America’s oceans won a major victory today when the New England Fishery Management Council voted to protect deep-sea coral communities in New England and mid-Atlantic offshore submarine canyons from destructive…
Federal scientists at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, the scientific arm of the National Marine Fisheries Service, have increased by nearly 600 percent the official estimate of the number of…
Today Oceana asked the New England Fishery Management Council and the National Marine Fisheries Service to implement emergency measures that limit the bycatch of striped bass by commercial groundfish trawlers…
Today Oceana asked the New England Fishery Management Council and the National Marine Fisheries Service to implement emergency measures that limit the bycatch of striped bass by commercial groundfish trawlers…
The California legislature has sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger three bills that would give that state the nation’s tightest controls over cruise ship sewage dumping in coastal waters, eclipsing Alaska, the…
Two major bills that prohibit the discharge of sewage and wastewater in California’s coastal waters took another crucial step toward becoming law, passing through the state Senate Appropriations Committee. International…
A University of British Columbia fisheries scientist, Dr. Steven Martell, published an independent assessment and determined that the hake fishery was undergoing overfishing in 2007 and 2008. An independent adjudicator…
