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SPRING 2015 OCEANA.ORG NINETEEN OF THE WORLD’S TOP CHEFS CONVENE IN SPAIN TO SAVE THE OCEANS, FEED THE WORLD PLUS: GLOBAL FISHING WATCH | OCEANA LAUNCHES IN CANADA | Q&A WITH LASSE GUSTAVSSON Protecting the World’s Oceans BOARD OF DIRECTORS OCEANA Vice President, Andean and Caribbean Regions Simon Sidamon-Eristoff, Chair Chief Executive Officer Alex Muñoz Valarie Van Cleave, Vice Chair Andrew Sharpless Vice President, Brazil Secretary James Sandler, President Monica Brick Peres, Ph.D. Treasurer María Eugenia Girón, James Simon Keith Addis, President Vice President, Philippines Herbert M. Bedolfe III Chief Scientist & Strategy Officer Gloria Estenzo Ramos, J.D. Ted Danson Michael Hirshfield, Ph.D. Vice President, U.S. Oceans Sydney Davis Senior Vice President & Executive Jacqueline Savitz César Gaviria Director, Europe Deputy Vice President, U.S. Pacific Loic Gouzer Lasse Gustavsson Susan Murray Stephen P. 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Printed with Eco-Ink — low volatility vegetable oil-based ink on 25% post-consumer recycled, processed chlorine free paper produced us- ing 100% wind power in a carbon neutral process. 6 © iStock.com | Dan Bannister 10 13 © OCEANA | Jenn Hueting ON THE COVER: Nineteen of the world’s top DEPARTMENTS chefs gather to save the CEO’S NOTE oceans, feed the world. 1 Welcome Global Fishing Watch 2 MAKING WAVES Seafood fraud action plan, seamount protections in Chile and amended fisheries code in the Philippines ©Juan Manuel Serrano Arce | stringer 4 NEWS & NOTES New brand and website, Oceana Philippines launches and new Board leadership FEATURES 18 FISH TALE Japanese snow crab EVENTS Top chefs gather in Spain, Fashions for Q&A 19 5 Lasse Gustavsson, senior vice president the Future event and the annual New York and executive director, Europe City Gala 6 GLOBAL FISHING WATCH Protecting the 21 SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT Honoring Alex Rockwell ocean with big data 22 CHEF’S CORNER José Luis González’s buro with maya-maya and mustasa Leaves 10 CANADA A nation built on fish 23 PARTING SHOT 13 HOPE FOR THE PHILIPPINES An island nation aims for sustainable fisheries Give Today Oceana’s accomplishments wouldn’t be possible without the support of its donors. 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In one is kept confidential, even though Australia late last year. You can learn day. Sperm whales are an endangered there may be a government employee more about it in this issue of Oceana species. One was dead and the other on the boat and the information is and by visiting globalfishingwatch. was released but not likely to survive submitted to the U.S. government. The org. We are now seeking the funds the physical trauma of being captured only reason we know this is because necessary to present this information in a submerged net. Meanwhile, the interactions with turtles and marine to everyone in the world, for free. fishery continued and fourteen more mammals are reported, in aggregate sperm whales were estimated to have and redacted form, through obscure For the oceans, been killed that year. In fact, the government websites (that Oceana estimated number of whales killed staff scour to ensure we have the best exceeded what biologists thought the information available to influence endangered population could handle, responsible management). but nonetheless the fishery season progressed along without any special This is appalling. Fisheries and management action. the oceans are a public resource and we have a right to know what Only the federal fishing agency and the is happening. We need more drift gillnetters knew this was going transparency in the management and on. It wasn’t until two years later that administration of our oceans. the National Marine Fisheries Service publicly released a report which Without information, it is hard to disclosed the whale kills by the drift describe problems and even harder gillnet fishery. When the feds finally to develop solutions. A U.S. Supreme released the bycatch data, Oceana Court justice once noted that sunlight mapped it and provided it to the public. is the best disinfectant. It’s time that basic information on commercial This sad story of holding back fishery fishing is broadly and freely disclosed information from the public is not to the public. unique or unusual. On July 17, 2014 fishing boats using gillnets in the Global Fishing Watch, a joint project waters off the northeastern U.S. caught of Google, SkyTruth and Oceana, is a four common dolphins and four sea path-breaking example of this satellite turtles. In one day. information concept. Our prototype proves that it’s possible for everyone in Once again, despite the fact that an the world with an Internet connection official U.S. government fishery to have near real time information on Oceana wishes to thank all of its supporters, especially its founding funders and foundations that in 2014 awarded Oceana grants of $500,000 or more: Adessium Foundation, Arcadia Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Oak Foundation, Oceans 5, Robertson Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Sandler Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, and Wyss Foundation. OCEANA.ORG | 1 MAKING WAVES OBAMA ANNOUNCES SEAFOOD FRAUD RECOMMENDATIONS In March, President Obama’s Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud released its recommendations for combating seafood fraud and pirate fishing. Seafood fraud, which refers to any number of issues in the seafood supply chain such as substituting one seafood species for another or misrepresenting species by replacing wild-caught fish with farmed, directly threatens ocean ecosystems and can cause health issues for people. The plan calls for international and domestic measures to ensure that all seafood sold in the United States is legally caught and honestly labeled including better enforcement, more collaboration among government agencies, more transparency and greater traceability of our seafood. Oceana has led the charge on stopping seafood fraud. A 2013 nationwide Oceana study found that 33 percent of more than 1,200 fish samples were mislabeled, and a similar 2014 Oceana study found that shrimp was misrepresented in 30 percent of 143 tested samples purchased in the Gulf of Mexico, Washington, D.C., New York City and Portland, Oregon. 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