In this issue, we reflect on the importance of the High Seas Biodiversity Agreement (BBNJ) through the lens of zigzagging decision makings of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations of Tuna. In the meanwhile, there is a focus on scientific analyses on effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas, as area-based management tools for high seas conservation.

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.