Protecting Argentina’s seabed from prawn trawling, which is destroying habitats and preventing the recovery of fish species.
Rewilding Argentina have forged a strong relationship with the national parks administration and the Chubut provincial government. Both have visited the project and back the designation of 30 per cent of the sea. With the Chubut government, a 10-year collaboration was formalised, focussed on the construction of public infrastructure, legal protection of coastal areas, and the promotion of nature tourism.
For data to help support the designation we are monitoring eight humpback whales with the University of California. With the Environmental Policy Circle we are producing the first ever open-access vessel registry that contains information on the fishing fleet operating in waters under national jurisdiction.
Looking forward, Rewilding Argentina are organizing Argentina’s second congress on marine conservation, develop an analysis of the Argentine fisheries sector with the University of Santiago de Compostela, and support Chubut to establish a 450 km marine park.
Blue Marine supports local NGO Rewilding Argentina in their mission to protect 30 per cent of the waters of Chubut province in Patagonia from bottom-trawling and other threats, and ultimately to protect 30 per cent of the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Other partners include: Por La Mer, SeaLegacy, Patagonia Azul and Patagonia Projects.
Whale shark populations that gather around the African island nation of São Tomé and Principe are under threat. Blue Marine is teaming up with NGO partners and local fishers to help protect the migrating megafauna.
Whales migrate from South America along a ‘humpback highway’ to feed in the Southern Ocean. Blue Marine has helped protect a huge part of it, around the UK territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).
Shark fins for export are the main target of the Uruguayan fishing fleet. But now the government intends to protect 30 per cent of its Exclusive Economic Zone by 2030. Blue Marine is helping them achieve that goal.
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