Engage with us to drive social and environmental improvements in fishery and aquaculture communities.
Our mission
Our mission is to fund and carry out results driven multi-stakeholder social and/or environmental improvement projects with ocean conservation goals; assisting fishing and aquaculture communities by leveraging industry participation and utilizing advanced technology and scientifically sound solutions.
About us
We’re here to drive social and environmental improvement in fishery and aquaculture communities. We do this by organizing industry participants and technology providers to work collaboratively in multi-stakeholder projects by rewarding improved practices with better market access and prices.
Dive deeper into our current lobster project:
A formal Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) was created to use market influence to encourage lobster harvest strategies that minimize North Atlantic right whale (NARW) entanglements.
The key components of this FIP are to:
- Improve understanding of risk through spatial and temporal mapping
- Implement electronic traceability overlaid with NARW migratory data
- Provide real transparency for industry into the level of interaction and deployment needs for on-demand gear
The FIP was developed by an expert team, including Michael Carroll (industry expert – data technology and chain of custody) and George Lapointe (expert in conservation and management strategies/retired Commissioner of the Department of Marine Resources, state of Maine). Participants of the FIP include lobster industry, retail chains, nonprofits, governmental agencies and technology companies.
To learn more, click on the links below:
US Gulf of Maine & Georges Bank Lobster – Pot/Trap FIP
Implementing Strategies to Minimize Whale Entanglements in Lobster Fisheries
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