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Bottom trawler at Sant Carles de la Rápita, Spain ©Oceana Today the Fisheries Committee of the EU parliament voted to radically reform its fisheries management policies, for the ...

Bottom trawlers embark from Roses, Spain in Catalonia. ©Oceana/Juan Cuetos A report out this week, “Resources Futures” by the venerable U.K. NGO, the Chatham House, issues a ...

Fisheries can provide 700 million meals a day ©Oceana If it’s October 16th then it’s World Food Day! At Oceana we recognize the importance of this day, launched in 1979 by the ...

© OCEANA / Juan Cuetos This tragic front page report from the International Herald Tribune shows that fishing subsidies have not only devastating effects on fish, but on the fishermen ...

Editor's note: A new study from researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Washington shows that most of the world's fisheries are overexploited ...

The oceans scored a disheartening 60 out of 100 on the Ocean Health Index.  It’s no secret that the health of our oceans is under extreme threat. With dangers like overfishing, ...

[Editor's note: The following post is written by Kydd Pollock, marine biologist for The Nature Conservancy in Hawai‘i. Kydd’s 2010 encounter with a reef shark is profiled in Discovery ...

Looking for a good book to hit the beach with this summer? Conservancy staff and scientists have reviewed some of the latest non-fiction releases on the environment—from water conservation ...

Hammerheads are one of ten species that are now protected ©Wikimedia Commons Sharks and rays in the Mediterranean have something to be happy about this week—10 species now have ...

Extra, extra! Get your cool green news here! Colorado and New Mexico wildfires: crews gaining ground. (Huffington Post Green) Food has gotten cheaper — but at what cost? (Grist) Overfishing= ...

Bluefin tuna are carrying radiation from Japan to California. ©Oceana/Keith Ellenbogen It might seem straight out of science fiction, but this story is real – radioactive tuna ...

Kerry Crisley is an Associate Director of Strategic Communications at The Nature Conservancy with a focus on our marine work. My aunts Lorraine and Helen. My childhood friend, Amy. ...

A salmon farm in Chile. © Oceana/ Eduardo Sorensen Almost half of the world’s seafood now comes from fish farms, which can cause significant environmental harm if not responsibly ...

Earlier this year, the National Oceanic and At­mospheric Administration set catch limits under the 2006 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act amendments for all ...

Green news and comic book heroes aren’t mutually exclusive: Here are the top five countries using renewable energy.  (Christian Science Monitor) Spiderman is many things (for ...