Oceana Challenges Government Decision Allowing Eight U.S. Fisheries to Harm 14 Times More Threatened Sea Turtles

Media Release: New England and Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Allowed to Injure and Kill Sea Turtles January 11, 2012 – Washington – Contact: Dustin Cranor ( dcranor@oceana.org | 202-467-1917) Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, filed a complaint today about the United States government’s decision in October of 2010 to allow eight [...]

Reefs at Risk Revisited | World Resources Institute

Seventy-five percent of the world’s coral reefs are currently threatened by local and global pressures, according to a comprehensive analysis released by the World Resources Institute, along with the Nature Conservancy, the WorldFish Center, the International Coral Reef Action Network, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Center, and a network of more [...]

Seafood stewardship questionable: UBC-Scripps experts

The world’s most established fisheries certifier is failing on its promises as rapidly as it gains prominence, according to the world’s leading fisheries experts from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego and elsewhere. Established in 1997 by the World Wildlife Fund and Unilever, [...]