Oceana Inc.

“Board members, susan rockefeller and david rockefeller, jr., have a family relationship. Board members herbert m. Bedolfe, iii and sara lowell both serve as employees and officers of the marisla foundation. Herbert serves as the executive director and sara serves as the secretary/marine program director.”

“Information for the federal form 990 comes largely from oceana's independently audited financial statements, which consolidates oceana's activities across national boundaries. The accounting department collects this and other information needed for the federal form 990, which is reviewed and presented in draft form by a tax accounting firm. After approval by senior management, the final draft of the 990 is presented to the board for review before it is submitted to the internal revenue service.”

“Every year, oceana's officers, directors, and key employees fill out a disclosure report asking them to disclose any family or business relationships they may have with other oceana officers, directors, or key employees, as well as any financial conflicts of interest they may have. In addition, oceana's conflict of interest policy requires any director or officer who is an interested person with respect to a transaction or arrangement under consideration by the corporation to promptly disclose to the board of directors or the board's designate the existence and nature of his or her financial interest in the transaction or arrangement. Conflicts of interest reporting: any actual or potential conflict of interest must be disclosed to the ceo; president and general counsel; cfo; or global director of human resources, the executive committee member in charge of the country office or department; or the office administrator for the country office. This includes actual or potential conflicts involving business or financial interest, family relationships, or sexual/romantic relationships. The cfo will determine whether any steps must be taken to avoid an appearance or existence of a conflict of interest or the creation of an environment that others in the workplace might reasonably find to be unprofessional or inappropriate. Such steps, depending on the nature of the conflict of interest, might include, but are not limited to, divestiture of adverse interests, recusal from certain decisions, transfer of one of the employees to another department (if a position is available), changing the manager for one of the employees, or, when other options are not feasible, the termination of employment of one of the employees. Employees who wish to provide services to or for the benefit of any entity outside oceana must disclose such proposed activity to oceana, which will make appropriate determinations in accordance with the organization's global code of ethics. Family relationships (nepotism): oceana will not allow a supervisor/subordinate relationship to exist between family relatives. Sexual/romantic relationships: romantic relationships between employees that constitute an actual or reasonably-perceived conflict of interest are prohibited. Form 990, part vi, section b, line 13 whistleblowing and reporting violations: oceana needs and expects the support and cooperation of its employees to enforce its policies. Employees who have experienced, observed, or learned about conduct they believe is contrary to oceana's polices or code of ethics must report such violations (or potential or suspected violations). Oceana provides two ways to report violations. First, violations may be reported through a reporting system that oceana has set up through an online website or by calling the phone number listed for each country on that website. The site is confidential, easy to use, and always available. Employees have the option to disclose their identity or make a report anonymously; however, disclosing identity is strongly encouraged to enable oceana to conduct a thorough investigation, especially in the case of a policy that protects individuals (for example, concerning sexual harassment or discrimination). Any report that implicates the ceo; president and general counsel; or cfo will be forwarded by the third party administrator of the website to the chair, vice chair and treasurer of oceana's board of directors. Second, violations may be reported to the appropriate staff person, as follows. The violation must be reported to the ceo; president and general counsel; cfo; or global director of human resources, if the violation involves one of the following issues: -sexual or other harassment -unlawful discrimination -financial misconduct or misreporting -bribery or corruption -retaliation for reporting any violation if the violation involves any other issue, the report must be made to any of the following: ceo; president and general counsel; cfo; or glob”

“Oceana's process for determining compensation of its ceo, officers, and key employees is as follows: annually, oceana provides the board directors with data from multiple sources on comparable salaries and benefits in other nonprofit organizations, especially but not limited to those in the conservation field, for oceana's ceo. The board reviews and discusses the compensation data as well as the ceo's achievements for the prior year as well as his proposed goals for the next year before taking a decision on any adjustments to the ceo compensation of benefits. Oceana provides the finance and audit committee of the board directors with data from multiple sources on comparable salaries and benefits in other nonprofit organizations, especially but not limited to those in the conservation field, for oceana's officers, top management, and key employees ("the executive team", or "ec). The committee discusses each of the ec member's achievements for the prior year as well as her/his proposed goals for the next year. The committee reviews these data to determine if the compensation is reasonable and that oceana has not engaged in an excess benefit transaction with any individual in a position to substantially influence the organization's affairs. The board of directors and audit and finance committee discussions are documented in the minutes of the respective bodies. Oceana regularly conducts compensation reviews, most recently in october 2019.”

