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SPREP Partners with TOF
PRESS BRIEFING 6Oct17 15:45, Malta at the Our Ocean conference 2017 Today, The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and The Ocean Foundation (TOF) are signing an MOU …
Masters of Disguise
When it comes to surviving the ocean, sometimes the best defense is the best disguise. Equipped with reflexive shape and color changes, many sea creatures have evolved to become masters …
A Public Trust, A Pledge to Future Americans
In a memo to President Trump, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has proposed shrinking six of our national monuments, and making management changes for four national monuments. Three of …
Collaborations for Healthy Ocean Systems
If you have ever woken up early to wander the stalls of a fish market, you can relate to my feeling of anticipation leading up to the SeaWeb Seafood Summit. …
#SaveOurOcean
The UN SDG14 Ocean Conference: the first UN conference of its kind on the ocean. June 8 is World Oceans Day, as designated by the United Nations, and we like …
Sushi Dinners and Women’s Reproductive Health
In a 2016 study, 3 in 10 pregnant women had mercury levels higher than the EPA safe limit. For years, seafood has been heralded as the nation’s healthful food choice. In the 2010 …
Costa Rica BBNJ Workshop
I spent the 8th and 9th of March in Puntarenas, Costa Rica for a Central American workshop to develop capacity for foreign ministries engaged in responding to the UN General …
Plastics Are Defining Our Future Ocean
49 years ago today the movie, “The Graduate,” first appeared in USA movie theaters and thus enshrined that famous line of Mr. McGuire’s about future opportunities—It is just one word, …
Go Big or Go Home
International agreements value efforts to protect the health and wellbeing of all life on earth—from human rights to endangered species—the nations of the world have come together to figure out …
In It for the Long Game
Like most of my colleagues at The Ocean Foundation, I’m always thinking about the long game. What future are we working to achieve? How can what we do now lay the …
Nominations for 2017 Seafood Champion Awards Open
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nominations for 2017 Seafood Champion Awards Open Washington, DC (October 5, 2016) – SeaWeb announced the opening of nominations for the 2017 Seafood Champion Awards. First presented …
