The Mexican lookdown is a striking fish found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, mainly from southern California down to Ecuador and northern Peru. It inhabits shallow coastal waters, as well as estuaries, ...
Actor, advocate, and Oceana ambassador Kate Walsh was honored for her longstanding commitment to protecting and restoring the world’s oceans. Event co-chairs Elizabeth Wahler, who also serves on ...
Damage from Bottom Trawling on Chilean Seamounts Still Visible More Than 25 Years Later, Study Finds
More than two decades after bottom trawling ended on the seamounts surrounding Chile’s Juan Fernández Archipelago, the damage it caused is still visible. A new study published in Deep-Sea Research ...
Sixteen national governments from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Pacific today adopted the Mombasa Declaration at the 11th Our Ocean Conference, committing to advance global ...
This year marks a quarter-century since Oceana set sail. Back in 2001, the oceans received less than 1% of global conservation funding, despite covering more than 70% of our planet. Overfishing and ...
Oceana, the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, has appointed Sonia Kwami to lead its new office in Ghana, the organization’s first in Africa. Kwami ...
Close your eyes and imagine a ship that’s engaged in illegal activity on the high seas. What flag is it flying? Maybe you’re picturing a black pirate flag billowing in the wind, its skull and ...
Josana Pinto da Costa guides her small fishing boat through the murky, moonlit Amazon River in northern Brazil, where she makes her living fishing. She fishes in the nighttime, not by choice, but ...
When people imagine studying marine life, they often picture scuba divers swimming alongside schools of fish, or scientists carefully tagging sea lions and sharks. Those methods are important, but ...
Today, the High Seas Treaty, formally known as the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, officially entered into force. This legally binding agreement establishes, for the first ...
The ocean remains one of the least explored places on Earth—and every year, scientists uncover new species that remind us just how much there is still to learn. In 2025, researchers described a ...
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