New Surveys Give a Clearer Picture of Recreational Fishing

Published by Ocean Conservancy 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, the 3.4 billion pounds of Alaska pollock that largely ends up in your Filet-O-Fish), the catch from individual […]

Protecting Our Estuaries

Published by Ocean Conservancy Healthy estuaries support the vitality and livelihoods of coastal communities. We gather with friends at estuaries to go fishing, kayak and spend quality time with each other. But we don’t always show estuaries as much love as they show us. In college, I spent my days staring into my microscope at what […]

Perspective from Puerto Rico

Published by Ocean Conservancy 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 season. While most volunteers hit the beach or their local waterway on a nice day in September, many […]

Celebrating Florida’s Beaches in 2018

Published by Ocean Conservancy 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 Beautiful, we cleaned up Gandy Beach in St. Petersburg. Community members and individuals from organizations like the Tampa […]

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