SAM WATERSTON STANDS up for CANADIAN FISHERIES Oceana Canada Helps Spur Major Government Commitment to Fisheries Funding and Transparency
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SPRING 2017 | OCEANA.ORG SAM WATERSTON STANDS UP FOR CANADIAN FISHERIES Oceana Canada helps spur major government commitment to fisheries funding and transparency PLUS: Q&A WITH REID SCOTT | DEFENDING U.S. OCEANS | PEOPLE POWER IN BELIZE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OCEAN COUNCIL Simon Sidamon-Eristoff, Chair Susan Rockefeller, Chair Carey Hotchkis Valarie Van Cleave, Vice Chair Julie Tauber McMahon, Vice Chair Hardy Jones Angela and J. Stephen Kilcullen María Eugenia Girón, Treasurer Violaine Bernbach Arlene and Robert Kogod James Sandler, Secretary Carolyn Marks Blackwood Keely and Pierce Brosnan Slane Holland Lightburne Keith Addis, President Deborah Buck Willa and Ted Lutz Monique Bär Amy and Gary Churgin Dede McMahon Herbert M. Bedolfe, III Barbara and Bertram Cohn Tiffany Moller Ted Danson Ann Colley Aaron Peirsol DEFENDING U.S. OCEANS 6 Sydney Davis Andrew Davis Nicole Polizois Cesar Gaviria Sydney Davis Perri and Mario Procida Loic Gouzer Michael Dershewitz Jennifer Small and Adam Wolfensohn Jena King Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby Anne Alexander Rowley Stephen P. McAllister Lise Evans Eve Kornyei Ruffatto Dr. Kristian Parker Kay Fernandez Andrew Sabin Jennifer Schwab Wangers Dr. Daniel Pauly Christina Falco and Michael Frumkin Joanna and Brian Fisher Danielle Steakley Susan Rockefeller Kelly T. Hallman Sutton Stracke Heather Stevens Marjorie Harris Susan Trees Diana Thomson Julie Hill Toby Usnik Sam Waterston Jean Weiss OCEANA Chief Executive Officer Executive Director, Oceana Canada EDITORIAL STAFF Andrew Sharpless Joshua Laughren Editors Vice President, Peru Laura Lacy and Allison Guy President PEOPLE POWER IN BELIZE 12 James Simon Patricia Majluf, Ph.D. Designer Q&A WITH REID SCOTT 5 Chief Scientist & Strategy Officer Vice President, Chile Rosie Ettenheim Michael Hirshfield, Ph.D. Liesbeth van der Meer Cover photo: ©s_bukley | Retouch: Alexandra Pitzer Contributing Writer Senior Vice President & Executive Director, Europe Vice President, Brazil Alayna Alvarez Lasse Gustavsson Monica Brick Peres, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Vice President, Philippines Strategic Marketing & Communications Gloria Estenzo Ramos, J.D. DEPARTMENTS Matthew Littlejohn Deputy Vice President, U.S. Pacific 1 CEO’S NOTE Oceana knows how to win policy outcomes Senior Vice President, Global Development Susan Murray that put more fish in the sea Courtney Sakai Vice President, Development 2 FOR THE WIN Seismic blasting scrapped along the East Senior Vice President, United States & Global Fishing Watch Nancy Golden Coast, U.S. program combats seafood fraud and more Jacqueline Savitz Chief Financial Officer Vice President, Belize Christopher Sharkey 4 NEWS & NOTES A new rule to protect U.S. sea turtles Janelle Chanona from shrimp trawls, rare deep-sea species discovered on an FISHERIES TRANSPARENCY IN CANADA 16 expedition to Lebanon and more Oceana is published by Oceana Inc. For questions or comments 5 Q&A Reid Scott about Oceana, or to subscribe to Oceana, please call our membership FEATURES OCEANA is the largest international advocacy organization department at +1.202.833.3900, e-mail [email protected] VICTORY LISTORY A Timeline of Success focused solely on ocean conservation. We run science-based or write Oceana, Member Services, 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11 campaigns and seek to win policy victories that can restore 5th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036, USA. 6 OCEANA IS BUILT TO WITHSTAND CHANGING TIDES IN 20 GO FIGURE Canada’s Fisheries ocean biodiversity and ensure that the oceans are abun- POLITICS As new leaders shift the agenda in Washington, dant and can feed hundreds of millions of people. Oceana Oceana’s Privacy Policy: Your right to privacy is important to Oceana, and Oceana continues to do what it does best — find ways to ASK DR. PAULY Illegal Fishing by Another Name Smells we are committed to maintaining your trust. Personal information (such win big for the oceans. 21 victories have already helped to create policies that could as name, address, phone number, e-mail) includes data that you may have too Sweet increase fish populations in its countries by as much as 40 provided to us when making a donation or taking action as a Wavemaker on IN BELIZE, PEOPLE POWER PUT THE BRAKES ON percent and that have protected more than 1 million square behalf of the oceans. This personal information is stored in a secure location. 