Ur conservation groups today requested that the United States District Court for the District of Columbia reject the NMFS’ side agreement, filed Tuesday, because it would continue to allow overfishing…
A federal judge has agreed with environmental and fishing groups that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) violated laws requiring protection of Pacific groundfish. The judge ruled that the federal…
Oceana is concerned that – at this late date – the Administration appears to be proposing the implementation of legislation that fails to follow the explicit language and clear intention…
A new study by the National Academy of Sciences released today says that bottom trawling, a method of fishing that drags big, heavy nets across the sea floor, is killing…
Five conservation groups today called the government’s recent proposed remedy in New England groundfish litigation illegal and inadequate because it fails to break the decades-long cycle of overfishing.A December 28th…
Ted Danson, Emmy and Golden Globe award winning actor and environmental activist, announced today a new partnership between American Oceans Campaign (AOC), an organization he founded in 1987, and Oceana,…
Today Oceana, a new international group dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans from destructive fishing and pollution, is launching a campaign, OceansAtRisk.com, to end the massive waste of marine life,…
