Blue Ventures

As climate change bites, threatening an important fishery for the community, Om-Eli and other members of the Kewang, reflect on their place in a rapidly changing world. Our thanks go to @BloombergDotOrg Ocean Initiative and @BaliFixer for making this possible.

🎥 We’re excited to announce the release of our new short ocean film. Watch KEWANG: Nature’s ancient guardians in full, now youtube.com/watch?v=y1RbiZ… For four centuries, the Kewang of Haruku island, Indonesia, have strived to maintain the link between culture and the environment

More good news as Comoros follows suit to also join the FiTI! With an Exclusive Economic Zone approximately 100 times larger than its land area and an annual catch estimated at 33,000 metric tons, Comoros’ fisheries sector has immense potential to drive growth and sustainability

Ghana becomes the tenth country to join the FiTI, after Mauritania, Seychelles, Senegal, Cabo Verde, Madagascar, São Tomé and Príncipe, Ecuador, Guinea, and Chile. Here's why the standard is so important: blog.blueventures.org/en/what-is-the… Top image by Seyiram Kweku

🚨 Great news! The Republic of Ghana has announced its commitment to join the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI). The international standard ensures information about marine fisheries is transparent and publicly available - crucial for fair and sustainable management. 🎣

"#SSF are a vital source of nutrition and livelihoods for millions of people, we call upon COFI members to request that @FAO include #SSF as a permanent item on the #COFI agenda" Sustainable Fisheries Lead, Robin Davies, @WWF

🌊 Blue Ventures blue carbon specialists are equipping community groups with mechanisms to harness climate finance through simple, rapid and inexpensive methods to monitor carbon emissions from degraded mangrove habitats. 🌏 authors.elsevier.com/c/1jIgP~1MBrI4v

🚨 Success Spotlight!🚨 Blue Ventures' Paul Antion shares a dream realised, as the Velondriake Association becomes autonomous to lead and deliver grassroots marine conservation across the Locally Managed Marine Protected Area. More here: lnkd.in/edrNEtKh #Madagascar

"The work started by listening. And what we learned astonished us." BV's @aarhh joins blue whale research pioneer @ashadevos, oceanographer @SylviaEarle and marine policy expert @ayanaeliza in this episode of @TEDTalks' Radio Hour. 🎧 Hear it here: npr.org/2024/06/14/119…

🌏 Global efforts to transform bottom trawling receive coalition boosting 🐟 The @TBTCoalition announces direct support to members’ campaigns tackling bottom trawling and rebuilding oceans. Find out more: lnkd.in/eaRT2B6M @DPPKNTI @CanoeGear @TubeAwu2015 @dakshin_seas

We won’t stop in our mission to uphold the rights and evidence the importance of those who guardian earth’s life support systems. Find out more at blueventures.org 📷 Garth Cripps | Blue Ventures #WorldOceansDay

For almost two decades, we’ve supported coastal communities - as those who steward the most crucial parts of our oceans - to develop locally led approaches that benefit people and nature alike. 📷 Garth Cripps | Blue Ventures #WorldOceansDay

Our ocean has never been so vital, nor so threatened. It drives climate and weather, supplies oxygen for all and protein for many. #WorldOceansDay

@LIFEplatformEU @SeasAtRisk @TheOpenSeas @patagonia @patagoniaeurope @OceanaEurope @OceanaUK @BlueVentures @Bluemarinef @BLOOM_Eng @ejfoundation @ClientEarth Image: Megan Francis | Blue Ventures

Small-scale fishers of Europe delivered the #MakeFishingFair Open Letter to @VSinkevicius team @CarmenPreising to talk about how to support to low impact fishers - from fishing opportunities to subsidies. 🎣🪝🐟 makefishingfair.org

🚨 The Liberia Artisanal Fishermen Association says NO to industrial shrimp #trawling in their coastal zone! In April, @NAFAA_2017 invited stakeholders to validate a multi-species shrimp trawl fishery management plan🦐 But LAFA refused. Read this thread to understand why 👇

⚠ Thousands of fishers are calling on the EU to #MakeFishingFair EU fisheries management favours industrial fishing, like #bottomtrawling, starving low-impact fishers of their livelihoods, impacting the #ocean & local economies 🎣 Read their letter ➡️ makefishingfair.org

We are hiring a Logistics Officer - Mahajamba 📍Location: Mahajamba, Madagascar 🇲🇬 For more details, apply apply through the link: ↓ loom.ly/bMteSIM #conservationcareers

We are hiring a North West Partner Network Manager! 📍Location: Ambanja, Mahajamba, Madagascar 🇲🇬 For more details, apply apply through the link: ↓ loom.ly/BOZ7vWw #conservationcareers

📸 Dive into our latest photostory on fish value chain assessments done with fishers to understand the value of fishing as a business for better returns. loom.ly/Woel_I4 #sustainablefishing #oceans #communities