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Actress Diane Lane joins Oceana to advocate for a ban on the sale of shark fins in the United States.

Mexico’s Murky Waters Seafloor Victories Plastic Planet Oceana brings science and Oceana’s trawling wins have To fight plastic pollution, you have transparency to troubled fisheries protected huge swaths of ocean to go to the source Board of Directors Ocean Council Oceana Staff Valarie Van Cleave, Chair Susan Rockefeller, Founder Chief Executive Officer Ted Danson, Vice Chair Kelly Hallman, Vice Chair Andrew Sharpless Diana Thomson, Treasurer Dede McMahon, Vice Chair President James Sandler, Secretary Anonymous Jim Simon Keith Addis, President Samantha Bass Senior Advisor Gaz Alazraki John and Violaine Bernbach Michael Hirshfield, Ph.D. Monique Bär Rick Burnes Chief Policy Officer, North America Herbert M. Bedolfe, III Marcella Cacci Jacqueline Savitz Sydney Davis Vin Cipolla César Gaviria Barbara Cohn Chief Scientist Katie Matthews Mária Eugenia Girón Ann Colley Loic Gouzer Edward Dolman Executive Director and Vice President, Oceana in Europe Jena King Susanne Elstein Pascale Moehrle, Sara Lowell Kay Fernandez Stephen P. McAllister Marsha Garces Williams Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives Dr. Kristian Parker Brian and Linda Gold Matthew Littlejohn Dr. Daniel Pauly Carolyn Groobey David Rockefeller, Jr. J. Stephen and Angela Kilcullen Vice President, Belize Janelle Chanona Susan Rockefeller Ann Luskey Simon Sidamon-Eristoff Peter Neumeier Executive Director, Oceana Canada Heather Stevens Carl and Janet Nolet Joshua Laughren Dr. Rashid Sumaila Ellie Phipps Price Vice President, Mexico Sam Waterston David Rockefeller, Jr. Pedro Zapata Jean Weiss Andrew Sabin Vice President, Peru Nicholas Davis John and Regina K. Scully Patricia Majluf, Ph.D. Sutton Stracke Vice President, Chile Editorial Staff Vivien Sylvester Liesbeth van der Meer Editors Mia M. Thompson Vice President, Philippines Dr. David Treadway Allison Guy & Emily Petsko Gloria Estenzo Ramos, J.D. Edgar and Sue Wachenheim III Designers David Max Williamson Vice President, Brazil Ademilson Zamboni, Ph.D. Karen Radewald & Alan Po Raoul Witteveen Leslie Zemeckis Vice President, Development Nancy Golden Chief Financial Officer Christopher Sharkey Deputy Vice President, U.S. Pacific Susan Murray FSC Logo

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3/ CEO note Why Samantha Dunn, editor of Orange County Register, is trying to be less plastic

4/ For the win Dusky sharks safeguarded, new marine parks in Canada and the UK and more

6/ News & notes Offshore drilling delayed in the U.S., illegal anchovies in Peru and more

12/ Mexico’s murky waters Oceana research aims to bring science and transparency to Mexico’s troubled fisheries management

18/ Fighting plastic pollution Reycling and cleanups aren’t enough — we have to go after plastic before it’s even made

28/ Oceana victories © Oceana/Melissa Forsyth Highlights from Oceana wins in Combating Plastic Pollution 18 2018 and 2019 29/ Supporter spotlight Diane Lane to be honored at To help navigate Oceana’s work, look for these five Oceana’s New York Gala icons representing our five major campaigns. 30/ Ask Dr. Pauly Curb Protect What aquaculture can and cannot do Pollution Habitat

Stop Increase 32/ Events Overfishing Transparency SeaSong in Mexico City

Reduce Fin win Bycatch 34/ How Oceana’s advocacy helped restore California’s delicious rockfish

36/ Parting shot A mother humpback and her calf in Silver Bank, Dominican Republic Your support makes an ocean of difference

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© Shutterstock/Davdeka Dear Reader: As I sat down to write to you about our campaign to stop ocean plastic pollution, I read a terrific piece on this problem from Samantha Dunn, editor of Coast Magazine and the Orange County Register. With her generous Note permission, I’m reprinting it for you here. Sincerely, Andrew Sharpless, CEO Oceana

I’m trying not to whales. Turns out Captain Ahab their usefulness to us was only only needed a ship’s cargo of temporary. We were told they could be so plastic Hefty bags and cartons of plastic be recycled, and so we dutifully water bottles to defeat the mighty separated them into bins. And yet, Samantha Dunn, July 9, 2019. creature. it turns out less than 10 percent can Reprinted from the Orange County be recycled, and the problem is only Register. What I’m wrestling with is my getting worse. (The OC Register’s unconscious complicity in a global Martin Wisckol recently wrote an Sometime in May news broke of problem that mushrooms minute informative article about this — how a deep-sea explorer named by minute. The statistics are so look it up.) Victor Vescovo had set a record staggering they are impossible to for plumbing the Earth’s deepest wrap your mind around: National All this bleak info would be enough known point, the Pacific Ocean’s Geographic reports that about 18 to drive me under if I didn’t also see Mariana Trench. billion pounds of plastic waste flows the swell of action happening all into the oceans every year. around me, the many local efforts There Vescovo laid eyes on five like the recent 3rd Annual Newport things he never expected to see: What does that even look like? Harbor Underwater Cleanup at four previously unknown species. Balboa Bay Club, where divers and And one plastic bag. Oceana, the largest non- shore-side volunteers removed governmental organization hundreds of pounds of debris A plastic bag that has traveled fighting for ocean conservancy from the bay. But now that we all more than 6 miles down to the and restoration around the world, understand better the magnitude lowest point of the ocean floor. breaks it down for us: That means of the issue, we know cleaning up that every minute of every day a is only part of the battle. Coast is I keep thinking about that bag. dump truck’s worth of plastic goes proud to once again be the media How long ago did it work its way into the ocean. sponsor for Oceana’s annual into the water? I wonder, was SeaChange Party, slated for Sept. it from Ralphs? I ask because I When I read that on the Oceana 7, which will support a worldwide remember using a plastic Ralphs website, all I could picture were effort to reduce our dependence on grocery bag to throw away my local WM trucks in an endless line plastics in everyday life. ex-husband’s socks (long story, up and down Coast Highway, pulling I won’t bore you), back in the up to Newport Harbor, hydraulics I love this quote from Oceana’s mid-’90s when we did things hissing as the trucks spill their loads chief policy officer, Jacqueline like that. I’m talking about into the blue water, one right after Savitz: “When your bathtub is using “disposable” plastic bags the other. overflowing, you don’t run for a without a thought, not marrying mop before you turn off the faucet. inappropriate men. (Although we I know you, like I, didn’t intend Recycling is the mop. We need to did that, too. Or at least I did.) for this to happen. We have just turn off the faucet.” used our Oral-B toothbrushes, our And I’m not even going to talk Ziploc baggies, our Evian bottles about the epidemic of dead and oh so many, many more things, whales, their emaciated bodies without realizing they would washing ashore, filled with plastic. last in the world forever, even if OK, so I just did talk about dead

