Author: Wild Ocean Team

Coalition Achieves Conservation Gains for Atlantic Blue Shark

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, RFMO’s, Big Fish

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

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Councils, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Prey Base

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

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Blog, Striped Bass, Big Fish

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 ...

Rebuild the Bass

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Striped Bass, Big Fish

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

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Ecosystems, Climate Change, Healthy Oceans

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 ...

Tell Secretary Ross to Uphold the Menhaden Bay Cap

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Menhaden, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Blog, Prey Base

"Atlantic menhaden are a critically important – perhaps the most important – forage species for some of the Atlantic coast’s most iconic species, including those that support valuable recreational and commercial fisheries." –Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission

Diverse Coalition Supports Keeping Longlines Out of California

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Councils, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Big Fish

24 local and national recreational leaders tell the Pacific Fishery Management Council to keep longlines out of west coast ports Next Tuesday, November 19, the Pacific Fishery Management Council is meeting in Costa Mesa, CA to revisit a plan to permit a California based longline fishery. While we all support ...

Help Herring Over the Final Hurdle

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Prey Base, Our News, News & updates

Let NMFS Know that You Support Measures to Protect Atlantic Herring’s Role as Forage   DEADLINE: October 21 Last fall, the New England Fishery Management Council adopted groundbreaking measures to conserve Atlantic herring and safeguard its role as prey.  Humpback whales, porpoises, seals, puffins, terns, tuna, striped bass, cod, pollock ...

Press Release A Change In Leadership At Wild Oceans

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Wild Oceans, Our News, Press Releases

Long-time Leader Hinman Retires, Kramer Steps In Waterford, VA – August 27, 2019 – After 41 years at the helm, Wild Oceans President Ken Hinman will be stepping down on September 30, 2019.  Replacing him in the position, Wild Oceans Board of Directors has recruited veteran nonprofit leader Rob Kramer, former President of the International Game Fish ...

Victory for Atlantic Herring

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Herring, Blog, Prey Base, Victories

Fed upon by a long list of ocean wildlife from whales to seabirds to tuna, Atlantic herring is the linchpin holding together the food web in New England waters.  On September 25th at its meeting in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the New England Fishery Management Council took groundbreaking action to better manage Atlantic ...