Oceana, Inc.
Protecting the World's Oceans
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Ocean Protection Programs.
Oceana seeks to make our oceans as rich, healthy and abundant as they once were. Oceana has programs implemented worldwide.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total number of square kilometers of ocean habitat protected
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Ocean Protection Programs.
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Areas closed to destructive bottom trawling and new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) created as a result of our advocacy.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Oceana's mission is to protect and restore the world's oceans. Our vision is for the oceans to be as rich, healthy, and abundant as they once were. We use focused, science-based campaigns to win practical solutions that help ensure the oceans can continue to thrive and be a source of food and scientific discovery, generate jobs, and power economies for generations to come.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Oceana is leading a global campaign called Save the Oceans, Feed the World. A fully productive ocean can provide one nutritious meal a day for 700 million people, or 13-15 percent of the animal protein produced on the entire planet. Just 30 countries control 90 percent of the world's wild fish catch. Oceana is already working in countries that control more than one-third of the wild fish catch: the United States, Europe, Chile, Brazil, the Philippines, Canada, Belize, Peru, and Mexico. Oceana's goal is to expand its campaigns to countries that control at least 50 percent of the world's wild fish catch within the next five to ten years.
In each of these countries, Oceana campaigns to win policy change that has been proven to lead to fisheries and ocean recovery, including:
1. Set reasonable fishing quotas and reduce industrial over-fishing,
2. Reduce bycatch (the incidental catch of non-targeted animals),
3. Protect marine habitat, and
4. Reduce the harmful effects of marine pollution.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Oceana's fundraising strategy will continue to emphasize foundation grants (76 percent in 2015), combined with increased revenue from online giving, corporate partnerships, major donor giving and event revenue. Oceana also anticipates more government funding from European sources such as the EU Commission.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Oceana has grown into an international organization that has won more than 100 victories and made real progress in restoring fisheries around the world. Among its major accomplishments are:
•Reforms for Europe's Fisheries: In 2013, the EU approved major reforms to the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
•Largest Marine Park in the Americas: In 2015, Chile protected nearly 300,000 sq km in the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.
•U.S. Arctic Protections: Oceana stopped the expansion of industrial fishing in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait in 2009 and in 2015 got Shell Oil to cease U.S. Arctic oil exploration.
•Safeguarding Belize's Natural Resources: Belize has banned all forms of trawling, and in 2017 enacted a moratorium on offshore oil activity.
•Protecting Threatened Species: A 2003 action to require larger Turtle Excluder Devices on Gulf of Mexico shrimp nets saved an estimated 60,000 sea turtles a year. Since then, Oceana campaigns have put in place countless other protections.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Oceana, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Ms. Valarie Van Cleave
Ocean Advocate
Daniel Pauly
University of British Columbia
Ted Danson
Actor/Activist
Sam Waterson
Actor/Activist
Simon Sidamon-Eristoff
Kalbian Hagerty LLP
Kristian Parker
Oak Philanthropy Limited
Cesar Gaviria
World Lecturer
Stephen McAllister
Cherrywood Development LLC
James Sandler
Sandler Foundation
Herbert Bedolfe, III
Marisla Foundation
Maria Eugenia Giron
Business Leader
Keith Addis
Industry Entertainment Partners
Susan Rockefeller
Documentary Filmmaker
Heather Stevens
The Waterloo Foundation
Sydney Davis
Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation
Loic Gouzer
Christie's Auction House
Diana Thomson
Nikita Foundation
Valarie Van Cleave
Ocean Advocate
Jean Weiss
Ocean Advocate
Rashid Sumaila
University of British Columbia
Gaz Alazraki
Alazraki Entertainment
Jena King
Jena and Michael King Foundation
Monique Bar
Arcas Foundation
Nicholas Davis
Euroamerica
Sara Lowell
Marisla Foundation
David Rockefeller, Jr.
Sailor/Conservationist
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
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Disability
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