3 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org For the Win

Dusky sharks have been overfished for nearly 20 years.

Oceana wins lawsuit to protect overfished dusky Canada announces 1,000-square-kilometer marine sharks in the US park off Quebec In March, a struggling shark species got the In March, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) justice it deserves. A judge ruled that the announced the creation of a new marine Trump administration had violated federal law by protected area on Banc-des-Américains, off Quebec failing to use all available scientific evidence to in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The bank is home to end the overfishing of dusky sharks. The ruling, a cold-water coral and sponge forests, important food response to an Oceana lawsuit filed by Earthjustice, species like crab, shrimp and cod, and iconic wildlife will require the federal government to do more to such as the critically endangered North Atlantic end the rampant overfishing of dusky sharks. right whale.

Though the federal government acknowledged that In 2017, Oceana Canada and DFO partnered to dusky sharks were overfished nearly 20 years ago, conduct an expedition in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it failed to end dusky overfishing immediately, as including the Banc-des-Américains. The expedition’s federal law requires. Since then, dusky numbers have maps of Banc-des-Américains’ geographic features plummeted by at least 65 percent in U.S. Atlantic and its detailed analysis of the bank’s habitats and and Gulf waters, with thousands incidentally killed in species will help inform the new protected area’s fisheries for other species. Dusky sharks grow slowly management and monitoring plans. and have low reproductive rates, making them highly vulnerable to overfishing.

4 With new parks, 40 percent of England’s waters are Chile ends ocean dumping of toxic mining waste now protected Tailings, a slurry of rock, chemicals and mud left In late May, the United Kingdom announced behind by mining operations, can poison habitats the creation of 41 new marine conservation and communities with mercury, arsenic and powerful zones. These zones now cover 40 percent of English acids. In Huasco, on the edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert, waters and 30 percent of UK waters. During the the mining and steel company CAP has been illegally government’s consultation process, Oceana provided dumping tailings into the ocean for the last 40 years. relevant data from its 2017 research expedition to the North Sea. The expedition visited five countries, In 2017, Oceana submitted a report to the government including the UK, to gather scientific measurements, detailing the company’s illegal practices, demonstrating photographs and other information that would make that not only had CAP disposed of tailings in the ocean, the case for strengthening the North Sea’s network of it didn’t even have permits to dispose of tailings on land. marine protected areas. In 2018, Chile’s Environment Superintendency brought 20 charges against CAP for violating environmental “This decision takes the UK to the top of the regulations, and in March, the agency ruled that CAP leaderboard in terms of marine protection in Europe,” must stop its illegal dumping within four years — a said Pascale Moehrle, the executive director for decision that will protect the region’s valuable fish. Oceana in Europe. “But all these sites need to be properly managed, with no bottom trawling allowed,” she added.

Snow crabs are a commercially important species in Canada. Some species of snailfish produce natural antifreeze.

Canada’s Gulf of Saint Lawrence is home to vibrant seafloor habitats.

5 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org News + Notes

UN Environment, Oceana and insurers issue first-ever guidelines to combat pirate fishing In late February, the United Nations Environment Programme, Oceana and leading insurers issued guidelines designed to enable insurers to flag pirate fishing activity, as part of a global insurance industry effort to curb illegal fishing. The new protocol, a world first, was developed so the insurance industry can better detect One-third of all seafood tested was mislabeled in Mexico. illegal fishing and deny insurance to vessels and companies caught or suspected of pirate fishing. Illegal fishing exposes insurers to legal, Oceana report finds 31 percent Trump administration delays financial and reputational risks, and of Mexican seafood is mislabeled offshore drilling plan costs the global economy between Seafood mislabeling, which occurs At the end of April, the Trump $10 billion and $23.5 billion when one species is accidentally administration announced a every year. or intentionally substituted for delay in its plan to dramatically another, is a global concern. expand offshore oil drilling to Oceana investigation discovers 62 Around the world, around one- nearly all U.S. waters. David illegal fishmeal facilities in Peru third of all seafood is mislabeled Bernhardt, the Secretary of the © Getty Images — and as a recent Oceana report Department of the Interior, cited The Peruvian anchovy is one of the found, Mexico is no exception. a recent federal court decision to world’s biggest fisheries, with millions protect areas of the Arctic and of tons of fish caught every year. The The report found that 31 Atlantic oceans from drilling as vast majority of these anchovies are percent of almost 400 samples the reason for the delay. caught in industrial fisheries and of fish analyzed in restaurants, sold to factories to be “reduced” into supermarkets and fish markets Oceana and its allies have oil and fishmeal, key ingredients in in Mexico City, Mazatlán and organized a groundswell of feed for farmed fish and livestock. Cancún were mislabeled. In one opposition to expanded offshore Legally, the anchovies that small- of the more egregious examples, drilling across the United States. scale, artisanal fishers catch can only all grouper tested in Cancún were Every governor on the East be sold for human consumption, a actually Asian catfish or other and West Coast has expressed rule designed to provide healthy, cheap species. Oceana’s study, opposition to or concern over affordable protein to impoverished the first of its kind in Mexico, drilling, along with 350 local Peruvians. demonstrates the urgent need for municipalities, thousands of better regulation and supply chain government officials, and tens of Oceana investigators recently transparency. thousands of coastal businesses discovered that around 150,000 and fishing families. metric tons of artisanal fishers’ anchovy catch is illegally diverted “We believe this is a significant to 62 fishmeal factories each year. factor in the decision to delay,” said This hampers scientists’ ability to Oceana campaign director Diane effectively study and manage this Hoskins. She added that ocean important little fish — a key species advocates must remain vigilant as in Peru’s staggeringly productive “the delay could end at any time.” ocean ecosystem, and a huge potential ally in Peru’s fight for food security.