“Oceana posts annual reports, its audited financial statements, and the public disclosure copy of its irs form 990 on its website, www.oceana.org. It also shares relevant information with independent watchdog organizations such as guidestar, charity navigator and the better business bureau to allow these organizations independent assessment of oceana's accountability and transparency. Oceana's articles of incorporation, by-laws and form 1023 are available on oceana's website and to members of the public upon written request. Oceana's articles of incorporation, as well as a certificate of good standing, are also independently available through the department of consumer and regulatory affairs for the district of columbia (where oceana, inc. Is incorporated), though there is a fee for this service.”

“Oceana was founded in 2001 by an international group of foundations. Despite repeated scientific reports of widespread fishery collapse caused by overfishing and pollution, the founders discovered that leading environmental foundations spent less than half of one percent of their resources on ocean conservation. Healthy oceans contribute significantly to feeding a growing world population and to mitigating the effects of climate change, yet no international organization was working exclusively to protect and restore abundant ocean fisheries. Oceana's founders envisioned an organization dedicated solely to achieving significant improvements in ocean management policies through a science-based approach, using carefully chosen national campaigns with fixed deadlines and measurable goals. Today, oceana has grown from an ambitious start-up to an international organization with a record of results on four continents. Together with our allies, we have won nearly 200 significant policy victories and protected almost 9.1 million square kilometers of oceans. Oceana supports science-driven ocean management in the most productive parts of the world's oceans, with teams working in countries which control about a third of the world's wild ocean fisheries (by weight): the united states, the european union, the united kingdom, belize, brazil, canada, chile, mexico, peru and the philippines. Oceana's campaigns carry out four key strategies: -stop overfishing through science-based fishery management, and by deterring illegal fishing; -reduce bycatch, or the unintended catch of fish and marine animals; -protect habitat and the ecosystems that depend on their health, and -curb pollution, by stopping the expansion of offshore oil drilling and reducing the production of single-use plastics. Oceana's campaigns have demonstrated the effectiveness of these strategies for restoring oceans. With sound policies in place, ocean ecosystems recover, often rapidly, and abundant fisheries return, even exceeding former levels. A fully productive ocean can provide a meal a day for a billion people, forever. Together with our allies, we are saving the oceans to feed the world.”

