Marine Conservation Campaigns

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Marine Conservation Campaigns

Pew’s advocacy efforts, conducted through marine conservation campaigns, seek to protect the nation’s fisheries and ocean wildlife, including marine mammals, birds and invertebrates, both in the United States and around the world.

Our campaigns raise the visibility of problems affecting the marine environment to the public and policy makers, and advocate for major reforms in the way in which we manage fishing and protect the oceans.

We also work internationally to address impacts caused by overfishing, shark finning and whaling.

Antarctic Krill
The Antarctic Krill Conservation Project is an international effort to promote conservation of krill—a small, shrimp-like organism that is the main food source for many of the continent’s iconic species, including penguins, whales and seals.
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Atlantic Herring
The Atlantic Herring Campaign works to protect and restore ocean wildlife and ecosystems in the northeast United States, from Virginia to Maine, by reforming the Atlantic herring fishery. We seek to accomplish this through public education and advocacy based on scientific research.
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Campaign to End Overfishing in New England
From the early American colonies well into the 20th century, cod was a mainstay of the New England economy and an icon of regional culture. Today, overfishing is depleting 11 groundfish populations, including dinnertime favorites cod and flounder, and causing harm to the region’s economy and marine environment. The Pew Environment Group’s work in the region has helped change the way this fishery is managed so fish populations can rebuild, and in turn, sustain more productive fishing and stronger coastal economies.
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Campaign to End Overfishing in the Mid-Atlantic
After sustaining decades of overfishing, depleted Mid-Atlantic fish populations may now have begun to recover. But managers must continue rebuilding efforts to ensure the future sustainability of fishing in this region. The Pew Environment Group is leading a campaign to ensure that federal fishery managers in the Mid-Atlantic end overfishing and rebuild depleted fish populations to provide truly healthy fisheries for the future.
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Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast
Years of overfishing are taking a severe toll on 14 species in the Gulf of Mexico and the southern Atlantic Ocean. The Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast aims to halt overfishing and rebuild healthy fish populations and ecosystems.
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Ending Illegal Fishing Internationally
Pew Environment Group is working for fast ratification and implementation of the Port State Measures agreement that is designed to monitor fishing vessels as they enter the world’s ports and to deny access to vessels that engage in illegal ocean fishing and their fish.
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European Marine Programme
The European Marine Programme office in Brussels is part of the Pew Environment Group’s ongoing work on ending global overfishing and reducing destruction of the world's oceans.
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Federal Fisheries Policy Reform Project
Pew is directing a national effort to build support for ocean and fish protection in the face of threats from overfishing and pollution of the seas.
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Global Ocean Legacy
Global Ocean Legacy, which is supported by Pew and other partner institutions, is dedicated to establishing three to five large, world-class “no-take” marine reserves in different parts of the world over the next decade.
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National Ocean Policy
Pew’s Campaign for Healthy Oceans is working to establish a comprehensive national policy with clear implementation requirements and a consistent source of funding to protect and restore the health of America’s marine ecosystems.
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Oceans North - Protecting Life in the Arctic
Pew’s Arctic Ocean Program works to protect the ecosystems and the peoples supported by North America’s Arctic waters. This pristine region is threatened by global warming, loss of sea ice and pressure to expand unrestrained or poorly regulated industrial development.
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Our Ocean
The Our Ocean campaign seeks to preserve Oregon's unique coastal waters and shoreline through a state-wide coalition of conservationists, scientists, community leaders and those who rely on these waters for their livelihoods and recreation.
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Protect Bluefin Tuna Globally
Pew is working to improve conservation and management of the world’s most vulnerable tuna stocks – bluefin tuna and northern albacore in the Atlantic Ocean and bigeye and yellowfin in the Pacific Ocean.
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Salmon Aquaculture Reform
Industrial-scale carnivorous fish farming has led to serious environmental problems, including the depletion of wild fish populations for fish feed, high levels of pollution and escapes of farmed fish into the wild. The Salmon Aquaculture Reform Campaign is working to shift the aquaculture industry away from current practices toward more environmentally sound alternatives.
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Shark Conservation
While scientists have documented declines in the world’s shark population as great as 80 percent, directed shark fisheries are increasing and the practice of shark-finning (slicing off the fins and discarding the body) continues. The Shark Alliance seeks to strengthen European fishing regulations and achieve science-based conservation of sharks.
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Stop Surface Longlining in the Gulf of Mexico
Pew is seeking to protect bluefin tuna, marlin, sailfish, sharks and sea turtles by ending surface longline fishing for yellowfin tuna and swordfish in the Gulf of Mexico, the only known spawning area for severely depleted Western Atlantic bluefin tuna.
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Whale Conservation
The Pew Whale Conservation Project is a leader in the effort to conserve whales globally.
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