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Oceana
Oceana Campaigns to Protect and Restore the World's Oceans. Their teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope, Oceana has campaigners based in North America (Washington, DC; Juneau, AK; Los Angeles, CA), Europe (Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South America (Santiago, Chile). More than 300,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana.
Website: http://oceana.org/international-home-nao/
Contact:
Oceana
2501 M Street, NW
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20037-1311 USA
phone: +1 (202) 833 3900
fax: +1 (202) 833 2070
toll-free: 1 877 7 OCEANA or 1 800 8 OCEAN 0
General Information: info@oceana.org
Conservation Groups Act to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtle
November 15, 2007 04:48 PM - , Oceana
Washington, D.C., – Conservation groups Oceana and the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the federal government today to stop the precipitous decline of the western North Atlantic loggerhead sea turtle. The petition urges the National Marine Fisheries Service, the agency responsible for protecting loggerheads in ocean waters, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency responsible for protecting turtles on land, to change the designation of western North Atlantic loggerheads from “threatened” to “endangered” under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Great South Channel Identified as Critical Habitat
September 24, 2007 08:07 AM - , Oceana
After nearly a ten-year struggle, the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) this week voted to designate the Great South Channel as a Habitat Area of Particular Concern (HAPC). The channel is located southeast of Cape Cod and provides habitat that is essential to the survival of juvenile cod populations. Officially designating this area as a HAPC under federal fisheries law will allow for special consideration in the coming years to conserve sensitive and rare marine habitat in the area.
Federal Study: Loggerhead Sea Turtles Face Extinction, Fishing Fleets Blamed
September 12, 2007 01:12 PM - , Oceana
Washington - One of the oldest animals on earth, the loggerhead sea turtle, is in deep trouble. The population of this animal is declining precipitously experts say. Now the federal government is confirming that, reversing a long standing 'hands off' approach to a problem conservationists have been alarmed by for years. The species is now considered threatened under the endangered species act.
Oceana Approach Adopted to Protect Bering Sea From Destructive Bottom Trawling
August 17, 2007 02:44 PM - , Oceana
North Pacific Fishery Management Council protects important seafloor areas in the Bering Sea by freezing the footprint of bottom trawling
Oceana interceps a moroccan driftnetter fishing inside the Alboran island reserve
August 17, 2007 02:41 PM - , Oceana
The Kamalane was using a banned net measuring more than five kilometres in length in Spanish territorial waters, also protected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing CONTACT/CONTACTO: Marta Madina (mmadina@oceana.org)