“In addition, we are working to develop an expanded market for sustainably caught fish (without gillnets) through expansion of the fish right, eat right program. Our ongoing work on this initiative will help to ensure that the ban will be enforceable. In 2019, we were successful in our application for a pilot project to be implemented in support of fish right eat right. Funded by the inter-american development bank, the pilot will not only identify the best digital platform for fishers to sell seafood, it will establish the first baseline data on how much finfish and other seafood is being consumed nationally through the domestic market and via the tourism sector. This data will provide invaluable insight into seafood extraction. Currently, belize only records the seafood being exported from belize, and even that data has been traditionally limited to lobster and conch. Simultaneously, our work with the belize coast guard continues to demonstrate our acknowledgment that all laws require enforcement. Our contribution of a vessel to the coast guard's sea going fleet bolstered the argument that the coast guard will have the capability to enforce the gillnet ban and enhanced the effectiveness of their operations against illegal fishing activities. Reduce single use plastics despite continued work on the legislation on the ban of single use plastics in the food sector, belize failed to meet its self-imposed deadline of april 2019. Oceana was forced to strongly object to the draft legislation that was presented in the summer of 2019. Through our ongoing role as the co-chair of the communications and public awareness working group, we continued to increase the public's support for the ban of single use, disposable plastic, and styrofoam products within the food sector. At yearend, it appeared the government was close to taking action. We have also determined that moving forward, we will have to increase our engagement with the ministry of trade to ensure that appropriate work is being done to adjust the relevant tariffs and fees to allow reasonable costs to import/produce environmentally friendly food containers and utensils. We therefore continue to work on getting increased priority for the single use ban, by championing the food vendors who are using environmentally friendly alternatives and practices ahead of the legal changes. Brazil despite president bolsonaro's aggressive attack on environmental protections and his effort to discredit scientific research and civil society organizations throughout brazil, oceana was able to achieve progress in brazil during 2019. We are a credible and impactful voice for ocean conservation. Ban bottom trawling in the state of rio grande do sul in july 2019, the fishing industry of santa catarina state commenced a strong political effort to repeal law 15223/2018, which banned bottom trawling within 12 miles off the coast of rio grande do sul. Backed by explicit support from president bolsonaro, they filed a challenge claiming the law was unconstitutional in the federal supreme court. The plaintiffs asked for the law to be suspended pending a final decision regarding its constitutionality. This would have allowed bottom trawling to restart immediately. The industry's political effort peaked in august when strong attacks were made directly against oceana on social media and in protests in brasilia. To counteract these attempts to repeal the law, oceana worked on three separate fronts. First, we organized a group of rio grande do sul fishers who visited 13 deputies and 3 senators from various political parties who all expressed unconditional support for the law. Deputy henrique fontana (from rio grande do sul) made a speech explicitly defending the law in one of the few times in history that fisheries and fisheries management were mentioned in the tribune of the congress. We also organized a meeting with supreme court justice celso de mello with artisanal and industrial fishermen from rio grande do”

“Protect abrolhos coral reef bank from oil drilling abrolhos is a large coral reef bank located in southern bahia, northeast region of brazil. It is an area of great ecological importance, hosting the largest marine biodiversity in south atlantic and several endemic species. It is also important as a breeding ground for humpback whales that are seen in the region every year. Tourism and fisheries play an important role in the economy for the small surrounding communities. In april, the president of the brazilian institute of environment and renewable natural resources (ibama) authorized the auctioning of seven blocks to exploit in the camamu-almada and jacupe basins, both dangerously close to abrolhos marine park. This decision was contrary to recommendations from his own technical staff. In response, oceana and our partner ngos created the "abrolhos connection", a coalition whose mission was to prevent sale of these blocks. With these allies, we mounted a communications campaign warning of the impacts of a possible oil spill near this sanctuary. Politicians, celebrities, and the general public got our message. Actions to convince the world's largest oil companies to prevent an ecological disaster included a petition with more than 1.1 million signatures delivered to the brazilian congress. In september, state and federal prosecutors filed a public civil lawsuit against the leasing process. The court decided that these blocks could be auctioned but that operating licenses for drilling should not be granted without an extensive and conclusive technical study. As a result of this public reaction and the court case, no company bid for the seven blocks of the camamu-almada and jacupe basins in the auction, which include more than 8,800 km2 of coral reefs. Oceana canada in 2019, oceana inc. Provided charitable contributions and in-kind support to oceana canada, an independent nonprofit organization incorporated under canadian law. With our support, oceana canada achieved the following victories: reform canada's fisheries act a modernized fisheries act (bill c-68) became law in june 2019. Due to oceana's campaigning, for the first time in the act's history, the minister of fisheries is required to create rebuilding plans for depleted fish populations. Additionally, the government has committed more than $100 million over five years to assess and rebuild fish stocks. This brings canada into the group of nations with modern fisheries laws and should lead to an historic turning point in the health of canadian fisheries. The intent of the new law is clear. Now we must ensure that regulations drafted to support the law maintain the same level of ambition. These regulations are under development and expected to be released for public consultation in early 2020. Oceana has provided recommendations on the new regulations and will advocate that they must include abundance targets and timelines for rebuilding to be successful. Oceana successfully secured a ban on the import and export of shark fins in the fisheries act making canada the first country in the g20 to include such a ban which came into effect on june 21, 2019. Rebuild canada's fisheries oceana was successful in securing election platform commitments to rebuild canada's fisheries in the liberal, new democratic party and conservative party platforms. The legislative and regulatory framework needed to establish the practice of rebuilding plans is almost in place. The creation of rebuilding plans is mandated in law, the government has committed substantial financial resources (over $100 million cad) to rebuilding and stock assessment, a progressive policy framework exists, and the development of rebuilding regulations is underway. However, progress on drafting and implementing rebuilding plans remains slow. As of november, the government released four rebuilding plans in 2019. The rebuilding plan for northern cod has been delayed once again. Additionally, the quality of these plans do”

