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Saving our oceans is a large part of Jackie Savitz mission.

Jackie Savitz

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Jacqueline Savitz is Chief Policy Officer for North America at Oceana. Her background and training in marine biology and environmental toxicology, combined with nearly three decades of policy experience, provide Oceana with a combination of sound science, clear environmental vision and successful leadership.

Career Life

• In 1989 Savitz started her career as a research assistant for the Chesapeake Research Consortium.

• In 1992 she became an environmental scientist in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and worked there for 4 years.

• In 1996 Savitz worked with the Environmental Working Group as an Environmental Analyst.

• In 1998 Savitz became the Executive Director of Coast Alliance for 4 years

• In 2002 Savitz joined Oceana as Senior Campaign Director for 10 years.

• In 2012 she became Deputy Vice President of U.S Campaigns.

• A year later in 2013 Savitz was then the Vice President of U.S Oceans and Global Fishing Watch.

• In 2016 to present day Savitz became Senior Vice President leading Oceana's advocacy in the United States.

• 2 years later in 2018 Jackie Savitz became the Chief Policy Officer for North America Oceans.

Personal Life

• Savitz passion of ocean life began at a young age. Having spent most of her childhood summers at the jersey shore her enthusiasm for the water grew.
• At the age of 16, Savitz became scuba certified. And by the time she had finished her undergraduate degree from the University of Miami, she had been conducting oceanographic research.
• In 2002 a year after Oceana was founded, Savitz brought her passion for ocean life to Oceana and worked her way up the ranks and later became the Vice President of the organization.
• Outside of work Savitz continues to indulge in her life with the water. She finds activities that get her involved with the water including surfing scuba diving and snorkeling.

Bibliography

• Transparency can save our oceans, they cover 70% of our planet and that leaves them prone to abuses
• Worked at ocean-focused groups such as Coast Alliance, a network of over 600 American organizations working to protect the coasts from pollution and development.

Published Books

Title	Publisher	Date	Ref.
“Chesapeake bay basinwide toxics analytical capabilities survey and assessment”	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	1990
“Dishonorable discharge: Toxic Pollution of America’s Waters”	The Environmental Work Group	01/01/1995

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Oceana

Oceana was established by a group of leading foundations — The Pew Charitable Trusts, Oak Foundation, Marisla Foundation (formerly Homeland Foundation), Sandler Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund — after a 1999 study they commissioned discovered that less than 0.5 percent of all resources spent by environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went to ocean advocacy.

No organization was working exclusively to protect and restore the oceans on a global scale. To fill the gap, our founders created Oceana: an international organization focused solely on oceans, dedicated to achieving measurable change by conducting specific, science-based policy campaigns with fixed deadlines and articulated goals.

The Ocean Law Project — also initiated by The Pew Charitable Trusts — was absorbed into Oceana in 2001 as Oceana’s legal arm. In 2002, Oceana merged with American Oceans Campaign, founded by actor and environmentalist Ted Danson, to more effectively address our common mission of protecting and restoring the world’s oceans. Since its founding, Oceana has won more than 225 victories and protected more than 4.5 million square miles of ocean.

Sailors for the Sea Powered by Oceana is the world’s leading ocean conservation organization that engages, educates and activates the sailing and boating community toward restoring ocean health. Boaters see firsthand many of the issues that our oceans face, from pollution which fouls their playground, to overfishing and habitat destruction, which threaten marine life and the source of food for billions of people around the world.

Oceana’s support comes from foundations, organizations and individuals in more than 150 countries. Oceana benefits not only from cash contributions, but also from generous in-kind contributions of goods and services. In 2020, Oceana received cash and commitments from generous donors totaling $44 million, of which approximately $27 million was time- or program-restricted support and approximately $17 million was unrestricted.

Savitz's work with Oceana

Savitz also leads Oceana’s new international campaign to reduce the amount of single-use plastic being produced at the source.

Savitz has held several positions at Oceana over her 18-year tenure, including senior scientist, senior campaign director and vice president for U.S. campaigns.

