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PROTECTING THE WORLD'S OCEANS

About Me

Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the worlds oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope and dedicated to conservation, Oceana has campaigners based in North America (Washington, DC; Juneau, AK; Los Angeles, CA; Monterey, CA; Portland, OR; the Mid-Atlantic and New England), Europe (Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South America (Santiago, Chile). More than 300,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana. For more info, visit WWW.OCEANA.ORG

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EACH YEAR, COMMERCIAL FISHING WORLDWIDE WASTES MORE THAN 16 BILLION POUNDS OF FISH AND KILLS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SEA TURTLES, MARINE MAMMALS AND SEABIRDS. Oceanas Stop DirtyFishing Campaign is fighting to protect these ocean creatures, which are needlessly caught and discarded, usually dead or dying, by fishing operations around the world.
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DESTRUCTIVE TRAWLS AND DREDGES USED FOR COMMERICAL FISHING HAVE DESTROYED AND CONTINUE TO DESTROY ENTIRE SEAFLOOR ENVIRONMENTS necessary to conserve, protect and restore healthy oceans and healthy fish populations. Oceana is campaigning to protect deep sea corals and sponges and other vulnerable seafloor habitat, and to prevent bottom trawling from expanding into new areas.
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MERCURY IS A TOXIC CONTAMINANT THAT IS SHOWING UP IN DANGEROUSLY HIGH CONCENTRATIONS IN THE FISH WE EAT. Oceana is working to educate the public about the dangers of mercury in seafood and stop a major, overlooked source of mercury pollution.
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My Blog

End the Dolphin Slaughter

From October to April, Japanese fishermen will kill more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises as part of their annual hunt. Officials claim the slaughter is a form of "pest control" to offset ...
Posted by Oceana on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:56:00 PST

Toxic Tuna Comes to a Town Near You

Oceana staff and volunteers will be inflating our Toxic Tuna on the Mall and asking passersby to sign cards to Giant grocery stores, one of the few grocery chains with a presence in D.C. that is not p...
Posted by Oceana on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:35:00 PST

Love That Charismatic Megafauna

So maybe yesterday was Blog Action Day where it was encouraged to blog about the environment, but let's face it: Here at Oceana every day it's encouraged to blog about the environment. We do love our ...
Posted by Oceana on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:53:00 PST

Gore Scores Nobel Peace Prize

First an Emmy, then an Oscar, then the Oceana Partner's Award given in California last week at our annual Partner's Award Gala ... and now Al Gore is a recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.A nod li...
Posted by Oceana on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:49:00 PST

Thar She Blows!

All this hullabaloo about three different dead blue whales washing ashore on California beaches last month poses a new question: what to do with those thousands upon thousands of pounds of animal carc...
Posted by Oceana on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:47:00 PST

Hapy Cephalopod Awareness Day!

If you're not working today, you may be thanking Christopher Columbus for his re-discovery of America. Here at Oceana, we're celebrating a different C-word (which is why our offices remain open). That...
Posted by Oceana on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:38:00 PST

Jellyfish Fukuda

So if global warming is causing changes off the coasts of Japan that adversely affect the fishing industry - changes like say for example the proliferation of enormous jelly fish that can weigh more t...
Posted by Oceana on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:02:00 PST

Get Ur Freak On ...

With Halloween right around the corner, we couldn't think of a better time to pay homage to this ghoulishly delightful day than to celebrate the creepy, crawly critters of the deep  the ones that ar...
Posted by Oceana on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:17:00 PST

Ocean Reefs for World Peace

The answer to world peace lies in within the reef, or so this story claims. Sounds about right to me.It doesn't happen often, but for the sake of restoring tattered natural reefs in the northern porti...
Posted by Oceana on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:11:00 PST

Like Whaley ... Are They That Hard to See?

The blue whale is the largest known creature on the planet. It can grow to a length of about 110 feet and weigh as much as 200 tons.It seems to me an animal of such size wouldn't be too difficult to s...
Posted by Oceana on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:09:00 PST