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BOARD OF DIRECTORS OCEAN COUNCIL Dr. Kristian Parker, Chair Susan Rockefeller, Chair James Sandler, Dr. Andrew Bevacqua 9 10 12 Vice Chair Carolyn Marks Blackwood January Jones One of Chile's marine Oceana studies the swims again Simon Sidamon-Eristoff, Pierce Brosnan biodiversity hotspots Gulf of Mexico after with Oceana for has been saved from a the worst oil disaster Secretary Deborah Buck a new PSA. proposed power plant. in U.S. history. Valarie Whiting, Treasurer Ann Colley Keith Addis, President Dan and Beth Cort Herbert M. Bedolfe III Andrew and Sydney Davis Ted Danson Michael Dershewitz César Gaviria Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby © OCEANA | Tim Calver © OCEANA | Eduardo Sorensen © OCEANA | Cárlos Suarez María Eugenia Girón Christina Falco and Michael Frumkin Stephen P. McAllister Kelsey Grammer Michael Northrop Lea Haratani Daniel Pauly Julie Hill WinTer 2011 | conTents Susan Rockefeller Hardy Jones Features DEPartMENTS Heather Stevens J. Stephen and Angela Kilcullen Sam Waterston Larry Kopald 12 into the gulf 10 Saving Punta de choros 1 ceo’s note 16 events Eve Kornyei Andy Sharpless Oceana's Geneva board Willa and Ted Lutz Chileans speak up and help OCEANA Oceana's international team headed suggests the meeting, the SeaChange Julie Tauber McMahon Chief Executive Officer to the Gulf of Mexico to study the defeat a coal-fired power plant conservation heir to Summer Party, a Buck Aaron Peirsol Andrew Sharpless near beautiful Punta de Choros. Teddy Roosevelt. dinner and Sam Waterston Nicole Polizois marine ecosystem in the wake of Executive Vice President at The Explorers Club. Linus Roache the Deepwater Horizon blowout, the & General Counsel 9 Diving Back in James Simon Lois Robbins worst oil disaster in U.S history. 2 Making Waves Anne Alexander Rowley 18 Donor Profile Senior Vice President, Actress January Jones reprises The latest North American Oceans Ruthie Russ & Chief Scientist Mark Ryavec her role as an ocean advocate while campaign victories Karen Cahill describes Michael Hirshfield, Ph.D. Starr Scott filming with Oceana in Belize. from Oceana's why ocean conservation Oceana is published by Oceana Inc. For questions or comments about international team. has meaning for her family. Vice President, Kelly T. 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Director, Pacific free paper produced using 100% wind power in a carbon Susan Murray Heather Ryan neutral process. © OCEANA | Sabrina BonVillain 2SPRING | WINTER 2010 2011 OCEANA.ORG OCEANA.ORG | 3 ceo'S noTe A Chilean Teddy Roosevelt? “What we need is a Teddy Roosevelt for miles long and an average of only 110 example. It’s time Teddy Roosevelt the oceans.” It’s a sentiment I’ve often miles wide. Its Pacific Ocean territory had some company up there on the heard from blue water colleagues. We is more than twice its land area. conservation pantheon. may now have one. He grew up abroad, took office recently, is a Harvard Equally important, his country is home Thank you, as a supporter of Oceana, graduate and has a name that is hard to one of the world’s most productive for your help while we have campaigned for Americans to pronounce. It is not fisheries. Its economy is booming. Its in Chile for victories that restore Barack Obama. democracy is young. and protect abundant oceans. Our campaigns – together with our allies – President Teddy Roosevelt, an avid (if The place is Chile. The man is President set the stage for President Piñera. We nearsighted) hunter and outdoorsman, Sebastián Piñera. And the moment in could not mount them without your put policy-muscle into the inchoate the history of this country would seem generous support and continued loyalty. yearnings of a young conservation very familiar to the young American movement. His leadership created not president from a century ago. For the oceans, just protected places, but defined a philosophy to sustain nature against In four decisions this year, President industrial-scale exploitation. His Piñera has begun to chart a marine conservation achievements earned policy-making course that merits a Andrew Sharpless him a station in the small pantheon of comparison with President Roosevelt. CEO, Oceana © Tim Calver people who make a fundamental and He created the fourth-largest “no permanent contribution to the planet. take zone” in the world around Sala y Gómez Island. He stopped the But Roosevelt’s conservation agenda construction of a huge power plant ended at the water’s edge. He left 71 near Punta de Choros that would have percent of the planet’s surface available destroyed a marine sanctuary. His to a successor who might aspire to join government has established sensible him in the pantheon by becoming a regulations on the salmon farming Give Today salt-water conservation hero. companies whose overcrowded ocean pens spawned a fish epidemic But the “Teddy Roosevelt for the of viral anemia. And his economic Oceana’s accomplishments wouldn’t be possible oceans” title will not be easily won. minister has, for the first time, cut the quota for the country’s most without the support of its members. You can help During his tenure in the White House, important commercial fishery – jack Roosevelt designated 150 national mackerel – so that it’s in line with Oceana fight to restore our oceans with your forests, five national parks and the first scientific recommendations. Oceana is grateful for the grants, contri- 18 national monuments. Altogether, he financial contribution. butions, and support it has received from provided federal protection for almost Although there is much more to be dozens of foundations and companies and 230 million acres, a land area equivalent achieved, this is not a bad start. thousands of individuals. Oceana wishes to the east coast from Maine to Florida. to thank all of its supporters, especially its I commend President Piñera for his founding funders as well as foundations and individuals that in 2010 awarded Oceana Call us today at 1.877.7.OCEANA, visit www.oceana.org/give or use the envelope provided in this magazine Perhaps no one since has seized extraordinary leadership in ocean grants totaling at least $500,000: Arcadia to make a donation. Please contact us if you are interested in planned giving that could support Oceana’s that opportunity because it was just conservation. He has taken actions Fund, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, work and also provide you with income and potential tax benefits. Oceana is a 501(c)(3) organization and too intimidating. that will benefit the millions of Chileans Oak Foundation, The David and Lucile contributions are tax deductible. who depend on healthy and abundant Packard Foundation, Robertson Foundation, From the south comes a candidate oceans for jobs or food. And we hope Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Sandler Foundation, Zennström Philanthropies, and to meet the Roosevelt standard. He that other presidents – perhaps even Ricardo Cisneros. For more information, governs a country seemingly designed that other Harvard graduate with the please see Oceana’s annual reports at by an oceanic obsessive – it is 2,600 strange name – will be inspired by his www.oceana.org/annualreport. Protecting the World’s Oceans OCEANA.ORG | 1 MAKing WAVeS MAKing WAVeS Illegal driftnets curtailed in the Mediterranean Sea Europe protects thresher and hammerhead sharks This summer, Oceana made great strides In another victory for ocean conservation, In a groundbreaking move proposed by Oceana’s report ,“The Race for in its campaign to eliminate illegal Morocco passed an amendment in the European Commission, the Indian Threatened Sharks,” underscores the driftnets from the Mediterranean Sea.