Press Releases
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Around 150 thousand tons of anchoveta are used for illegal fishmeal production in Peru every year
Oceana Peru published a research about illegal fishmeal production in the northern and central Peruvian coast. The study identified 62 facilities involved in this crime, methods used to alter the…
Friday, February 1, 2019
Spain to create second-largest marine national park in the Mediterranean, south of Mallorca
Spain is set to announce today it will create the second-largest marine national park in the Mediterranean[i], making the area of Cabrera National Park nine times larger and taking the total…
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Companies Marine Harvest, now Mowi, and Ventisqueros, the latter in the spotlight for a massive escape of salmon from one of their farms, refused to comply with a sentence issued…
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Oceana’s new campaign warns about salmon farming’s potential risks to human health
Using an animated video, marine conservation organization Oceana warned about the effects that bacterial resistance could have on health. This natural phenomenon has increased due to the excess use of…
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Marine conservation organization Oceana celebrated the Chilean Senate’s approval of the bill that updates the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) providing, among other things, increased transparency in access to…
Friday, December 7, 2018
Oceana celebrates new leadership and new headquarters
On Tuesday, Oceana’s international Board of Directors, Executive Committee, staff, and supporters joined together to celebrate Oceana’s new board leadership and new global headquarters in Washington, DC. Oceana announced that…
Friday, October 26, 2018
Peru’s Vessel Tracking Data Now Publicly Available Through Global Fishing Watch
As world leaders prepare to gather in Bali, Indonesia for the fifth-annual Our Ocean conference, Peru has taken bold action to make its national vessel tracking data publicly available for…
