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Our efforts in court make real, in-the-water change happen.

In October court that seismic airgun blasting cannot begin and that the seismic companies will need to restart the process if they wish to conduct seismic blasting in the Atlantic.

As a result, Oceana and our allies prevented harm to hundreds of thousands of marine animals.

An appeals court sided with Oceana when it ruled against a petition by two salmon farming companies that wanted to conceal the type and amount of antibiotics they use.

Both companies filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, a hearing took place on February 2021, and the Court agreed on a ruling, ultimately highlighting the importance of transparency when it comes to antibiotic usage.

In October favorable rulings in two Endangered Species Act cases brought to protect sea turtles from fishing impacts.

The court required the government to improve monitoring of sea turtle bycatch in the U.S.

Southeast and Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fisheries and the U.S. Atlantic scallop fishery.

In the shrimp fisheries case, the court also ruled that NOAA Fisheries must revise its Endangered Species Act analysis to address the impacts of climate change and other (non-shrimp) fisheries on sea turtles and must also set a limit on the number of sea turtles the fishery can harm.

Grassroots Organizing & Advocacy More than 7.5 million supporters and advocates – ranging from local on-the-ground fishers to activists on social media – help Oceana and our allies win victories all over the world.

Sailors for the Sea Three Sailors for the Sea Skippers based in New England tabled the Contest in Westerly, Rhode Island in mid-September.

The Skippers participated in a beach clean-up and recruited new sailors and boaters to join the Green Boating initiative.

© Basil ChildersOceana’s field representatives work with state and local leaders, advocates, and organizations to help win campaigns.

As part of its campaign to stop the expansion of offshore oil drilling, Oceana engaged coastal businesses through the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast, the Florida Gulf Coast Business Coalition, and the Business Alliance for Protecting the Pacific Coast.

Social media outreach and virtual events helped rally support for a pause on offshore drilling.

Given the closure of schools to fight COVID-Powered by Oceana developed instructional videos for its Kids Environmental Lesson Plans (KELP) program to support families and teachers confined to their homes.

The team produced a series of through popular KELP activities that use minimal materials and can be conducted in a socially distant manner.

The film exposes human rights abuses in fisheries.

An Oceana report found that Canadians unwittingly spend millions of dollars each year on seafood caught through illegal means, including seafood potentially caught by enslaved workers.

Oceana campaigns for improved traceability standards to ensure seafood is caught legally.

Sailors for the Sea Director Dr. Shelley Brown demonstrates a KELP activity.

Ghost Fleet follows a small group of activists who risk their lives to liberate enslaved fishers in Southeast Asia, revealing a devastating and corrupt criminal conspiracy at the heart of the seafood industry.

A couple of months later, Oceana partnered with the Center for Agrarian Reform, Empowerment, and Transformation (CARET), which works with networks of people’s organizations and municipal fisherfolks in the Philippines.

The partnership launched a series of orientation sessions with fisherfolk groups to inform them of the benefits they would receive from actively participating in FMAs.

On International Fishermen’s Day last June, artisanal fishers in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul shared an Oceana image on social media urging the Supreme Court (STF) to defend a bottom trawling ban that Oceana successfully advocated for in 2018.

Previously, more than families persuaded lawmakers to pass the ban, which protects artisanal fishers’ livelihoods by keeping destructive industrial trawling out of state waters.

However, trawlers challenged the ban, and in December a judge nominated by President Jair Bolsonaro said trawling can resume until the Supreme Court reaches a decision on the ban’s constitutionality.

Oceana continues to engage supporters in protecting the key domestic fisheries management law in the United States: the MagnusonStevens Act.

During Oceana’s #KeepOceansFishy event series, staff hosted virtual discussions with a variety of partner organizations and experts, including a capstone event featuring award-winning chef Bun Lai, who hosted a sustainable seafood cooking demonstration with Oceana federal policy manager Ariana Spawn.

Rio Grande do Sul fishers shared this image on social media, which urges Brazil’s Supreme Court to say no to trawling and yes to artisanal fishing.

The Magnuson-Stevens Act helps #KeepOceansFishy by protecting vulnerable species and critical habitat.

In February members of the fisherfolk group PANGISDA Pilipinas gathered outside of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and protested a proposed bill that would allow commercial fishing in municipal waters.

Fishers announced their opposition to House Bill livelihoods depend on abundant municipal waters, which extend up to 15 kilometers – or 9.3 miles – from shore.

This bill would allow commercial fishing within the to 15 kilometer zone in municipal waters.

During one of the few weeks in allowed, Liesbeth van der Meer, Oceana’s leader in Chile, went to Pisagua to talk to fishers and get their support for the creation of a marine protected area (MPA).

If created, it would be the first MPA in northern Chile.

This is a key spawning area for anchoveta, the most important fishery in northern Chile.

