The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

DSCC Intervention Statement at the United Nations
2 February 2010 Members of the DSCC attending the ad hoc informal working group on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction, which opened at the United Nations yesterday (1st February 2010), made the following intervention... More

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CALL FOR GREATER PROTECTION OF THE DEEP SEA
4 December 2009 More

South Pacific RMFO Statement
12 November 2009 At the opening of the 8th Annual Meeting of of the South Pacific RFMO in Auckland (8 -14th November) the DSCC made the following statement. More

DSCC Opening Statement - 28th Annual Meeting of NEAFC
9 November 2009 DSCC delivered the following opening statement at the 28th Annual Meeting of NEAFC, 9-13 November 2009 More

Greenpeace supports calls to tighten bottom trawling regulations
Greenpeace is supporting calls to tighten regulations on bottom trawling by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation in Auckland this week.
10 November 2009

Greenpeace calls on supermarkets to stop deep sea fish sales
Several deep sea fish species are facing extinction from overfishing according to Greenpeace, who have called upon European supermarket chains to stop selling them.
6 October 2009

Aquacalypse Now
The New Republic
Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries.
28 September 2009

New Marine Protected Areas Declared in Mexico
As part of World Environment Day celebrations hosted this year by Mexico, President Felipe Calderón announced the creation of three new marine protected areas, including Mexico's first deep sea marine protected area.
21 August 2009

Researchers find 4,000-year-old coral species
Deep-sea corals are the oldest living animals with a skeleton in the seas
23 March 2009

Deep-sea fish found with "transparent head"
16 March 2009

Seven new species of deep sea coral discovered
9 March 2009

FAO report on high seas bottom fisheries released
A new report, "Worlwide Review of Bottom Fisheries in the High Seas", has been released by the FAO at the meeting of the FAO Committee on Fisheries in Rome.

Scientists Find Deep-Sea Coral Dying
During deep-sea exploration off the coast of Tasmania, a team of US and Australian scientists has discovered a range of previously unknown sea creatures. However, the reefs the scientists encountered appeared to be dying, something that has happened recently to most coral deeper than 1,300 metres.

Norwegian Coral Reefs Threatened
A Greenpeace Media Release

Marine Invasive Species Advance 50km per Decade
A rapid, climate change-induced northern migration of invasive marine is one of many research results announced Tues. Nov. 11 during opening day presentations at the First World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, in Valencia.

10 Highlights from the Marine Census of Life
Eight years into the most comprehensive analysis of living things in the world's oceans ever undertaken, scientists from 82 countries are giddy with excitement. Begun in 2000, the Marine Census of Life is being carried out by more than 2,000 scientists from 82 different nations.