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Victory Creating the Largest Protected Area in the Americas WINTER 2015/2016 OCEANA.ORG VICTORY CREATING THE LARGEST PROTECTED AREA IN THE AMERICAS PLUS: OCEANA IN BRAZIL | Q&A WITH GOOGLE’S BRIAN SULLIVAN | SEAFOOD TRACEABILITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS OCEAN COUNCIL Slane Holland Lightburne 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 James Sandler, Secretary Violaine Bernbach Carolyn Marks Blackwood Arlene and Robert Kogod María Eugenia Girón, Treasurer Keely and Pierce Brosnan Eve Kornyei Ruffatto Keith Addis, President Deborah Buck Willa and Ted Lutz Herbert M. Bedolfe III Amy and Gary Churgin Dede McMahon THE BLUE LIST 6 Ted Danson Barbara and Bertram Cohn Tiffany Moller Sydney Davis Ann Colley Aaron Peirsol César Gaviria Sydney and Andrew Davis Nicole Polizois Loic Gouzer Michael Dershewitz Anne Alexander Rowley Stephen P. McAllister Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby Andrew Sabin Dr. Kristian Parker Lise Evans Jennifer Small and Adam Wolfensohn Dr. Daniel Pauly Christina Falco and Michael Frumkin Kelly T. Smith Susan Rockefeller Joanna and Brian Fisher Danielle Steakley Kelsey Grammer Sutton Stracke Heather Stevens Marjorie R. Harris Susan Trees Diana Thomson Julie Hill Toby Usnik Rogier van Vliet Sam Waterston OCEANA Vice President, Peru Chief Executive Officer Patricia Majluf, Ph.D. EDITORIAL STAFF Andrew Sharpless Editorial Consultant Vice President, Andean and Caribbean Regions Suzannah Evans President Alex Muñoz WHAT’S IN A NAME? 10 James Simon Vice President, Brazil Interim Editor Chief Scientist & Strategy Officer Monica Brick Peres, Ph.D. Q&A WITH GOOGLE’S BRIAN SULLIVAN 5 Laura Lacy Michael Hirshfield, Ph.D. Vice President, Philippines Designer Cover photo: Oceana’s Chilean VP Alex Munoz and National Geographic Senior Vice President & Executive Gloria Estenzo Ramos, J.D. Rosie Ettenheim Explorer Enric Sala in the DeepSee submarine exploring the pristine seas Director, Europe Vice President, U.S. Oceans surrounding the Desventuradas Islands. ©Manu San Felix/National Geographic Lasse Gustavsson Jacqueline Savitz Senior Vice President, Deputy Vice President, U.S. Pacific Strategic Marketing & Communications Susan Murray DEPARTMENTS Matthew Littlejohn Vice President, Development CEO’S NOTE A victory so big you could see it from space Vice President, Belize Nancy Golden 1 Janelle Chanona Chief of Staff 2 MAKING WAVES Protections for marine mammals and Executive Director, Oceana Canada Courtney Sakai sea turtles in California, Shell Oil ends oil exploration in Joshua Laughren Chief Financial Officer the Arctic and more Chris Sharkey 12 PRISTINE AND PROTECTED 4 NEWS & NOTES Oceana Canada and Oceana Peru launch, new database promotes greater transparency and more Oceana is published by Oceana Inc. For questions or comments about Oceana, or to subscribe to Oceana, please call Oceana’s membership FEATURES OCEANA is the largest international advocacy department at +1.202.833.3900, e-mail [email protected] 16 FISH TALE Atlantic sea scallop organization focused solely on ocean conservation. or write Oceana, Member Services, 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, 5 Q&A Brian Sullivan We run science-based campaigns and seek to win 5th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036, USA. ASK DR. PAULY Fish must breathe policy victories that can restore ocean biodiversity 17 and ensure that the oceans are abundant and can feed Oceana’s Privacy Policy: Your right to privacy is important to Oceana, and THE BLUE LIST: A bright future 6 EVENTS A Concert for Our Oceans hundreds of millions of people. Oceana victories have we are committed to maintaining your trust. Personal information (such for Brazil 18 already helped to create policies that could increase as name, address, phone number, e-mail) includes data that you may have fish populations in its countries by as much as 40 provided to us when making a donation or taking action as a Wavemaker on 20 SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT Seth MacFarlane percent and that have protected more than 1 million behalf of the oceans. This personal information is stored in a secure location. 10 WHAT’S IN A NAME? The importance of square miles of ocean. We have campaign offices in For our full privacy policy, please visit Oceana.org/privacypolicy. seafood traceability CHEF’S CORNER Rodolfo Guzmán’s rockfish the countries that control close to 40 percent of the 21 world’s wild fish catch, including in North, South and Please recycle. Central America, Asia and Europe. To learn more, 12 PRISTINE AND PROTECTED: Victory for an PARTING SHOT please visit www.oceana.org. 22 Printed with Eco-Ink — low volatility vegetable oil-based ink on 25% underwater oasis post-consumer recycled, processed chlorine free paper produced us- ing 100% wind power in a carbon neutral process. CEO’S NOTE A victory so big you could see it from space Dear Friend, random direction, fairly well defined but fairly a “fish bank.” It becomes a place that weak in color, contrasted with the dark blue produces so much ocean productivity that Oceana’s mission is to quickly deliver ocean. The fishing ought to be good down there.” fishing fleets can live off the interest. It’s globally significant improvements in ocean good for ocean abundance, and it’s good abundance. We do that by winning policy In October 2015, President Michelle for a hungry planet. changes in countries whose oceans are Bachelet of Chile formally created the among the 30 most productive in the world. Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park. The creation of the Nazca-Desventuradas After just 14 years of campaigning in the Her announcement fully protected an Marine Park is an accomplishment that USA, Europe, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Canada, extraordinarily important area of the you, as a supporter of Oceana, have helped the Philippines and Belize, it’s clear that we world’s oceans—an area so productive and make possible. Together with our allies, we are winning. With your continued support, amazing that lobsters there grow to be are winning the policies that are creating we can save the oceans and feed the world. three feet long. Chile’s accomplishment and protecting an abundant ocean. You are is world-leading: their fully protected essential to these results. Congratulations We could Everyone knows that when the Earth is marine park is the largest in the Americas. and thank you! Let’s keep winning. whaley seen from orbit, it is a blue planet. Our At 300,000 square kilometers, it is the size Earth would be more accurately named of Italy. Sincerely, use your support. Ocean. So one measure of a globally significant win for the oceans would be a So you could see it from space. ASK PAGE positive change visible from outer space. Just a few weeks ago, we got that done. Chile is one of the world’s biggest fishing powers. Its oceans are so productive that Andrew Sharpless When the first astronauts gazed down on they provide more fish every year than CEO the Earth from high orbit, they changed all but the European ocean and six other Oceana how we thought of our planet. Looking countries. So, if you want to make a globally down from orbit, Paul Weitz said: significant contribution to ocean health, you want the Chileans leading. “The Pacific. You don’t comprehend it by looking at a globe. But when you’re traveling at four It is a huge signal to the world that they are miles a second and it still takes you twenty-five now doing so. minutes to cross it, you know it’s big.” PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY TODAY The Nazca-Desventuradas closure was Edward Gibson was struck by first proposed by Oceana and the National something else: Geographic Pristine Seas initiative, and Your contribution will help ensure our we worked closely with the Chilean oceans are vibrant and sustainable. “We were able to see the plankton blooms government to make this protection resulting from the upwelling off the coast of happen. It is good for Chile, good for the Help us save the oceans, feed the world. Chile. The bloom itself extended along the oceans and good for a hungry world. As coastline and had some long tenuous arms our good friend Dr. Enric Sala at National reaching out to sea. The arms or lines of Geographic explains, when you create plankton which were pushed around in a a fully protected ocean zone, you create Call us today at (202) 833-3900, email us at [email protected], visit www.oceana.org/give or use the envelope provided in this magazine to make a donation. Oceana is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization and contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. 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 ©Eduardo Sorensen MAKING WAVES MAKING WAVES SHELL ABANDONS ARCTIC OCEAN DRILLING In an important victory for the future of the Arctic, Shell Oil announced in September that it would no longer search for oil in the Arctic Ocean Net Protections for Marine after coming up with very little to show for its exploration of the Mammals and Sea Turtles Burger prospect in the Chukchi Sea. As it attempted to operate in the off California inhospitable and remote Arctic environment, the company spent more In September, following years of than $7 billion and ran into significant complications, including several campaigning by Oceana, the Pacific Fishery fines and government investigations related to problems with drilling and Management Council approved bycatch rescue equipment that would function in the Arctic as well as, perhaps caps for nine marine mammal and sea turtle most infamously, the disastrous grounding of the drill rig Kulluk, which species caught and killed by the swordfish ultimately had to be scrapped.
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