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 today urged the U.S. House of Representatives not to take action on H.R. 5104, legislation recently passed by the House Resources Committee that would weaken the existing law that…
In response to today’s release of the final U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy report that concludes our oceans are in severe distress, Oceana urges the Bush administration, Sen. John Kerry,…
On the heels of signing several ocean-protection bills, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a major victory for the oceans today, signing into law a critically important ocean protection bill: one that…
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed into law an ocean-protection bill that stops cruise ships from dumping sink and shower wastes in California coastal waters. While Oceana praised that action, it…
Renewing its call to the Atlantic commercial longline fishing industry to use tested, environmentally-friendly “circle hooks” rather than the obsolete “J hooks” currently in use, international ocean conservation group Oceana…
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) enacted new rules last night requiring sharks caught in state fisheries from Maine to Florida to be “landed whole” with their fins naturally…
Oceana released the results of a new study today that finds a strong economic incentive for protecting living ocean resources. Sea the Value: Quantifying the Value of Marine Life to…
