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Press Releases
December 4, 2012
Oceana celebrates Finnish Sea trout fishing ban
Oceana welcomes last Friday’s decision by the authorities of Uusimaa and the Southeast Finland Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment to ban wild sea trout fisheries in the…
November 29, 2012
Oceana demands temporary ban of fishing for threatened sea trout stocks in the Baltic
According to recent electrofishing surveys by the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, the status of sea trout is critically endangered and very few juveniles were found in the Gulf…
November 21, 2012
European Parliament to adopt a management plan for salmon in the Baltic Sea
On November 22nd, the European Parliament will vote to adopt a multiannual plan for salmon in the Baltic Sea. This species has suffered years of mismanagement through sporadic measures such…
October 29, 2012
NGO coalition calls for better protection on the Danish marine environment
The organizations are pushing to appoint three new large and coherent marine protected areas that have stricter protection than the current marine Natura 2000 sites.The report, co-authored by Oceana, describes…
October 23, 2012
Fisheries Council takes welcomed steps towards sustainable Baltic Sea fisheries
Yesterday, the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers discussed the 2013 fishing opportunities for the Baltic Sea in Luxembourg. Oceana is pleased with the Council decisions on cod, plaice, herring and sprat…
September 20, 2012
Oceana blasts danish goverment approval of damaging mussel dredging in marine protected areas
Oceana is deeply disappointed in the Danish Government’s recent approval of blue mussel fisheries inside two Natura 2000 sites in the Limfjord, Denmark. This decision puts both areas, which have…
August 1, 2012
The VELUX Foundations to support Oceana Baltic Sea campaign
Oceana acknowledges the generous support of the Velux Foundations, which have awarded a twelve month grant to support Oceana’s Baltic Sea recovery programme. The funds will support the international marine…
July 13, 2012
Oceana welcomes the new Chairwoman of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (known as HELCOM), Helle Pilsgaard, in her new position, and looks forward to the two-year Danish Chairmanship of…
July 11, 2012
Management plan for endangered baltic salmon riddled with loopholes that threaten the stock
Today, members of EU Parliament Fisheries Committee adopted the report by Marek Gróbarczyk (ECR, PL) to establish a multiannual plan for the Baltic salmon. Oceana is disappointed in the outcome…
May 31, 2012
Oceana strongly asserts that a dedicated approach by authorities must be used to end illegal fishing activities in the Baltic, and to strengthen and enforce regulations in Marine Protected Areas….
