OCEANA CAMPAIGNS TO PROTECT AND RESTORE THE WORLD'S OCEANS. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life.

Mission

Oceana seeks to make our oceans as rich, healthy and abundant as they were in our grandparents' youth. We look to a future in which dolphin sightings are common along any temperate coast; in which the mighty swordfish, marlin and tuna are abundant once again; in which whales and sea turtles thrive, cod are plentiful on both sides of the Atlantic, local fishing cultures evolve rather then decline and in which fish are a safe, growing and plentiful source of food around the world.

Problem

THE WORLD'S OCEANS ARE AT A CRITICAL JUNCTURE and face a bleak future if nothing is done. Large-scale industrial fishing takes too much ocean wildlife from the water; land-based industries, meanwhile, put too many pollutants back in – and the laws meant to check the destruction are ignored or selectively enforced. The result: declining fisheries, destruction of marine habitat, pollution of coastal waters and poisoning of seafood are threatening the Earth's largest and most important natural system, as well as the tens of millions of people who depend on the sea for livelihood and sustenance.