🏷️ Topics include: Capacity Building; Coastal Communities; Fisheries
📍 Country/Region: Global
We believe that humanity’s overwhelming dependence on our oceans is the solution that has been hiding in plain sight.
So Blue Ventures is an organisation that puts people first. Our work sits at the nexus of human rights, marine conservation and food security to help coastal communities manage their fisheries, respond to climate breakdown, counter the injustices they increasingly face, and hold the most powerful to account. Our teams span the coastal tropics, empowering fishers in Asia-Pacific, the West Indian Ocean, West Africa and Latin America & Caribbean.
But we don’t work in isolation. To succeed, local actions have to be scaled across entire fisheries, fish stocks and seascapes, often extending hundreds of kilometres and including hundreds of fishing communities. We know that scaling through partnership is the cheapest, fairest and fastest solution for success. To rebuild fisheries and restore ocean life at scale, we build long-term relationships with like-minded partners who are already working closely with coastal communities.
Our local partners share our commitment to tackling overfishing and restoring marine life in ways that benefit coastal people. They work hand-in-hand with communities in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and they have the proximity, permanence and trusting relationships needed to lead lasting change.