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Everyone has a part to play.

A key strength of the GGGI lies in the diversity of our membership, with organizations across the seafood industry, retailers, NGOs, IGOs, technology companies, private sector, academia, governments, and more.

We believe the only way to address the ghost gear problem holistically is to include input and expertise from everyone.

Private Sector

NGOs

Academia

  • The Centre for Sustainable Design

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  • The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

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  • Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

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  • Hawaii Pacific University

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  • Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research

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  • Patuakhali Science and Technology University

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  • UC Davis

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  • Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa

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  • University of Sfax

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  • University of Victoria

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IGOs

National Governments

  • Australia

  • Belgium

  • Canada

  • Costa Rica

  • Dominican Republic

  • Germany

  • Iceland

  • Mexico

  • Montserrat

  • Netherlands

  • New Zealand

  • Norway

  • Palau

  • Panama

  • Republic of Korea

  • Samoa

  • Spain

  • Sweden

  • Tonga

  • Trinidad and Tobago

  • Tuvalu

  • United Kingdom

  • United States of America

  • Vanuatu

State and Provincial Governments

  • State of Hawaiʻi | Division of Aquatic Resources

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Our work gives opportunities to our members.

Our members help make our projects a reality.

One of the GGGI’s main strengths is having members from all over the world with extremely diverse experience, expertise and skill sets. The GGGI’s relationship with its membership is symbiotic. The GGGI is the global umbrella under which our members can unite to expand their work and address ghost gear in a global context, providing opportunities to our members they might not otherwise have. And our members are what allows us to carry out this crucial work on the ground around the globe.

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GGGI Small Grant (2023) - TUNACONS (Ecuador)
Central and South America, Gear Removal, Outreach and Education
GGGI Small Grant (2023) - TUNACONS (Ecuador)
Central and South America, Gear Removal, Outreach and Education

The mission of TUNACONS is to promote actions for the sustainability of the tuna purse-seine fishery in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Through the GGGI Small Grants Program, the Ecuador-based group TUNACONS successfully implemented the project “Taking Care of Galápagos for the Recycling of FADs from TUNACONS Fleet with the Possibility of Stranding on Coasts.”

A main objective of the project has been to reduce the ecological impact generated by ALDFG by recovering FADs from the TUNACONS fleet that had an imminent possibility of stranding off the coast of the Galápagos Islands, and to deliver the intercepted materials to local environmental managers for distribution and/or proper disposal.

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Central and South America, Gear Removal, Outreach and Education

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