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Press Releases
May 21, 2013
EU Parliament misses opportunity, adopts weak offshore drilling safety directive
Today, the European Parliament formally adopted by a large majority a new Directive on Safety of Offshore Oil and Gas Activities – a legislation initiated by the BP disaster in…
May 17, 2013
Future of mediterranean fisheries bodes badly following weak outcome of GFCM meeting
Split, Croatia – The 37th annual session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) closed with the failure to take strong action in addressing the dramatic state of…
May 15, 2013
Oceana: EU ministers make progress, but fall short of ambitious CFP reform
At 6 am this morning, in Brussels, after 36 hours of negotiations, the 27 fisheries ministers of the European Union agreed on a new mandate for the reform of the…
May 13, 2013
Mediterranean fisheries meeting provides critical opportunity to tackle overfishing
Split, Croatia. – Today, at the opening of the 37th meeting of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), Oceana calls on Contracting Parties to take action to end…
May 6, 2013
NGOs concerned over threats to block EU fisheries reform
A number of countries, including France, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Greece and Romania, are resisting efforts to find common ground with the European Parliament on key issues such as fleet management…
April 30, 2013
Oceana joins forces with several NGOs to revive Baltic Sea fisheries
This week, the future of Baltic Sea fish stocks is being discussed at the Baltfish and HELCOM meetings in Tallinn, Estonia. Representatives and stakeholders from the region are gathered to…
April 23, 2013
National Geographic recommends enlarging Spain’s Cabrera National Park
Enric Sala, explorer-in-residence at National Geographic, has publicly expressed his support for the enlargement of the Cabrera National Park, based on the boundaries proposed by Oceana to José Ramón Bauzá….
April 18, 2013
Anchors have destroyed over 20% of posidonia in spanish Natural Park in only four years
A scientific report accessed by Oceana, has found a 20 % average decrease in posidonia meadows between 2008 and 2012 to the north of Formentera. This decrease has been caused…
April 17, 2013
Oceana welcomes EU Parliament adoption of Skagerrak discard ban
Yesterday an overwhelming majority of the European Parliament voted for a gradual ban on the discarding of unwanted fish in the Skagerrak. Oceana welcomes this bold step towards ending the…
April 17, 2013
Offshore Oil Drilling Stopped in Belize
Yesterday, Belize’s Supreme Court declared offshore drilling contracts issued by the Government of Belize (in 2004 and 2007) null and void, providing a dramatic and potentially definitive setback to The…
