This time we focus on the recent oil spill event in Mauritius, as well as environmental impacts of commercial seabed mining activities.

This issue focuses on impacts of ocean changes associated with climate change on fisheries, and gives attention to recent successive news of illegal fishing activities associated with Chineses fishing vessels.

This issue focuses on discussions related to ocean on China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, and focuses on latest progress of post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, and continues to discuss marine conservation.

This issue presents the role of the oceans in the carbon cycle is very relevant to the global climate, and follows the ocean conservation on a global scale. The high seas biodiversity agreement and the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework are also touched upon in this issue.

The theme of World Oceans Day 2020 is “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean”. As a civil society concerned with marine conservation, we call on the entire society to pay attention to the protection of marine biodiversity and support multi-level marine innovations from institutions to management and technology.