Welcome to Global Ocean Health

Preserving Our Oceans, Protecting Our Future

Global Ocean Health is dedicated to combating ocean acidification and climate change impacts through innovative solutions, including carbon dioxide removal strategies. We work to safeguard seafood sources and the ecosystems that support them, collaborating with Tribes, local communities, policymakers, and industry leaders.

Terry Williams taught us long ago to reach beyond the shoreline and tackle pollution problems where they arise, which is often on land. We take that lesson to heart. The ocean doesn’t care were we solve this problem. It cares that we do.

Our Focus Areas

• Carbon Dioxide Removal: Bringing together people and approaches to extract and sequester carbon dioxide, helping restore ocean health and balance the global carbon cycle.
• Education and Advocacy: Empowering communities with the knowledge and tools to protect marine resources and tackle environmental challenges.
• Policy Innovation: Crafting groundbreaking policy and strategies to address oceanic and atmospheric changes.
• Partnerships for Tribal Carbon Solutions: Collaborating with Tribes and Indigenous communities to develop tailored carbon removal solutions that respect and integrate traditional knowledge and sovereignty.

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PCC Community Markets shoppers raise nearly $10k for Global Ocean Health.

A big “thank you” goes out to PCC Community Markets for generating $9,812.50 for Global Ocean Health in a point-of-sale fundraising campaign during July 2023, plus the same amount for Salmon Safe, an organization with which we proudly share some common aims (Salmon Safe works with businesses to protect salmon habitat).

The video below was prepared at PCC’s request to support the campaign, which enlisted consumers to chip in to protect healthy waters and fisheries.

Starting in 2019, Global Ocean Health has partnered with the Seattle-based, consumer-owned cooperative grocery chain to develop its Chinook salmon sourcing policy. The policy sets a high bar for avoiding potential Chinook prey of Southern Resident Killer Whales, along with strong, data-driven requirements for sustainability of the harvest. The sourcing standard led to PCC buying Chinook from a handful of small fisheries that meet the bar, including a Native fishery at Tulalip that exists by dint of extraordinary measures to restore habitat, protect wild fish and provide healthy salmon for people. As part of our partnership with PCC, we also provide the cooperative with advice on options to help increase resilience of Chinook fisheries and tackle root causes of the coastwide Chinook salmon decline.

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