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Press Releases
November 21, 2011
Oceana Applauds ICCAT Decision to Protect Vulnerable Silky Sharks
ISTANBUL – Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, applauded the 22nd Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas…
November 11, 2011
Oceana seeks protections for sharks and swordfish at ICCAT meeting at Turkey
Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, is seeking protections for sharks and swordfish at the 22nd Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the…
November 10, 2011
Oceana’s protection proposal MedNet, presented to South Mediterranean countries
Oceana has been invited by the European Commission’s IMP-Med project to present its proposal for a MedNet network of Marine Protected Areas for the countries on the Mediterranean Sea’s southern…
November 4, 2011
Oceana applauds european protection of porbeagle sharks
Today, the European Union has officially extended measures to protect threatened porbeagle sharks (Lamna nasus) from fishing. Noting the depleted conservation status of the species, the EU has recognised that…
November 4, 2011
The only existing images of the area in which the volcano has appeared were filmed by Oceana two years ago and they have been sent to scientists.Oceana has put forward…
October 27, 2011
Oceana: EU agency desperately needed to supervise offshore oil and gas activities
EU Energy Commissioner, Günther Oettinger, today presented the long-awaited Commission proposal to regulate offshore oil and gas activities in Europe – a reaction to BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, which spilled…
October 25, 2011
TACs for Western Baltic Cod and Western Baltic Herring are too high to stop overfishing of those species. Five other species for which scientists had given advice to maintain or…
October 21, 2011
Oceana proposes 28 atlantic marine habitats for protection under OSPAR
Oceana yesterday presented findings from its expeditions to a group of scientists and experts from Norway, the UK, France, Sweden, Germany and Spain gathered in Norway under the framework of…
September 16, 2011
Oceana supports large quota reductions for important Baltic stocks in 2012
Oceana remains troubled that the vast majority of Baltic fish species like seatrout, dab, brill, turbot and flounder remain largely unmanaged. Yesterday, the European Commission published their proposal for 2012…
August 18, 2011
Oceana identified over 100 different marine species on Gorringe seamount after completing a scientific expedition in the Portuguese Atlantic during recent weeks with support from the Foundation for the Third…
