Starting Saturday, pollock trawlers in the Gulf of Alaska will have to avoid catching Chinook salmon as bycatch or risk being told to stop fishing. A rule recommended by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and implemented by the National Marine Fisheries Service establishes a limit on the number of Chinook salmon that can be caught … Read more
WASHINGTON – Late yesterday, United States Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced a new bill that signals U.S. support for international action to stop government subsidies that lead to overfishing. Specifically, the Fair Trade in Seafood Act (S. 3518) would establish the issue as a Principal Negotiating Objective of the U.S. in the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership … Read more
Last Sunday evening Oceana, the world’s largest ocean conservation group, welcomed special guests Morgan Freeman and Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra at the 5th annual SeaChange Summer Party. This year’s sold out event was held at a spectacular private coastal villa in Laguna Beach. Approximately 400 guests attended the event to raise over $1 … Read more
Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans worked with the Monterey Weekly and found 36 percent of seafood samples taken in Monterey, CA were mislabeled. DNA testing confirmed that over one-third of the 19 seafood samples collected by the Monterey Weekly from 17 retail outlets, including grocery stores, restaurants … Read more
WASHINGTON – Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, commends United States Representatives Edward Markey (MA-7) and Barney Frank (MA-4) today for introducing the Safety and Fraud Enforcement for Seafood (SAFE Seafood) Act to address the growing problem of seafood fraud. If passed, the bill would help stop seafood … Read more
Washington, DC – Today Oceana announced the winners of its 4th annual Ocean Heroes Award. Captain Don Voss of Fort Pierce, FL and James Hemphill (15) of Virginia Beach, VA were voted the Adult and Junior award winners respectively. “This year’s Ocean Heroes aptly embody the qualities that Oceana looks for in our yearly search … Read more
Today California Senators in a key policy committee voted unanimously to support AB 1776 (Fong) that will designate the endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle as California’s official state marine reptile and declare October 15 every year as Leatherback Conservation Day. All 13 Democrats and Republicans on the Government Organization Committee supported the leatherback bill, which … Read more
WASHINGTON- Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, applauds the House Natural Resources Committee for passing H.R. 4100, a bill that would provide the United States with critical tools to help combat illegal fishing and prevent the mislabeling of illegally-caught seafood. An identical bill, S. 52, has also advanced … Read more
Yesterday, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) finalized its decision to prohibit the development of new fisheries for forage fish off the West Coast. The decision reverses the burden of proof on new fisheries, setting up a process and timetable for interim protective measures and a regulatory process to implement a long-term prohibition on new … Read more
Juneau, AK- Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released the Five-Year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2012-17, which sets a schedule of offshore lease sales between 2012 and 2017. Although the plan protects the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and eastern Gulf of Mexico from leasing, it includes sales in … Read more
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