Magazine SUMMER 2020 OCEANA.ORG Oceana Senior Advisor Alexandra Cousteau and Bloomberg Philanthropies CEO Patti Harris are pictured at the Our Ocean 2019 conference in Oslo, Norway. For more, read the CEO Note on page 3. © Ilja C. Hendel Transparency Crusader (Sea) Food Security COVID-19 and Fisheries Renata Terrazas, Oceana’s VP in The ocean can feed a billion people, Dr. Daniel Pauly explains how fish Mexico, on publicizing vital data but who needs fish most? stocks could recover post-pandemic Board of Directors Ocean Council Oceana Staff Valarie Van Cleave, Chair Susan Rockefeller, Founder Andrew Sharpless Ted Danson, Vice Chair Kelly Hallman, Vice Chair Chief Executive Officer Diana Thomson, Treasurer Dede McMahon, Vice Chair Jim Simon James Sandler, Secretary Anonymous President Keith Addis, President Samantha Bass Gaz Alazraki Violaine and John Bernbach Jacqueline Savitz Chief Policy Officer, North America Monique Bär Rick Burnes Herbert M. Bedolfe, III Vin Cipolla Katie Matthews, Ph.D. Nicholas Davis Barbara Cohn Chief Scientist Sydney Davis Ann Colley César Gaviria Edward Dolman Matthew Littlejohn Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives Mária Eugenia Girón Kay and Frank Fernandez Loic Gouzer Carolyn and Chris Groobey Janelle Chanona Jena King J. Stephen and Angela Kilcullen Vice President, Belize Ben Koerner Ann Luskey Ademilson Zamboni, Ph.D. Sara Lowell Mia M. Thompson Vice President, Brazil Stephen P. 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Features Contents 3/ CEO Note Connecting the dots between environmental and public health is more pressing than ever 4/ For the Win Protections for sea turtles and whales, statewide plastic restrictions, and more 6/ News & Notes Seafood fraud uncovered in Mexico City, a fishing license revoked in the Philippines, and more © Oceana/Jenn Hueting 8/ Q&A Oceana and artisanal fishers 10 Meet Renata Terrazas, Oceana’s new vice president in Mexico 10/ Small Scale, Large Impact Oceana works with artisanal and small-scale fishers to win victories 18/ Save the Oceans, Feed the World 2.0 Why it’s important to increase abundance in the countries most dependent on wild seafood 26/ Oceana’s Victories Looking back at our big wins over the last year © Shutterstock/Christian Vinces 27/ Supporter Spotlight Save the Oceans, Feed the World 2.0 18 Oceana Science Advisor Dr. Boris Worm on restoring the world’s oceans by 2050 28/ Ask Dr. Pauly To help navigate Oceana’s work, look for these five How is COVID-19 affecting fisheries? icons representing our five major campaigns. 30/ Chef’s Corner Curb Protect Mark Bittman’s recipe for a kelp-infused udon Pollution Habitat noodle and miso soup Stop Increase 32/ Parting Shot Overfishing Transparency Looking back at a market in Barcelona, pre-pandemic Reduce Bycatch 1 Your support makes an ocean of difference Please Give Generously Today A healthy, fully restored ocean could sustainably feed more than 1 billion people each day. 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. © Shutterstock/SamanWeeratunga CEO Note © iStock/Vaara Another connection between Oceana pens in the ocean, often in fjords and public health occurs in Chile. where the natural tides are strong Oceana’s campaigners, helped by the and carry the contaminated water generosity of Bloomberg Philanthropies, into the wider sea. That means that have been winning regulations limiting all the naturally occurring bacteria the use of antibiotics in commercial in the pens’ saltwater is prompted salmon farming. One of the reasons to develop antibiotic resistance. At this battle matters is that these salmon least a terrestrial livestock feedlot has farming companies could be creating fences. The industrial salmon farmers’ drug-resistant bacteria that will become ocean nets are, by intention, entirely If restoring abundant oceans helps the next pandemic. And it’s not because permeable to the open ocean. protect public health, the COVID-19 the fish don’t wear masks and cough pandemic prompts us to remember into their elbows. Salmon farmers grow The farmed salmon that you find in that. So does the pairing this month their fish in sea pens. A pen in Chile, the American stores carries a wide range of on our cover of Patti Harris, CEO source of 16% of farmed salmon sold brand names. But some of the primary of Bloomberg Philanthropies, and in the United States, can contain up to producers – Marine Harvest and Alexandra Cousteau, Oceana’s senior 140,000 fish. It’s crowded in there. The Cermaq for example – operate in both advisor, photographed together at fish swim in densely packed circles for Chile and Norway. What drives the an ocean conference hosted last year the year and a half it takes them to grow difference between Chile and Norway? by the Norwegian government in to market size. One key difference is that in Norway Oslo. Among Michael Bloomberg’s sensible public health regulators forbid philanthropic interests, public health In 2016, 316 metric tons of florfenicol the industry from abusing these life- ranks high. Indeed, his achievements in were used in salmon farming in Chile. saving drugs. that sphere are recognized in the name And it was not an exceptional year. The of the School of Public Health at Johns average annual use of florfenicol in Salmon is a staple in the Western Hopkins University. Chile in the last five years is 353 tons. In seafood diet. After shrimp, it’s the most fact, florfenicol comprised 80% of ALL common seafood people eat in the U.S., Eat more fish and less red meat, and antibiotic usage in Chilean salmon farms and its share of the market is growing medical studies predict your risk of between 2014 and 2018. Florfenicol fast. But the difference between wild obesity, heart disease, and cancer is is an antibiotic related to linezolid. salmon – caught by fishers following significantly reduced. Some research Linezolid was approved by the FDA scientific quotas that protect the even shows that steady consumption in 2000 and is frequently prescribed resource for the long term – and of omega-3 laden foods correlates with to treat serious hospital-acquired poorly regulated farmed salmon is the improved cognitive and mental health. infections caused by multi-resistant difference between something that’s Pregnant mothers need micronutrients bacteria including methicillin-resistant good for humanity and one that is not. like iron, zinc, and vitamin A, or Staphylococcus aureus (known more Farmed salmon is sold at one-third the their babies can suffer lasting familiarly by its acronym, MRSA). price of its wild cousin. But the next developmental consequences. time you’re considering that discount, The World Health Organization predicts consider the invitation you are sending Ocean fisheries are ready sources that without stronger global measures to the next globally lethal disease. of these micronutrients, but more to stop antibiotic overuse, the leading than 600 million people in coastal cause of death in 2050 will be antibiotic- For the Oceans, communities are at risk of nutritional resistant disease. In Norway, a country deficiencies. Rebuilding abundant that farms about the same amount coastal fisheries and getting these of salmon as Chile, 136 kilograms Andrew Sharpless fish onto the plates of local people were used. That’s right, kilograms. To CEO would help provide affordable and understand this difference, remember Oceana sustainable healthy diets to vulnerable that a metric ton is 1,000 kilograms. populations. Chilean salmon farmers build their 3 SUMMER 2020 | Oceana.org For the Win