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.

The Falkland Island Toothfish fishery is one of the three toothfish fisheries around the world awarded a category of “Best Choice” by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program. Seafood Watch is ...

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Following its five-yearly Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) assessment, the South Georgia Patagonian toothfish longline fishery has, for the third time, been certified as a sustainable and well-managed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...