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Organizations Filed Purposes: TO ADVOCATE FOR POLICY CHANGES BY GOVERNMENTS AND CORPORATIONS IN ORDER TO PRESERVE OCEAN LIFE AND RETURN THE OCEANS TO THEIR FORMER ABUNDANCE.

INTERNATIONALBELIZEBAN GILLNETSOCEANA IN BELIZE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO OBTAIN A GOVERNMENT BAN ON THE USE OF DESTRUCTIVE GILLNETS, AND AT THE CLOSE OF 2019, WE WERE VERY CLOSE TO ACHIEVING THIS GOAL. DISCUSSIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT HAVE PROGRESSED IN RECENT WEEKS AND A DRAFT AGREEMENT IS BEING DISCUSSED BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE MINISTER OF FISHERIES. WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO REPORT ON THIS VICTORY IN 2020. WE BELIEVE THE BAN CAN BE ENACTED AND COME INTO FORCE IN 2020. THE BAN CAN BE ENACTED BY STATUTORY INSTRUMENT (SI), WHICH IS LESS TIME CONSUMING THAN PRESENTING A BILL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. AN SI CARRIES THE SAME LEGAL WEIGHT AS A LEGISLATION PASSED BY THE HOUSE. OCEANA WILL SUPPORT THE TRANSITION PROCESS BY FOCUSING OUR COMMUNICATIONS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BAN.

