We build common ground.

Nature is coherent. It’s humans who aren’t.

We pull together collaborative teams, often working across social divides to assemble a more coherent human response to the biggest challenges facing the world’s oceans and all who depend on them. The biggest challenges do not yield to blaming, finger-pointing or fearmongering. But often, people working together can make a real difference.

We started with a simple hypothesis that has since become a central axiom in much of our work: when the health of the ocean itself is threatened, the strongest champions are people who get their food and livelihood from the water.

We organize the scientific, policy, and communications support that ocean-dependent communities need to stand up for the sea that feeds more than 3 billion people. We help fishermen, seafood growers, scientists, and government officials team up to document, survive, and combat the effects of pollution. We pilot new methods to detect and reduce harm. We work with partners at every level to build resilience in fisheries and marine waters. And we help develop and refine the tools that are needed to reduce the immense waste streams of modern civilization that are turning the seas “hot, sour and breathless.”