Saving fish is a messy business. See how we make sense
of the complexity and surface solutions.
At one time almost all fishers fished as much as they could, as fast as they could, racing to catch as many fish as possible before the season ended or the total catch landed by all fishers reached its legal, predetermined cap.
Piracy pays. Growing seafood demand, combined with fewer fish, poor traceability systems, and a vast ocean impossible to patrol adds up to big returns for illegal fishers.
How can you regulate something you can’t see? That seemingly impossible task is exactly the core mission of fisheries managers.
Buying seafood is easy. Sourcing seafood responsibly is not. Consumers and retailers alike must wade through growing lists of health and environmental considerations when purchasing responsible seafood.
The challenges of developing-nation fisheries look very different from those of their commercially developed brethren.
Eating fish these days is a game of bait and switch: what you think you’re buying isn’t what you get.
Aquaculture has been around for millennia. But aquaculture as an industrial food system is in its adolescence, suffering from major growing pains.
Demand for oyster shell far outstrips supply. Increase the supply of shell to decrease the cost of restoration.
Pair industry and restoration in a way that taps into underutilized resources and piggy- backs on infrastructure and know-how that exists in other industries
Develop better risk mitigation strategies and improved dialogue around how to lower risk profiles of aquaculture farms.
Build distribution networks that help aquaculture producers access bigger markets
Future of Fish was the runner-up in the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an incredible honor for anyone in the field of socially responsible design.