Oceana and local youth groups organized an email blast campaign to pressure the National Solid Waste Management Commission into banning single-use plastics by adding them to the national list of Non-Environmentally Acceptable Products and Packaging (NEAPP).

Nearly two days later, the Commission held its first-ever public consultation since the law was passed in 2001.

This resulted in the passage of a resolution to include plastic stirrers and plastic straws on the NEAPP list, which would ban them nationwide.

However, the resolution has not been signed as of this writing.

As the Sailors for the Sea Skipper Rob Howie hosted a Green Boating pop-up event at a West Marine store in Marblehead, Massachusetts to recruit new Green Boaters.

He and other volunteers handed out Green Boating Guides, which teach boaters how to reduce their individual environmental impact.

By combining Sailors for the Sea’s goal of educating boaters about marine conservation with Oceana’s experience mobilizing supporters to advocate for policy that supports healthy and abundant oceans, the Green Boating Initiative creates a global network of active, engaged ocean champions within the sailing and boating community.

Liesbeth van der Meer, Oceana’s head in Chile, visited Pisagua artisanal fishers to get their support for an MPA.

Oceana’s field team organized a four-part training series on plastic policy.

The ParrotFishNet team took first place in Karagathon, an event sponsored by Oceana to encourage technological solutions that track and tackle illegal fishing in the Philippines.

They developed a portable fishing boat tracker that transmits information to a solar-powered buoy to keep eyes on the sea (pictured here).

Oceana adapted to the COVID-pandemic by taking its advocacy and outreach online.

Virtual platforms – and in some cases, socially-distanced in-person events – enabled Oceana to keep campaigning and working with supporters around the world.

Take a look at some of our top moments from the last year.

Around the World Pictured is a member of the Hydraean team, which took the Philippines.

Musician Nile Rodgers joined Oceana’s virtual New York Gala in October 2020.

© Oceana Francisco das Chagas Machado Brandão (Chico Rasta) won an Oceana-sponsored photography contest in Brazil with this image of artisanal fishers on Bitupitá Beach in Barroquinha, Ceará.

The scene shows fishermen balancing on wooden stakes driven into the seabed to create fishing corrals.

Fishers in the northeastern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte attended the launch of OpenTuna, a website that Oceana and Global Fishing Watch helped develop.

For the first time, it publicizes the catch data and vessel monitoring system data for Brazil’s tuna longline fleet.

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) hosted its Autumn Regatta in September 2020.

RHKYC has been working with Sailors for the Sea Powered by Oceana to reduce the impact of its events.

Now, their events are certified as Gold Level Clean Regattas.

Vera Coelho, Oceana’s senior director of advocacy in Europe, spoke at a virtual Green Week event in October 2020.

It was the only session dedicated to the ocean, and her presentation highlighted the benefits of investing in stronger ocean protections.

Dr. Dionne Hoskins-Brown is the director of NOAAsponsored programs at Savannah State University and an associate professor in the marine and environmental sciences department.

Hoskins-Brown participated in Oceana’s #OceanStewardSpotlight series, which highlighted ocean stewards from diverse backgrounds to help create a more welcoming ocean conservation community.

© Oceana Oceana, the Ministry of the Environment, and the local community attended a launch for six new information panels about the rich marine ecosystem of Caleta Tortel, Chile.

They highlight the scientific work carried out by Oceana that enabled the creation of a marine protected area in 2018.

Panelists for Oceana’s virtual “Blue Hour” discussed illegal fishing in Peru.

© Oceana Oceana brought together stakeholders from all during an FMA Summit in December 2020.

© Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region The Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes discussed ocean conservation with actor, advocate, and Oceana Board Member Ted Danson during the World Ocean Summit in March 2021.

A projection on Brazil’s Congress building marked World Oceans Day on June 2021.

Oceana used the occasion to advocate for the passage of a national law that regulates single-use plastics.

Liz Quiroz, Oceana’s communications director in Peru, and Pro Delphinus director Joanna Alfaro discussed seafood fraud in Peru during a virtual event.

Journalist Paula Zahn with virtual Oceana New York Gala honoree Jane Fonda Oceana Field Representative Nancy Downes introduced U.S. Representative Mike Levin during a National Business Roundtable on the importance of permanently protecting U.S. coasts from offshore oil drilling.

Jacqueline Savitz, Oceana’s Chief Policy Officer for North America, advocated for the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act during a virtual rally celebrating its introduction to Congress.

A snapshot of Oceana’s virtual advocacy event to stop the expansion of offshore drilling in the U.S. Oceana’s team in the Philippines hosted a forum on economic recovery post-COVID, featuring a joint panel of experts from the government, civil society groups, and fisherfolk communities.

Oceana urges bold action to ban bottom-trawling in Europe’s ‘protected’ areas Environment advocates conduct research expedition on Panaon Island in Southern Leyte Oceana’s campaigners design media and communications strategies that target key decision-makers, inform the public, and help us win victories.

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