UNITED STATESIN THE UNITED STATES, OCEANA IS WORKING ON SCIENCE-BASED POLICY CAMPAIGNS THAT SEEK TO ADVANCE RESPONSIBLE FISHING, STOP NEW OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT, REDUCE ILLEGAL FISHING, STOP THE SHARK FIN TRADE, PROTECT THE NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE AND DEFEND THE NATION'S BEDROCK CONSERVATION LAWS.STOP EXPANDED OFFSHORE DRILLINGIN LATE APRIL OF THIS YEAR, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAD "INDEFINITELY DELAYED" ITS PLAN TO RADICALLY EXPAND OFFSHORE DRILLING TO NEARLY ALL U.S. WATERS. WE BELIEVE THAT THIS DELAY OF THE OTHERWISE IMMINENT DRILLING PLAN COULD LAST AS LONG AS 18 MONTHS UNTIL NOVEMBER 2020. WE ARE STAYING ON GUARD IN CASE OF A CHANGE IN PLANS, WHICH COULD OCCUR WITHOUT NOTICE. WE HAVE ALSO SHIFTED TO A PROACTIVE CAMPAIGN PUSHING FOR LEGISLATION TO CLOSE THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TO DRILLING TO MAINTAIN THE NECESSARY POLITICAL PRESSURE TO PREVENT PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM ADVANCING HIS OFFSHORE DRILLING PLAN.THE CONGRESSIONAL MORATORIUM ON OFFSHORE DRILLING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO REMAINS INTACT. NO BILLS THAT WOULD UNDO THE CONGRESSIONAL MORATORIUM ON DRILLING IN THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO PASSED EITHER HOUSE OF CONGRESS IN 2019. OCEANA AND ITS ALLIES ALSO SUCCESSFULLY ADVOCATED FOR NEW LEGISLATION TO PLACE A MORATORIUM ON OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING IN OREGON STATE WATERS, AND TO PROHIBIT ANY ACTIVITIES OR NEW INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WOULD SUPPORT OIL DRILLING IN FEDERAL WATERS.IN SOUTH CAROLINA, OCEANA WORKED WITH ALLIES TO SUPPORT COASTAL RESIDENTS WHO WANTED TO PUT IN PLACE A STATE PROHIBITION ON ACTIONS TO FURTHER OIL AND GAS RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR ONE YEAR. IN VIRGINIA, WE MAINTAINED A DEFENSIVE POSTURE AND WERE SUCCESSFULLY ABLE TO PREVENT ANY PRO-OFFSHORE DRILLING STATE LEGISLATION. WE ALSO SUPPORTED BILLS PASSED IN NEW YORK AND GEORGIA THAT PROHIBIT OFFSHORE DRILLING AND INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WOULD SUPPORT IT, IN THOSE STATES.OCEANA'S EFFORTS TO REACH OUT TO COASTAL RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS LEADERS HAS LED TO A GROWING AND GALVANIZED BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION TO EXPANDED DRILLING, MOST NOTABLY FROM BUSINESSES THAT RELY ON HEALTHY OCEANS. THE THREE BUSINESS ALLIANCES THAT OPPOSE OFFSHORE DRILLING ON THE ATLANTIC, PACIFIC AND GULF COASTS AND WHICH OCEANA HELPED TO CREATE, NOW TOTAL AT LEAST 56,000 BUSINESSES AND 500,000 FISHING FAMILIES. MORE THAN 2,200 LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS, INCLUDING GOVERNORS ALONG THE EAST AND WEST COASTS AND MORE THAN 230 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (A MAJORITY), NOW PUBLICLY OPPOSE EXPANDED OFFSHORE DRILLING AS WELL. IN ADDITION, AT THE END OF 2019, 380 MUNICIPALITIES HAD FORMALLY PASSED RESOLUTIONS OPPOSING OFFSHORE DRILLING AND/OR SEISMIC BLASTING (WE SECURED 58 OF THESE RESOLUTIONS IN 2019, EXCEEDING OUR GOAL OF 50).DEFENSE OF OCEAN PROTECTION LAWSOCEANA AND OUR MAGNUSON-STEVENS ACT COALITION PARTNERS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY FOUGHT ATTEMPTS TO WEAKEN THE MAGNUSON-STEVENS ACT AND THE MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION ACT. FURTHERMORE, THERE WERE NO REVERSALS OF PREVIOUSLY PROTECTED MARINE AREAS IN 2019, ANOTHER STANDARD BY WHICH WE MEASURE SUCCESS IN THIS CAMPAIGN. BAN THE SHARK FIN TRADESHARK POPULATIONS AROUND THE WORLD ARE IN SERIOUS DECLINE, LARGELY DRIVEN BY THE DEMAND FOR THEIR FINS. FINS FROM AS MANY AS 73 MILLION SHARKS END UP IN THE GLOBAL SHARK FIN TRADE EACH YEAR, AND MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF THE MOST POPULAR SPECIES IN THE FIN TRADE FACE A HIGH OR VERY HIGH THREAT OF EXTINCTION. A NATIONAL TRADE BAN WOULD ENSURE THAT THE UNITED STATES NO LONGER PARTICIPATES IN THE GLOBAL FIN TRADE THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE DECLINE OF MANY AT-RISK SHARK SPECIES. IN 2019, OCEANA SUCCESSFULLY ADVOCATED FOR TWO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES TO HOLD HEARINGS AND VOTES ON THE SHARK FIN SALES ELIMINATION ACT, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT THE TRADE OF SHARK FINS IN THE U.S. SAVE THE NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALEON SEPTEMBER 12, 2019, OCEANA LAUNCHED THE BINATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO SAVE NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES FROM EXTINCTION. TO KICK OFF THE CAMPAIGN IN BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA WE RELEASED A BINATIONAL REPORT AND FACT SHEET WHICH DETAIL THE DIRE REALITY FACING NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES, HIGHLIGHT THE TWO GREATEST CURRENT THREATS FACING THEIR POPULATION (ENTANGLEMENTS IN FISHING GEAR AND COLLISIONS WITH SHIPS), AND OUTLINE WHAT MUST BE DONE FOR THIS SPECIES TO RECOVER. OCEANA WORKED IN COALITION TO INTRODUCE, BUILD SUPPORT, AND PASS H.R. 1568, THE SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANCE FOR VERY ENDANGERED NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES (SAVE) ACT OF 2019 IN THE HOUSE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE. THIS BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION WOULD PROVIDE A SUSTAINED SOURCE OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR RESEARCH TO DEVELOP, TEST, OR USE INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES TO REDUCE ENTANGLEMENTS AND VESSEL COLLISIONS. WE ALSO PUSHED FOR INCREASED FUNDING FOR NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE CONSERVATION IN BOTH CHAMBERS. RESPONSIBLE FISHINGWHILE OUR PREVIOUS RESPONSIBLE FISHING CAMPAIGN IS FINISHED, WE HAD SOME OUTSTANDING VICTORIES IN 2019.ON OCTOBER 10, 2019, AFTER YEARS OF CAMPAIGN WORK BY OCEANA AND OUR PARTNERS, THE CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR PACIFIC HERRING THAT WILL ENSURE A SUSTAINABLE HERRING FISHERY INTO THE FUTURE. WE ALSO SAW THE PACIFIC COUNCIL AUTHORIZE THE USE OF DEEP-SET BUOY GEAR IN THE SWORDFISH FISHERY OFF CALIFORNIA AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE DESTRUCTIVE DRIFT GILLNETS THAT ARE DEADLY TO MARINE MAMMALS AND SEA TURTLES, MANY OF WHICH ARE ENDANGERED.TO HELP INCREASE CRITICAL OBSERVER COVERAGE IN THE GULF OF ALASKA TRAWL FISHERIES, WHICH HAVE VERY HIGH LEVELS OF BYCATCH, WE PERSUADED THE NORTH PACIFIC FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL TO AGREE TO TWO NEW MEASURES TO HELP FUND ADDITIONAL OBSERVERS (COVERAGE IS CURRENTLY ONLY ABOUT 25 PERCENT IN THE TRAWL FISHERIES). FIRST, THEY APPROVED AN INCREASE IN THE FEE THAT IS CHARGED TO PAY FOR THE OBSERVERS, WHICH SHOULD YIELD ENOUGH REVENUE TO BRING OBSERVER COVERAGE TO 100 PERCENT. THEN, THEY AGREED WITH OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ON COST CONTAINMENT MEASURES THAT WOULD MAKE THE PROGRAM MORE SUSTAINABLE AND DIRECTED THE NATIONAL MARINE FISHERY SERVICE TO IMPLEMENT THEM.

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONSKEY ACHIEVEMENTS OF OCEANA'S MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT IN 2019 ARE HIGHLIGHTED BELOW.ONLINE COMMUNICATIONSAS OF NOVEMBER 2019, OCEANA HAS 4.2 MILLION ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORTERS, BEATING THE 2019 GOAL OF 3.4 MILLION SUPPORTERS. OCEANA'S TOTAL SUPPORTER BASE, INCLUDING COUNTRY AND REGIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS, NUMBER MORE THAN 6 MILLION SUPPORTERS WORLDWIDE.

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