Founded in 2014, FlyWire provides technology to track what happens on an individual fishing vessel, such as where the vessel sails, where it fishes, what is caught, and how much, seamlessly capturing critical fisheries data at sea. Integrated hardware is installed on-vessel to monitor catch, handling, efficiency, and vessel performance using video, GPS, and other sensors throughout the fishing trip. When the vessel returns, data are uploaded to the cloud, then AI processes big data sets for human review to finally generate reports for key stakeholders.

This project led by the Mounu Ocean Academy contributes to reef monitoring and whale conservation through community education, participation, and volunteer training. A training course will be developed to teach volunteers how to conduct regular reef surveys. The data will inform citizen science initiatives such as Reef Check and Coral Watch.

At microTERRA, we produce functional fiber from Lemna, a high-quality, clean-label texturized which represents a $30Bn industry. Our vision is to create ingredients that help protect our environment. Ingredients that instead of using water, are cleaning water. We partner with farms to scale up and grow lemna in an affordable way. Most importantly we are cleaning water, stopping downstream pollution, and reducing agricultural water footprint.

This project seeks to solve one of the most important problems in the ocean: the over-exploitation of fish populations for the production of animal feed. We seek to solve this through the use of undervalued resources such as (insects, microalgae, and undervalued native plants) for the production of fish pellets for aquaculture. We work together with the Integral Cooperative of Mayan-indigenous peasants in Quixaya, Guatemala, providing them with a tool that will help them achieve economic sustainability.

Training 10 students over the course of 5 months on ocean conservation in Colombia, as well as local cleanups around Baranquilla.

Based in Baja California and affiliated with the Management of Ecosystems Across the Californias organization, this project conducts research and monitoring to identify rocky reef sites that are best suited for implementation of a recent kelp forest restoration technique: green gravel. It is a low cost technique involving seeding small rocks with juvenile kelp that will contribute both to ecosystem restoration as well as fishing livelihoods to those dependent on the kelp. The target for this project is to seed 300 square meters.

This grant supports the work of Marulho, a for-profit social enterprise organization founded by Ocean Leader and Brazil Hub member, Beatriz Mattiuzzo, that recovers abandoned fishing nets and repurposes them into goods for sale. The outcome is to reduce ghost fishing and marine debris. Funding requested is for capacity building (new computer, improving wifi access on the remote island where located). marketing (video production equipment for social media campaign) and direct costs associated with removing debris (scuba gear).

Bocas de Ceniza is the point where the Magdalena River flows into the Caribbean Sea. In this wonderful place, three ecosystems can be appreciated from the same position: beach, river and mangrove. During the last 10 years this region has been seriously affected by pollution and toxic waste thrown into the river by industries. This group developed an educational series, implemented a clean up, and introduced a citizen-science process, encouraging participatns to identify and document usable material and the process in a toolkit. The project will directly benefit the population of Bocas de Cenizas by reducing riverine and marine pollution and through education.

With this project, Sciaena aims to promote a moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining in Portugal, reaching at least 10,000 people. The will do this by coordinating with Oceano Livre to increase membership, organize joint actions with anti land-mining movements in Portugal, and organize a public event. They will also organize meetings with the Minister and the National Director for maritime policy, as well as update Oceano Livre's internal documents, websites and campaign materials.