Publications

We are pleased to announce that the official report of the 13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium, held in September 2025 in Mombasa, Kenya, is now available. The report details the event’s […]

The national Seaweed Development Strategic Plan recently adopted by the Tanzanian government calls for expansion of seaweed farming which has proven to be an important income generator for coastal communities […]

A Field Guide to the Seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Islands Third Edition – is completely revised. Packed with 1,650 species of plants and animals from […]

The early life stages of most fish represent developmental intervals that are ecologically distinct from each other and especially from their later juvenile and adult stages. Knowledge of the changing […]

Milkfish is a marine and brackish water species that is locally caught and eaten, but rarely has it been cultured commercially in ponds in the Western Indian Ocean Region. Milkfish […]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science (WIOJMS) — Volume 24, Issue 2 (July- Dec 2025). This issue is packed […]

The latest issue of WIOJMS has been published! Covering diverse topics ranging from fisheries, microplastic pollution, marine mammals, to microalgae and coastal habitats, the research papers in this latest issue […]

This working paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of how Our Ocean Conference (OOC) commitments are being implemented across Africa. Covering over a decade of voluntary pledges, the assessment highlights […]

In 2020, the Nairobi Convention and WIOMSA through the Group of Experts on Marine Litter and Microplastics commissioned three inter-related regional assessments on the status of marine litter and microplastics; […]

The main objective of this book is to provide teachers of primary and secondary schools in the western Indian Ocean (WIO) region with a basic textbook that will allow them […]