Marine Conservation Initiative
From 2004 to 2024, the Marine Conservation Initiative invested more than $430 million to support healthy and resilient ocean ecosystems to sustain current and future generations. Over the course of the initiative, grantmaking advanced comprehensive ocean planning, sustainable fisheries management, and habitat protection in high-priority North American seascapes, spanning the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. The
final initiative evaluation concluded that the initiative’s grantmaking partners achieved sweeping place-based Indigenous-led ocean habitat protections in Canada, regional and national systems change in ocean governance and policy in all the supported geographies, and significant improvements in fisheries management in the U.S. and Canada (as shown in an
earlier initiative evaluation). The lessons from the initiative informed and shaped the creation of the Arctic Ocean Initiative.
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