What’s Going on With Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Management?
The Gulf of Mexico is using a new management approach for red snapper private recreational fishing. In 2018 and 2019, fishery managers from the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Cou...
What’s Going on With Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Management?
When a seminal paper was published five years ago, the world decided that its core finding—8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastics enter the ocean annually—was simply unacceptable. Almost overnight, this Ocean Conservanc...
Reduce, Manage and Clean-up
Penned by Becca Robbins Gisclair, Nicholas J. Mallos, Michael LeVine and Henry P. Huntington, this blog is sourced from a featured column in the journal Environment on the threat plastic pollution poses in the Arctic Oce...
Reducing Plastics and Other Waste in the Arctic Ocean
Ghost gear is a problem with a common misconception: many people believe it’s a term for fishing gear that’s been recklessly discarded into the sea. The truth is that fishers don’t want to lose the expensive equipment th...
From Policy to Practice: Addressing Ghost Gear
In 1973, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed to help provide protection for endangered and threatened species and their habitats. And it worked! Because of the ESA, our kids will be able to hear a humpback whale...
Help Save the Endangered Species Act
On July 25, the MV Wakashio was grounded on a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius. Since then, the ship has released 1,000 tons of fuel into the sea, where it has fouled the region’s biologically rich waters and coastl...
What’s Next for the Mauritius Oil Spill?
Dr. David Shiffman is a marine conservation biologist and public science educator based in Washington, D.C. Renowned for his witty social media presence, he has written for the widely-read ocean science blog Southern Fri...
Making Sense of Mako Shark Conservation
The Trump administration continued its malicious attacks on our right to have a meaningful voice in our government decision-making process. Last week, the Trump administration rolled back the rules that implement the Nat...
Trump Administration Takes Major Step to Weaken Our Environment
Investments in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the success of our blue economy go hand-in-hand. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced one of the most important pieces of l...
House Invests in NOAA and Our Blue Economy
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...