What haunts the world’s oceans even now? Derelict fishing gear, also known as ghost gear, has an observable effect on life in ...

Organization’s Board of Directors elects Sara Lowell as Treasurer, re-elects María Eugenia Girón as Vice Chair and James ...

Occupying 1.1 percent of the surface of the world’s oceans and 0.3 percent of all salt water, the Mediterranean no longer shelters the great coral reefs that thrived 60 million years ago. This is due ...

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 ...

Fishing is one of the most important employers and sources of protein for coastal communities in Belize. Yet bottom trawls and other kinds of unselective fishing gear cause harm to other fisheries and ...

Oceana’s report finds that offshore wind would produce twice the number of jobs and twice the amount of energy as offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. The report, titled Offshore Energy by the ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch guides provide at-a-glance info on which fish is relatively abundant (okay to eat) and which species are overfished (need to avoid). They also flag types of ...

Ocean Advocates Raise Nearly $1.8 Million to Support Oceana at ‘An Evening of Jazz’ in New York City. Ted Danson serves as MC, joined by Sam Waterston, Brian Newman, Rumer Willis. Over the past 10 ...

The North Atlantic right whale is one of three species of right whales (the North Pacific right whale and Southern right whale are the two other species). Like all the great baleen whales, this ...

Sea turtles have played vital roles in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years. These roles range from maintaining productive coral reef ecosystems to transporting ...

Myth: Offshore wind power isn’t a viable renewable energy option. Fact: Offshore wind has existed for about 20 years, and has become an important part of Europe’s energy mix. Europe’s total installed ...

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 ...