GCRF One Ocean Hub

Lead Research Organisation: University of Strathclyde
Department Name: Law

Abstract

Over 70% of the earth's surface is ocean. As a global population, we are entirely reliant upon a healthy ocean: it contributes to the renewal of freshwater; it absorbs over a quarter of global carbon dioxide, and it produces half the oxygen we breathe. The ocean has the potential to make significant contributions to sustainable development. Many developing countries already depend on their ocean resources for food, work and livelihoods. Yet we are reaching an ocean health crisis: cumulative pressures such as over-exploitation of its resources, ocean plastics and pollution and climate change, all compounded by multiple competing uses, are pushing the ocean ecosystem to a tipping point.
There is an urgent need for more integrated ocean governance, to ensure greater balance between ocean conservation and sustainable use (Sustainable Development Goal 14) and realise the ocean's potential to contribute to poverty reduction, human health, healthy ecosystems on land, climate change mitigation and adaptation, equitable economic growth and decent employment.
"We are the sea...we must wake up to this ancient truth...It is time to create things for ourselves, to create established standards of excellence that match those of our ancestors."
It is with this spirit that the ONE OCEAN Hub will transform our response to the urgent challenges facing our ocean. The Hub will weave learning from the ocean, and traditional knowledge of the peoples who rely upon it, with scientific excellence, innovative legal approaches and artistic methods. Our aim is to bridge the disconnections in law, science and policy across all levels from the local to the international. We aim to empower vulnerable communities, woman and youth in the blue economy and catalyse the inclusive and integrated governance approaches required to ensure a healthy ocean and flourishing communities and economies.
The Hub will specifically address the challenges of South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Fiji and Solomon Islands in realising the economic, socio-cultural and environmental benefits from the ocean. It aims to support these countries' efforts towards developing a sustainable and fair blue economy by providing new scientific data and tools to engage different sectors and groups within society, particularly vulnerable communities, woman and youth, in identifying opportunities, risks and trade-offs to: i) prevent and mitigate negative development impacts connected to the ocean, ii) participate in traditional and emerging ocean activities, and iii) predict the socioeconomic benefits of ocean conservation.
The Hub pioneers integrating law and arts, policy, informatics, education, history, anthropology, and philosophy to provide targeted advice on coherent and flexible, pro-poor and gender- sensitive, climate-proofed and transparent laws and policies across the areas of environmental, human rights, science and technology, trade and investment. The Hub will further integrate biology, physics, chemistry, oceanography, ecology, mathematics, socio-environmental sciences and law to advance understanding of sustainable fisheries in the face of climate change impacts, as well as socio-economic and cultural considerations. The Hub will also increase understanding of conservation and extraction options for deep-sea mineral, biological and freshwater resources, integrating biology, ecology, geology, socio-environmental sciences and law. Through innovative use of arts the hub will transcend traditional boundaries in policy, law, and between ocean stakeholders from local communties to international organisatons, to respectfully and effectively include local communities' traditional knowledge in decision-making at the national and local level on the blue economy. The Hub will develop the integrated governance frameworks and strengthen the capacity within commnities to drive innovative approaches to a fair and sustainable blue economy for South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Fiji and Solomon Islands

Planned Impact

In coastal and island communities healthy oceans are fundamental to healthy economies and livelihoods. The One Ocean Hub aims to improve the livelihoods of small-scale fishing and indigenous communities that are dependent on the ocean, with particular attention to women and youth in South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Fiji and the Solomon Islands. The Hub will empower, build capacity within, and learn from, the people who rely on the oceans, and whom are disproportionally impacted by the failure to protect it. It is on this local level that the Hub will have the greatest impact. Community leadership in research and arts-based approaches will enable better understanding of traditional practices. It will build capacity and co-develop new resources for communities, and, in so doing, will support the integration of community views, values and knowledge in scientific assessments, management and decision-making on ocean conservation and the blue economy. Legal empowerment will enhance the capacity of communities, women and youth to fight for their rights and improve, through legal literacy, their livelihoods. Youths will directly benefit from a One Ocean education programme designed to inform, inspire and empower 'Generation 2030' on ocean matters and through the development of legal mechanisms (Youth Ocean Charter) to amplify youth voices at international level.
At national-regional level, governments and inter-governmental organisations will benefit from access to a new scientific evidence base, methods and technologies to underpin integrated ocean assessment and management. Specifically, government entities (eg Namibian Ministry for Fisheries and Marine Resources, will benefit from region-specific integrated assessments of cumulative pressures on ocean ecosystems. Through targeted capacity strengthening, governments and national research institutes will be empowered to undertake integrated marine research and monitoring programmes, and through co-developed decision-making frameworks will be able to implement ocean resource management which balances ocean conservation and sustainable use for fair and equitable benefit sharing. We will work with regional and national governments to implement sustainable, inclusive and collaborative ocean management strategies, such as the ocean dimension of the African Union's Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa and the Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science. The above, together with the development of guidance for the coherent implementation of international law at different levels and through a programme of legal capacity building, the negotiating capacity of developing countries will be strengthened within relevant international fora.
The One Ocean Hub is a direct and systematic response to the Call for Action agreed upon at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference on Sustainable Development Goal 14. The Hub's network of international project partners (eg UNEP, UNDP, UNOALOS, FAO) will support national process of implementation of international law on the ocean and sustainable development. These partners have already co-defined the Hub's research to ensure its aligned to key ongoing international processes. Specifically, the Hub will contribute to the preparations of the 2020 UN Ocean Follow-up Conference, an expected mandate in 2019 from the UN Environment Assembly to develop new instruments on ocean plastics, a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, and the 2020-2030 Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law of UNEP. The involvement of the Hub in such processes will ensure that knowledge from across the Hub, from local to regional levels, will influence international process. The Hub network will benefit all partner organisations by bringing together organisations across sectors and scales to tackle institutional disconnects and promote sustainable partnerships from the local-international level.