© Oceana/ uan Cuetos Oceana supports calls to protect 30 percent of the ocean by 2030 A recent report recommended that half of the earth must be safeguarded to stave off catastrophic global warming. Currently, only about 8 percent of the ocean and 15 percent of land is protected. At the end of May, Oceana joined leading philanthropist Hansjorg Wyss in encouraging world leaders to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030. Oceana’s campaigns have already protected vast swaths of the ocean, including the 262,000-square- kilometer Juan Fernández park in Chile, and 1,000 square kilometers on Canada’s Banc-des-Américains. The Scorpionfish is a venomous resident of the Juan Ferández archipelago.

Oceana’s advocacy and scientific expertise played a key role in creating Chile’s massive Juan Fernández Archipelago National Park.

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Oceana’s first female board chair Valarie Van Cleave and outgoing chair Simon Sidamon-Eristoff discuss their time on the board, their favorite campaign moments, and why they fight for a thriving, abundant ocean.

Oceana: How did you get O: What are some of the most involved in Oceana? significant ways you’ve seen Oceana change over the years? Simon Sidamon-Eristoff: I was asked to be on the board of VVC: the American Oceans Campaign, For me, it’s the substantial Valarie Van Cleave’s business which was founded by Ted growth both in geographic reach career encompasses work Danson and Bob Sulnick because — we’re doing good work in a in mergers and acquisitions, of a proposal to drill off the lot more countries around the sales and marketing and new Santa Monica coastline. I joined world — and how we’ve grown business development. She that organization back in the as far as the resources we have. has spearheaded successful mid-‘90s. When Oceana merged Our annual operating budget fundraising efforts for political with American Oceans, I was one has increased substantially, campaigns and conservation of three people, including Ted our staff has gotten bigger, advocacy. She co-founded and and Keith Addis, who joined the and we’ve taken on additional co-chairs SeaChange, a record- board with the merger. campaigns in a bigger way. We’re breaking benefit for Oceana maturing as an organization, and that has been held annually Valarie Van Cleave: the collective knowledge that since 2007. She has been on the I got involved with Oceana when everybody is bringing to the Oceana board since 2008 and I was at a point in my life where table shows. became board chair in I wanted to give back. I have a December 2018. fundamental belief that a healthy SSE: planet is every generation’s I would add to that the incredible Simon Sidamon-Eristoff leads rightful inheritance. And I generosity of a core group of the tax-exempt organizations thought: How can I give back funders, many of whom are group at Kalbian Hagerty LLP in with that that in mind? I looked represented on the board. But Washington, DC. He has been on at other nonprofits doing work along with those people on the the Oceana board since 2002, in the environmental space, and board there’s a bunch of funders when the American Oceans it became really clear to me, who stepped up with multi- Campaign merged with Oceana, really quickly that Oceana was a year commitments in the tens and was board chair from good fit for my time, talents and of millions of dollars. To me, it’s 2014 to 2018. He also chairs treasure. For me, I like Oceana’s something I never would have the boards of the Chesapeake practical business model. It’s expected. It’s a reflection of the Bay Foundation and American goal-oriented, it’s science-based, importance of the issue. Friends of Georgia. He has and it’s focused on policy work. served as General Counsel for And the deeper I got into the American Farmland Trust, and organization the more impressed as a staff attorney for the Trust I was. I never looked back. for Public Land and the Rails-to- Trails Conservancy.

8 O: Looking back, are there any O: Simon, any advice to Valarie as O: Any final messages? moments or campaigns that the new chair of the board? stand out? SSE: SSE: I’ve been involved for so long, even SSE: We’re really blessed with a very before Oceana came into existence. I remember we spent a day out in skilled group of senior staff. We’re I feel like when American Oceans Punta de Choros, on the coast of lucky in the sense that Oceana is Campaign and Ted Danson got Chile. We froze as we went out not a difficult organization to be on started on this stuff, it was kind of a there on those little boats, and the the board of. We all get along really lonely battle. Pew Charitable Trusts dolphins were leaping alongside us, well; we all like each other. had done a study that showed and we walked around on the island that only one-half of one percent and talked to fishermen. When we VVC: of all the money that was going to came back we decided to pursue Simon did hand me the reins of the environmental organizations was the proposed campaign, which organization in really good shape. going to the oceans. I think it’s was blocking the construction of I’m really honored to be following amazing — you kind of have to pinch a coal-fired power plant. Pulling in his footsteps. I call it Simon’s yourself at times — to think how far the trigger on that was a pretty four-year reign of Pax Oceana. The the effort to heal the world’s oceans significant moment for me. It was board is an extraordinary group of has come in a relatively short period risky — we didn’t know whether we colleagues — they’re fully engaged, of time. And I think a lot of that has would pull it off. And ultimately we they’re informed and they’re to do with Oceana’s leadership. did, and the Chilean office deserves enthusiastic. all the credit for that. VVC: O: Valarie, as chair, what are your It’s richly rewarding and it is a VVC: plans for the years ahead? privilege to be a part of this effort. For me it would be the seafood For me, Oceana personally offers fraud campaign. I’m really excited VVC: me something vital and tangible, that we’re taking what we’ve Realistically, I’d like to stably and that’s hope. I feel like I’m learned in the United States and keep growing. It’s my goal to keep creating, no pun intended, waves of looking at ways it can bring back reaching as far as we can with what positive change that will hopefully abundance in other countries’ we can do with our resources, to keep reverberating long after I’m waters as well. The seafood fraud expand our resource base, and gone. And how many times in your campaign led us to an overarching really try to expand our footprint. life do you get a chance to do that? philosophy and approach to I’m glad that we figured out our ocean conservation, and that’s niche in helping to solve the plague the concept of transparency. The of ocean plastic pollution. I’m citizens of all these countries looking forward to seeing how that we’re working in, all around the plays out. world, have a right to a more transparent government.

