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.
We invite members of the press to reach out to Oceana’s media contacts for information and questions.
This summer’s amazing story about a record, 873-pound bluefin tuna caught off the coast of Delaware by a recreational angler took an unfortunate twist Tuesday, when international ocean conservation group…
“>Georges Bank cod populations, already a tiny fraction of sustainable levels, have declined by 25 percent from 2001 to 2004, a drop revealed by federal scientists during their first update…
“>Oceana’s research catamaran, Ranger, filming and photographing illegal driftnet fishing off southern Italy, was chased in the high seas and narrowly escaped a ramming attempt by angry Sicilian commercial fishermen whose…
— Jackie Savitz, Pollution Campaign Director for the international ocean conservation group Oceana, which has been running a campaign to get the United States’ nine remaining mercury-based plants to shift…
— Oceana submitted a petition today that demands U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez take credible action to protect the six species of sea turtles swimming in U.S. waters, which are…
— Recreational anglers at this year’s 3,000-participant Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo will work with Oceana to test for mercury contamination in hundreds of fish caught at the biggest saltwater…
— Concluding a six-month expedition that began in California, Oceana’s catamaran Ranger arrived today at its new home port of Majorca in Spain’s Balearic Islands, a strategically advantageous point from…