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 ...

I AM WILD OCEANS

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Wild Oceans

Wild Oceans was born back in 1973 as the National Coalition for Marine Conservation in the lovely coastal city of Savannah, Georgia.  I showed up 5 years later – with a girlfriend, 2 dogs and a VW bug; in other words, everything a young man needs except a job – and ...

Short Sighted

Author: Theresa Labriola Posted Under: Blog, Swordfish, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Big Fish

Short Sighted – NOAA’ s Push for More Longlines Jeopardizes Long-term Conservation Gains by Theresa Labriola In the past two years, the gatekeepers of our public trust resources have been pursuing an aggressive agenda of increased exploitation that has reached the ocean. When Wilbur Ross was appointed Commerce Department Secretary, he ...

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 ...

3. MEETING RESISTANCE

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Menhaden, Blog, Prey Base

The third in a series of blogs, A Question of Science, which looks at changes in the way we assess the health of one of our most important prey species. In the first two parts of this series I described how the 2010 Atlantic menhaden stock assessment was scrapped after it triggered ...

OCEAN VIEW

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Menhaden, Blog, Prey Base

Here’s our latest Ocean View editorial, just one of the features that appears in our member newsletter, the Wild Oceans Horizon. For access to more insightful articles and fisheries news written by our staff, please consider supporting Wild Oceans as a member. Is the menhaden fishery certifiably “sustainable”? Not yet it isn’t. The Marine Stewardship Council ...

PLAN APPROVED TO MANAGE CHUB MACKEREL

Author: Pam Lyons Gromen Posted Under: Mackerel, Blog, Prey Base, Victories

Mid-Atlantic Council Takes on Management of Emerging Fishery On March 7th, The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted to bring chub mackerel into the existing fishery management plan (FMP) for Atlantic mackerel, longfin squid, shortfin squid and butterfish.  Wild Oceans supported the Council’s decision, emphasizing that chub mackerel, like the other species in ...

2. LOSING CONFIDENCE

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Menhaden, Blog, Prey Base

The second in a series of blogs, A Question of Science, which looks at changes in the way we assess the health of one of our most important prey species. I started following and attending Atlantic menhaden stock assessments on a regular basis in 1999.  That same year, as a ...

WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Menhaden, Blog, Prey Base

Introduction to a new blog series, A Question of Science, reflecting on how the health of Atlantic menhaden, one of the most important prey fish in the sea, is assessed. Confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions. – Science Daily ...