“Fish recovery and sustainable management in october 2019 the eu fisheries ministers reached an agreement on the 2020 fishing limits for fish stocks in the baltic sea. Our overall assessment of the decision regarding fish stocks in the baltic sea is very positive as the ministers exceeded the scientific advice for only two out of ten fish stocks, (while in october 2014 scientific advice was exceeded for six out of eight fish stocks). In february 2019, the european union adopted a multiannual management plan for the north western waters - one of the key fishing grounds in europe. The management plan contains the clear objective to exploit target fish stocks at msy. The plan should have been more ambitious with respect to certain conservation measures, such as exploitation targets for bycatch stocks and the protection of essential fish habitats (which was not included in the final text). Spatial/temporal restrictions on bottom trawling have been adopted during 2019 in the mediterranean that correspond to a total area of more than 94,000 square kilometers. These restrictions were approved under the western mediterranean multiannual plan (adopted in april 2019) and covered in separate decisions by the general fisheries commission for the mediterranean. They protect essential fish habitats. Habitat campaign one year before the deadline, the eu has achieved the target of declaring more than 10 percent of the marine and coastal waters protected (mpas). Official figures indicate that more than 12 percent of eu waters are now designated as mpas. This achievement has been made primarily through the designation of sites within natura 2000 (the eu coordinated network of protected areas). Oceana has been instrumental in raising the importance of mpas on the eu agenda, in advocating for the original 10 percent target to apply to all eu waters (and not only the atlantic, as originally proposed by the eu), in gathering and providing data that have contributed to the protection of sites, and in lobbying eu member states to protect areas of high ecological value. Such sites have included extensive areas that are now designated natura 2000 areas in malta (2252 km2), portugal (22,880 km2) and spain (44,474 km2). In february, spain expanded cabrera national park to make it the second-largest marine national park in the mediterranean. Oceana had been working to expand the park since 2007. In 2013, oceana joined cabrera's board of trustees, and in 2017, achieved an unprecedented parliamentary consensus in spain: almost all the political parties in the spanish congress and all of those in the senate supported the expansion of the park. The park, located south of mallorca, will provide the highest level of legal protection for threatened marine life. Oceana has also provided its detailed data from research expeditions to the national parks autonomous agency, which will use the information to develop management measures for the park. The uk government designated 41 new marine conservation zones (mczs) earlier this year. This means that the uk has substantially completed its ecologically coherent network of marine protected areas, with 355 mpas amounting to over 30 percent of uk seas now designated as mpas. During the 2018 public consultation process on the potential designation of new mczs, oceana formally presented a detailed response that included oceana data and supporting photographic evidence from two areas surveyed during the north sea expeditions. Using this data, we argued in favor of the designation of the sites, and of the expansion of their boundaries to include features of conservation importance in adjacent waters. Both sites have now been designated. The uk government is now also undertaking a review of highly protected marine areas and is currently holding a public consultation on the need for these to become strictly protected sites. Oceana is responding to the consultation and engaging with both civil servants and members of the review”

