March, 2006

Protecting Essential Fish Habitat from Bottom Trawling

Along with a coalition of environmental and recreational fishing groups, Oceana developed a comprehensive, collaborative proposal to protect important undersea habitats, while maintaining vibrant fisheries off the U.S. West Coast. With the help of 19,373 Oceana Wavemaker comments, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously to adopt the Oceana proposal, which was mostly approved by NOAA on March 8, 2006, protecting 140,000 square miles of ocean habitat from bottom trawling.

March, 2006

Protecting Pacific Krill

The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to prohibit commercial krill fishing in the federal waters off of California, Oregon and Washington. More than 5,000 Oceana activists contacted the Council to support a prohibition on krill fishing in the Pacific to protect our ocean ecosystem food web.

February, 2006

United States Reasserts Commitment to Eliminating Subsidies

February, 2006

Whales and U.S. Navy Sonar

December, 2005

The Seamounts of the Gorringe Bank

November, 2005

Leading Scientists Andrew Rosenberg, Ransom Myers Reveal

November, 2005

A Second Fishery Management Council Votes to Protect Deep-Sea Corals