Protect Our Sharks
The second, annual European Shark Week will take place 11-19 October, 2008. It’s a unique opportunity for people across Europe to demonstrate their support for shark conservation in a way that can really effect change. We welcome your participation.
During European Shark Week 2007, aquariums, dive clubs and other organisations helped host more than 100 events and together we collected more than 20,000 signatures. This year is truly pivotal for European shark policy,so we’re committed to making European Shark Week ‘08 as big and bad as it can be!
Your Chance Is Now!
Help raise the profile of sharks by joining members of the Shark Alliance in celebration of European Shark Week. This year, we’ll take our message directly to governments and demand a strong European shark plan. Our pleas will come in the final, critical months of development of this long-waited plan, so they stand a real chance of influencing the process for the good!
Get active! >> Read and sign our petition to promote and implement a strong European Union Plan of Action for the conservation of our valuable yet vulnerable sharks.
- Italian television channel RAI 3 exposes the use of illegal driftnets in Calabria - 17/11/2008
- Oceana calls for immediate protection of large pelagic fish in the Atlantic and Mediterranean - 13/11/2008
- Oceana considers the 2009 fishing quotas too lenient for Governments that are not too responsible - 10/11/2008
- Oceana believes the approval of a bluefin tuna reserve south of Balearic Islands that was debated in Parliament is positive, but insufficient - 29/10/2008
A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ILLEGAL DRIFTNETS
Oceana in the documentary made by the producer EarthOcean about illegal drifnetters in the Mediterranean Sea. The video includes an interview with Xavier Pastor, Oceana’s Director for Europe, and also images of illegal driftnetters recorded during the expeditions on board the catamaran Oceana Ranger. Driftnets are banned since 2002 because they represent a major threat for the conservation of endangered species such as marine turtles and cetaceans.
OCEANA's REPORTS
- The use of driftnets by the Moroccan fleet
- "Thonaille": the use of driftnets by the French fleet in the Mediterranean
- Italian driftnetters 2006
For the conservation of one of the last strongholds of the endangered Mediterranean common dolphin.