9 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Oceana’s seafloor habitat protections

Oceana has protected vast swathes of ocean habitat from bottom trawling, a highly destructive fishing practice that drags weighted nets along the seafloor, scooping up fish and ripping up corals, sponges and other habitat-forming features. Taken together, Oceana’s protections have safeguarded an enormous chunk of the sea.

An area about An area about A combined 13,000 the size of the 36,182 the size of the 226,000 area bigger than square kilometers Bahamas square kilometers Netherlands square kilometers Minnesota

Brazil Belize Philippines

Area: Area: Area: The waters of Rio Grande All of Belize’s territorial All municipal waters do Sul, a state in the south waters of Brazil

Year protected: 2018 Year protected: 2010 Year protected: 2018

10 Total protections:

4.6 million kilometers About the size of Argentina and Mexico combined

A combined A combined 712,247 area bigger 3,575,561 area bigger square kilometers than Texas square kilometers than India

Pacific U.S. Chile

Area: Area: More than 90 percent of 98 percent of Chilean state and federal waters waters (*Pending final approval)

Year protected: 2018 Year protected: 2017

11 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Mexico’s Murky Waters

Why Oceana is working to bring Mexico’s opaque, disorganized fisheries management into the light of day

The turquoise waters off Flimsy conclusions collecting fisheries data in 2000, Cancún are crystal clear, but like Most of Mexico’s fisheries are in and has published piecemeal everywhere else in Mexico’s seas bad shape. Seventeen percent data just a few times since they’re hiding a troubling secret: are overfished or depleted, and then, said Esteban García-Peña, Scientists have almost no idea a further 63 percent cannot Oceana’s campaign director for how populations of iconic fish like withstand any additional fishing rebuilding fisheries. In the case of grouper and bluefin tuna are pressure, Oceana’s audit found. economically important octopus really doing. But because these findings were fisheries, for example, no data has pulled from existing government been published for nearly two This worrisome finding came from statistics, it’s possible that the real decades. the first independent audit of state of the country’s fisheries Mexico’s fisheries, which Oceana’s could be even worse, Pedro And, to make matters worse, the Mexico team released in June 2019. Zapata, Vice President of Oceana data that is collected and published The report highlights the severe Mexico, noted. Of the 83 fisheries is often ignored, García-Peña noted. lack of reliable, publicly available with published government data, The government has known since data about the health of Mexico’s only 4 percent have verifiable 2000 that certain grouper and seafood stocks. This lack of data science to back up official snapper species are overfished, makes it next to impossible to conclusions on key metrics like but it has taken no steps to rebuild responsibly manage the country’s fish abundance and annual catch. these valuable fisheries. fisheries — jeopardizing food security for coastal communities Mexico has been a top fishing and risking the livelihoods of the country for decades, but the 1 million people who work in the government only started seafood sector.

12 One million Mexicans work in the seafood sector. Mexico’s Murky Waters

Hundreds of ways to be illegal authorities are not obeying Mexican fisheries laws,” García- 17% of Mexico’s Mexico also struggles with sky-high Peña added. rates of illegal, unreported and fisheries are undocumented fishing. According To tackle this out-of-control to Sea Around Us, a University of overfished or situation, Oceana is now pushing British Columbia research initiative the Mexican government to helmed by Oceana board member depleted publish all fisheries data, not Dr. Daniel Pauly, every pound of just its publicly available (but officially reported fish is shadowed unreliable) conclusions. Oceana by a second, illegally caught pound will also work with federal — meaning Mexico’s true fish catch 63% of Mexico’s officials to create legislation is double what is officially recorded. similar to the highly successful fisheries cannot Magnuson-Stevens Act in Mexico’s fisheries laws are the United States, which has convoluted and hard to follow, withstand helped recover dozens of once- even for law-abiding fishermen, overfished species. These new creating “hundreds of ways to be any additional regulations would mandate illegal,” Zapata said. At the same that Mexican fisheries agencies fishing pressure time, certain fisheries officials rebuild overfished stocks within and agencies have issued fishing a set time period. permits and boat licenses many times in excess of what fish stocks can withstand. “Mexican fisheries

13 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Mexico’s murky waters

Cats for rabbits The lack of transparency in Mexico’s seafood sector extends beyond data. Mexican diners can’t trust that the fish on their plate is the same fish they ordered. In the Oceana report Gato por Liebre — or “cat for hare,” referring to an ancient swindle that passed cat meat off as rabbit — researchers discovered that 32 percent of 400 seafood samples tested in Mexico City, Mazatlán and Cancún weren’t the species advertised.

In Mazatlán, Mexico’s largest fishing port, marlin is an iconic local dish, but genetic testing revealed that nearly all “marlin” Mexico has no laws that require the government samples were actually yellowfin to rebuild collapsed fisheries. tuna. This isn’t necessarily a malicious substitution, Zapata explained, as tuna isn’t cheaper than marlin. It is, however, far more common, as tuna benefits from effective fisheries and correctly concerned about Mexican tilapia is a higher-quality management. The sale of “marlin” being defrauded. People were not fish than its Asian counterpart, across Mazatlán masks the amused when they were being given which is often pumped with water overfishing that has walloped shark and they didn’t ask for shark.” to make it artificially heaver. marlin populations, leading to a false sense of abundance. Surprisingly, seafood mislabeling isn’t currently illegal in Mexico, We are flying On the other side of the country, so Oceana plans to pressure the “ blind when in Cancún, however, the team did government to reform fish labeling it comes to uncover clear proof of purposeful, rules, and help create systems malicious substitution. There, that ensure boat-to-plate seafood fisheries gulf grouper is just as famous as traceability. management. Mazatlán marlin — and just as ” fraudulent. Oceana researchers The team has some pretty big allies Pedro Zapata, didn’t find a single scrap of on their side: Both commercial and Vice President, grouper DNA in any of the artisanal fishermen are eager for samples they tested. All had been traceability, Zapata said, since they Oceana Mexico substituted with significantly lose money when their high-value cheaper species, mostly farm- snapper or grouper has to compete raised Asian catfish. with cheap imported tilapia. As the first report of its kind in Restaurants want traceability too, Mexico, Gato por Liebre’s release as they’re often unwitting victims “caused a big stir,” Zapata said. of shady suppliers. Even Mexico’s “People are very unsurprisingly tilapia farmers want traceability, as

14 In Mexico, publicly available government data about fisheries health is patchy and unreliable. Buyer beware: In Cancun, that grouper is probably Asian catfish.

