In a 24-12 vote, the California Senate passed Senate Bill 1459 today to protect ocean habitats from bottom trawling. The vote was a victory for California’s ocean. The bill, introduced…
Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, Oceana is offering its Beach Alert Service to help vacationers find out if their favorite beaches have been closed due to water pollution. …
The National Marine Fisheries Service is ignoring long standing laws that requires it to protect juvenile cod habitat and to stop the unnecessary slaughter of marine wildlife including protected sea…
Calling it a good step toward cleaning up the world’s oceans, the international ocean advocacy group Oceana today announced that Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has committed to installing Advanced Wastewater…
The federal fisheries management service continues to allow scallop fishing off the Mid-Atlantic Coast even though scallop vessels are catching and killing large numbers of threatened and endangered sea turtles….
Oceana, the international non-profit conservation group dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans, announced today that it is seeking a new president. After leading the organizational and start-up phase of the…
Oceana, a non-profit international ocean advocacy group, gave mixed reviews to the preliminary report released today by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (USCOP). While crediting the commission for acknowledging…
