Fishermen and their representatives have been working through the Fishery Friendly Climate Action Campaign in partnership with the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA) and three regional coastal/ocean acidification networks to define core principles of “fishery sensitive” marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). In this webinar, project partners described a set of 17 fishing industry roundtables on this topic in 2025, and then shared RODA’s new “Guidance for Fishery-Sensitive mCDR” memo series, which was developed based on fishermen’s input.

This webinar, intended for a commercial fishing audience, presented the basics on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) to get novices up to speed on this emerging set of ocean-based climate solutions. We revealed results from the first phase of a fishermen-led project to define “fishery sensitive” mCDR and outlined how fishermen can track this issue as it develops.

Learn about Maine’s 2020 and 2024 climate action planning processes and examine fishermen’s formal and informal engagement in these efforts.