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05/13/2026

This is a very moving video highlighting three collaborators of Ian Urbina’s Outlaw Ocean Institute working as far afield as South America and Thailand. Whether investigating the impacts of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, laborers missing at sea, or tracing the hardest-to-track data and information, these collaborations are what allow Outlaw Ocean to bring their stories to the surface.

https://lnkd.in/edYFtyJX

05/06/2026

Important new research coming out of the Sunstone Institute is a devastating look into Norwegian aquaculture, which last year released the equivalent of untreated sewage from 17.21 million people (nitrogen), 19.96 million people (phosphorus), and 29.58 million people (organic carbon).

https://lnkd.in/gun8ifpk

04/27/2026

This is an excellent piece by Cheryl Novak and Myrto Polymili of TO BHMA International Edition on yet another consequence of industrial fish farming: the issue of abandoned farms and the waste and pollution they leave behind. NGOs like Healthy Seas and OZON are systematically documenting this problem and helping to bring it to light but without proper regulation and oversight, the burdensome costs and responsibility for remediation and clean-up are left to the communities.

https://lnkd.in/gFSGemDK

04/23/2026

Rauch Foundation President Eva Douzinas sat down with journalist Cheryl Novak of ToVima at this year’s Delphi Economic Forum to discuss Greece’s plans to expand its aquaculture sector. It’s a wide-ranging conversation about the serious gaps in transparency, public consultation, monitoring, and oversight and raises questions about the sustainability of open pen fish farming in Greece and elsewhere.

https://lnkd.in/greVMBbh

04/22/2026

April is Financial Literacy month and we’re encouraged by the number of states that are stepping up to make this content area a graduation requirement for high schoolers. Overwhelmingly, students believe these courses contribute meaningful and ‘real-life’ information and teachers report high levels of enthusiasm and engagement. It’s a pragmatic life skill that’s a win/win for everyone.

We put together a primer for those inspired to begin their own financial literacy journey and we hope you’ll share it with the young people (or the young at heart) in your life. A bit of advance knowledge can lead to a lifetime of informed choices.

https://lnkd.in/gFv29BJU

04/10/2026

This is an excellent piece from Doug Feeney at that highlights how opening US waters to intensive fish farming will bring many of the same issues we’re seeing with sea bream, sea bass, and salmon farms across the globe.

“America does not need these fish factories. We already catch enough wild fish to feed our nation and still have a surplus. In 2023, for instance, U.S. fishermen landed 8.4 billion pounds of seafood compared to the 6.4 billion pounds that Americans ate that year.

These operations also burn through huge amounts of wild forage fish to feed farm-raised fish, leading to overfishing. Sometimes the ratio can be as high as five to one, meaning five pounds of wild forage fish are needed to produce one pound of farmed fish...wiping out food access and livelihoods in coastal communities around the world.”

https://lnkd.in/e4ejH7Wa

04/01/2026

There has been a huge victory in Washington State, where a superior court upheld the State’s 2025 historic ban on commercial finfish net pen aquaculture. This is one of the strongest protections for marine waters in the U.S. It came about thanks to a years-long public movement led by Wild Fish Conservancy alongside the leadership of Tribal Nations following a devastating 2017 net pen collapse in Puget Sound that released a quarter-million farmed and viral-infected Atlantic salmon into the wild.

It is a welcome closing of the book on commercial net pen aquaculture in Puget Sound.

https://lnkd.in/epwR63qG

03/30/2026

How would you feel if you knew that the fish you buy from your nearest supermarket or fishmonger was fed on chicken wings? Or if you knew that by buying one kilo of fish you would be participating in the removal of almost three kilos of fish from the waters of another country where the inhabitants feed on them?

This well-researched piece explores these and other questions around the complex web of relationships inherent in the aquaculture food chain.

https://lnkd.in/eFMwBKaY

03/26/2026

In Australia and Canada, Indigenous communities are demonstrating what long-term food systems transformation looks like in practice. 🌊 From rebuilding community-owned fisheries in northern Australia to restoring wild salmon through Indigenous governance in British Columbia, these are testimonials for what becomes possible when people have the agency to transform their lives.

They are not short-term wins. They are the result of decades of organizing, and they point to where philanthropy can play a catalytic role—supporting community-led models that strengthen food sovereignty, livelihoods, and ecosystems over time.

The series by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food follows community-led struggles for food, fishing rights, and self-determination across the land-water nexus:

https://lnkd.in/gPGBkTjr

03/24/2026

Today we honor Dick Amper, a true trailblazer and longtime partner of the Rauch Foundation through his leadership at the THE LONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY.

Dick didn’t just advocate for nature. He changed the future of an entire region. Over decades of determined work, he helped preserve more than 100,000 acres of forest, wetlands, and open space on Long Island, an extraordinary legacy that will endure for generations.

He lived the truth of Margaret Mead’s words: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” Dick was one of those people.

We are deeply grateful for Dick’s partnership, his courage, and his vision.

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