The United States Senate passed the bipartisan Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act (S. 273), which would end the destructive use of drift gillnets to catch swordfish off California and … Read more
Five days before Hurricane Ida made landfall, the Department of the Interior announced that it would hold lease sale 257 for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, covering approximately … Read more
Today, Oceana released new state-based analyses for East and West Coast states detailing the economic benefits of banning new offshore drilling. Specifically, the analysis looks at data for ocean-dependent jobs and … Read more
Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service released a long-awaited final rule that is intended to reduce the risk of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales becoming entangled in fishing gear … Read more
Oregon Fish and Wildlife officials released a draft conservation plan that aims to protect endangered whales and sea turtles from entanglement in Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery. In recent years, whales and sea … Read more
Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued their Biennial Report to Congress on international fisheries management, including illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and bycatch. This year’s report identifies seven nations for activities related to IUU fishing and 29 countries for … Read more
New polling released Wednesday found that 93% of Californians think plastics and marine debris are a problem. The results of the annual survey — known as the “Californians and the … Read more