Coming crises Oceana faces a big battle as People are very This lack of preparation is it pushes for traceability and typified along the Caribbean science-based management in “ unsurprisingly and coast, in places like Tulum and Mexico’s fisheries. “We have a Cancún, where a sudden plague of fisheries sector that has been correctly concerned sargassum seaweed is befouling the victim of neglect of a lot about being beaches and driving tourists away. of governments and a lot of Though sargassum is a natural administrations for a long time,” defrauded. People part of the ecosystem, it’s now Zapata said. were not amused exploding in never-before-seen abundance. Wind and waves push Despite the crucial role healthy when they were being floating mats of algae to the coast, oceans play in Mexico’s seafood, where it piles in smelly, meters- tourism and real estate sectors, given shark and they thick mounds and stains the water the country is ill-prepared for the didn’t ask for shark. an unsightly brown. challenges of a swiftly changing climate, Zapata noted. The ” No one knows exactly what’s disorganization — and at times, behind the bloom, but as corruption — of the country’s sargassum is a warmth-loving fisheries agencies means that species, scientists suspect global rules and enforcement aren’t warming is at least in part to equipped to deal with upcoming blame. So far, Zapata said, efforts crises like mass fish migration have focused too much on clean- and rapidly shifting habitats. up and disposal, and not enough on figuring out why the problem has gotten so bad and how the sargassum can be stopped at its source.

SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Mexico’s murky waters

Coming crises continued Oceana, however, is equipped to take on Mexico’s current and coming problems. It’s one of the few nonprofit organizations dedicated to public policy in Mexico, and the only one dedicated to ocean policy, Zapata said. Years of experience with marine policy, science, advocacy and litigation in other countries — and on the same issues that Oceana is tackling in Mexico — mean that the team has plenty of expertise and case studies to draw on. One day, the country’s fisheries could be as transparent as the waters off Cancún.

Sargassum seaweed is plaguing Mexico’s east coast.

16 Bigeye trevally, known for forming impressive schools, are often important in artisanal fisheries.

17 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Plastic conquered the planet. Now the planet is fighting back.

Plastic devastates marine life and swamps recycling efforts. Oceana and a global network of anti-plastic advocates are now fighting to stop plastic at the source.

18 Plastic conquered the planet. Now the planet is fighting back.

Global19 industries have churned out over 8.3 billionSUMMER tons of plastic 2019 | Oceana.orgsince 1950. Bangka Island, off northern Sulawesi in Indonesia, would be Over 8.3 billion paradise, if not for the plastic. Single-use bags and disposable diapers tangle in thousand- metric tons of year-old corals. High tide leaves behind a line of plastic bottles, cups and straws on the white, plastic have flour-soft beaches. The sand is a confetti of plastic flakes and flooded the crumbled polystyrene.

Bangka Island is one of the planet since countless casualties of our love affair with plastic. Since 1950, over 8.3 billion metric the 1950s. tons of plastic have flooded the planet. Since the material takes centuries to decompose, every toothbrush and coffee stirrer is still with us, in one form or another.

The food, beverage and packaging companies behind this plastic tsunami have, for decades, propped up recycling as a “get out of jail free” card, letting the world make and buy as much plastic as it wants. But the global torrent of dirt-cheap plastic has far exceeded our capacity to recycle, inundating waste-management systems that can’t handle the volume.

The problem is only going to get worse, warned Jackie Savitz, Oceana’s Chief Policy Officer. Global plastic production is projected to triple by 2050. “The way the ocean looks now will seem good to us in the future,” Savitz said.

20 Because plastic takes centuries to degrade, all of the plastic ever produced is still with us, in one form or another.

21 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Sea turtles often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, one of their main food sources.

Plastic pollution poses a serious threat to seabirds.

Plasitic bags can block an animal’s stomach and starve it.

A treacherous tide By now, it’s no secret that plastic As plastic degrades, it shreds into Microplastics leach chemicals pollution is catastrophic for ever-smaller flecks and fibers linked to cancer, heart disease, nature. The oceans are hardest- that range in size from a grain of obesity, and reproductive and hit, with one dump truck’s worth rice to one-billionth of a meter. neurological disorders. Plastic of plastic entering the sea every These “microplastics” essentially also acts like a magnet for other minute — 8 million metric tons never disappear, and have been dangerous compounds in the a year. found everywhere researchers environment like PCBs and have looked: not only in marine cadmium. Many researchers The most visible casualties are the creatures like fish and mussels, suspect that chemicals found in whales, sea turtles and seabirds but also in salt, honey, beer, dust, and on plastics are behind men’s that wind up starved, suffocated, soil, bottled water, tap water and declining sperm counts and the drowned or lacerated by plastic rainwater. dismal reproductive success of junk. But the most worrisome certain killer whale populations. dangers of plastic might be the Scientists don’t yet have a full ones we can’t see. picture of what microplastics do to our bodies, but the early results aren’t good. Microplastics can pass from a fish’s food into its organs, where it can cross the blood-brain barrier and trigger strange behaviors.

22 Microplastics are a poorly understood threat to human and animal health.

Forgotten, but not gone Only 9% of On Bangka Island, volunteers residents of wealthy nations where with a local nonprofit are able to recycling programs are ubiquitous. clean just a fraction of the plastic But these programs hide a grim that winds up on the island — reality: Most plastic is shipped to plastic has countries with lax regulation and which itself is just a sliver of the 1.3 million tons of plastic that dirt-cheap labor — the only places pour into Indonesia’s waters where plastic recycling can turn a ever been every year. The volunteers spend profit, even if razor-thin. several hours each day scouring the beach to collect, wash and Until recently, almost everything recycled. sort plastic and other trash, which chucked in recycling bins in North is periodically shipped off to America, Europe and Australia made be recycled. Because recycling its way to China. We sent not only facilities are so rare in Indonesia, more-valuable plastics like water Bangka’s reclaimed plastic has to bottles and detergent jugs, but also be shipped over 1,000 miles to the millions of tons of unrecyclable filth, city of Surabaya to be recycled. from gunk-encrusted yogurt cups to dirty diapers. China, however, Overall, only 9 percent of plastic is struggling with its own trash has ever been recycled. The rest catastrophe. Last year it enacted winds up dumped in landfills, a near-total ban on contaminated burned, or washed into the ocean. “foreign garbage.” Malaysia was the This might come as a surprise to next destination, until it too was overwhelmed.

