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Over Fishing and Feeding the World

Posted by dundiedanc on Monday, 11 November 2013 in Fishing

Restoring ocean fisheries in 24 countries could provide a meal for close to a billion people a day. New Englanders can also help ocean ecosystems recover by eating wild fish, choosing small fish, buying fish from the United States and eating mollusks, according to Andrew Sharpless, CEO ofOceana.He a...

Obama's Top 5 Ocean Concerns

Posted by jonehopp on Thursday, 04 April 2013 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

When President Barack Obama convenes his cabinet in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, one might be left with the impression that defenders of our oceans are rather pointedly underrepresented. The Department of Commerce, which oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, has...

Groups seek protection for California's great white sharks

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Monday, 13 August 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Environmental groups have petitioned the federal government to list the declining population of great white sharks off the coast of California as an endangered species. The northeastern Pacific Ocean population of great whites is genetically distinct and in danger of extinction, according to the pe...

Oceana launches seafood fraud campaign

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 26 May 2011 in Food

Oceana turned its press conference yesterday at the National Press Club into a pop quiz: Organizers laid out skinless fillets of halibut next to skinless fillets of fluke, both without labels, and then asked the gathered audience to identify each fish by sight. Oceana then repeated the test ...