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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The World Trade Organization (WTO) today took an important step towards protecting the world’s oceans in the issuance of “Chairman’s text” on fisheries subsidies. “A strong fisheries subsidies agreement would…
Conservation groups Oceana and the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the federal government today to stop the precipitous decline of the western North Atlantic loggerhead sea turtle. The petition urges…
Sharks have thrived in the world’s oceans for more than 400 million years, but a comprehensive new report released today by Oceana and WildAid reveals that the world’s shark populations…
Ted Danson, award-winning actor and longtime ocean advocate, met with World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy tonight about the threat subsidies pose to the world’s fisheries and how the…
Today, Geneva city centre is buzzing as Oceana’s Finley the Fish emerged from the depths to increase awareness for a true special interest – stopping the massive subsidies provided by…
A coalition of environmental advocates filed a petition today with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), asking the agency to set pollution rules for large, ocean-going marine vessels. These vessels…
After nearly a ten-year struggle, the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) this week voted to designate the Great South Channel as a Habitat Area of Particular Concern (HAPC). The…
