Learn about one of the ocean's most iconic and captivating creatures in the world, the humpback whale. Read more on the blog.

Fishing is one of the most important employers and sources of protein for coastal communities in Belize. Yet bottom trawls and other kinds of unselective fishing gear cause harm to other fisheries and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oceana is an international organization with offices in North America, Central America, South America, Europe and Asia. Find the location, address, and contact information for Oceana offices, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seismic airgun blasting in search of oil and gas is shortsighted and dangerous. Seismic airguns create one of the loudest manmade sounds in the ocean. During seismic surveys, ships pull large arrays ...

Oceana and Kawerak, Inc. recently completed the Bering Strait Marine Life and Subsistence Data Synthesis, which portrays areas of importance and high abundance for marine species such as ice seals, ...