Defining “Fishery Sensitive” Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

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, we will describe a set of 17 fishing industry roundtables that we held on this topic in 2025, and then share RODA’s new “Guidance for Fishery-Sensitive mCDR” memo series, which was developed by the project partners based on fishermen’s input.

Agenda

• Introduction to mCDR (Gabby Kitch)
• Roundtables: what we did, what we learned (Sarah Schumann)
• Introducing the “Fishery Sensitive mCDR” Guidance Memo Series (Fiona Hogan and Darcy Dugan)
• What else is the fishing community doing regarding mCDR?
• ICES Working Group on Interactions between mCDR with Ecosystems, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
• Community Leaders and mCDR (CLaM) project in Alaska (Theresa Peterson, Kinsey Brown, and/or Danielle Ringer)
• mCDR Literacy Course for Commercial Fishermen (Sarah Schumann)
• Q&A and Discussion