Political decisions over recent decades have brought many of the UK’s fish populations, and the fisheries dependent upon them, to the point of collapse. At the heart of this failure lies continues and extensive overfishing.
15 September 2026
Through 2025, Blue Marine drove global ocean protection through policy, science and storytelling, securing major conservation wins, empowering communities and advancing progress towards protecting 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030.
27 February 2026
Blue Marine acts as a catalyst, working alongside small-scale fishers, local organisations and governments to deliver effective marine conservation.
30 December 2024
We’re at an historic moment for ocean protection and Blue Marine intends to seize every opportunity to drive change.
01 January 2024
The Trustees present their report and the audited Consolidated Financial Statements of Blue Marine Foundation for the year ended 31 March 2024.
09 April 2024
The Trustees present their report and the audited Consolidated Financial Statements of Blue Marine Foundation for the year ended 31 March 2023.
29 April 2023
The Trustees present their report and the audited Consolidated Financial Statements of Blue Marine Foundation (“Blue Marine” “the charitable company”) for the year ended 31 March 2022.
21 April 2022
Saltmarshes are vital yet undervalued coastal ecosystems – home to extraordinary biodiversity, protectors of coastal communities, and quiet allies in our efforts to address climate change.
11 June 2025
Learn more about climate-smart marine protected areas (MPAs) and how they can help safeguard ocean ecosystems while advancing global climate and biodiversity goals.
24 April 2025
The ocean at the heart of climate and biodiversity interactions.
14 October 2024
We are facing unprecedented loss in biodiversity globally in large part due to the unsustainable use of our land and seas. With biodiversity being crucial for combating climate change, providing essential resources like food and water and supporting livelihoods, the cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of taking action for nature, climate, people and the global economy.
18 July 2024
The United Kingdom has long been a centre for pioneering and world-leading innovation made possible through collaboration across sectors, from academia to finance. Recently, the great power of this collaboration has been catalytic in the creation of markets, like offshore wind, that simultaneously deliver jobs, green growth, and critical progress towards net zero.
14 May 2025
The UK has experienced a staggering loss of up to 92% of its seagrass habitat, resulting in significant negative impacts on both nature and people.
25 June 2023
This guide explores the urgent need to equip young people with ocean-climate education that builds scientific understanding, inspires action, and supports a more hopeful, sustainable future.
17 February 2025
Ocean Education is key to long-term conservation success. A BOLT is aimed to be used in areas where our partners report a weak connection between communities and the ocean.
23 January 2025
Every person on earth is connected to the ocean, from the food we eat to the air we breathe. No matter where you live, be it by the coast or many miles inland, the ocean features in your life every single day.
14 December 2024
The European Union has held a dominant position among Indian Ocean tuna fleets since the 1980s, despite the ocean’s distance from Europe. At times, vessels flying Spanish or French flags accounted for nearly 40 per cent of the catch of the region’s three key tropical tuna species: skipjack, yellowfin and bigeye.
07 May 2026
New report amplifies first-hand accounts of discriminatory treatment faced by many West African crew members working on board European vessels.
22 July 2025
Blue Marine Foundation, French NGO BLOOM Association and Greenpeace UK are calling on UK retailers to stop selling tropical tuna caught around drifting FADs in the Indian Ocean by not entering into any new supply agreements for tuna caught in this way.
09 November 2023
Quota can be a highly effective environmental tool for sustainably fishing stocks, but environmental tools work most effectively when they have social licence. Blue Marine has a key concern arising from research conducted in both the UK and around the world, that a poorly constructed quota market can have adverse consequences on fishing communities themselves and therefore perverse consequences on the ground. Environmental legislation is only effective if it supports long term stability in decision-making.
24 March 2024
‘Two things are characteristic of this age, and more particularly of this island. The conscious appreciation of natural beauty, and the rapidity with which natural beauty is being destroyed … This passion for natural beauty that consumes so many of us to-day, found recent expression … in the sphere of practical effort …’
30 June 2023
The purpose of this conference was to look at how other countries around the world managed their fisheries and to consider what lessons the United Kingdom might learn from their experience and apply to its own waters in the event of leaving the EU and its Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
27 November 2017
Released alongside OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, the brochure supports a campaign exposing the hidden destruction of bottom trawling in UK marine protected areas and calls for urgent action to end it.
