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Press Releases
December 7, 2021
Oceana places virtual floating cod over Council of the EU to protest against overfishing
Today Oceana is placing a virtual floating cod over the Europa building in Brussels, where the Council of the EU meets, and over various fisheries ministry buildings across Europe. This action aims to denounce the overexploitation of European fish populations and…
November 17, 2021
Oceana issues stark warning on devastating impact of overfishing ahead of World Fisheries Day
Ahead of World Fisheries Day on Sunday, conservation charity Oceana issued a stark message to the UK Government: End overfishing in UK waters, or fish populations will collapse and our…
November 10, 2021
New Technology to Help Tackle Illegal Fishing by Alerting Insurers to Risk
Global Fishing Watch, Trygg Mat Tracking, Oceana, Ocean Unite and the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance are partnering to create a risk assessment tool to help insurers identify vessels…
November 8, 2021
Oceana applauds new steps forward on transparency for Mediterranean fisheries
The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean has improved its Authorised Vessel List, helping to identify those that fish illegallyThe expanded list still falls short on providing important information such…
October 28, 2021
Oceana urges Mediterranean countries to make fisheries more transparent and sustainable
The organisation calls on Mediterranean countries to make information on authorised fishing vessels public, to help identify those that fish illegally Oceana proposes new 800km² fishery closure to protect exceptional deep-sea corals between Spain and Morocco Oceana is urging the member countries of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) to improve fisheries management and ensure effective enforcement…
October 13, 2021
AGRIFISH: Some Baltic fish still in crisis as the EU starts to consider ecosystem impacts
Following the EU AGRIFISH Council press conference today, NGOs expressed disappointment that Member State fisheries ministers again haggled all night to raise Baltic fishing limits for 2022 above the European…
September 4, 2021
‘Save the Ocean to Save the climate’, Swimmers Tell Leaders in Marseille
Dozens of people dived into the Mediterranean Sea today during the IUCN World Conservation Congress to celebrate the power of the ocean to fight climate change, and to call on…
August 4, 2021
All but two of Scotland’s offshore marine ‘protected’ areas are paper parks
All bar two of Scotland’s 24 offshore benthic Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) were damaged by bottom-towed fishing gears in 2020, making their ‘protected’ status mere lines on a paper map….
July 19, 2021
Oceana urges UK and EU to end overfishing of critically low fish stocks in new agreement
Oceana is calling for an end to the overfishing of severely overexploited fish stocks in European waters as negotiations between the EU and UK start today under the Specialised Fisheries…
