Debunked: Does H.R. 200 Address Climate Change?
After failing to garner any significant bipartisan support for their legislation to dismantle responsible fishery management, opponents of conservation are now grasping at straws and claiming that H.R. 200 helps address...
Debunked: Does H.R. 200 Address Climate Change?
More than 9 million saltwater recreational fishermen in the U.S. have a significant impact on the health of our ocean fish populations. While commercial fishing certainly catches the most fish by volume (for instance, th...
New Surveys Give a Clearer Picture of Recreational Fishing
As we reflect on another fantastic year of cleanup efforts with the publication of Ocean Conservancy’s 2018 International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Report, we must also reflect on other events that impacted the 2017 ICC seas...
Perspective from Puerto Rico
Ocean Conservancy kicked off the beach season in the Sunshine State last week with some hands-on conservation and the release of the 2018 International Coastal Cleanup Report. Together with our partners at Keep Pinellas...
Celebrating Florida’s Beaches in 2018
From sea to shining sea—the ocean is full of an array of diverse and beautiful animals. This Independence Day, we can’t help but see the rainbow of colors in the ocean and realize that the seas are swimming with the red,...
An Ocean of Red, White and Blue!
Davos is a pleasant, yet sleepy, town nestled in the mountains of Switzerland. The main street gives way to hillside pastures and cows with bells. Cable cars and ski lifts offer access to flower-filled alpine meadows and...
Finding the Arctic in the Swiss Alps
With many competing priorities for state attention this year, the California state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown had a lot of tough decisions to make, and compromises were the order of the day. However, Ocean Cons...
California’s Support for Our Ocean
The 2018 International Coastal Cleanup report is here! Last September, extraordinary volunteers from all around the world came together to clean up our beaches and waterways during the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC)...
The 2017 International Coastal Cleanup Results Are In!
It’s not a moment everyone experiences, but it’s certainly one that no one ever forgets. Picture it: you’re walking along a boardwalk or going for a jog on the shoreline, when suddenly you see something in the dist...
A Guide to Responding to Stranded and Injured Marine Animals
Science Friday from the Gulf of Mexico! Earlier this week, a research team published findings of the world’s first known manta ray nursery and it is in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (off the coa...