Organisations

People

ORCID iD

Elisa Morgera (Principal Investigator)
Georgina Oduro (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3030-7196
Bryan Clark (Co-Investigator)
Lynne Shannon (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-0636
Lorenzo Cotula (Co-Investigator)
Merle Sowman (Co-Investigator)
Michael Heath (Co-Investigator)
Tracy Shimmield (Co-Investigator)
Morgan Wairiu (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8245-5778
Margit Wilhelm (Co-Investigator)
Sebastian Hennige (Co-Investigator)
Francesco Sindico (Co-Investigator)
Daniela Diz Pereira Pinto (Co-Investigator)
Sian Rees (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9606-783X
Emmanuel Acheampong (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6243-294X
Rosemary Dorrington (Co-Investigator)
Rachel Wynberg (Co-Investigator)
Alexander Winkler (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7864-8243
Kitche Magak (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8336-9932
Andrew Kenny (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4944-1221
J Roberts (Co-Investigator)
Warren Potts (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6707-0383
Andrew Sweetman (Co-Investigator)
Tom Baum (Co-Investigator)
Gilianne Brodie (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6896-4696
Stuart Jeffrey (Co-Investigator)
Philile Mbatha (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5705-0330
Alison Cathcart (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1291-6561
Catherine Muhoma (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0816-1661
Sylvie Da Lomba (Co-Investigator)
Ann Cheryl Armstrong (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3282-8916
Kerry Sink (Co-Investigator)
Matthew Grant Allen (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3490-9960
Matthew Harrison (Co-Investigator)
Patrick Vrancken (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-4718
Claire Lajaunie (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8838-9062
Saskia Anna Filip Vermeylen (Co-Investigator)
Mathew Upton (Co-Investigator)
José De Oliveira (Co-Investigator)
Tobias Schonwetter (Co-Investigator)
Martin J. Attrill (Co-Investigator)
Alana Lancaster (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8956-7297
Warwick Sauer (Co-Investigator)
Bernadette Snow (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1598-4511
Bhavani Narayanaswamy (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5810-9127
Kate Royse (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-2615
Daniel Jones (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5218-1649
Pierre MAZZEGA (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2398-3954
Joseph Aggrey-Fynn (Co-Investigator)
Kerry Howell (Co-Investigator)
Marie Boswell (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7099-7713
Elaine Webster (Co-Investigator)
Paul Lusty (Co-Investigator)
John Ansah (Co-Investigator)
Benjamin Kofi Nyarko (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6560-9613
Clive Fox (Co-Investigator)
Carol Cotterill (Co-Investigator)
Amanda Lombard (Co-Investigator)
Jeremy Hills (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9204-2536
BOLANLE ERINOSHO (Co-Investigator)
Suzanne Jane Painting (Co-Investigator)
Stephanie Switzer (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3928-988X
Hendrik Van As (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-5344
Derrick Armstrong (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1671-9290
Dylan McGarry (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5738-3813
Stephen Dye (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4182-8475
Harrison Golo (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9805-5477
Matthew Revie (Co-Investigator)
Maria Baker (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6977-8935
Natalia Serpetti (Researcher Co-Investigator)
Robin Cook (Researcher Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9604-0204
 