06 May 2025
Critically endangered African penguins face extinction by 2035 due to food shortages from climate change and overfishing, prompting urgent action to secure fishing closures around key breeding colonies.
08 March 2025
The Maldives is home to some of the most incredible biodiversity on the planet. At the beginning of August, 2024, the new government made public its intention to reopen longline, a highly destructive fishing technique incompatible with a healthy ocean ecosystem. One in five of the animals caught by longline hooks are unintended catch – endangered sharks, turtles, seabirds and more.
29 August 2024
Political decisions over recent decades have brought many of the UK’s fish populations, and the fisheries dependent upon them, to the point of collapse. At the heart of this failure lies continues and extensive overfishing.
15 September 2026
New report by Blue Marine and partners outlines policy changes that should be prioritised as part of the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework review.
29 January 2026
The UK has the responsibility, and the policy frameworks available, to provide meaningful and lasting protection to all its marine areas. This includes the government proceeding with and concluding its plans to remove bottom trawling from MPAs, safeguarding the biodiversity and habitats that they were designed to protect.
28 September 2025
Channelling conservation technology into marine protected area design and management.
05 August 2026
To help meet the 30×30 target, a two-pronged Action Plan is presented to support context-specific strategies and guide implementation by all governments and relevant stakeholders involved in the push to 30×30. The Action Plan does not aim to create new mechanisms or prescribe fixed solutions. Rather, it serves as a unifying call to align ongoing efforts, illuminate the enablers already within reach and encourage the collective resolve needed to turn ambition into tangible action.
19 September 2025
This BLUEprint provides guidance for groups and communities planning or developing a marine protected area (MPA) through a framework of questions. The guidance is supported by case studies drawn from projects where Blue Marine Foundation has had years of involvement. It is designed to be used by anyone championing the establishment of a new MPA or involved in its management and we hope it provides some useful insight to support long-term success.
02 March 2023
23 July 2026
Restoration policy is limiting marine restoration. This report, shows how these constraints affect delivery, and presents sector wide evidence that the current system does not operate proportionately for restoration projects. It then outlines a structured and legally grounded programme of reforms aimed at supporting ecological recovery, improving consistency and efficiency, and enabling restoration.
03 July 2026
By 1990, the UK had three marine reserves and joined the emerging EU Natura 2000 network, aiming to protect biodiversity under the Habitats and Birds Directives from COP 1992.
22 May 2025
Blue Marine drives global ocean recovery by advancing marine protection, restoring habitats, influencing policy, supporting communities and tackling overfishing, with measurable impact across 29 countries and 446,620 sq km of ocean.
27 February 2026
Blue Marine Foundation is continually responding to the dynamic set of challenges that the ocean faces. Our work sits at the nexus of climate, biodiversity and human development. The question that drives everything that we do is always: what have we achieved for the marine environment? This report aims to answer that question, using a rigorous monitoring and evaluation framework developed by our team with external expert support.
01 April 2024
One of the critical, unsolved scientific questions of our time is how the ocean impacts climate change. The seascape is the ultimate sink for carbon emissions and, in a time of climate emergency, could be a vital ally in efforts to slow runaway planetary warming.
11 September 2026
As we reflect on the second year of the Convex Seascape Survey, we stand at an intersection of knowledge, progress, and challenge. Our journey has taken us deeper into the enigmatic world beneath the ocean’s surface, revealing invaluable insights about the role of the seascape in carbon storage and how this could help mitigate climate change.
05 August 2025
As we reflect on the second year of the Convex Seascape Survey, we stand at an intersection of knowledge, progress, and challenge. Our journey has taken us deeper into the enigmatic world beneath the ocean’s surface, revealing invaluable insights about the role of the seascape in carbon storage and how this could help mitigate climate change.
23 March 2024
This month, we expose illegal fish discards, highlight marine protected area innovation and celebrate stories inspiring ocean recovery.
10 September 2026
This issue of ‘Into the Blue’ features progress in global ocean protection, from the Ocean Hub during London Climate Action Week and new recommendations to accelerate marine restoration.
17 July 2026
This issue of ‘Into the Blue’ features progress in global ocean protection, from Jersey’s new protections to the High Seas Treaty entering into force and advances in blue carbon science.
20 June 2026
After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea.
David Attenborough
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