will soon publish a series of special thematic issues for 2020’s review.

The Antarctic ocean is gaining more weight in global nature conservation.

The IATTC fisheries management measures have been vetoed by a vote, resulting in an unprecedented unregulated fishery in these waters next year, which seems to strongly justify the criticism by UN Secretary-General Gutierrez that “mankind is waging war on nature”. The outputs of the UN Decade of Ocean Science programme will make a significant contribution to the achievement of marine conservation goals.

China published its first White Paper on Distant Water Fishing Compliance, and announced by the Tristan da Cunha government, 90 percent of the waters around the island chain will become a “no-take zone”.