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Earthjustice, representing Oceana, prevails in lawsuit to recover Pacific sardines to protect whales, sea lions, seabirds, and other ocean animals that rely on the small fish for food

Pacific sardines are key food for whales, seabirds, and salmon, yet fishery managers are failing to rebuild populations

Ocean ecosystems are essential to our world, and thankfully, we can still chart a new path forward to protect them.

Ruling says government must establish new fisheries management measures to protect Pacific sardines and species that depend on them

Sardines are in need of protections like those the menhaden, a similar species, received after their population reached the verge of collapse.

There is a crisis occurring in the Bay Area: Since 2013, there has been a dramatic increase in sea lion strandings due to starvation.

Dangerously low sardine populations, starving sea lions, brown pelicans now have a chance.

In the fight to protect the health of our planet and of our communities, we all need sweet moments of inspiration to refuel and rejuvenate us. I’ve just had one in Monterey Bay, California.

Legislation would gut federal protections that have rebuilt 44 overfished stocks since 2000

Ruling finds Fisheries Service disregarded best available science and failed to prevent overfishing

Protecting tiny forage fish is good for the ecosystem and the economy.

The (at least) 62-year-old mother keeps calm and carries on.

Everything in the ocean is food to something else, a food web comprising many food chains. Earthjustice attorneys are stepping in to help stop the plunder of the ocean’s larders.

Over the last 100 years the industrial fishing fleet has become very good at strip-mining the ocean of forage fish

Over the past few decades, Earthjustice legal victories have been working to shape an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management in New England.

This is the fourth in a series of Q and As on Earthjustice’s oceans work, which works to prevent habitat loss and overfishing, as well as reduce the impacts of climate change on the ocean. Earthjustice attorney Andrea Treece is part of a core oceans litigation team whose work helps protect forage fish species like…

New report exposes risk posed by mismanagement of large-scale fleet, proposes solutions