BlueMooring: A sustainable solution for managing MPA moorings and financing marine conservation
Channel: OCTO (Open Communications for the Ocean)
Date: 2022-04-07

Presented by: Yousr Ben Fadhel and Louis Vercauteren of BlueSeeds

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 6

Description: BlueSeeds is a French company that helps MPAs reach financial sustainability and increase the effectiveness of their conservation activities. BlueSeeds believes that one way of supporting MPA managers is to provide them practical tools that can make their day-to-day management work easier while also financing some of their conservation activities. To this end, BlueSeeds has developed a web app that MPA managers can use to manage the booking of their MPA moorings. With this tool, MPA managers can control and monitor the recreational use of the MPA, communicate more easily with visitors, and generate conservation revenues from the paid booking of moorings managed through the web app.

Co-sponsors: NOAA National MPA Center and OCTO