Ocean Strategies

Ocean Strategies’ Mission: 

To foster and support the hard and honest conversations that are required to ensure sustainable, equitable and accessible fisheries for generations to come.

Grant Project Goal(s):

To improve coordination and education between existing and future aquaculture industries and California’s commercial fishing community (including fishermen, leadership, staff, supply chain, NGO partners and policy-makers).

Background:

The aquaculture siting and development efforts occurring off the California coast has the potential to exacerbate existing tensions between wild and farmed seafood stakeholders.

The need and strategy for this project is informed by Ocean Strategies’ past 2.5 years of investigative and coalition work within national aquaculture dialogues broadly, and with Pacific Coast and commercial fishing stakeholders specifically. It’s also informed by previous outreach by the Shareholders Alliance in the Gulf of Mexico (a former Sea Pact grantee), whose methodology, results, and relationships which will be scaled and leveraged.

Key Learnings:

In progress.

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