Brazil has great social inequality and disadvantaged social classes have no access to quality education. Paraty is a natural paradise popular with tourists, but has overfishing, massive trawling, shark predation and other predatory activities, and there is no environmental education in the schools, selective waste collection, or treated sewage for all. This, the 3rd grant SOA has issued in support of the TransforMAR project, will continue to marine science education and scuba diving to inspire and educate low-income youth in the community.

Reeler is a mobile app launched in 2020 that connects fishers directly with consumers for affordable, traceable, and fresher fish. This grant will help them increase their number of seller listings, fulfillment percentage, and overall sales of sustainable catch in the Hawaiian Islands.

Blue Innov is a french company dedicated to the development of environmentally friendly innovations in the nautical sector. Their first implementation is an ocean-friendly antifouling innovation created by the dutch researcher Rik Breur.

To form new youth initiatives in coastal cities, we spread awareness on plastic pollution and marine litter by offering capacity building workshops for potential environmentalists and youth organizations. The training will be followed by offline advocacy action on beaches to stop marine litter produced by visitors.

Using laser-photogrammetry and manta rays sightings, this project with the Marine Megafauna Foundation is working to better understand the demographics and reproductive ecology of manta rays in the Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area. Understanding manta ray life parameters and growth rates informs tourism management to ensure that their habitats are being conserved and protected.

This project is solving the over-exploitation of fish populations for the production of animal feed through the use of undervalued resources such as (insects, microalgae, and undervalued native plants) for the production of fish pellets for aquaculture. Working with the Integral Cooperative of Mayan-indigenous peasants in Quixaya, Guatemala, this scalable project provided them with the tools that help achieve sustainability within their livelihoods and provides them with an economic alternative in the context of a social enterprise, making them more resilient.

This project seeks to engage wider audiences in the German-speaking world by making use of the social media graphics and material already developed by SOA, translating them into German, and engaging a social media expert to develop a sound communications strategy to engage specific target audiences.

PlanetCare has designed the only purpose built microfiber filter that has been independently tested to capture over 90% of the fibers of all size ranges before they leave the drain pumps. The filter is installed as an external attachment to washing machines. As part of a closed loops system, cartridges are collected after use and reused/recycled.

To assist fishers in the Gulf of Mexico fish more efficiently, the Center for Fisheries Electronic Monitoring at Mote will collect electronic monitoring data to provide rapidly generated hotspot maps of high catch and low bycatch locations to fishers and other fishery management partners.