From celebrating victories and milestones to unexpected challenges, this year for Oceana has been filled with growth and ...
James Simon is Oceana’s CEO. Simon was instrumental in establishing Oceana as the world’s leading ocean conservation ...
In a major victory for Oceana and the oceans, the world’s largest e-commerce company moves away from plastic packaging For years, Amazon delivered packages with a side of plastic waste. At the company ...
Today, the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games released its “Paris 2024 Sustainability & Legacy Post-Games Report Summary,” which revealed the Paris 2024 Games ...
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 ...
Several scientific studies provide proof of the successes of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in enhancing biodiversity and benefiting sea life. MPAs provide threatened species and living breeding ...
While shark finning is illegal in U.S. waters, shark fins – including imports from countries that allow finning – continue to be bought and sold throughout the U.S. The demand for shark fins is one of ...
A compilation and review of FAO data and reports on the status of fish stocks around the world. It provides a global perspective on the state of the world’s fisheries resources, followed by a region ...
most importantly, it is illegal. Everywhere seafood is tested, fraud has been found. In fact, Oceana and others recently found shocking levels of mislabeling in the Boston (48 percent), Los Angeles ...
CORRECTION: This report referenced a bycatch rate of 40% as determined by Davies et al. 2009, however that calculation used a broader definition of bycatch than is standard. According to bycatch as ...
From 2010 to 2012, Oceana conducted one of the largest seafood fraud investigations in the world to date, collecting more than 1,200 seafood samples from 674 retail outlets in 21 states to determine ...