Sidney Haugen

25/01/2026

Syracuse, Sicily, October 2024.

The Sea Eagle crew team up with the Italian Coastguard to remove fishing gear in a marine protected area.

98 cages and 1,750 meters of line were recovered in this operation, adding on to a growing list of successful actions retrieving fishing gear in the Mediterranean sea. Since 2021 the Sea Eagle has partnered with authorities to patrol the Mediterranean to fight back against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing in the world's most overfished sea.

Photos taken on assignment for Sea Shepherd
Drone shot by Chris Roman

18/01/2026

Gabonese territorial waters, August 2025.

Spinner shark eating discarded fish dropped off a trawler.

Many commercial fishing vessels dump discard at regular intervals, attracting sharks and other predators. Easy meals make sharks less reliant on natural prey and make them spend less time hunting in the wild by effectively creating temporary shark feeding hotspots with sharks sticking around the discard site for several hours or even days. These shark hotspots increase shark density, affecting not only shark behaviour but also local habitats by increasing bite-rates and shark activity in the discard area.

Photo taken on assignment for Sea Shepherd

16/01/2026

Skálafjørður, Faroe Islands, July 2022.
Aftermath of a drive hunt killing 100 bottlenose dolphins. The hunt is the biggest recorded hunt of bottlenose dolphins in the history of the Faroe Islands.

26/09/2024

14/05/2024

30/12/2023

To wrap up the year, like last year, I've wrapped up my complete year in activism along with some of my favourite media moments. This post is open to everyone supporting me on Patreon, so if you're already a supporter the post is up for your reading pleasure. If you're not already a supporter, but would like to become one, Patreon is a monthly donation-platform where you can support my work. Thanks to a growing support on Patreon the projects I participate in continuously become better and make a greater impact every year, and it wouldn't be possible without you. Thank you to everyone who supports me financially, as well as anyone who has interacted with my posts by liking, commenting, or sharing my photos, videos, and writings. I really couldn't have done it without you; here's to another incredible loop around the sun.

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02/11/2023

New update on my Patreon! As always, thank you so much to everyone who is supporting me over on Patreon. You make it all possible!

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07/10/2023

WINNERS! 🏆🎉

Lina Hoel Virik and Martin Skadal won this year's newcomer and honorary award at Gullroten Food Awards. So happy to see a couple of besties win the awards! 😍

01/10/2023

That's a wrap! The harpoons have been removed from Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9 and I'm on a bus back to Oslo. Thank you to old and new friends that have made these four months so memorable!

1: Average night in Iceland
2: White-sided dolphin in Gøtuvik
3: Puffins in Gásadalur
4: Elissa being annoyed that Gary and I wouldn't leave our shift
5: Group photo with Samuel and The Last Whaling Station
6: Elissa and Anahita in the masts of Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9
7: Hvalur 7 with the northern lights
8: Sadie at the whaling station doing God's work
9: Sunset in the Faroe Islands

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