“Mexico transparency thanks to oceana, anyone with an internet connection can now, for the first time, access the historical vms data of over 2,000 vessels. Previously only 34 vessels were publicly visible. However, the government refused to announce its commitment to regularly release the data to global fishing watch and so to get this, we will continue to campaign until the government is fully committed to sharing the data. Seafood traceability our work on seafood fraud over the past year has made this issue visible to the public. The actions and statements of government officials prove it is now clearly part of the public agenda. On march 12, we launched our first seafood fraud report, called "gato x liebre", during an event which remains, to this day, our most publicized moment. In the days and weeks following this launch there were numerous stories on print, tv and radio news sources, as well as a lot of interest on social media. A single video news story of our campaign by online news site brut, has over 3.9 million views on facebook as of the writing of this narrative. The government went on the record shortly after the launch. On may 6, conapesca published an official press release, on their website, committing to improving traceability. Further, in an official document called the national norms and standards program, the government committed to publishing a norm on traceability. The fisheries agency, conapesca, followed a couple of weeks after that with a reaffirmation of this commitment in the shape of a press release on their website. We have been asked to be a part of this working group which will give us the opportunity to bring meaningful traceability measures into the discussion. However, the traceability requirements are not yet in place. To that end we have prepared briefing materials for key officials defining the minimum requirements for a good policy. We also held a press conference with representatives of the fishing industry and processors who stand with us on our proposal. Together, we urged the government to use the resources and collective experience of the fisheries community to put together the best possible traceability rules. We continue to build alliances within the fishing industry on this issue and continue to pressure conapesca to deliver a meaningful traceability rule by 2020. Fisheries rebuilding we launched this campaign on june 11, with the release of our fisheries audit, which we called "fishing blind". A few days before that, on june 5, we were invited to present the same information to the fisheries committee of the chamber of deputies. After this session, the committee chair, deputy maximiliano ruiz, gave interviews to several media outlets where he talked about the dire future of the fisheries sector, using some of our talking points. Our messages were aligned. In our audit, we underscored how little public information exists to support the government's assessments of the status of commercially important fish species in mexico. The main conclusion of our audit was that we know a lot less than we think we know about the status of fisheries in mexico, and that what we do know is quite troubling. We were positively surprised by the amount of media attention that the fisheries audit got. Despite being very technical, it was very appealing to the public. We used the launch of the audit to quickly pivot the conversation to the concept of rebuilding, which is not at all a familiar concept in the world of fisheries in mexico. This is one of our main, ongoing tactics for our campaign: create a narrative on the need to rebuild fisheries. As with the seafood fraud study, the fisheries audit was intended to build the space for our policy solution, so, during the first part of the year, we also worked on putting together this policy solution. We did this in the shape of a legal reform proposal that spells out what changes are needed to which articles in the fisheries law. The focus of the proposal i”

