{"id":151161,"date":"2026-01-27T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151161\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:58:07","slug":"tears-of-the-tides-how-federal-law-shaped-californias-oceans-what-it-saved-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151161\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears of the Tides: How Federal Law Shaped California\u2019s Oceans, What It Saved &#038; What Comes Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Luo, a student at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, recently completed his internship with us as part of our \u201cResistance Office\u201d program. Check out Evan\u2019s excellent and educational research paper,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seaturtles.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tears-of-the-Tides-Final.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tears of the Tides<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/seaturtles.org\/what-six-months-at-tirn-taught-me-about-californias-oceans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his thoughts on his experience interning with TIRN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This analysis examines how five decades of federal marine protection statutes have shaped California\u2019s ocean ecosystem and wildlife populations. Through quantitative analysis of whale entanglements, sea lion strandings, sea otter populations, kelp forest collapse, salmon population crashes, white shark recovery, and sanctuary expansions, this study documents both successes and failures of the current regulatory framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Luo, a student at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, recently completed his internship with us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-151161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}