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Press Releases
March 31, 2016
New Italian vessel list is not enough to recover heavily overfished Mediterranean swordfish
After more than a decade of overfishing, the newly established official Italian register reveals the number of vessels actually targeting swordfish is almost 90% lower than reported in 2015.After more…
March 18, 2016
Spain closes the net around pirate fishing
Oceana applauds Spain’s actions in opening a new era in the global fight against IUU fishing 14 countries cooperated with Interpol and Spain’s Guardia Civil to break up the group,…
March 16, 2016
New EU deal allows overfishing to continue in the Baltic Sea
Last night the European Parliament, Council of Ministers and Commission reached a disappointing political agreement on the multiannual management plan covering the stocks of cod, herring and sprat in the…
March 14, 2016
Protection of 69 threatened species in the Baltic Sea blocked by Denmark
Three years of work by 88 leading experts were effectively scrapped during the 37th Annual Meeting of the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) last Friday, when countries approved a heavily weakened version…
March 11, 2016
Oceana values the new framework of technical measures proposed today by the European Commission as an opportunity to reduce the impacts of fishing activities, but warns about the risk of…
March 11, 2016
Global Fishing Watch Enables Clear View of Fishing in Marine Protected Areas
WASHINGTON – Today, Oceana released a new report highlighting the ability of Global Fishing Watch to provide a clear view of fishing activity in marine protected areas (MPAs) around the…
March 8, 2016
Internationally pursued fishing poachers arrested in Spain
Spain – Yesterday, the Spanish Civil Guard raided the offices of the company Vidal Armadores according to local press. Based on the same source, agents of Interpol and Europol may…
February 10, 2016
Oceana regrets lack of decisive actions by EU to end overfishing in the Mediterranean
Oceana is disappointed by the passive attitude shown by EU States that continues to postpone the EU’s duty to end overfishing by 2020. A high-level seminar on the state of…
February 9, 2016
Oceana calls for emergency closures of heavily overfished stocks in the Mediterranean
Oceana warns at high-level seminar that if overfishing is not stopped by 2020, closing fisheries or losing them will be the only options leftOceana urges the EU to announce this…
February 4, 2016
Oceana calls on Denmark and Sweden to take concrete steps to protect the Sound
Oceana urges the Danish and Swedish governments to jointly manage and protect the Sound from damaging human activities that are causing the decline of key marine habitats such as horse…
