Oceana press releases share updates on our campaigns and mission to protect and restore the world’s oceans. They include explanations of the issues that our oceans face, our work to solve those issues, and ways that you can advocate for ocean protection and restoration.
We invite members of the press to reach out to Oceana’s media contacts for information and questions.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) and its members are working double-time this week to increase anxiety among policymakers and ordinary Americans about rising fuel prices and their potential effect on…
World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy met with representatives of 10 major U.S. environmental organizations at a roundtable discussion hosted by Oceana today in Washington, D.C. The roundtable focused…
Delegates from around the world marked a major step forward in controlling highly destructive bottom trawl fishing and other bottom contact gear Friday, when they concluded talks for a new…
National Geographic Society and Oceana, together with the Chilean Navy, began a scientific expedition today to the marine ecosystems that surround the Chilean island Salas y Gómez (Motu Motiro Hiva)…
Sacramento, CA — Legislation (AB 1299) introduced by Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) will provide a much needed change in the way California manages its fisheries, one that will protect…
Protection of sharks and ocean ecosystems is the focus of new legislation being introduced by Assemblymember Paul Fong (D-Mountain View) today. Assemblymember Fong held a press event this morning at…
Susan Murray, Oceana’s Pacific Director, issued the following statement in response to the announcement that Shell will not drill in the Beaufort Sea in 2011: “Oceana welcomes Shell’s decision to…
