Help Us Protect Our Oceans

Just a few decades ago, the California sea lion seemed on the verge of becoming an endangered species. It was 1964, and hunting and fishing had caused the breeding population off the West Coast to shrink to just 35,000.

How times have changed. After the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 made it illegal to kill or harass sea lions, their ranks steadily grew — and grew, and grew...

Lessons for sustainable fishing are hidding in plain sight. Australia has had tens of thousands of years of fisheries exploitation. That history reveals a staggering natural bounty, which has been alarmingly fragile without proper management. The current debate over the federal government’s new draft marine park plans is the latest chapter of this story.

Early accounts described what we can only read today as some sort of fishing Eden. The sea floor off the west coast of Tasmania was carpeted red with crayfish. Extraordinary schools of...

The green turtle is one of the largest sea turtles and the only herbivore among the many different species. Green turtles are in fact named for the greenish color of their cartilage and fat, not their shells, and they are found mainly in tropical and subtropical waters.

Green turtles, like other sea turtles, migrate long distances between feeding grounds and the beaches from where they hatched. Classified as endangered, they are threatened by the over harvesting of their eggs, the hunting of adults, and being caught in fishing gear...

When talking to people about Sailors for the Sea, we are often asked how sailing has a negative impact on the environment. As sailboats use the wind to power themselves, then
just what about them could be harmful to the environment?