WINTER 2015 OCEANA.ORG THE WYSS FOUNDATION TAKES OCEANA TO CANADA AND PERU PLUS: OCEANA’S SHRIMP FRAUD REPORT | Q&A WITH MARIA DAMANAKI | SAVING SEA TURTLES Protecting the World’s Oceans BOARD OF DIRECTORS OCEANA Vice President, U.S. Oceans Simon Sidamon-Eristoff, Chair Chief Executive Officer Jacqueline Savitz 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. Deputy Vice President, U.S. Pacific Sydney Davis Senior Vice President & Executive Susan Murray César Gaviria Director, Europe Vice President, Global Development Loic Gouzer Lasse Gustavsson Bettina Alonso 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 using 100% wind power in a carbon neutral process. 1 10 13 ON THE COVER: 6 Hansjörg Wyss of the Wyss Foundation DEPARTMENTS 1 CEO’S NOTE Counterintuitive Conservation 2 MAKING WAVES Bottom trawling protections in Portugal and mercury-free chlorine plants. FEATURES 4 NEWS & NOTES Antibiotics in Chile, Austin Nichols goes shark tagging, and a seafood FISHING FOR FORTY 6 The Wyss Foundation fraud map. takes Oceana to Canada and Peru 5 Q&A Paul Greenberg, author of American 10 SAFEGUARDING SEA TURTLES New Catch protections for loggerheads in US waters 18 FISH TALE Chesapeake Bay striped bass THE TRUTH ABOUT SHRIMP A new report 13 EVENTS SeaChange Summer Party and reveals widespread seafood fraud in US 19 promoting The Perfect Protein shrimp SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT Hansjörg Wyss of Q&A WITH MARIA DAMANAKI 21 15 European the Wyss Foundation Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries 22 CHEF’S CORNER Sam Talbot’s smoked sardines with heirloom tomatoes and herbs 17 ASK DR. PAULY What is so good about mussels and oysters? 23 PARTING SHOT Philippine fishermen in the Tañon Straight Give Today Oceana’s accomplishments wouldn’t be possible without the support of its members. You can help Oceana campaign to restore our oceans with your financial contribution. Call us today at 1.877.7.OCEANA, visit www.oceana.org/give or use the envelope provided Protecting the in this magazine to make a donation. Please contact us if you are interested in planned World’s Oceans giving that could support Oceana’s work and also provide you with income and potential tax benefits. Oceana is a 501(c)(3) organization and contributions are tax deductible. 4 | FALL/WINTER 2012 CEO’S LETTER Counterintuitive Conservation “A medieval fisherman is said to have but farming. Put very simply, that’s because • Portuguese protection of more than 2 million hauled up a 3-foot-long cod, which was we cut down the forest — the biodiverse place square kilometers from bottom trawling common enough at the time. And the fact where wildlife thrive — to plant cornfields. • Adoption by Chile of a comprehensive na- that the cod could talk was not especially sur- And the most intensive form of agriculture is tional plan to stop illegal fishing prising. But what was astonishing was that it livestock production. So if you’re going to feed • Creation by the U.S. of the largest protected spoke an unknown language. It spoke Basque.” a planet headed for 9 billion people by 2050 — ocean and beach zone to benefit loggerhead two China’s worth larger than right now — and turtles So begins Mark Kurlansky’s wonderful book you want to protect life on the land, you need • Establishment by President Obama of a task on the history of a fish that has long helped the oceans to be feeding as many people as force charged with developing national rules feed the world. possible. to prevent the sale of black market fish Last summer I was invited to appear on CBS If you’re happy that the U.S. was the first coun- In addition to these policy advances, Oceana This Morning, the live national morning news try in the world to create a system of national continues to grow organizationally. Thanks and talk show out of New York City. As prom- parks, championed by that great Republican to the Wyss Foundation and several other ised by the producer, they picked me up at the conservationist and livestock rancher Teddy generous Canadian and American donors, hotel in midtown before dawn, and before long Roosevelt, then consider what you’re doing we are delighted to report that we have now they had draped me in a bib, and the makeup for the land by saving the oceans. While some raised nearly all the funds required to sustain lady was vigorously rubbing rouge on my cattle ranches are beautiful places — like an Oceana campaign team in Canada for five very pale cheeks. About three minutes before the one I saw on my drive in Montana — to years. The Wyss Foundation’s generous chal- air time, Gayle King, who co-hosts the show, produce beef equal to the ocean fish the world lenge grant for Peru brings us close to the start greeted me. Notes in her hand, she peered eats every day, we’d need to develop an area of policy campaign operations in that country, quizzically at me over her reading glasses and equal to Kentucky, Indiana, Maine, South the most important fishing nation in the world, said “I don’t get it. You want to save the fish so Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, from whose waters more than 12 percent of that we can eat them?” New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, the world’s wild ocean fish catch by weight Hawaii, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode come every year. And our feasibility study of It’s not as surprising as a Basque-fluent fish, Island. Combined. Mexico reveals a good opportunity for improv- but it does indeed seem counterintuitive. You, ing ocean abundance, so we are now seeking of course, know the answer. The ocean is like Or to put it in terms that President Roosevelt to raise the funds necessary to establish a a bank account or an investment fund. Build would appreciate, not one, not two, not 10, not Mexican campaign team. it up, and we can live very well off its interest 25, but 68 Yellowstone National Parks. and dividends. But deplete the principal, and As a loyal supporter of Oceana, your support, we are headed for inevitable crisis. The really good news is that we know what energy and generosity have allowed us to do to do to restore abundant oceans full of fish much good for the oceans together. Thank Science shows us that we can rapidly produce for people to eat. And in three of the top ten you and congratulations! With your contin- an abundant ocean with sensible, scientific fishing countries of the world — the U.S., the ued support, we will continue to win policy ocean management in just 30 countries. One European Union, and Chile — ocean fisheries changes that rebuild ocean abundance.