Founded in 2001, Oceana is the largest international organization focused 100 percent on ocean conservation. We win policy changes by conducting focused, strategic campaigns based upon sound science. Our campaigns are designed to achieve identifiable policy changes and results in a relatively short timeframe (roughly 3-5 years). Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates can be found around the globe, with regional offices in North America, South America, and Europe. Large-scale industrial fishing takes too much ocean wildlife from the water and destroys critical ocean habitat; land-based industries, meanwhile, put too many pollutants back in and the laws meant to check this destruction and degradation are ignored or selectively enforced. The result: declining fisheries, destruction of marine habitat, pollution of coastal waters, and poisoning of seafood are threatening the Earth's largest and most important natural system, as well as nearly one billion people around the globe who depend on the sea for livelihood and sustenance. With the help of nearly 300,000 WaveMakers worldwide we have begun to turn the tide on ocean destruction. Since our inception we have had tremendous victories including protecting more than one million square miles of ocean habitat from destructive bottom trawling. To get involved in the fight to save our oceans, visit oceana.org.