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Press Releases

First Request for Access to Information Under New Chilean Law Concerns Marine Environment

April, 2009
Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, Gulf of Mexico Bottom Longline Fishermen, Announce Compromise Agreement to Save Endangered Sea Turtles

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council votes to advance compromise measures aimed at protecting turtles while minimizing impacts on the longline fishery

April, 2009
Environmental Groups Praise Obama Administration Progress on Global Warming, Encourage Fast Action on Next Steps

April, 2009
United Nations Makes it Official: World Oceans Day is June 8

Day for Oceans Recognized 16 Years After First Proposed

April, 2009
Oceana Supports Fishery Council Vote Maintaining Protections for Endangered and Threatened Sea Turtles, Fish and Other Ocean Wildlife

New swordfish fishery will be prevented from opening on the high seas of the Pacific

April, 2009
Oceana Welcomes the Chilean Government's Plan for Reducing Antibiotics in Salmon Aquaculture, and Calls for Additional Measures

March, 2009
U.S. Fails to Meet Legal Deadline for Responding to Sea Turtle Petitions

Conservation Groups File Notices of Intent to Sue and Call for Comprehensive Sea Turtle Legislation

March, 2009
Susan Cohn Rockefeller To Chair Oceana's Ocean Council Will Lead Group's Advisory Comittee

Succeeds Anne Alexander Rowley

March, 2009
House of Representatives Passes True Shark Finning Ban

March, 2009
New Oceana Report Shows Depletion of Prey Fish may be Starving the Oceans

UN Food and Agriculture Organization confirms continued worldwide expansion of prey fisheries

March, 2009