“Plastic pollution last december, oceana and our allies in peru won passage of a new plastic reduction law which regulates both the use and production of disposables, including plastic bags, straws, expanded polystyrene packages, and plastic tableware. This law sets real deadlines, from 1 to 3 years, to limit the manufacture for domestic use, import, distribution, delivery, trading and use of disposable plastics. Oceana was instrumental in drafting the legislation and actively advocated for its quick passage. Also, last august the regulations for this law were issued. This legal instrument, while far from perfect, outlines a number of complementary measures required for better control and reduction of single use plastics. Oceana's communications campaign played a significant role in the consultation process by promoting a number of open discussions about the subject in social media. Despite actively campaigning against the law, pamolsa, the largest plastic food container producer, is moving towards elimination of single-use plastic by implementing new production lines of cardboard and vegetable fiber containers. Several other local plastic producers and distributors are also starting to take action to replace single use plastics by the deadline of december 2021 established by the plastics law. We have commissioned a short consultancy to assess the reliability of these commitments and the state of implementation in the private sector. The results of this analysis will be used in future communication campaigns focused on public surveillance and reporting. The plastics law prohibits production (for national use), import, distribution, and sale of styrofoam (expanded polystyrene) by december 2021. Even so, most of the main fast food chains (burgers, rotisserie chicken and pizza) in peru have already moved on to using cardboard for their take-away containers. Also all the restaurants of the gaston acurio corporation have stopped using styrofoam. Deter illegal fishing the fisheries agency, produce, has put on hold the international trade of cites-restricted species until they have effectively overhauled their office responsible for providing cites permits and certifications. This action was taken after the interception of several shipments containing tens of tons of illegal shark fins. The agency also removed and is investigating officers suspected to be involved in corruption around cites permits. Oceana provided training to officers at customs, produce, the marine research institute (imarpe) and the ministry of the environment (minam), and produced and disseminated a state-of-the-art identification guide for shark fins as part of this campaign. Additionally, oceana's advice and support to the peru delegation participating at the recent cites cop18 in switzerland resulted in the adoption of additional necessary measures to thwart the illegal trade of sharks. The new measures will affect the global shark trade, requiring countries to report the current extent of stockpiled shark products for cites-listed species, eliminating a loophole in the control system. This achievement is the result of a two-year-long collaboration between oceana and the peruvian cites authorities and was made possible through the support of an international coalition of ngos working with their respective governments. Philippines protect sardines/establish national rules on fisheries management areas the bureau of fisheries and aquatic resources (bfar) this year established twelve fisheries management areas co-managed by local and national governments and stakeholders throughout the country. This system, similar to fisheries management councils in the us and other countries, promises to provide more transparent and coordinated decision-making on fisheries. Taking advantage of the new system, we are working in several fisheries management areas in the center of the country to improve management of sardines, the largest catch by weight in the philippines. The fis”

“Strengthen coral-rich marine protected areas we recently got board approval for a new campaign to protect a relatively pristine coral reef area in panaon island in leyte. We will seek legal protection under the expanded national integrated protected area system. We visited several sites in 2019, and the coral reefs of panaon island stood out as exhibiting good live coral cover. Panaon island's waters are estimated at around 25,000-30,000 hectares. Its reef is classified as a very good candidate for conservation. It has a high diversity of fish and corals and there are signs of recovery from blast fishing in the 80's. It is a feeding grounds for whale sharks, dolphins, sea turtles and other large marine vertebrates. There are sightings of the rare and endangered leatherback turtles. Fisherfolk benefit from the spill-over effect of at least 10 locally protected marine protected areas. In addition, both political dynamics and sustainable tourism potential are promising. Illegal fishing and transparency oceana secured vms data from two countries (chile and mexico) and published it on the global fishing watch platform. The chilean government signed an agreement on may 15 to make its vessel tracking data publicly available through the global fishing watch map as a result of oceana's collaboration with the chilean government to increase transparency of commercial fishing in chilean waters. Oceana also created alerts for two countries, brazil and the philippines, using gfw. In brazil, an automated alert system sends a report to oceana's brazil office when a foreign flagged fishing vessel enters the brazilian exclusive economic zone (eez). An additional message is sent when a vessel appears to fish in the territorial sea of southern brazil (12 nautical miles from shore), the area where we won a trawling closure year-round and an industrial purse seine closure from may 15 to july 31 each year. The brazilian office can investigate any fishing by inferred trawlers or purse seiners during the closures to identify vessels that violate these closures and to evaluate the effectivity of fishing vessel compliance with the closures in southern brazil. Oceana analysts developed an automated alert system for the philippines that sends a report to oceana's philippines office when a foreign vessel enters the philippine eez. All available data on the vessel's activity (i.e., possible fishing events, rendezvous, gaps in ais transmission, and port visits) over the previous month are reported in pdf format, including a map and table of events. The alert will allow members of oceana philippines to monitor the intrusion of foreign vessels in philippine waters. Oceana also modified and improved the peru alert to enhance enforcement capacity of peru's customs agency. Oceana analysts also conducted their own research and worked with oceana offices to write four reports and make data available to support advocacy efforts. Due to confidentiality restrictions and constraints in naming vessels, not all the reports were made available to the public. Most notably, our team provided oceana chile with information allowing it to demonstrate to the south pacific regional fishery management organization that the largest factory vessel in the world, the damanzaihao, was engaging in suspicious activities. South pacific regional fisheries management organization took action against the countries involved and decided to keep the vessel on its illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (iuu) list. Oceana is building a platform to track vessel speeds along the east coast of the united states and canada to identify vessels that exceed speed restrictions in any of the seasonal or dynamic management areas that were established to protect north atlantic right whales. Additional layers on the map will show critical habitat and any near real-time whale sightings if the data is available.”