23 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Forgotten, but not gone (continued) Our “recycling” is now often just Oceana — along with other burned or landfilled at home. If it advocacy groups, scientists and does get sent abroad, it usually governments — is now taking winds up in last-resort spots like aim at plastic before it’s even Surabaya, where recyclers sort out manufactured. The main target the highest-value plastic and then is packaging, which makes up 40 dump the remainder for informal percent of all plastic produced trash-pickers. Anything that can’t be worldwide. Bans and taxes on recycled is piled in illegal landfills, local, state and national levels burned (releasing dioxins and other have shown that action against highly poisonous compounds), or throwaway junk can have swift, simply tossed in fields, forests or pronounced results. roadsides. When the rainy season comes, it’s washed into rivers and In Kenya, for example, a strict out to sea — hardly the result most plastic bag ban has led to visibly envision when they toss a bottle in cleaner landscapes. In the United the recycling bin. States, bag bans have also dramatically reduced bag litter in cities and states across the country.

Pollution solution But piecemeal bans on bags and “There’s really no way we as straws can only go so far. That’s individuals can avoid plastics in why countries are unveiling our lives,” Savitz said. It wraps just comprehensive legislation to take about every consumer product on disposable plastics. In 2018, the out there. While plastic-free EU announced a phase-out of a lifestyles have become trendy range of single-use plastics by 2021, in some circles, going zero- with Canada following suit with plastic requires time, money and similar proposed legislation in June. consumer acrobatics. “Companies have made avoiding plastic Oceana was behind Peru’s unattainable for most people,” announcement last December of Savitz added. a new law regulating throwaway plastics, which bans single-use As public sentiment turns against plastics from sensitive areas like plastic, the companies responsible beaches and national parks, taxes for the most common plastic bags, and limits the manufacture pollutants — single-use bottles, and use of a broad swath of containers, straws, wrappers, bags disposable plastics. Oceana worked and so on — are scrambling to with allies in Congress to present stave off a PR nightmare. “A lot of one of the more than 20 plastics these companies see the writing bills, and provided technical on the wall,” said Savitz. “They support during the legislative know they’re in trouble.” But process to reach consensus and with the volume of plastic ever approve the law in record time. increasing, there’s no way these types of proposals could work, Savitz added. “They’re basically empty promises being made for public relations reasons.”

24 Peru isn’t the only country where Biodegradable utensils and packaging are Oceana is battling the single-use one alternative to plastic, though they are Packaging not without their drawbacks. scourge. In Chile, five senators announced a plan to limit and regulate the production of makes up disposable plastics in May. The plan was based on a detailed analysis by Oceana and its 40% of all partner Plastic Free Chile. And in the United States, Oceana will begin pushing companies and plastic institutions to offer plastic-free choices, whether in hotel rooms, supermarket aisles or school cafeterias. This would take the produced onus off consumers and put it on the manufacturers and retailers responsible for churning out worldwide. throwaway plastics.

At the same time, Oceana launched a massive communications effort to build support for the law. The organization even partnered with top chefs for the “I don’t want this in my ceviche” campaign, highlighting the dangers of microplastics in Peru’s beloved national dish.

Carmen Heck, Oceana’s plastics campaign manager in Peru, said the new law is “a very important step that is already generating changes,” but cautioned that “there is still a long way to go to ensure Peru’s oceans are free of plastics.”

25 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org A $200 billion bet As anti-plastic sentiment picks up steam, it’s tempting to think that we’re making less of the stuff. We’re not. Globally, plastic production is increasing each year. And the battle is set to get worse.

The supply of cheap natural gas from shale deposits in the United States is surging at the same time as the usually insatiable demand for fossil fuels is slowing. The oil and gas industry, saddled with a glut of natural gas, and perhaps nervous that the world might take decisive climate action, is betting its future on plastic.

“Their only growth opportunity is to foist more plastics on us,” Savitz said.

Since 2010, oil and gas companies have poured $186 billion dollars into new “cracking” facilities that produce plastic resins and other petrochemicals. Experts warn that these investments may be locking in colossal increases in plastic manufacturing at the very time we need to be rolling it back.

If this comes to pass, it would spell disaster for the ocean and the climate. Creating one ton of plastic emits nearly two tons of greenhouse gases. Plastic currently accounts for 3.8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, double that of aviation. By mid-century, the emissions from plastics production are projected to reach nearly one-sixth of total emissions, sinking any shot we have at preserving a livable climate.

“We need to take action quickly and decisively,” Savitz said. “Policy and advocacy are our best chance to stop a permanent crisis for the ocean and climate.”

In the meantime, on Bangka Island, each high tide brings a fresh harvest of crumpled containers and barnacle- encrusted bottles. And each day volunteers leave the palm-fringed strip of beach clean, if only for a few hours.

26 Only once global plastic production is significantly scaled back can recycling and cleanup efforts have a lasting impact.