She has been interviewed by hundreds of news organizations worldwide about a variety of issues, appearing on programs such as CNN’s John King USA, All Things Considered, The Diane Rehm Show, On the Media, The Mark Steiner Show, The O’Reilly Report and others.

A more detailed explanation as to what these senior scientists do such as Savitz does is they work closely with Oceana's Responsible fishing campaigns including to protect and restore fisheries, save the North Atlantic right whale, and improve shark fisheries management. These marine scientist service experts on fisheries and protected species issues, they provide research to support and further campaign goals, develop written materials including reports, comments and media statements, develop action plans and implement projects, and help to shape the strategy and direction of new and existing campaigns and initiatives. The marine scientists have extensive contact with research scientists and representatives of government agencies and other stakeholders. This position reports to the campaign Director and is based in the Washington, DC office.

Savitz had two jobs at in the campaign field during her time at Oceana. Some campaigns that she led and designed were to stop the expansion of offshore drilling, eliminate the use of mercury in chlorine production and improve wastewater treatment technology on cruise ships.

When Savitz was deputy vice president for U.S. campaigns at Oceana, her role was to oversee Oceana’s Responsible Fishing, Seafood Fraud and Climate and Energy Campaigns. She also led a feasibility study. That is when she developed plans for Oceana’s Save the Oceans, Feed the World project.

TED Talk- Saving our Oceans

Jackie Savitz gave a TED talk regarding saving our oceans for our food supply in 2014.

Jackie Savitz joined the TED talk stage when talking about how we can save the oceans and also feed the world at the same time.

More than a billion people go hungry on this planet, as the population increases, so does the number of people starving. Our arable land is declining. The oceans need to be abundant to supply as much food as possible Savitz explain

To determine how to keep providing food for the country through aquatic resources, Savitz states that most fish are in coastal zones, which falls under national jurisdiction. There are seven times as many fish in the coastal areas than there are in the high seas. By drawing the focus to the coastal areas, we can increase fishery, which in turn, increases food supply.

3 keys to bringing fisheries back:

1. Set quotas or limits on how much we take
2. Reduce bycatch- the accident catching of a fish that isn’t being targeted is very wasteful.
3. Protect habitats, nurseries, and spawning areas to increase the population of fish.

Savitz shows how the key factors were proven to work in other places such as Norway. After setting certain limits, the amount of fish dramatically increases.

As of 2013, 450 million people could be fed a daily meal by fish. In hopes of almost double that number, Savitz says putting fishery management companies would allow that number to increase to 700 million people in 10-15 years.

Fish is the most cost-effective animal protein on the planet in regards to fish protein per dollar invested. While it is the most cost-effective, Savitz raises the point that wild fish is also the lowest producer of greenhouse gasses when compared to poultry, pork, beef, and lamb. While consuming fish is excellent for the environment, It's also great for the body. Savitz covers some health benefits of consuming wild fish over red meat such as:

• Heart disease risk decreases by 24%

• Cancer risk decreases by 25%

• Obesity risk decreases by 5%

  

  Fishery used to harvest seafood for consumers.

As the TED Talk became to come to a close, Savitz covered some negatives in regards to more fisheries being active.

Savitz explains how Illegal fishing poses a risk when fisheries begin to increase. Illegal fishing includes unsafe/unpermitted catching, catching too many results in wasted fish, and the biggest problem facing consumers when it comes to seafood, seafood fraud.

Seafood fraud can occur when seafood is caught and then mislabeled. A problem that occurs often. In a test conducted by the Savitz team, over 1,000 seafood items were tested to see if they were labeled correctly. ⅓ of the seafood tested was mislabeled.

Education

• Jackie Savitz earned her bachelor's degree in marine science and biology from the University of Miami Florida.

• Worked at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory where she focused on contaminants in aquatic life,

• Jackie Savitz went on to earn her master's degree in environmental science at the University of Maryland, focused on toxicology while earning her master's.

• Along with studying toxicology she also has years of experience in policy holding that is very beneficial in her work at Oceana