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Breaking the law
Author: Peter Pierrou
Date: April 23, 2013So there you are in your car on the highway, blasting Creedence on the stereo, wind in your hair. Everybody’s speeding a little bit; you just go with the flow. Then all of a sudden a police car shows up and instantly the average speed drops about 20 km/per hour.
Have you thought about how easily we break the law when there is nobody watching? You know –speeding, jaywalking, a little bottom trawling in marine protected areas?
Read More...Seeing Blue: Celebrating Earth Day
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: April 22, 2013Arthur C. Clarke once said: “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
He wasn’t off mark. Did you know that, in terms of volume, the oceans occupy 99% of planet Earth? That’s why we wanted to honour this Earth Day by celebrating our incredible, mysterious oceans.
Read More...Swedish trawler busted for illegal fishing in the Kattegat
Author: Magnus Eckeskog
Date: April 17, 2013On April 16th, the Swedish coast guard carried out an inspection on a fishing vessel located south of Lilla Middelgrund, a Marine Protected Area (and part of Natura 2000) in the Kattegat. The trawler was caught using a mesh size below the minimum size permitted for its targeted fishery, greater weever, of which it had approximately 8000 kilos onboard. The case is now with the Swedish police.
Read More...Seismic airgun testing for oil and gas threatens marine life and coastal ecosystems
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: April 16, 2013Our colleagues in North America have released a new report: “A Deaf Whale Is a Dead Whale: Seismic Airgun Testing for Oil and Gas Threatens Marine Life and Coastal Ecosystems” which goes into the dangerous and destructive practice that has become all too common.
Read More...The Risks of Fish Restocking: the Case of the Baltic Sea
Author: Michael Michalitsis
Date: April 15, 2013Sport fishing has throughout history been a way to relax, get away from it all and be closer to nature. Many people think that recreational fishing doesn’t have a big influence on fish populations, but in fact it accounts for approximately one quarter of the total amount of salmon caught in the Baltic Sea region and nearly one half of the catch taken from the shore or rivers.
Read More...Beach or mountain?
Author: Natividad Sánchez
Date: April 11, 2013You know, we at Oceana want it all, which is perhaps why we love seamounts so much.
It’s not just because they are feeding grounds and spawning areas for highly migratory species; or because they attract lots of sharks, tunas, turtles, cetaceans and seabirds; or because you can find a wide variety of habitats and species from their peaks to their bases. It is because seamounts have it all!
Read More...Making the ocean a wilder place
Author: Natividad Sánchez
Date: April 10, 2013Wild10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress, will be taking place next October, and we at Oceana in Europe have already gone wild about it!
You may wonder what it’s all about. Well, this is “the world’s longest-running, public conservation project and environmental forum”, as they call it. And what we like most is that it’s an ongoing programme aimed at practical results, which perfectly matches Oceana’s approach.
Read More...Race for the Baltic – a joint campaign to save the Baltic
Author: Christina Abel
Date: April 9, 2013Today Race for the Baltic launched; the campaign is a joint initiative of three environmental NGOs (Fish Secretariat, Coalition Clean Baltic and Oceana) in collaboration with the political organization GLOBE, entrepreneurs, and business partners, joining forces to call for action to save the Baltic Sea.
Read More...The Oceana Ball – where sharks are the guest of honour
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: April 8, 2013Today, in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, over 350 international collectors, philanthropists and celebrities will come together to support Oceana’s international work to protect and restore shark populations, fight for true shark finning bans, and reduce shark bycatch.
Read More...Nudibranchs: Tiny beauties of Scandinavia
Author: Mike Mihalitsis
Date: March 19, 2013Nudibranchs are a group of sea slugs that have magnificent bright colors and are known around the world for that. There are really few restrictions to what color these creatures can have. Mostly they are natives to more tropical waters but actually, 178 species have been described in Scandinavian waters.
Nudibranchs are fascinating creatures –they have no gills or shell, they are hermaphrodites and communicate with chemical signals. Here you can see some of our favourite species in the North of Europe.
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