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US Ban on Marine Mammal Bycatch Seafood Gains Momentum

Feb 18, 2025 | onegreenplanet.org | Rob Hutchins |Nicholas Vincent

Help keep One Green Planet free and independent! Together we can ensure our platform remains a hub for empowering ideas committed to fighting for a sustainable, healthy, and compassionate world. Please support us in keeping our mission strong. A new nationwide directive has emerged as a beacon of hope for ocean lovers everywhere. Starting January 1, 2026, imported seafood tied to the bycatch of whales, dolphins, and seals will be officially barred from entering the United States.
Enough of your sargassum: Invasive seaweed "unlocks economies"

Jan 24, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Nane Steinhoff |Rob Hutchins

“SeaClear and SeaGrow represent a breakthrough in both the technical and economic management of Sargassum,” said John Auckland, CEO of Seafields.
Trump's return: Paris Accord and green energy first casualties - Oceanographic

Jan 21, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Rob Hutchins

Oceanographic Magazine
Landmark ruling gives Ecuador's marine ecosystems legal rights

Jan 17, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Rob Hutchins

In a landmark ruling issued last year under its world-leading Rights for Nature law, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has stated that the country's marine ecosystems "have the right to maintain their natural life cycles, structure, functions, and evolutionary processes." Words by Rob Hutchins Photography by Andy Brunner Additional photography by Simon Berger Share A landmark ruling from the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has given its coastal marine ecosystems the kind of legal rights...
UK's window to redress environmental harm "rapidly closing"

Jan 17, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Rob Hutchins

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is pressing the Labour government to “act urgently" not to miss the ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’ to achieve its commitments to the UK land and sea environments.
Outrage as NOAA abandons North Atlantic right whale protections

Jan 16, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Rob Hutchins

The NOAA Fisheries' decision not to increase protections for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales against vessel strikes has been branded "cowardice inaction" and "inexcusable" by conservation groups behind the decades-long campaign.
Mexico: "Goals met" to protect last eight vaquita from extinction

Jan 16, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Rob Hutchins

Mexico's vaquita have - over the last two decades - suffered a population decimation resulting primarily from entanglements in Mexican fishing gear used to illegally and indiscriminately harvest the also endangered totoaba fish.
EU fishers clock 3,500 hours of bottom trawling in protected waters

Jan 15, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Rob Hutchins

A new study published in Science Advances this week reveals that while there has been a hefty reduction in bottom trawling activity in EU waters thanks to recent legislation, vulnerable marine ecosystems are still under serious threat.
Depths Star: New supergiant 'sea bug' resembles Darth Vader

Jan 15, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Rob Hutchins

A new species of supergiant Bathynomus isopod has been discovered in the Vietnamese waters of the South China Sea, and researchers couldn't help but draw comparisons with one of science fiction's most notorious Sith Lords.
What are the 'mysterious marbles' appearing on Sydney beaches?

Jan 15, 2025 | oceanographicmagazine.com | Rob Hutchins

Ocean Pollution The mysterious appearance of 'marble-sized' debris balls along nine of Sydney's beaches has presented a head-scratcher for officials currently testing samples to determine what they are, how they were formed, and critically where they have come from.