New State Management for Red Snapper Is Driving Overfishing
By all accounts, recreational fishing by private anglers is booming around the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, as fishermen head out on their boats to see if they can fill their coolers with some prized red snapper. With so...
New State Management for Red Snapper Is Driving Overfishing
Hannah De Frond is a researcher in the Rochman lab at the University of Toronto, studying plastic pollution. Originally from the UK, Hannah graduated from the University of Leeds with a B.S. degree in Environmental Scien...
How to Reduce Microfiber Emissions
With several crises confronting the nation at this time—from a global health pandemic to widespread protests against anti-Black racism—it is unfathomable that the Trump administration has set its sights on weakening safe...
Proposal Threatens to Weaken 2016 Arctic Drilling Rule
In the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others, many of us are taking time to re-evaluate our biases, our contributions to systemic racism and the ways in which we can...
Trump Again Undermines Conservation and Public Voices
Ocean Conservancy received some big news last month: Our three-part documentary series, Ocean to the Everglades, was named a Gold Winner in the Online Documentary Series category for the 41st annual Telly Awards. The ser...
Directing the Ocean to the Everglades Series
This blog was written by Jenna Schwerzmann. Originally from upstate New York, Jenna began her marine conservation career on Long Island after graduating from Stony Brook University with a B.S. in Marine Vertebrate Biolog...
My Journey to Ghost Gear
Ocean Conservancy, The Circulate Initiative and Global Resilient Cities Network with the support of NOAA’s Marine Debris Program, will work with five cities in Asia and Latin America to strengthen waste management, build...
Urban Ocean Welcomes First Cohort of Cities to the Ocean Plastics Fight
Despite their name, garden eels are not your garden-variety eels. In fact, from a distance, they don’t look like eels at all. Their strategy of reaching out of burrows on the ocean floor and swaying in the current makes...
What’s the Deal With Garden Eels?
Sewage. It’s nasty stuff, and it should be treated to prevent potential health and environmental impacts. I am often frustrated by the extremely weak laws that regulate sewage dumping from ships, and even these weak laws...
Why International Sewage Regulations Are 💩
Theresa Peterson is Alaska Marine Conservation Council’s (AMCC) longest serving staff person (14 years!), an active fisherwoman and long-time resident of Kodiak, home to the nation’s largest fishing fleet. Theresa has a...