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Managing Ghost Gear in Mexico

Ocean Conservancy

NANCI is facilitating the creation of a national integrated fishing gear management strategy in collaboration with the Mexican Federal Government. This strategy will also be discussed with the governments of Canada and the United States to facilitate cross-border collaboration on ghost gear in North America.

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Kathleen Hebert: Protecting the Puget Sound through Activism and Investment

Washington Nature

I had a shocking wake-up call in 2013,” she said about the experience that brought her to the board of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Washington. If you don't have government policies behind them, you can only succeed so far, so I began to focus on advocacy in conjunction with working on nonprofit projects,” she said.