Niza is leading a research project to understand the adaptive strategies fishing cooperatives in Mexico are utilizing to maintain fish populations as climate changes. Her goal is to provide these strategies in an open-source database to inform US fisheries along coastal California and beyond.

To continue to raise awareness and affection for marine environments, OCR will produce 5 episodes on the fascinating ways fish, whales, and pinnipeds communicate, as well as the threats that noise pollution pose to their survival and ocean ecosystems at large. OCR has doubled its followers and views over the past year, thanks in large part to their well-produced videos on marine species.

Dennis and his team work with managers of the Anambas Islands Marine Tourism Park, a new management area made up of five small islands, to develop their regional marine management plan to: 1. Re-establish fish habitat and help to restore fish populations by providing artificial reefs of 40 coral spiders; 2. Increase the percentage of coral cover by transplanting 500 corals at restoration sites, and 3. Become a model of community-based conservation activities on small islands in Anambas.

Donal, Marine Policy Officer for the Fair Seas Campaign, will co-produce (with Marine Conservation Manager at Ulster Wildlife, Heidi), a monthly podcast intended to raise awareness of ocean issues and solutions in Ireland as well as global issue being addressed by SOA Ocean Leaders.

Timna Varela is establishing the first officially accredited Environmental Education Program within the Bay Islands of Punta Gorda, Honduras, aiming to educate members of the fishing community on marine conservation to establish a culture of sustainable stewardship.

Ambakofi will train 75 fishers from three coastal villages on sustainable mangrove restoration and maintenance, using the techniques of the Mangrove Action Project's Community Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration (CBEMR) course. These trainees will then work to restore (clear waterways of debris) and monitor 7.5 hectares of mangrove.

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.

This project aims to educate the average New York City resident about the ocean and marine ecosystems that the city interacts with and depends on. To enact these ocean literacy initiatives, the new SOA NYC Hub will use these funds to make an interactive website, create pop-up exhibitions, do classroom demonstrations and in-person cleanups of the critical waterways surrounding NYC.

This project is to specifically conduct the “Thresher Shark Champion Program”. The program will engage young communities of Alor to participate in ecological, fisheries monitoring, and conservation outreach programs to support the development of a local conservation policy in Alor. The Thresher Shark Champion Program will train local youths with leadership, communication, and conservation knowledge to undertake conservation initiatives that will stimulate behavior change in local communities who are targeting thresher sharks. This will help support the transition process to alternative livelihood solutions.