Asia and Pacific nations agreed at a meeting in the Philippines on Wednesday to take steps to protect whale sharks in a victory for the world's largest fish, officials said.
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission nations agreed that tuna fishers must stop setting their nets around the vulnerable giants in order to catch smaller fish that gather underneath them, said Palau fishing official Nanette Malsol.

Have you heard about the Triple Whammy Cleanup? This amazing event does three times the good and happens when you have three resorts who all Dive Against Debris at the same time.  Two Fish Divers, Bunaken, Lembeh and Nusa Lembongan collected 246 kilos of marine debris on one day in November.

As of the DEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 38 new 100% AWARE partners do! Many dive professionals support ocean protection but 100% AWARE dive centers and instructors are also committed to ocean protection in an extra special way. They make a donation on behalf of their dive students for each certification – all to support a clean, healthy ocean planet. 

I gruppi ambientalisti stanno celebrando l'odierno voto del Parlamento Europeo, atto a colmare le lacune del bando dello shark finning (la pratica del tagliare le pinne ad uno squalo per rigettarne poi la carcassa in mare) nell'Unione Europea: il culmine di sei anni di campagne e di dibattiti.

Natuur- en milieubeschermingorganisaties vieren de stemming die vandaag in het Europese Parlement plaatsvond over het dichten van de mazen in de regelgeving wat betreft het verbod van de Europese Unie op ontvinnen van haaien (het afsnijden van de vinnen bij haaien en de rest van de haai in zee teruggooien). Dit is een prachtig resultaat van zes jaar campagne voeren en in debat treden.

Umweltschützer haben Grund zur Freude, denn mit der heutigen Abstimmung des Europäischen Parlaments werden die Schlupflöcher gestopft, die es bisher in der Europäischen Union beim Finning-Verbot gab („Finning“ bedeutet, dass gefangenen Haien die Flossen abgeschnitten werden und der Körper des Hais wieder ins Meer geworfen wird). Diese Abstimmung bringt sechs Jahre Kampagnen und Debatten zu einem erfolgreichen Abschluss.

Les groupes écologiques célèbrent le vote du Parlement européen d'aujourd'hui pour mettre un terme aux failles de l'interdiction de la pêche aux ailerons de requins dans l'Union Européenne (les pêcheurs découpent les ailerons et jettent les corps par dessus bord). Ce vote est l'aboutissement de six ans de campagne et de débats.

As we turn the page on 2012, we celebrate what we’ve achieved this year and take a look at your ocean wishes for the future. With a movement of AWARE divers one million strong - we’ll continue to elevate solutions for the ocean worldwide.

A shark that swam from New Zealand to Fiji has returned home for Christmas, rounding off an 11,300km odyssey and amazed the scientists who tracked her journey.
In May, "Carol" became the first mako shark in New Zealand waters to be tracked with a satellite "spot" tag, under a Niwa research project funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries and Nova-Southeastern University in Florida.
Scientists watched in amazement as she set off for the Pacific Islands, only to change her mind halfway and turn back for a two-month stay near Ninety Mile Beach.

Conservation groups are celebrating today’s European Parliament vote to close loopholes in the European Union ban on shark finning (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea), the culmination of six years of campaigning and debate.
Members of the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of the European Commission’s proposal to impose the best practice for finning ban enforcement: a prohibition on removing shark fins at sea. The measure faced formidable opposition from representatives of Spain and Portugal, Europe’s leaders in catch of oceanic sharks.