Statement Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Today, Netflix released a new movie titled Seaspiracy that features passing references to Oceana and a brief excerpt from what was a two-hour interview with a former employee, who was one of Oceana’s key leaders in winning policy victories against illegal fishing. To set the record straight, what Oceana campaigns … Read more
Washington, DC – This week, a new study titled “Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate” was published in the scientific journal Nature. The study reveals that protecting select areas of the world’s oceans from fishing practices, including destructive bottom trawling, and other damaging activities helps safeguard critical habitat, boost biodiversity, and reduce … Read more
Today, the members of Oceana’s International Board of Directors wrote the Hon. Francisco Sagasti Hochhausler, President of the Republic of Peru, to request the removal of an eleventh-hour provision to allow fishing for Patagonian toothfish in the proposed Nasca Ridge National Reserve. The bottom fishing methods used to catch Patagonian toothfish could damage the very … Read more
Yesterday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that he will step down from his position as company CEO this year. Bezos’ announcement accompanied Amazon’s fourth quarter of 2020 earnings report, which revealed that the company’s net sales increased by 38% in 2020 and are expected to grow another 33% in the first quarter of 2021 (as … Read more
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Today, NBC and Oceana debuted a new public service announcement (PSA) featuring actor, activist, and longtime Oceana Board Member Ted Danson asking viewers to call for policy change to ditch plastic pollution and make the world’s oceans a better place for us all. Danson stars as the fictional mayor of Los Angeles in the new … Read more
Oceana has today released a report – based on an analysis of e-commerce packaging data – that found Amazon generated 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste last year. This is comprised of the air pillows, bubble wrap, and other plastic packaging items added to the approximately 7 billion Amazon packages delivered in 2019, according … Read more
Award-winning actor and longtime Oceana supporter Sam Waterston assumed his new leadership role as Board Chair in September, succeeding Valarie Van Cleave. As an advocate and spokesman for Oceana’s campaigns, he has testified before national legislatures on the prevention of shark finning and expansion of offshore drilling. Hailing from the “Bay State” of Massachusetts, Waterston … Read more
There are different ways to catch fish, and their differences are as useful to know as that between hunting rifles and AK47s. In principle, gillnets should be highly selective, i.e., catch fish of a particular species and size, and avoid undesired fish. Fish are caught in a gillnet that hangs down stiffly when they have … Read more
For a country that’s slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Massachusetts, Belize boasts an inordinate number of ocean wonders. It’s home to the world’s second longest barrier reef, which Charles Darwin once described as “the most remarkable reef in the West Indies.” Here, you’ll find more than 500 unique fish species – enough to … Read more
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