The Soft Launch to Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park & Kota Kinabalu Plastic Neutral and Fish-Bomb-Free Initiative at the Sustainable Action Conference held in November 2023.

The marine ecosystem, particularly coral reefs, faces an imminent threat from illegal blast fishing practices. Our proposal seeks funding to integrate a real-time detection system with immediate coral rehabilitation efforts, ensuring both the deterrence of harmful activities and the rapid recovery of affected marine habitats.

In their annual “Environmental, Social & Governance Report,” SoundThinking outlined their work with SFB USA in the goal of ending the destructive practice in Malaysia and around the world.

Sabah's First NATURE Gathering took place recently at the Hotel Lab FPEP, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

"Stop Fish Bombing is NOT Mission: Impossible” was presented in the “End Use Case Study” Session of the Oceanology International Americas 2023 Conference in San Diego February 14 - 16.

In central Indonesia’s Spermonde archipelago, a coral reef destroyed by blast fishing — where sticks of dynamite are thrown into the reef to kill fish — has been recovering, but scientists weren’t sure if its ecosystem would return as well. That is, until they heard the endearingly unusual sounds of marine life.

Small-scale and subsistence fisheries play an important role in the livelihoods and food security of several local communities worldwide. However, the status and dynamics of many fishing practices are unknown, particularly regarding destructive fishing practices such as blast fishing.

The Integrated Reef Protection System (IRPS) uses the cloud to connect underwater acoustic arrays, the M2 smart radar with high resolution camera and drone, covert hydrophones, real-time hydrophones and sound traps, and boat mounted sensors with the smartphone "Respond App” to displays blast location in minutes for enforcement officials to protect fragile Marine Protected Areas.

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing costs economies up to US$50 billion globally each year, and makes up to one-fifth of the global catch. It’s a huge problem not only for the 59.5 million people who depend on fisheries for their livelihoods, but also for the environment.

SFB-USA and SFB-MY recently joined BluHope.org for a webinar about fish bombing in Sabah.

While continuing our work in the Marine Protected Areas in Malaysian Borneo, Stop Fish Bombing USA is lending our expertise and technology to an issue much closer to home: bombs in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

There is growing interest in the relatively time-consuming, complex and expensive process of growing coral fragments in nurseries for transplant back into the wild.