“In 2019, we achieved several victories in chile: congress passed a law to deter and punish illegal fishing. Chile has made all data from its vessel monitoring system available on global fishing watch. The south pacific regional fisheries management organization kept one of the world's largest transshipping "reefer" ships on the illegal, unreported, and unregulated (iuu) fishing blacklist. The only operation dumping mine tailings in the ocean will soon terminate operation. Antibiotic use in salmon farms per unit of farmed salmon decreased by 50 percent below its rate in 2012. Habitat protection for the first time, chile's national budget for 2019 included a line item for the administration of marine protected areas and budgeted $400,000. This was the result of oceana's work to ensure that mpas are successfully managed and fulfill their promise for conservation and communities. We continue to advocate with national policymakers for additional funding for this line item. Juan fernandez islands: our strong relationships within the fishing community of juan fernandez are advancing the management planning for their mpa and also national communications that promote the area. We worked with fishers in juan fernandez to address several areas of the fisheries law that, in practice, are deterring sustainable fishing in mpas of multiple uses including theirs. We are providing technical assistance to fishers who were applying for government funding for several fisheries and environmental projects that would help them manage their mpa. La higuera: economic inequality is playing out in la higuera where we are supporting the community to protect its marine resources from unsustainable mining interests. In september, chile's supreme court ruled in our favor to return the case against the dominga desalinization and port project to the environmental court to review the government's denial of a permit for the project. Oceana has longstanding strong relationships with the local community and artisanal fishers because of our successful campaign to defeat a coal power plant there in 2010, and the drawn out legal battle over the dominga project has broadened and deepened this base of support. Although there are vocal community members who support the environmentally destructive development that dominga wants, the humboldt alliance, which we helped build, now has about 95 organizations working to defeat dominga, establish an mpa there and strengthen sustainable fishing and tourism in la higuera. Tortel: based on the results of our april workshop with the tortel community on the rich biodiversity of the area and their vison for the management of their marine resources, we have continued to support the community as they develop a management plan for the new mpa. Katalalixar: we completed the scientific documentation for the proposal for additional protections in patagonia for katalalixar, including both the marine and terrestrial components which we oversaw at the request of the government. The rich biodiversity we found (identifying about 300 marine species) support raising the area's designation from a natural reserve to a marine park, the strongest designation for protection in chile. Our goal is to submit this proposal, together with the local indigenous communities, to conaf (the chilean protected area service) early in 2020 and to achieve an mpa there by the end of 2020. Also in patagonia, we expect the government to finalize a management plan for the mpa there by mid-2020 in accordance with our timeline. Protect common hake and jack mackerel we continued to support vigorous implementation of the major iuu fishing law that we won at the beginning of 2019. Chile's vessel monitoring system (vms) data is now available on global fishing watch. This achievement is a milestone in our campaign to get better management for common hake, which suffers from significant exploitation in areas of national jurisdiction and in the high seas. Our chile office has”