27 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org 2018-2019 Victories

2019 | June 2018 | December • Canada passes new Fisheries Act: A historic win • The Philippines protects 276,000 square kilometers of for Canada’s oceans ocean from bottom trawling • Canada bans shark fin trade, first of G20 • Peru passes law to ban plastic bags and reduce use of countries plastics in protected areas May October • Chile publishes vessel tracking data for fishing • California stops use of destructive fishing gear that kills fleet, promoting transparency at sea dolphins, turtles and sharks April September • New York prohibits offshore drilling • Brazil stops destructive bottom trawling in 13,000 square • Canadian government bans industrial activity in kilometers of ocean that is home to endangered species Marine Protected Areas June March • Malta expands habitat protections in the Mediterranean, • Oceana wins lawsuit to protect vulnerable protects 35 percent of its waters dusky sharks • Canada creates Banc-des-Américains Marine May Protected Area • Brazil introduces first-ever management rules for tainha, begins science-based management of fisheries February • Philippines creates Philippine Rise protected area and • Spain creates the second-largest marine national protects 300,000 hectares as a no-take zone to safeguard park in the Mediterranean unique habitat, corals and more January • Chile passes one of world’s strongest laws against illegal fishing

28 © Oceana/Carlos Minguell Supporter Spotlight

Diane Lane: “We all need the ocean to live”

New York City is where Oscar-nominated actress and longtime Oceana supporter Diane Lane grew up and first discovered her love of the water. Nearby Jones Beach, Lane said, was a beloved urban refuge.

“Jumping in those waves is my happiest childhood memory,” she said. “I joined Oceana because I was inspired to fight back against apathy and feeling overwhelmed. I am energized and hopeful, despite the odds, because we have awakened from our sleep and denial about our planet’s predicament.”

In recognition of Lane’s dedication to preserving the world’s oceans, she will be honored at Oceana’s New York Gala on September 10. The theme of this year’s event is “the crisis of ocean plastic” – an issue Lane is all too familiar with, having spoken out about it long before the media buzz surrounding plastic straws and shopping bag bans.

In 2011, Lane addressed the crowd at Oceana’s annual “Sea Change” event in Santa Monica. Back then she told the crowd, “If we fail to save the oceans from ourselves, © Mark Seliger it would be a defeat on a scale that makes one shudder to envision. It touches us all eventually, from our health to our economy to our soul. What are we going to tell our seismic airgun blasting at a meeting arranged by Oceana children? That we gave up? We left it to the profiteers to with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Acting fix? That we found the problems too complex or rife with Director, Chief of the Office of Public Affairs and numerous international brinkmanship? other leaders.

“Oceana uses the cumulative wisdom of science and whistle For Lane, taking care of our oceans is not just a matter of blowers to track the politics and policies that got us to this conservation. It’s also about self-preservation. point. Oceana is where I turn for leadership in the changes “We are the hope of the sea and her inhabitants… that must be made to save our oceans. But it is up to us to be pro-active, ambitious, far-reaching, demanding the We are their voice. Guardian. Advocate. Ally. Soldier. changes in policies, lobbying for tougher laws, innovatively Parent. Politician. Lobbyist. Nurse. We go out of our way, improving equipment and enforcing these changes with for our own future, the future generations, and we go that some teeth.” extra mile for our mother, the ocean. Without her fertility we lose our collective soul. Indeed, Lane’s activism and lobbying efforts have made her a valuable voice to have on our side. She has used her What wouldn’t we do for our own mother?” platform to educate others about the many issues plaguing our ocean. Indeed.

In the summer of 2018, she joined Oceana in Washington, Diane Lane made her film debut opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in “A Little DC to urge members of Congress to push for the passage Romance.” She has received “Best Actress” honors by the New York Film of the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act, which would make Critics and National Society of Film Critics, and Academy Award, SAG and it illegal to possess, buy or sell shark fins. Galvanized by Golden Globe nominations for her starring role in “Unfaithful”; a Golden a grassroots campaign led by Oceana, Canada passed a Globe nomination for “Under the Tuscan Sun”; Emmy, Golden Globe and similar ban this July. The U.S. legislation is still advancing SAG Award nominations for her leading role in HBO’s “Cinema Verite”; an through Congress. Independent Spirit Award nomination for “A Walk on the Moon”; and an Emmy nomination for “Lonesome Dove.” She recently received glowing reviews for her co-starring role in the final season of Netflix’s “House of During that same visit to DC, Lane also addressed her Cards” and has just wrapped production on the upcoming film “Let Him Go” opposition to the practices of both offshore drilling and with co-star Kevin Costner.

29 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org What aquaculture can Dr. Pauly and cannot do

Following my frequent public actually consists of two subsectors diet they are given. They get these lectures on the parlous states of that are as distinct from each other animal proteins in the form of fisheries in the world, I invariably as growing vegetables and raising fishmeal and fish oils, which are get the question, “Is aquaculture cattle. I call these two sectors made by grinding up millions of not the answer to all these “Aquaculture A” and “Aquaculture tons of sardine, anchovies, herring, problems?” This sounds reasonable: B,” with the former being the mackerel and other fish that are not If fish populations dwindle in the farming of mussel, oyster, clam only perfectly edible, but favored in wild, why not grow fish in coastal and other animals that feed on Europe as well as African and Asian areas, or on land, or in ponds or microscopic algae (i.e. the grass of countries, where they often are the tanks? After all, this is what we do the sea), and the latter being the only “meat” many people can afford. with plants and agriculture. raising of carnivorous fish, such as salmon, seabass and groupers. Thus, when we speak of “us” American journalist H.L. Mencken needing to increase aquaculture is supposed to have said: “For every While the former do not need to be production so “we” have enough complex problem there is an answer fed animal protein any more than fish in the future, the question is that is clear, simple and wrong.” carp, tilapia and other freshwater who is “us” and “we.” If “we” pertains This is a good example of that. herbivores, marine carnivores to the U.S., Canada and Europe, Aquaculture (including mariculture) must have animal proteins in the then yes, “we” can increase our

30 supply of salmon for our sushi and of species that has so far remained other delicacies. If “we” are people underexploited in the ocean, which throughout the world, then no, the is the reason why yellowfin and more carnivorous fish we raise, the other tunas are still able to find less fish there will be both in the some food. However, mesopelagics water and in the diets of poorer will probably be turned into people. fishmeal, as well.

That aquaculture B consumes The reason for this fishmeal rather than produces fish is not “hunger” is that soybean meal, intuitive. It’s similar to the fact that long touted as a replacement for air conditioners actually warm the fishmeal, cannot fully substitute Dr. Daniel Pauly is the founder and world (when accounting for not for it; fish fed soymeal get sick director of the Sea Around Us project only the space they cool, but for without fishmeal and/or fish oil, at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, the space that gets the waste heat), and they also taste like tofu. Thus, and is a member of the Oceana board. or that our discarded plastic bags while fish feed may contain more do not actually vanish into thin air soymeal than before, the increased when we “recycle” them.

