Beach Cleanup Aquatic Park

Join our Aquatic Park Stewards team testing water quality, cleaning up marine debris and helping maintain the lagoon and park.Meet our Friends of Aquatic Park partners and help collect data on this ongoing research and community science project.

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Trump Opens Pacific Marine Monuments to Commercial Fishing

President Trump signed an executive order that opens up commercial fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage National Marine Monument, covering about 490,000 square miles of ocean southwest of Hawaii. The removal of protected status under Executive Order has been proved in court under the last Trump Administration to violate the Antiquities Act. New litigation from environmental groups is pending in response to the Executive Order.

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Sharks and Biodiversity at Safari West

Conservation Dinner Series at safari West David McGuire of Shark Stewards joins us in the elephant room after dinner to give a talk about sharks. The conservation dinner series is complimentary to all dinner guests.

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Earth Day, Newport Back Bay

Join Shark Stewards with our science partners us at our booth and celebrate Earth Day, with the Newport Conservancy and check out the Muth Center’s shark exhibit. Learn about the importance of  sharks, rays and estuaries.

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Support Increasing International Protection for Endangered Sharks at CITES CoP20

As a U.S. nongovernmental organization Shark Stewards will attend CoP20 as a participant advancing the Oceanic Whitetip shark, Whale shark and Gulper Sharks. In addition we will be advancing the proposal with Mexico to increase Hammerhead sharks to Appendix I: the highest level of protection for trade available.

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Shark Retention Bans Can Save Sharks

A study published in the journal Fish and Fisheries this month revealed that fisheries could reduce shark death by requiring the release of threatened sharks caught as bycatch by at least three times. Known as retention bans, the practice requires that fishermen release certain sharks that are endangered or unwanted rather than retain them for their fins or some other use.

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Sharktober- Devil’s Teeth Farallon Island and Wildlife Adventures

Sharktober Farallon Island Adventure

It’s Sharktober! Join Shark Conservationist and Naturalist David McGuire and other wildlife specialists celebrating sharks in a life-changing experience searching the Gulf of the Farallones for whales, wildlife and our finny friends.

Join us exiting beneath the Golden Gate on the US Coast Guard certified vessel AMIGO,  for amazing photo and wildlife opportunities and crossing 28 miles across the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary on a modern day Natural History expedition.

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Shark Stewards Joins Nationwide Coalition to Support NOAA

Shark Stewards has joined 377 organizations and businesses nationwide have joined together to urge Congress to oppose actions by the Trump administration to dismantle, privatize, or significantly diminish the critical services and functions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

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