12 FISH TALE Kenyan Reef Fish COVERT OFFSHORE OIL EXPLORATION Oceana and 22 miles of ocean. We have campaign offices in the countries For our full privacy policy, please visit Oceana.org/privacypolicy. allies helped to mobilize a public outcry that put an end to that control close to 40 percent of the world’s wild fish EVENTS October 2016 Mikimoto Event oil exploration near the Belize barrier reef. 23 catch, including in North, South and Central America, Asia Please recycle. SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT Monique Bär, Jena King, and and Europe. To learn more, please visit www.oceana.org. SHINING A LIGHT ON THE SECRETS HIDING IN 24 Printed with Eco-Ink — low volatility vegetable oil-based ink on 25% 16 CANADA’S FISHERIES Oceana Canada seized a rare Jean Weiss post-consumer recycled, processed chlorine free paper produced opportunity to bring transparency and accountability to using 100% wind power in a carbon neutral process. CHEF’S CORNER Chef Sam Talbot’s Thai Coconut Mussels government fisheries management. 25 26 PARTING SHOT Glovers Reef Atoll, Belize CEO’S NOTE Dear Friend of Oceana, Recently I was in London reporting to one Most people are not familiar with the by 2020. And huge strides are being made of Oceana’s earliest and most generous causes of ocean depletion. Asked to explain in habitat protection — for example, backers. “Since we last met,” I said, “we’ve this appalling loss of abundance off the Presidents Bush and Obama each acted to had some big campaign victories and also coasts of England (both New and Old), create a huge fully protected marine park some losses. I want to make sure today people apply the analogy of climate change. around the northwest Hawaiian Islands. that you know what we’re getting done.” They rapidly conclude that saving the Smiling, she replied, “Why don’t you start oceans, like saving the climate, will require Oceana, together with our allies, is with your losses? It’ll make your victories vigorous, coordinated and enforceable winning policy changes that restore and more credible.” international action, probably led by the protect abundant oceans. Of course, we United Nations. don’t always win. As I reported on our It’s advice I’ve taken to heart. losses to our generous backer in London, And because that process is profoundly I again felt their sting. But by the end of So here’s a real loss: difficult, people conclude that saving the the meeting, she agreed that the overall oceans must also be nearly impossible. win-loss record was very encouraging for In 1776, Oliver Goldsmith described visiting all of us committed to ocean abundance the coast of England and seeing schools of That is not correct. and biodiversity. Since our founding 15 herring 5 or 6 miles long. These were, he years ago, we have counted nearly 200 reported, being chased by dolphins, sharks, While some ocean species require policy victories for the oceans. Some of our fin whales, sperm whales and tuna, all clearly coordinated international protection, the newest victories are described in this issue We could visible from the seashore. most productive parts of the world’s ocean of our magazine, and we are very happy to whaley can be saved country by country. Indeed, share them with you. use your support. Other striking natural losses are reported more than 90 percent of the world’s ocean ASK PAGE in The Unnatural History of the Sea by productivity is caught in the exclusive It now seems likely that newly elected Callum Roberts, or in the more recent economic zones of just 29 of the world’s governments in the United States and Feral, by George Monbiot. For example, countries and the European Union. Huge in Europe will make Oceana’s job more early in the European settlement of North parts of the world’s oceans have been difficult. We are shifting more of our America, New England colonists finding nationalized. That means that coastal resources and attention to defending key 20-pound lobsters along the coasts were countries can restore their ocean abundance. ocean laws rather than fighting to strengthen so unimpressed that they decided to feed They can do so simply by stopping them. But we are not discouraged. We know them to their pigs. At the same time, overfishing in their ocean. They don’t need how to win, and we’ll find a way, as we canoe-paddling “gentlemen” not far from to get agreement from any other country. always do, to deliver policy outcomes that Washington, D.C. on the Potomac River put more fish in the sea. caught more than 600 sturgeon — in one So don’t let the problems of stopping climate day (!). And in the 18th century, the biggest change convince you that rebuilding ocean Your generous support makes them great white sharks were 50 percent larger abundance is impossible. It’s a false analogy. possible. We are entirely dependent on than today’s titans — sometimes reported to voluntary contributions from you and PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY TODAY reach 9 meters in length. We have, over the past 15 years, seen others committed to healthy and abundant real progress. In the United States, since oceans. Your loyalty is now more important Your contribution will help ensure our Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winner 2000, the share of fish stocks considered than ever. Thank you! in economics, has written about how we overfished has been halved. Nearly 40 oceans are vibrant and sustainable.