Press Releases
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Oceana Report Finds that Illegal Fishing Connected to Seafood Fraud
Today, as the nation’s top leaders in fishery management come together at the 2013 Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries Conference in Washington, D.C. to discuss science and sustainability, Oceana... Read More
Friday, May 3, 2013
Endangered loggerhead sea turtles won a federal commitment to protect critical nesting-beach and ocean habitat in a legal settlement filed late Thursday in U.S. District Court between conservation... Read More
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Delaware Passes Ban on Shark Fin Sales
DOVER, Del. – Yesterday, the Delaware state Senate passed a bill that bans the sale, trade, distribution and possession of shark fins throughout the state. The... Read More
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Actress Kate Walsh Comes to Washington to Promote Offshore Wind
Actress Kate Walsh, best known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery in ABC’s hit television shows “Private Practice” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” is joining Oceana in Washington, D.C.... Read More
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
New York Senate Passes Bill Banning Shark Fin Sales
ALBANY, N.Y. – Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, applauded the New York State Senate yesterday for passing a bill that... Read More
Monday, April 22, 2013
Drift Gillnets Upgraded to “Category I” Threat to Marine Mammals
Today the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a proposed rule to upgrade the classification of the California swordfish and thresher shark drift gillnet fishery from “Category II”... Read More
Thursday, April 18, 2013
WASHINGTON—Yesterday, a bipartisan group of Florida legislators from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate sent a letter to President Obama urging him to stop proposed seismic airgun... Read More
