What do you want your ocean to look like?

The Waitt Institute is heading up the Barbuda Blue Halo Initiative, a project that involves a comprehensive ocean plan for sustainable fisheries. SeaSketch is being used to developing the zoning plan that includes no-take sanctuaries, mooring and anchorage zones and no-net zones. Check out this video posted by Ayana Johnson that includes footage of SeaSketch being used in the field.

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Will McClintock

Dr. Will McClintock is a Project Scientist at the University of California Santa Barbara and former Director of the MarineMap Consortium. He received a B.A. in Biology from Earlham College, M.S. in Behavioral Ecology from the University of Cincinnati, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology from the University of California Santa Barbara. He has participated in over a dozen marine spatial planning initiatives around the world.