An Advocate for the Ocean
Protecting the ocean through science, policy, and global action.
Science-Based Advocacy
We translate the latest ocean science into accessible narratives, campaigns, and policy solutions that inspire action and support stronger conservation outcomes.
International Leadership
As an accredited Civil Society Observer, we participate in multilateral negotiations and global conservation processes, ensuring ocean priorities remain central in decision-making spaces.
Community-Powered Conservation
Through the Hope Spot network, we support local Champions, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and communities working to protect the places they know and love.
Ambition Into Protection
We advocate for durable policies, effective marine protection, and accountable implementation—because commitments alone are not enough without measurable action.
Large-scale, commercial fishing operations have devastating impacts on ocean ecosystems in the water column and on the seafloor. Practices such as trawling and the use of massive nets can deplete fish populations and destroy essential habitats, including reefs and seafloors.
Mission Blue believes large-scale industrial fishing should be stopped due to its contribution to biodiversity loss and disruption of the ocean’s balance, threatening the health of the entire planet.
Mining the deep ocean floor for minerals could destroy sensitive, largely unexplored habitats, harm biodiversity, and create long-lasting environmental damage, including sediment plumes and potential release of stored carbon.
Mission Blue believes deep-seabed mining should be stopped. We must prioritise the health of the deep ocean over extraction, given the potentially catastrophic risks to ocean health and biodiversity.
The Southern Ocean is a critical regulator of Earth’s climate and a stronghold for wildlife found nowhere else on the planet. Industrial fishing in this fragile region, particularly for krill, disrupts food webs that sustain whales, seals, penguins, and countless other species, while weakening one of the ocean’s most important life-support systems.
Mission Blue believes industrial fishing in the Southern Ocean should be stopped, as the extraction of Antarctic wildlife threatens biodiversity, destabilises marine ecosystems, and undermines the health of the global ocean.
The ocean and climate are inseparable. Climate-driven changes are already reshaping marine ecosystems and human communities through warming seas, acidification, sea level rise, and disruption of ocean currents and food webs.
Mission Blue believes we should take every opportunity to combat climate change because ocean health is directly tied to planetary health, and protecting marine environments is essential to mitigating the worst impacts.
© NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration.
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No water, no life.
No blue, no green.
The ocean sustains every breath we take.
Together, we can accelerate protection, strengthen Hope Spots, and secure a thriving future for our blue planet. Be part of a global movement turning science into action and hope into lasting protection.
