Oceana press releases share updates on our campaigns and mission to protect and restore the world’s oceans. They include explanations of the issues that our oceans face, our work to solve those issues, and ways that you can advocate for ocean protection and restoration.
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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…
Oceana today joined with Senator Dede Alpert (San Diego) and United Anglers in support of Senate Bill 1459 to protect California waters from bottom trawl fishing. The bill is part…
Most of the nation’s beach states may be using outdated health standards to decide whether it is safe to swim, particularly along the warm, beach-lined Southern coast. As an April…
Oceana Chief Executive Officer Andrew Sharpless spoke at a press conference on Capitol Hill today to urge the passage of a bill introduced in the U.S. Congress that would set…
Today Oceana petitioned the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to comprehensively protect, for the first time, deep-sea coral and sponge areas in U.S. ocean waters by locating and closing known and…
Led by Oceana, a coalition of 30 environmental groups today criticized a joint initiative announced by the International Council of Cruise Lines (ICCL) and Conservation International (CI), purportedly to address…
Following two successive annual increases for fishery observers programs, President Bush’s proposed FY 2005 budget cuts funding by nine percent nationwide and by more than 42 percent for New England–…
