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Press Releases
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…
September 2, 2021
Over 2.5 million hours of bottom trawling ploughed Europe’s ‘protected’ areas in 2020
As the global nature conservation community gathers in Marseille for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, at which marine protection targets will be discussed, Oceana releases new data revealing how EU…
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…
July 1, 2021
Oceana calls for strong political leadership to implement new 2030 Mediterranean fisheries strategy
Ahead of the adoption on 9th July of a new 2030 strategy for the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), Oceana is calling on fisheries ministers from the Mediterranean…
June 30, 2021
Oceana released a new report today showing evidence that the world’s top industrial fishing nations are using fisheries subsidies programs to shift the risk of overfishing to other countries’ waters….
June 24, 2021
Refillable systems could prevent 390,000 coffee cups from entering the sea in Denmark every year
Oceana estimates that around 390,000 single-use coffee cups discarded in Denmark end up in the marine environment annuallyDanes use 300 million plastic cups and 150 million food containers each yearA…
