Author: Wild Ocean Team
7th International Billfish Symposium
Co-hosted by Wild Oceans and the IGFA in San Diego, California in 2024 The 7th International Billfish Symposium convened in October 2024 at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in San Diego, California. Co-organized by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) and Wild Oceans, the symposium brought together over 100 participants from nine ...
2nd International Billfish Symposium
Hosted by Wild Oceans in Kona, Hawaii in 1987 The need for greater global cooperation to conserve wide-ranging species of marlin and swordfish, in the face of equally widespread uncertainty as to the health of these fisheries, led us to sponsor an International Billfish Symposium in 1988 in Kona, Hawaii. ...
Coalition Achieves Conservation Gains for Atlantic Blue Shark
Earlier this month, Wild Oceans joined colleagues including SharkProject to ask the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT or Commission) to reduce the catch of North Atlantic and South Atlantic blue shark and task their scientists with developing long term options for managing blue shark. ICCAT took ...
Policy Underway for Unmanaged Mid-Atlantic Forage Fisheries
Wild Oceans has for the last six years been engaged in ensuring strong implementation of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council) Unmanaged Forage Omnibus Amendment (UFOA). We did not have to wait long for a challenge to this crucial safeguard for Atlantic coast forage species: in 2021, fisheries managers received ...
Take Action: Striped Bass Amendment 7
Weigh In Now for a Strong Striped Bass Plan 06/05/2022 Update: On May 4th, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board approved Amendment 7. The new plan lays a solid foundation for rebuilding the stock and for ensuring prompt and effective conservation action. Read the highlights ...
PRESS RELEASE: NEW HOPE FOR BILLFISH IN THE PACIFIC
A New Effort to Better Understand and Protect Depleted Billfish Stocks Launches in the Pacific With nearly fifty years experience working to conserve large open-ocean predators, Wild Oceans (formerly the National Coalition for Marine Conservation) has just launched an exciting new effort to protect billfish in the Pacific Ocean. The Wild Oceans Kona Project is ...
Rebuild the Bass
We Need to Rebuild Striped Bass, Not Move the Goal Posts The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) is seeking public input on potential changes to the Atlantic Striped Bass Interstate Fishery Management Plan (ISFMP). Ten issues are presented in a Public Information Document (PID) for what will be Amendment 7 to ...
Wild Oceans Joins World Climate Change Statement
Scientific Organizations Call for Urgent Action to Address Climate Change to Conserve Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems Wild Oceans joined with 110 scientific societies representing more than 80,000 scientists from around the world in a statement outlining the evidence for how climate change is seriously impacting freshwater and marine resources. In the ...
WE’VE Moved the Line for Menhaden
On August 5th, Atlantic menhaden management reached a critical milestone. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Atlantic Menhaden Management Board voted unanimously to adopt ecological reference points (ERPs) that will be used to set annual catch levels for the Atlantic coast. With so many predators – from bluefish and ...
2019: An Extraordinary Year
2019 was an extraordinary year for Wild Oceans. Our long-time leader Ken Hinman stepped down after 41 years serving as our organization president and joined our Board of Directors. Rob Kramer, the former President of the International Game Fish Association, stepped in and hit the ground running as our new president. We ...
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