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…
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…
On the heels of yesterday’s final public hearing from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (USCOP), international ocean advocacy group Oceana today joined Environment California at a press conference in…
Oceana today praised the introduction of a major bill in the U.S. Congress that would fundamentally restructure ocean management and protection. Oceana called the bipartisan legislation – along with a…
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill (H.R. 4754) that significantly reduces funding for key ocean and coastal protection activities. The bill cuts the National Oceanic and…
Oceana filed a motion today with the U.S. District Court seeking to protect hundreds of threatened and endangered sea turtles by asking the court to close the sea scallops fishery…
Today Oceana presented a comprehensive new proposal to reduce the millions of pounds of fish and other ocean life that are wasted in New England fisheries, because they are caught,…
