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Press Releases
April 19, 2010
Oceana asks EU and Xunta de Galicia to stop subsidising fishing pirates
Oceana asks the European Union and the Xunta de Galicia (regional government for Galicia, Spain) to reverse the recent decision to grant subsidies to Vidal Pego, who has been involved…
April 19, 2010
Oceana denounces EU’s failure to recover fishing resources
The meeting of the EU Council of Fisheries Ministers concluded yesterday night with agreements on total allowable catches (TACs) and country quotas for the Community fleet next year. The agreements…
April 19, 2010
Oceana urges Fisheries Ministers to end fishing for critically endangered sharks in 2010
The EU Fisheries Council will meet 14-15 December to agree the 2010 TACs (Total Allowable Catches) for Community fleets. Oceana, the international marine conservation organization, is calling on Fisheries Ministers…
April 17, 2010
Oceana urges the Council of Fisheries Ministers to eradicate overexploitation of our seas
Oceana sent a report to the EU Fisheries Ministers in which it urges the EU Council of Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers to eradicate the chronic overexploitation of our seas during…
April 17, 2010
Oceana: only an ecological reform of EU fishing policy would recover fish stocks and keep jobs
This week, the European Union is closing their public consultation for a reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) from 2012. Oceana is asking the European Commission to focus the…
April 15, 2010
La zone marine des falaises de Jaizkibel-Ulia, l’embouchure de la Bidassoa, les baies de Txingudi et Hondarribia, la côte rocheuse face à Hendaye et Socoa, et les falaises entre Saint…
March 26, 2010
Oceana declares CITES as a “tragedy of the oceans”
Oceana, the world’s largest international ocean conservation organization, declared the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) a “tragedy of the oceans” today after it failed to protect the…
March 23, 2010
Oceana: fish catches could be 80% higher if EU managed stocks sustainably, scientist find
Today, renown fisheries scientists published a scientific study, showing that the reason for the disastrous situation of European fish stocks is an entirely failed fisheries management over the last decades….
March 23, 2010
Oceana bittersweet about CITES’ failure to protect seven out of eight shark species
Oceana, the international ocean conservation organization, applauded the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species’ (CITES) decision to protect porbeagle sharks threatened by the international trade of their meat during…
March 23, 2010
Oceana warns CITES parties that global demand for shark fins is pushing species towards extinction
From March 13-25 in Doha, Qatar, countries from all around the world are attending the 15th CITES Conference of Parties. If supported by two-thirds the 175 parties present at the…
