Tapping the Brakes on Pebble Mine

Published by Ocean Conservancy If ever there was a place you’d think would be off-limits for a mine, it is Bristol Bay. Home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon run, this land of wild rivers and abundant salmon runs supports a thriving commercial fishery that supplies more than 140,000 jobs a year for people in Alaska […]

Food Wrappers Now #1 Item Found by the ICC

Published by Ocean Conservancy Today we released the 2020 International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) report. Each year this is an opportunity to celebrate the work of our partners and volunteers. With these latest results, nearly 16.5 million volunteers have collected more than 337 million pounds of trash from beaches and waterways worldwide since 1986, when Ocean Conservancy […]

Another Year Older

Published by Ocean Conservancy On September 7, Ocean Conservancy will turn 48 years old. A lot has changed since our founding in 1972. We’ve celebrated some incredible ocean victories, like the passage of the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Management and Conservation act in 1976 and the first International Coastal Cleanup in 1986. We’ve also witnessed great tragedies, like […]

An Influx of Foreign Trash

Published by Ocean Conservancy This blog was written by Austin Ahmasuk, an Inupiaq from Nome, Alaska. He is a lifelong hunter, trapper and mariner, and serves his people as a tribal and marine advocate at Kawerak, a community-based organization in Nome. It’s 2020, and those of us living in the north are confronting the unsettling ecological reality […]

From Policy to Practice: Addressing Ghost Gear

Published by Ocean Conservancy 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 that provides their income. Fishing gear is usually only abandoned intentionally in emergency situations or […]

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