Investigative journalists take on subsidies, illegal fishing and seafood fraud in Spain
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: October 10, 2011Last week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released 4 in depth articles, as part of their “Looting the Seas” project that we think are worth sharing with you.
Read More...Making art in the sand
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: October 10, 2011Sam Dougados practices an interesting type of art that he dubs, “beach art”. Using a rake, he etches incredible patterns into the sand, photographing them before the tide washes them away.
Read More...Friday meet & greet: Striped Seasnail
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: October 7, 2011We’ve been slacking on our Friday meet & greet blogs that introduce you to some cool species. But after a summer of expedition, in the Baltic, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, our photo albums are bursting at the seams, full of beautiful and interesting creatures.
So without further ado, meet a striped Seasnail (Liparis liparis). We found this little one in the Bubbling Reefs of Hirsholmene Marine Reserve in the Kattegat Sea (Denmark).
Read More...How to save the Bluefin: a visual education
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: October 6, 2011Check out this video we just spotted. What a great visual way to teach people about the plight of the bluefin tuna!
Watch the video on YouTube (by HOWTOSAVETHEBLUEFIN)
Read More...Remember Vidal?
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: October 6, 2011Remember Vidal? Despite their well-known illegal activities since the nineties and the blacklisting of several IUU fishing vessels, linked to Vidal Armadores, Vidal companies have received millions of Euros of fishing subsidies from the local government of Galicia, the Spanish fisheries ministry and the European Union, since 2002.
Read More...Closing September with a bang!
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: October 3, 2011Last week was a good week for us at Oceana as we closed the month of September with a bang! It’s been a month of victories and good for our work here in Europe, and there is nothing more rewarding than realizing that our efforts are actually making a difference. We therefore thought we’d highlight a couple for you.
Read More...EU subsidies to the fisheries sector, a growing concern
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: September 13, 2011After months of research into the issue, we gathered it all into a report, which we made public earlier this week – and the news isn’t good. It now seems that the amount of subsidies to the fishing sectors of EU Member States is 3 times greater than what has previously been acknowledged by the European Commission.
Read More...Mercury rising: Seafood contamination and a consumer’s right to know
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: September 2, 2011Mercury contamination in popular fish, industrial waste leaking into our oceans, years long legal battles to gain access to public information being kept hidden by the government – it sounds like the plot of a movie, but unfortunately, it’s just what we’ve been dealing with in our latest battle against seafood contamination in Spain and in Europe.
Read More...Summer of at-sea expeditions at an end
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: August 30, 2011Well, we’ve reached the end of our summer at-sea expeditions. You may recall, we had an incredible experience in the Baltic Sea a few months ago and a few weeks ago, the Oceana Ranger pulled into its final port after spending 2 months travelling through and studying the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic (by Portugal).
Read More...Oil Company set to destroy marine habitats with the Spanish government’s permission
Author: Angela Pauly
Date: August 1, 2011Spain’s beautiful Costa Del Sol, a tourist destination for millions, is under threat from Repsol, and oil company with plans to prospect for gas in the area, and some incredible habitats and marine animals that we just recently documented as part of our latest Ranger Expedition are in danger of being destroyed.
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