SeaWeb compiles numerous ocean briefing documents that provide concise summaries of pressing ocean issues for policymakers, journalists, conservationists and the general public who are interested or involved in ocean protection.

• Climate Change
• Development
• Fisheries
• Marine Habitats
• Marine Pollution
• Marine Wildlife

Climate Change

• Abrupt Climate Change (2008)
• Climate Change and Ocean Wildlife (2003)
• Environmental Change in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska (2003)

Development

• Dams: Their Impacts on Coastal Environments (2003)

Fisheries

• Fishing Down the Food Web (2008)
• Fishing Under Flags of Convenience (2002)
• Global Fisheries (2002)
• Managing Fisheries on the High Seas (2002)
• Salmon Farming (2001)
• Shark-Finning (2003)

Marine Habitats

• Climate Change in Alaska and the Western Arctic (2003)
• Coasts (2002)
• Large-Scale Ocean Circulation (2002)
• Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas (2008)
• Ocean Governance (2002)

Marine Pollution

• Chemical Pollution and Marine Mammals (2008)
• Contaminated Sediments (2004)
• The Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' (2008)
• Harmful Algal Blooms and Toxins (2007)
• Marine Arctic Contamination (2000)
• Marine Debris (2008)
• Nonpoint Source Pollution and Coastal Environments (2000)
• Nutrients (2002)
• Ports & Dredging (2004)
• Toxic Chemical Pollution (2002)

Marine Wildlife

• American Eel Decline (2004)
• Atlantic Salmon (2005)
• Ballast Water and Non-indigenous Species (2007)
• Commercial Whaling (2008)
• Coral Diseases & Syndromes (2000)
• Culling Whales to Boost Commercial Fisheries (2008)
• Decline of Steller's Eider in Alaska (2006)
• The Hawaiian Monk Seal (2002)
• Ivory Gull (2008)
• Loss of Marine Biodiversity (2006)
• Marine Mammal Mass Mortality Events (2007)
• Nonindigenous Species and the Marine Environment (2008)
• North Atlantic Right Whales (2002)
• Rapid Decline of Kittlitz’s Murrelets in Alaska (2005)
• The Smalltooth Sawfish (2008)
• The Spectacled Eider (2005)
• U.S. Marine Mammals: Status, Threats and Conservation (2008)