OceanMind

OceanMind powers marine enforcement and compliance to protect the ocean’s ability to provide for human well-being using satellites and artificial intelligence. To date, OceanMind has verified the legality of more than 8 million tonnes of tuna entering the global market with a total import value of almost $1 billion.

The Problem
The ocean is critical to humanity’s future. Not only is it an important global food source, but a healthy ocean also plays a key role in providing oxygen to our atmosphere and regulating our climate. Yet, the ocean is under dire threat from human activity and the relentless effects of climate change. A recent study estimates that 87% of the world’s major marine ecosystems have been impacted by human activity and 80% of fish biomass has been lost over the past 100 years. Without the ocean’s ability to buffer carbon in biomass and habitats, emissions reductions will be unable to limit global warming. While many destructive human activities are already regulated, the unaddressed challenge is the enforcement of these regulations in the wild, remote, and vast ocean.

The Solution
OceanMind uses advanced technology and extensive ocean expertise to protect and restore nature and revive our planet’s oceans. OceanMind’s innovative solution uses satellites, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing to analyze human activity on the ocean at the planetary scale, detecting unlawful activity such as illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, pollution, and even abuse of workers’ rights at sea. With the capacity to detect infractions anywhere in the world and support any nation to enforce 100% of their waters, OceanMind can fundamentally change humanity’s relationship with the ocean and safeguard the future.

OceanMind’s technology and team help to enforce the sanctity of marine protected areas, implement international conventions such as the Port State Measures Agreement, monitor maritime emissions, and ensure legality and sustainability in seafood supply chains. Their advanced real-time algorithms can detect different phases of fishing across 19 different fishing gear types with 99.4% accuracy, and they can now indicate the level of work the crew is carrying out at any stage of trawling to identify labor violations. As a co-founder of the Climate TRACE initiative, OceanMind reports on the emissions from the global shipping fleet.

OceanMind believes global interventions are needed to enact change. Their big-data solution has the capability to support 10 times the ocean protection in the next five years and supports Sustainable Development Goals — as adopted by the UN — 14, Life Below Water; 1, No Poverty; and 2, Zero Hunger.