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Italian driftnets: illegal fishing continues

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the use of driftnets in Italy, investigates the causes of the persistence of this illegal gear, analyses the possible failures in management and proposes recommendations, not only for the complete elimination of this fishing gear, but also as a contribution to the development of future management measures to be adopted within the Community fisheries policy framework.

Bluefin Tuna Larval Survey

This report presents the preliminary results of the first-ever larval survey carried out by NGOs. The summer 2008 Oceana-MarViva campaign focused on providing further evidence of active spawning sites for bluefin tuna and other associated species. Larval samples were taken in some of the most relevant bluefin tuna spawning areas in the Mediterranean Sea, including southwest Malta, the southern Tyrrhenian Sea and the Aegean Sea, onboard the research vessel Marviva-Med, from 15 July to 11 August.

Hungry Oceans

According to conventional wisdom, small, fast-growing fish are impossible to overfish because their populations are so large and grow so quickly. Yet we are now seeing disquieting signs that conventional wisdom is wrong.

Most significantly, scientists are reporting ocean predators emaciated from lack of food, vulnerable to disease and without enough energy to reproduce. Scrawny predators, dolphins, striped bass, and even whales have turned up along coastlines around the world. Recreat... [More]

How European nations commercialise shark products

EU countries play a major role in the international trade of shark meat. Even if they only produced about 12% of shark meat worldwide in 2005, they were responsible for 56% of worldwide shark meat imports and 32% of worldwide exports. In 2006, the EU imported more than 40,000 tons of shark meat.

Oceana Recommendations for the ICCAT Commission meeting November 2008

Oceana calls on the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) contracting parties, non contracting parties, and collaborating parties to urgently adopt effective management measures to restore and maintain the populations of tuna, swordfish and sharks at levels that will ensure a sustainable exploitation of these fisheries resources.

The Beauty of the Beast

This report provides an overview of shark characteristics while highlighting their uniqueness and importance in the marine world. The many threats faced by these animals today are also detailed, and methods to ensure their future survival are presented.

Guide to European Elasmobranches

Oceana is working to achieved improved fisheries management and conservation measures to safeguard the future of sharks in Europe. This guide gives an overview of the elasmobranch species that can be found in European waters, dividing them into the seven taxonomic orders present in this region. The habitat, European range, conservation status and management instruments in place for each species is detailed.

20 years turning a deaf ear

Oceana attended last Tuesday 9th of September, a conference organized by the European Parliament under the title “a stronger dialogue between scientists and fishermen for a renovated Common Fisheries Policy”. Oceana took advantage of this opportunity to remind that 80% of scientific advice on fish quotas has been continuously ignored for the last 20 years.

As Goes the Arctic, So Goes the Planet

The Arctic Ocean is facing incredible pressures. As goes the Arctic, so goes the planet. There is no single Arctic treaty, so it is up to our global community to save this vital part of the Earth.

Thonaille: The use of driftnets by the French fleet in the Mediterranean 2007

This report aims to present objective and verifiable facts concerning the French fleet’s use of driftnets in the Mediterranean: the legal framework, number of vessels and characteristics of the fishery. The main objective is to provide interested stakeholders with a detailed overview of the state of the more than 92 vessels based in French Mediterranean ports that continue to use this illegal fishing gear, in order to prove that this fleet has no justifiable reason to be exempt from the ba... [More]

Needless Cruise Pollution: Passengers Want Sewage Dumping Stopped

While thousands of gallons of crude oil from the sunken tanker, Prestige, are still washing up on European beaches killing countless fish, mammals and birds, a more insidious threat placidly sails the ocean in plain sight – cruise ships.

Fishy Business

How EU shark fleets escape regulation and undermine shark conservation around the world.

Treated as trash

Sharks are accidentally caught in many and very different gillnet, purse seine, longline and trawl fisheries, and from small artisanal boats to giant industrial vessels. This report focuses on a few examples to show the dimension of the problem.

The corals of the Mediterranean

Occupying 1.1% of the surface of the world's oceans and 0.3% of all salt water, the Mediterranean no longer shelters the great coral reefs that thrived 60 million years ago. This is due to millennia of climactic and oceanographic changes. However, even today this sea harbors a spectacular array of corals, including some which are not found anywhere else.

More than 200 species of coral (from a total of 5,600 species which have been described worldwide, 500 of which are in Europe) live ... [More]

Hunted for fins

Sharks are vulnerable species. In general, they grow slowly, mature late and produce few young over a long lifetime. Their populations typically increase at extremely low rates, leaving them exceptionally vulnerable to overexploitation and slow to recover from depletion. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, about one-third of European shark and ray populations assessed are considered “threatened.”

The European Union includes some of the most important shar... [More]

Habitats in Danger

A collaboration agreement that was establishment through the Research and Projects Department of the Fundación Biodiversidad has given Oceana the opportunity to demonstrate new criteria in support of the se1ection of marine habitats of interest to the European Community. The context of the project is included within our mission and exclusive dedication to researching, protecting and recuperating the oceans through investigation and scientific work, with a focus on biodiversity, the environm... [More]

The use of driftnets by the Moroccan fleet

Driftnets have been condemned by the international community and banned by various countries and different international organisations. This fishery, however, still continues in various countries around the world, causing the accidental capture and death of a large number of cetaceans, sea turtles, elasmobranchs and birds.

Furthermore, the Moroccan ports of Tangiers, Nador and Alhucemas were inspected in order to evaluate the size of the fleet. The Moroccan driftnet fleet fishing in t... [More]

The Seamounts of the Gorringe Bank

A seamount is regarded as a geological elevation that reaches a minimum of 1,000 metres in height and can consist of very different physical, geological and chemical properties. The seamounts of the Gorringe Bank were discovered in 1875 by the American exploration vessel USS Gettysburg.

The use of drifnets: a scandal for Europe, a mockery of the United Nations

At a meeting in June 1998, the European Union’s Council of Fisheries’ Ministers passed a Regulation1 aimed at prohibiting the use of driftnets for part of the European fleet; a regulation that was to come into force on 1 January 2002. At present, there are about 500 drift-net boats fishing in the Mediterranean and neighbouring waters.

Oceana's contribution to the ICCAT shark asessment

European fisheries have traditionally exploited many small bottom-living coastal sharks and rays, and have recently increased their exploitation of pelagic and deep-water sharks. For stock assessments that rely on catch data, it is essential to quantify the total removals of he stocks of concern. Oceana would like to take this opportunity to provide an update on catch information we have gathered from different catch databases.

Protecting the Pacific’s Deep Sea Corals

Learn about efforts to protect the magnificent deep sea coral gardens of the Pacific Oceana from destructive trawling on the seafloor.

Bottom Fishing in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Is it Ecologically Sustainable?

Heinemann, D., H. Gillelan, and L.E. Morgan (2005), The Ocean Conservancy and Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Washington D.C. 41pp.

End of the Line? Global Threats to Sharks

The End of the Line, a new report by Oceana and WildAid, is an overview of the factors affecting the survival of sharks as well as a call to action to reduce the demand of shark products and implement solutions as part of a global effort.

Deep Seafloor Ecosystems of New England and the Mid-Atlantic

A wealth of marine life dwells on the seafloor in specific deep water locations offshore from the Northeast United States.

Deep Sea Trawl Fisheries of the Southeast US and Gulf of Mexico

Although most bottom trawl and dredge fisheries in the Southeast US and Gulf of Mexico stay close to shore, three trawl fisheries have developed in the deep sea in search of rock shrimp, royal red shrimp, and calico scallops.

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