March 2025 OU

You’re probably wishing, like me, that ocean health was the biggest problem you had to worry about right now. With a bright orange dumpster fire burning to the south of us and the far right rising east of us (not to mention among us), the year’s getting off to a pretty grim start. Add in a governing party preoccupied with choosing the firefighter-in-chief and a looming election; and it doesn’t seem likely that we’re going to see positive policy change for the environment any time soon. 

But action, soon, is exactly what’s needed for Southern Resident Killer Whales to survive, for harmful plastic marine debris to be removed from sensitive habitat, for salmon farms to be closed down for good and for meaningful action on seafood supply to prevent environmental and human rights abuses. In this issue of Oceans Update, you’ll read about all of that, plus our efforts to slay a zombie. 

We’re going to need your help more than ever to keep ocean issues on the radar screen of whomever forms our next federal government, so please, donate today!