About OceanMind
OceanMind Powers Marine Enforcement and Compliance
OceanMind is a non-profit organisation with the mission to power marine enforcement and compliance to protect the ocean’s ability to provide for human wellbeing.
The Twin Crises: Biodiversity Decline and Climate Change
The ocean is critical to humanity’s future. Not only is it an important global food source, a healthy ocean also plays a key role in providing oxygen to our atmosphere and regulating our climate. Yet the ocean is under dire threat from human activity and the relentless effects of climate change. UNESCO estimates that 60% of the world’s major marine ecosystems have been degraded or used unsustainably. Thousands of ocean species are threatened with extinction. Without the ocean’s ability to buffer carbon in biomass and habitats, emissions reductions will be unable to limit global warming.
Theory of Change
Most damaging human activities on the ocean are already regulated, the unaddressed challenge is enforcing these regulations in the wild, remote, vast ocean. Weakly enforced regulations enable activities such as illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, pollution, or slavery. If all the existing regulations were effectively enforced, human impacts on the ocean would immediately reduce, giving ecosystems a chance to recover. It would redefine humanity’s relationship with the ocean.
Ocean Equity
Almost half of the world’s population lives near the coast, with many coastal communities in developing nations being reliant on seafood for food security and livelihood. For these communities their equitable access to the sea is enshrined in regulation that provides for their right of access over industrial fishing. Weak enforcement results in devastation of community fishing grounds by industrial interests, causing loss of livelihood, poverty, and hunger, and in many cases displacement. Effective enforcement can ensure fisher’s rights, providing sustainable food and livelihood for entire communities.
The OceanMind Solution
OceanMind is a uniquely action-oriented implementing organisation. Our role is to bring knowledge and experience of all available data, technology, and enforcement best practices to help our partners achieve their compliance objectives.
OceanMind uses advanced technology combined with extensive ocean expertise to protect and restore nature and revive our ocean. Our innovative solution uses satellites, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing to analyse human activity on the ocean at the planetary scale, detecting illegal activity such as IUU fishing, pollution, even abuse of worker’s rights at sea. Our team of compliance experts join our partners’ team to translate this information into actionable intelligence for officials, and provide recommendations and training for what action to take for the most effective enforcement outcome.
