Join Shark Stewards at the annual Walter Munk Ocean Day celebration and education event Saturday October 4th, 2025. Meet our team, learn about shark senses, the importance of sharks and what happens when sharks disappear and why we should protect them.
Read MoreNo Kings Berkeley Ocean
“NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon.
The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us fo Stop the Ocean Steal No Kings Day Berkeley October 18.
We are ocean activists and will be in costume with signs to protect endangered sharks, whales and seabirds imperiled by the President’s Executive Orders.
SHARKED Act in Senate Committee- Act Now
Reintroduced into the House in spring 2024, the Supporting the Health of Aquatic systems through Research Knowledge and Enhanced Dialogue Act of 2025 is supported by the recreational fishing industry and lobby bemoaning shark depredation on their catch. The bill could could have serious impacts on shark populations in all US waters. While ostensibly having Congress create a task force to examine shark depredation and human interactions, it has the potential to open protected areas or fishing for sharks. Without little scientific merit or credible support, the SHARKED Act language is a thinly veiled approach to open fishing on protected species and greenlight shark culls, tournaments and sportfishing for sharks in US waters.
Read MoreThe Devil’s Teeth & Iron Swimmers
Today Catherine Breed—UC Berkeley alum, Bay Area marathon-swimming force, and connoisseur of extreme swims, has completed the SE Farallones to the Golden Gate swim under classic marathon swimming rules (no contact, no suit aids, no music). In calm conditions Breed Catherine Breed became the 7th swimmer and the 4th to swim from SE Farallon Island to the Golden Gate Bridge in 13 hours, 54 minutes- shaving almost 4 minutes off the previous record held by Joseph Locke in 2015.
Read MoreExecutive Order Threatens Sharks, US Coral Reefs
On April 17, President Trump issued an executive order would open large U.S.- marine protected areas to commercial fishing. The order authorized the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and US Fish and Wildlife Service to implement US-based fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. The proclamation threatens Pacific Island heritage, endangered species, and some of the healthiest coral reefs and marine ecosystems in the world.
Read MoreSave Our Seas, Save Ourselves
On July 12, Shark Stewards hosted a screening of David Attenboroughʻs Ocean and other short films at our annual ocean education event in Kailua-Kona Hawaii. This impactful film premiered at the UN Ocean Conference June 8, 2025. In Ocean, Sir David so eloquently highlights the numerous threats to the ocean and marine life, particularly bottom trawling. A major source of hope at the UN conference and in the film, is the establishment of no-take marine protected areas (MPAs), including the Channel Islands MPAs in California, and the Papahānaumokuākea in Hawaiian waters.
Read MoreStop the Ocean Steal
Today, Shark Stewards launched a new youth oriented social media campaign to stop IUU fishing, Overfishing sharks and generating a youth movement to defend marine protected areas in the USA.
The campaign is directed at young and first time voters in the US to focus on changing the congress in 2026 to support maintaining legal protection of US marine protecetd areas, and support funding for Climate science, USFWS and NOAA so that agencies can effectively fulfill their mission.
Read MoreShark Week: A Deep Dive or a Light Touch for Sharks
As July 20, 2025 marks the start of Discovery Channel’s 37th annual Shark Week, millions of viewers around the world are gearing up for a another week of shark-centric programming.
Read MoreSharktober Cleanup and Activity, Aquatic Park
Join Shark Stewards and science team for our annual Sharktoberfest celeabration of sharks and ocean health.
Support sharks and ocean health! We are preparing to make a statement in defense of the Sanctuaries Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act, all under threat.
Join us making signs and costumes to peacefully protest at the University Overpass on No Kings Ocean Day October 18.
Education, science and clean up and survey, Aquatic Park, Berkeley CA
Swim For Sharks and Ocean Health
We are swimming for sharks starting July 5th in the Triple Crown Kona swim in Kailua Bay.. This is a a starter swim to a GoFundMe building towards a point to point 10K swim in Bruno’s backyard from Magic sands to Kahalu’u Beach Park August 9, 2025.
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