The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) voted unanimously today, February 5th, 2009, to prevent the expansion of industrial fishing... Read More
Ted Danson, award-winning actor, longtime ocean advocate and Oceana board member, will testify before the House Committe on Natural Resources... Read More
"We need to work with the oceans, not against them," said Dr. Michael Hirshfield, senior vice president for North America and chief scientist at Oceana. "The oceans can be a valuable resource in facing the global warming and energy crisis'."
For more than 20 years, Danson has worked to protect the oceans. Danson co-founded the American Oceans Campaign (AOC), which merged in 2001 with Oceana, the largest international organization focused solely on protecting and restoring the world's oceans.
Oceana, along with a diverse coalition of conservation organizations, recently called on President Obama and the 111th Congress to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium and establish a rational policy for protecting our oceans and coasts from the impacts of offshore drilling for oil and gas. To read the conservation coalition's statement, please click here. For more information and to view the hearing, please visit http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/.For more information about Ted Danson, please click here. To learn more about Oceana, please visit http://www.oceana.org/.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the agency charged with managing our nation's fisheries, released a much-anticipated set of guidelines... Read More
