Blue Marine Foundation

Blue Marine Foundation (stylized as BLUE[1]) is a marine conservation organisation. It was founded as a legacy project following the 2009 documentary film The End of the Line. It has been involved in establishing marine reserves in the Chagos Archipelago, Lyme Bay, and Turneffe Atoll.

Blue Marine Foundation's logo

History

Chris Gorell Barnes, the executive producer of the documentary film The End of the Line, co-founded the Blue Marine Foundation with Charles Clover (the author of the book The End of the Line) and filmmaker George Duffield, as a legacy project of the film.[2][3][4] It was formed with the aim of fixing environmental issues impacting the oceans.[1][5]

BLUE secured funding to enforce the protection of the no-take marine reserve created by the UK government around the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. At the time of its creation in 2010, it was the world's largest marine reserve. The Bertarelli Foundation funded the first five years, after which the government promised to internalise the costs and enforce the reserve.[6][7][8] Henry Bellingham, a UK junior Foreign Office minister, described the initiative as a "great example" of government and the private sector working together and said the reserve would "double the global coverage of the world's oceans benefiting from full protection".[9][10]

In July 2012, the Foundation helped start an alliance between fishermen and conservationists in the UK. This alliance was designed to protect Lyme Bay, a reef habitat on the southern coast of the UK.[11] Scallopers and dredgers were banned from part of the bay, but overfishing continued. The deal brokered by BLUE and the Lyme Bay Working Group is designed to ensure fishing communities can continue to fish while the fragile ecosystem is protected and conserved.[12][13][14]

The charity also played a central role in the creation of a marine reserve around the Turneffe Atoll, which is part of the Belize Barrier Reef.[1][15][16][17][18][19] This project was done in partnership with local fishermen and organizations and the Government of Belize.[1] The Bertarelli Foundation also provided funding.[16]

In 2022, the organisation was part of a restoration project launched in the Solent.[20]

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