Crinoids (feather stars) on the seabed at the mouth of Cumberland Bay (South Georgia). Photo: GSGSSI/Cefas/Blue Belt. The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) has ...

Back in the 1970s, a largely ignored and hard-to-sell fish called the Patagonian toothfish kept showing up in the nets of South American fishermen trolling for high market pescatarian delicacies.

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Toothfish, often sold as “Chilean sea bass” have long been targeted by poachers in the remote and hostile Southern Ocean. Poaching has not only harmed toothfish stocks, but rendered the study and ...

Policing toothfish is not as straightforward as Sea Shepherd would like it to be. AAP Image/Australian Customs These fish are slow to mature, live on the oceanic rises near Antarctica, and grow up to ...

Conservationists say illegal fishing is threatening the valuable stocks of Patagonian toothfish in Antarctic waters. They say illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) catches are running at four ...

A Uruguayan-flagged boat seized on suspicion of poaching rare Patagonian toothfish was escorted to Australia yesterday after a 21-day chase, with its 39 crew held. The Viarsa, suspected of poaching ...

Prince Charles clearly thinks highly of them – he begged the government to make them a high priority – but what exactly is the Patagonian toothfish? In a letter regarding illegal fishing, he wrote: "I ...

You wouldn’t want to get caught between these two sea monsters. This pair of massive deep-water foes are waging war in Antarctic waters, and it’s eat or be eaten. Given it weighs up to half a tonne ...

I didn't know a thing about dissostichus eleginoides until the BSME's annual awards. And I suspect that I would have remained blissfully ignorant about it, but for an exceptional piece of fortune that ...