Thus, fisheries will not be replaced production of Aquaculture B still Figure 1. Trends in fisheries catches and by aquaculture (at least not raises demand for fishmeal. aquaculture production, 1950-2014. The black lines are based on marine and freshwater by Aquaculture B, the one we In the meantime, let’s be wary fisheries catch and aquaculture production data love in “our” countries). Rather, of people who tell us that from the Food and Agriculture Organization Aquaculture B, in search of more aquaculture will solve our fisheries of the United Nations (FAO), as reported by its and more feedstock, is currently problems. They tend to forget that member countries, and includes edible algae (mainly from China). The trend in dark blue exploiting Antarctic krill — the food aquaculture uses an increasing is based on freshwater catch data from FAO, of penguins and marine mammals — fraction of the limited fishmeal plus marine catch data “reconstructed” by the and will soon target tiny lanternfish obtained from fisheries and will Sea Around Us, (see www.seaaroundus.org) and other mesopelagic fishes found destroy, in order to grow, the food minus discarded fish (also not included in the FAO data) and the fish used for fishmeal and in shallow waters at night (when base of our remaining wild fish — for aquaculture (to avoid double counting), tuna feed on them), and at depths most notably by extracting krill and i.e. 70 percent in the 2010s, declining to 50 of up to 3,000 feet during the day. mesopelagic fishes. percent in the 1980s. The light blue trend These fish may be the last group shows aquaculture production data from FAO, excluding edible algae.

31 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Events

Sea Song

Benny Ibarra and Ximena Sariñana performing

David Rockefeller Jr.

Rafael Dominguez, Maria José Pérez Simón, and Jose Antonio Pérez Simón

On April 9, over 231 guests attended Sea Song, breathtaking performances by Ximena Sariñana, Benny Oceana’s first major fundraiser in Mexico City to Ibarra and the Puebla’s Symphony Orchestra. celebrate the first anniversary of Oceana’s Mexican office. The event took place at the Auditorio Nacional, Sea Song was made possible by the generous support of where the audience sat on the stage and the performers various distinguished local and international businesses appeared in the surrounding seating area, making for an and philanthropists. Special thanks to GNP Seguros, unusual and magical evening. Guests were welcomed Contramar, Buchanan’s’18, Alazraki Entertainment, by board member Gaz Alazraki and musician and Canon, Ambienta, Seitrack, Complejo Cultural actor Miguel Bosé. Comedian Sofia Niño de Rivera Universitario, OSBUAD, Once-Once, Yamaha, Flower emceed the evening introducing compelling speeches Corner, Mobility ADO, Canon/Print Spot, BUAP, Monte by Ted Danson, David Rockefeller, Andy Sharpless, and Xanic and the Auditorio Nacional. Pedro Zapata. The evening was capped with intimate,

32 Events

Maria José Pérez Simón and Family

Gaz Alazraki and Miguel Bosé

Elías Sacal, Susan Rockefeller, and David Rockefeller Jr.

Pedro Zapata, Vice President of Oceana in Mexico

María Asunción Aramburuzabala Gaz and Vivian Alazraki and her family

33 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Fin Win Rockfish

Makes 4 servings

1 to 1 ½ pounds rockfish fillets (about 4), skin on or off

½ cup sesame seeds

Chili pepper, yellowtail and canary rockfish 1 teaspoon sesame oil have names as colorful as their scales. These fish are part of a group of dozens of ¼ cup high-quality soy sauce rockfish species that dwell along the cold, rocky seafloor off California’s coastline. 1 tablespoon peeled and finely Many rockfish populations are doing so well minced or grated fresh ginger that fisheries managers recently doubled or even tripled the amount that fishermen can ½ cup minced scallion, both green catch. and white parts

But California’s rockfish weren’t always 1 teaspoon minced garlic booming. In the early 2000s, after decades of fisheries mismanagement, fishing had 1 tablespoon dry sherry stripped California’s rocky reefs of much of their rockfish. Some species, like bocaccio, 1 tablespoon honey or sugar had plummeted so much that they were candidates for the endangered species list. From Mark Bittman’s Fish: In the late 1990s Oceana, in an earlier The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking incarnation called the American Oceans Campaign, won a lawsuit against the government for failing to enforce key rules protecting rockfish. Oceana then partnered with officials, fishing interests and other Instructions environmental organizations to rebuild Toast the sesame seeds over medium heat in rockfish populations. The organization took a dry skillet, shaking occasionally, until they the lead on habitat protections, pushing brown and become fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. for key rockfish areas to be protected Cool, then put them in a plastic bag and crush from bottom trawls, a type of fishing gear them with a rolling pin. Place in a large bowl notorious for destroying the delicate corals, with all the marinade ingredients (reserve sponges and other underwater features half the scallions) and the fish. Marinate for that make for rich rockfish habitat. as little as 5 minutes and as long as 1 hour.

Now, thanks to Oceana advocacy, 275,000 Preheat the broiler, then place the fish on a square miles of seafloor habitats in rack on a baking sheet. Pour the remaining California, Oregon and Washington have marinade over the fish and broil until lightly been protected from bottom trawling. Many browned on top, 5 to 8 minutes. The fillets of California’s once-decimated rockfish will be white and firm, and a thin-bladed knife have since bounced back, bringing in an will pass through them with little resistance. estimated 900 new jobs and $60 million in Garnish with the reserved scallions and serve additional income. For fans of California’s immediately, with white rice. colorful bottom-dwellers — and their delicious fillets — that’s tasty news indeed.

35 SUMMER 2019 | Oceana.org Mexican photographer Pablo Zapata Aramburuzabala captured this humpback whale swimming with her calf on Silver Bank, 90 kilometers north of the Dominican Republic. During the breeding and calving season, Silver Bank hosts around 7,000 whales, making it one of the planet’s largest gatherings of humpbacks.

Many humpback populations have bounced back from near-extinction after an international whaling moratorium was instituted in 1985. There are now an estimated 10,800 whales in the West Indies alone — an astounding recovery that proves science-led conservation works.

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