“Oceana's wavemakers, facebook/twitter/instagram followers took action for oceana 27 million times, handily beating the 2019 goal of 15 million actions. Pr and media we published 18 blogs and had 174 thought leaders share our digital content. Exceeded our 2019 goal of 8,167 strategic media hits. We published five ceo notes. We earned over $19 million in psa placement value, beating our 2019 goal $2.5 million. We published the 2018-2019 annual report and three magazines. Publications oceana published 40 reports in 2019: united states casting a wider net: more action needed to stop seafood fraud in the united states (march 2019) dirty drilling: trump administration proposals weaken key safety protections and radically expand offshore drilling (april 2019) illegal fishing and human rights abuses at sea (june 2019) last chance for survival for north atlantic right whales (september 2019) europe responsible sourcing recommendations for the spanish seafood supply chain (february 2019) protecting the north sea: brown bank (may 2019) towards the creation of a marine protected area in the aeolian islands (may 2019) protection beyond borders: an opportunity for the quark (december 2019) protecting the north sea: cleaver bank (december 2019) protecting the north sea: holderness (december 2019) protecting the north sea: new research for biodiversity recovery (december 2019) brazil demystifying monitoring: the role of civil society in generating data on fishing activity (march 2019) artisanal mullet fishing in the municipality of laguna, santa catarina, with the use of ringed gillnets in the 2018 harvest (march 2019) spatial dynamics of the ringed gillnet fleet during the mullet harvest in 2018 (march 2019) evaluation of the morphological and meristic variability of the mullet landed in the southeastern and southern regions of brazil as a tool for the identification of population subunits (march 2019) catch quotas applied to mullet fishing a critical evaluation of the 2018 harvest (march 2019) size structure of mullet captured by the ringed gillnet fleet and its relationship with the different mesh sizes used (march 2019) canada comments on the draft national fishery monitoring policy (february 2019) comments on the dfo document for consultation: proposed elements of a regulation to list major fish stocks and to describe requirements for fish stock rebuilding plans (february 2019) rebuilding canada's fisheries: submission to the senate standing committee on fisheries and oceans (may 2019) the impact of widespread seafood mislabeling on canadians: presentation to the house of commons standing committee on fisheries and oceans (may 2019) economic and social benefits of fisheries rebuilding (may 2019) oceans of opportunity: the economic case for rebuilding northern cod (may 2019) the last 400: strategies for saving north atlantic right whales in canada (september 2019) mislabeled: montreal investigation results and how to fix canada's seafood fraud problem (october 2019) fishery audit 2019 (november 2019) chile antibiotic use in chilean salmon farming between 2015 and 2017 (april 2019) proposal to limit the generation of disposable products and regulate plastics (may 2019) mexico gato x liebre: the fish on your plate may not be the one you ordered (march 2019) mexico fisheries audit (june 2019) peru global fishing watch user manual (january 2019) technological alternatives for the control of discards and reduction of catches of juveniles in the anchovy fishery (january 2019) regional governments and fisheries management: plans, competencies and budgets (january 2019) illegal production of fishmeal in peru (february 2019) analysis of the normative framework of elasmobranchs with an emphasis on sharks (february 2019) keys to the 5-mile anchovy fishing debate in the south (march 2019) shark fin identification guide in peru (may 2019) the value chain of the shark fishery in peru (june 2019) towards an ecosystem fisheries policy in peru: aspects an”

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“This return presents consolidated financial statements for oceana, inc. And its non-u.s. Affiliates. Oceana has offices in spain, brazil, denmark, belgium, mexico, philippines, belize, london, chile and peru for the purpose of building an international movement to save the ocean through public policy advocacy, science and economics, legal action, grassroots mobilization, and public education. The operations in spain, belize, brazil, mexico, switzerland, and the united kingdom are incorporated as independent entities in those countries under local law. However, these entities are dependent on oceana for funding, participate in oceana activities and decision-making, and carry out the general mission and international activities of oceana.”