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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…