From celebrating victories and milestones to unexpected challenges, this year for Oceana has been filled with growth and gratitude. Read more.

James Simon is Oceana’s CEO. Simon was instrumental in establishing Oceana as the world’s leading ocean conservation ...

Lauren Conrad is asking you to help protect sea turtles from bycatch. Here’s what you can do: Sign the petition to require life-saving Turtle Excluder Devices in trawl nets and save thousands of sea ...

Sea turtles have played vital roles in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years. These roles range from maintaining productive coral reef ecosystems to transporting ...

Myth: Offshore wind power isn’t a viable renewable energy option. Fact: Offshore wind has existed for about 20 years, and has become an important part of Europe’s energy mix. Europe’s total installed ...

Occupying 1.1 percent of the surface of the world’s oceans and 0.3 percent of all salt water, the Mediterranean no longer shelters the great coral reefs that thrived 60 million years ago. This is due ...

Sea turtle populations are at dangerously low levels. Stresses from commercial fishing, coastal development, pollution and poaching may push sea turtle populations over the edge. Alarmed at the ...

From 2010 to 2012, Oceana conducted one of the largest seafood fraud investigations in the world to date, collecting more than 1,200 seafood samples from 674 retail outlets in 21 states to determine ...

Oceana press releases share updates on our campaigns and mission to protect and restore the world’s oceans. They include explanations of the issues that our oceans face, our work to solve those issues ...

Sharks have unfortunately fallen victim to the man-hungry “Jaws” stereotype society has created for them. Oceana wants the world to know that what we should really fear are oceans without sharks.

CORRECTION: This report referenced a bycatch rate of 40% as determined by Davies et al. 2009, however that calculation used a broader definition of bycatch than is standard. According to bycatch as ...

Seafood fraud is the practice of misleading consumers about their seafood in order to increase profits. Along with ripping off shoppers, these actions can have negative impacts on marine conservation ...