Global Fishing Watch, Trygg Mat Tracking, Oceana, Ocean Unite and the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance are partnering to create a risk assessment tool to help insurers identify vessels … Read more
A new estimate from the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium, released today, finds that the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population has dropped 8%, from 366 in 2019 to … Read more
On Wednesday morning just after midnight local time, the city of Huntington Beach became the 100th community along the West Coast to pass a resolution formally opposing new offshore drilling. … Read more
Today, more than 200 chefs and restaurant owners sent a letter to Congress calling for immediate action to address illegal fishing, seafood fraud, and human rights abuses in the seafood industry. Specifically, the chefs … Read more
Today, the California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to designate the Western Pacific population of leatherback sea turtles as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). Pacific leatherbacks … Read more
Today, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources voted to advance bold new legislation to stamp out illegal fishing and human rights abuses in the U.S. seafood supply chain. The … Read more
Today, President Biden signed an executive order that reinstates protections for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of New England, as well as the Bears … Read more
