MarAlliance
Founded in 2014 by marine biologist Dr. Rachel Graham, the non-profit works with fishers and other marine stakeholders to generate and disseminate essential data on threatened marine megafauna such as sharks.[1], rays, turtles, and large finfish while promoting sustainable fishing and income diversification. Their work aims to underpin conservation[2] and management efforts and to restore populations of threatened marine wildlife[3] by collaborating with stakeholders from the government, non-profit, academic, local communities and private sectors.
The organization conducts baseline assessments, carries out monitoring work, examines spatial ecology (species’ use of habitats and ecosystems) and population demographics, assesses artisanal fisheries and the effectiveness of marine protected areas[4]. Capacity building of fishers and outreach and education work with students[5] are part of its behavior change programs.
MarAlliance is registered as a 501(c)(3) organization in the US.
Countries[edit]
Belize: With 21 years of country-based experience working with large fish, turtles, fisheries, and the tourism sector in Belize, MarAlliance's work with marine wildlife began in Belize. Work in the country focuses on research[6][7], outreach and education[8], capacity building, and policy support.
Cabo Verde: The organization works with traditional fishers and institutional partners and is conducting the first fisheries-dependent and -independent assessments and long-term monitoring of sharks and rays, including critical nursery areas. Focus lays on the spatial ecology of large, threatened and highly migratory elasmobranchs, data deficient species[9] and on outreach and education.
Honduras: In Honduras MarAlliance works with traditional fishers, coastal and indigenous communities. Collaborative research and monitoring, capacity building, income diversification, and outreach are the focus of their work in the country.[10]
Mexico: MarAlliance conducts standardized long-term monitoring of coastal and reef-associated marine megafauna in the Caribbean facing state of Quintana Roo.[11]
Federated States of Micronesia[12]: Work is based on sharks’ potential reliance on grouper spawning aggregations for sustenance and how this may impact fisheries and marine protected areas managements. Other projects include investigating the behavior of coastal manta rays around the islands and their capture vulnerabilities to the tuna-purse seine fisheries.
Panama: MarAlliance is conducting fisheries-dependent and independent monitoring of fish and working to protect sawfish throughout the country. Other work includes research and outreach in several sites along the Caribbean and the Pacific, including with the indigenous Guna Yala fishing communities[13]
Partners[edit]
The organization works with a network of partners in several countries.
Belize: Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Belize Fisheries Department, Belize Audubon Society, University of Belize-Environmental Research Institute (UB-ERI), Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association (TASA), Sarteneja Alliance for Conservation and Development (SACD), Southern Environmental Association (SEA), Oceana, Wildtracks, Belize Zoo, Blue Ventures and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Cabo Verde: Direcção Nacional do Ambiente (DNA), Fundação Tartaruga, Associação dos Pescadores e das Peixeiras da Boavista (APPBV), Projeto Biodiversidade, Delegação Escolar da Boavista, Ministério da Agricultura e Ambiente (MAA)
Honduras: DIGEPESCA, Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería (SAG), Roatan Marine Park (RMP), Dirección de Biodiversidad (Dibio/MiAmbiente), Instituto de Conservación Forestal, Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal, Áreas Protegidas y Vida Silvestre (ICF), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), CREDIA
Mexico: Comisión de Areas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP), Comunidad y Biodiversidad, Razonatura, Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
Micronesia FSM: Conservation Society of Pohnpei, Office of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Panama: Ministerio de Ambiente, Ministerio de Educación, Autoridad de los Recursos Acuáticos de Panamá (ARAP), MarViva, Universidad Marítima de Panamá, Universidad de Panamá, Open Blue, Centro de Desarrollo Ambiental y Humano, Ciudad del Saber
UK: University of Exeter, The Shark Trust, Wildlife Press, Whitley Fund for Nature
USA: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), The Houston Zoo, The Wildlife Conservation Network, Florida State University, Florida Institute of Technology, Association of Zoos and Aquariums
References[edit]
- ↑ Graham, RT (2017). "Long-term assessment of whale shark population demography and connectivity using photo-identification in the Western Atlantic Ocean". PLOS ONE. 12 (8): e0180495. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180495. PMC 5560665. PMID 28817569.
- ↑ "Last best place on earth: Who will save the Caribbean's great coral reef?".
- ↑ "With Fins Off Many Menus, A Glimmer of Hope for Sharks".
- ↑ Graham, RT. "Testing the boundaries: Seasonal residency and inter-annual site fidelity of basking sharks in a proposed Marine Protected Area". Biological Conservation.
- ↑ "MarAlliance Debuts New Kids Marine Club".
- ↑ "New shark species confirmed".
- ↑ "Un tiburón recién descubierto ya está en riesgo de sobreexplotación". Mongabay Latam.
- ↑ "Environmental Educational Campaign closes with a successful art exhibition". The San Pedro Sun.
- ↑ "Tagging sharks with MarAlliance: the importance of the logistic". Monaco Explorations.
- ↑ "Honduras: cientos de tiburones son capturados diariamente en el santuario que los protege". Mongabay Latam.
- ↑ Baremore, Ivy E (2018). "Resurrection of the sixgill shark Hexanchus vitulus Springer & Waller, 1969 (Hexanchiformes, Hexanchidae), with comments on its distribution in the northwest Atlantic Ocean". Marine Biodiversity. doi:10.1007/s12526-018-0849-x.
- ↑ Rhodes, Kevin L. "A 10-year comparison of the Pohnpei, Micronesia, commercial inshore fishery reveals an increasingly unsustainable fishery". Fisheries Research.
- ↑ "Building knowledge and skills across generations of indigenous Guna Yala to save marine wildlife". Act 4 SDGs.
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