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Despite their designation, many Marine Protected Areas remain vulnerable to the devastating effects of bottom trawling. This practice not only disrupts fragile marine species but directly harms entire ecosystems. 🚢 Trawlers regularly breach the boundaries of MPAs, leaving destruction in their wake. 🎣 Over 90% of discarded fish in EU waters result from bottom trawling, including accidental catches like turtles, sharks, and marine mammals. 🛂 MPAs are hard to manage and police, making real change a challenge. Paper parks won't save our seas. It’s time to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas. Your voice can drive change. Sign the appeal below to demand action and help us ensure that protection truly means protected. Let’s work together for the ocean, for our planet, and for future generations. Please urge the EU Commission to Ban Destructive Fishing in Protected Waters: https://lnkd.in/eeTtQHj2 Oceana in Europe North Sails #BanBottomTrawling #LookDeeper #WorldOceansDay

Despite their designation, many Marine Protected Areas remain vulnerable to the devastating effects of bottom trawling. This practice not only disrupts fragile marine species but directly harms entire ecosystems. 🚢 Trawlers regularly breach the boundaries of MPAs, leaving destruction in their wake. 🎣 Over 90% of discarded fish in EU waters result from bottom trawling, including accidental catches like turtles, sharks, and marine mammals. 🛂 MPAs are hard to manage and police, making real change a challenge. Paper parks won't save our seas. It’s time to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas. Your voice can drive change. Sign the appeal below to demand action and help us ensure that protection truly means protected. Let’s work together for the ocean, for our planet, and for future generations. Please urge the EU Commission to Ban Destructive Fishing in Protected Waters: https://lnkd.in/eeTtQHj2 Oceana in Europe North Sails #BanBottomTrawling #LookDeeper #WorldOceansDay

Despite their designation, many Marine Protected Areas remain vulnerable to the devastating effects of bottom trawling. This practice not only disrupts fragile marine species but directly harms entire ecosystems. 🚢 Trawlers regularly breach the boundaries of MPAs, leaving destruction in their wake. 🎣 Over 90% of discarded fish in EU waters result from bottom trawling, including accidental catches like turtles, sharks, and marine mammals. 🛂 MPAs are hard to manage and police, making real change a challenge. Paper parks won't save our seas. It’s time to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas. Your voice can drive change. Sign the appeal below to demand action and help us ensure that protection truly means protected. Let’s work together for the ocean, for our planet, and for future generations. Please urge the EU Commission to Ban Destructive Fishing in Protected Waters: https://lnkd.in/eeTtQHj2 Oceana in Europe North Sails #BanBottomTrawling #LookDeeper #WorldOceansDay

🦈 In honor of #SharkWeek, let’s talk about the alarming decline of their populations worldwide. Species like great white sharks, whale sharks, and scalloped hammerheads are among the many species threatened with extinction due to unsustainable fishing practices. That’s why we’re on the frontlines, fighting against threats like #bycatch, #shark finning, and #illegalfishing. Currently, our crew aboard the Allankay patrols Tuvalu’s waters in the #SouthPacific, working with the local authorities to stop illegal operations targeting tuna and potentially involving shark finning. ⚠️ Protecting these vital species and their habitats isn’t just crucial for them—it’s essential for the health of our oceans and all marine life. Without sharks, oceanic ecosystems face collapse. Join our fight to protect sharks by supporting our campaigns. Share or comment to help spread awareness and amplify our impact. Together, we can safeguard the future of sharks and our oceans. 🎥 Alice Bacou / Sea Shepherd #sharks #marineconservation #seashepherd

Shining a light on our Reef shell-ebrities this #WorldTurtleDay. Six of the world’s seven marine turtle species are found on the #GreatBarrierReef Unfortunately, three of these species are endangered and three are critically endangered. Two key threats facing our Reef’s turtles are feral animals and marine debris. Australia has stepped up our efforts to better manage these threats, including: • protecting turtle eggs and turtle hatchlings from feral animals through the Nest to Ocean Turtle Protection Program • supporting the ReefClean Program to stop marine debris, including plastics, from entering the Reef. The Nest to Ocean Turtle Protection Program is a joint initiative between the Australian Government and Queensland Government. ReefClean is run by Tangaroa Blue Foundation Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gN_euUbe

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Did you know Canada has the longest coastline in the world? We border the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean, which are home to hundreds of aquatic animals. In 2022, we looked at how some of these species are protected from extinction. We found that delays, knowledge gaps, and a bureaucratic approach undermine the government’s ability to protect aquatic species at risk. Only 5 out of an expected 44 species were assessed within 2 to 3 years. This means that many marine animals at risk of extinction might not be under any protection. Read our report on protecting aquatic species at risk to learn more: https://ow.ly/bO0X50RH1zV #WorldOceansDay

Have you ever been face to face with the Mola Mola sunfish? ☀️🐟 The heaviest of all bony fish, the Mola Mola can reach up to 10-14 feet and nearly 5,000 pounds. 🤯 This elusive fish can live up to 100 years in its natural environment and despite their size, are harmless to humans. While they can live and hunt in depths of up to 600 meters down, Mola Mola spend half their time delivering on their namesake, basking in the sun near the surface to re-heat their bodies and aid digestion. Because of this, the Mola Mola is inadvertently vulnerable to ship strikes, bycatch, and more. By developing solutions to these ever present ocean threats and challenges, we can further improve the conservation and protection of critical ocean species like our sunfish friends. 🌊 🎥 captured by Megan Shea-Graff

This summer we visited #Ullapool during the Sea Change Row expedition, and saw first-hand how banning #trawling in a marine protected area has seen long-depleted #fisheries start to rebound within just a few years. When you start thinking about it, it's utterly uncomprehensible that *even in protected areas* it's completely legal for #fishing boats to obliterate #ecosystems that take hundreds of years to form and support the very #fisheries that coastal communities rely on. Let alone the fact that the disturbance releases huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating #climatechange. #bottomtrawling is bad for the fishing industry, bad for coastal #communities, bad for the #economy, bad for #nature and bad for #climate. If you do one thing today, sign the petition from Oceana to #BanBottomTrawling in Scottish MPAs #marineprotectedareas #MPA #resilience #coastalresilience #ocean The Scottish Government https://lnkd.in/e9GUa97b

Bulldozing is bull-crab! We can’t remain silent about it 📢 🚫 Last year, the UK’s offshore marine protected areas were subjected to over 33,000 hours of fishing by vessels equipped with destructive bottom-towed fishing gear, Oceana UK Global Fishing Watch data has revealed. Bottom trawling ‘bulldozing’ destroys essential ocean habitats in minutes, and yet, incredibly destructive fishing is allowed in almost all UK marine protected areas (MPAs). True marine protection is good for both Ocean life and coastal communities, research shows. MPAs are supposed to be sanctuaries for precious marine life, from dolphins to starfish, coral to crabs. We need urgent political action to ban bottom trawling across all MPAs. Help save our seas. Tell the Government to stop bulldozing marine protected areas: https://lnkd.in/euvxFHZf #BacktheBlueBelt #MarineProtection #BottomTrawling