Title "Dolphin " 
Description Dolphin is an acrylic ink, watercolours and fineliner pens on paper (38×27 cm) produced by Hub Director Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK). This painting is part of 'Marine Portraits', the first series of paintings Elisa Morgera has created. They were conceived and made during the first lockdown in the UK (2020) and loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. They are both a way to celebrate the uniqueness and allure of marine life, and to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity as the centre of gravity of Elisa's lifework as a scholar. Marine portraits is the second exhibition on the One Ocean Learn platform, launched on 15 December 2022. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact No notable impacts to be reported 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title "Hammerhead sharks " 
Description Hammerhead sharks is an acrylic ink, watercolours and fineliner pens on paper painting (38×27 cm) produced by Hub Director Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK). This painting is part of 'Marine Portraits', the first series of paintings Elisa Morgera has created. They were conceived and made during the first lockdown in the UK (2020) and loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. They are both a way to celebrate the uniqueness and allure of marine life, and to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity as the centre of gravity of Elisa's lifework as a scholar. Marine portraits is the second exhibition on the One Ocean Learn platform, launched on 15 December 2022. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage. 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title "Manta ray " 
Description Manta ray is an acrylic ink, watercolours and fineliner pens on paper painting, (38×27 cm) produced by Hub Director, Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK). This painting is part of 'Marine Portraits', the first series of paintings Elisa Morgera has created. They were conceived and made during the first lockdown in the UK (2020) and loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. They are both a way to celebrate the uniqueness and allure of marine life, and to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity as the centre of gravity of Elisa's lifework as a scholar. Marine portraits is the second exhibition on the One Ocean Learn platform, launched on 15 December 2022. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage. 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title "Ultra-black deep-sea fish " 
Description Ultra-black deep-sea fish is an ccrylic ink, watercolours and fineliner pens on paper painting (38×27 cm) produced by Hub Director Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK). This painting is part of 'Marine Portraits', the first series of paintings Elisa Morgera has created. They were conceived and made during the first lockdown in the UK (2020) and loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. They are both a way to celebrate the uniqueness and allure of marine life, and to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity as the centre of gravity of Elisa's lifework as a scholar. Marine portraits is the second exhibition on the One Ocean Learn platform, launched on 15 December 2022. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage. 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title A Brother's Bond 
Description Oral history produced by Riaz for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthed partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Noteable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-brothers-bond-riazs-story/
 
Title A Dwindling Species 
Description Oral history produced by Tamlynn for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-dwindling-species/
 
Title A Family that Fishes Together Stays Together 
Description Edited story produced by Thabisile Gumede for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for author Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-family-that-fishes-together-stays-together/
 
Title A Fishers Tale 
Description Digital illustration produced by Kevin Ngwenya to accompany the oral history Hook, Line and Sinker for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthed partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/hook-line-and-sinker-snowys-story/
 
Title A Fishing Heritage in Peril 
Description Edited story produced by Thabisile Gumede for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for author Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-fishing-heritage-in-peril/
 
Title A Violation of the Sea 
Description Oral history produced by Riaz for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-violation-of-the-sea-riazs-story/
 
Title An Unusual Catch 
Description Oral history produced by Tamlynn for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/an-unusual-catch-tamlynns-story/
 
Title Being Outdoors 
Description Oral history produced by Monty for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/being-outdoors-montys-story/
 
Title Between Worlds (A Poetry Book) 
Description The poetry book is written by Hub researcher Professor Rose Boswell (Nelson Mandela University). Because of the climate crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come. The poems raise the issue of climate change by foregrounding the centrality, beauty, and significance of the ocean, and of marine life to humanity. They suggest that all species live 'between worlds': between fantasy and reality, dreaming and wakefulness, intuition and consciousness, water and air. We need all worlds to survive. Serendipitously, the poems were composed between dusk and dawn. They are both part-thoughts and whole thoughts that come to inspire my ethnographic writing. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The poetry book has only been published in February 2022. There is no notable impacts yet. 
URL https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/between-worlds
 
Title Brotherhood 
Description Oil on canvas produced by Kenneth Shandu to accompany the oral history You Live by the Sea; You Die by the Sea for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/andre-and-williams-story-you-live-by-the-sea-you-die-by-the-sea/
 
Title Close Encounter 
Description Oral history produced by Riaz for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/riazs-close-encounter/
 
Title Cocooned in Harmony 
Description A feature-length documentary on the emotional connections of Ghanaian artisanal fishers as seen in their music. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Hub researcher Eric Otchere says: I've had community screenings as well as screenings in Glasgow, Germany, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. It is on YouTube as well and has received over 2000 views. It was part of the special 'undercurrent' exhibition at the GSA. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owmc0ke21O8&t=177s
 
Title Cold water corals in a changing ocean: Short Film 
Description As a contribution to the Climate Conference, scientists at University of Edinburgh have produced a short film explaining how cold-water corals are particularly vulnerable to the rapid acidification of the oceans caused by carbon dioxide emissions - a largely hidden impact of fossil fuel use. Narrated by the COP26 People's Advocate Sir David Attenborough, this video features research from the H2020 iAtlantic (Grant Agreement No 818123) and One Ocean Hub projects. The film highlights the central role of the ocean when considering climate change impacts and mitigation. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact The new film premiered at a special evening event hosted by iAtlantic at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on Saturday 6 November 2021, which highlighted the crucial role that the ocean plays in the climate crisis. It was also shown during a Poster Exhibitition hosted by the One Ocean Hub at COP26 Green Zone, Glasgow Science Centre on 12th November 2021. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4iPY-9mGVg
 
Title Community mapping of fishing areas and priorities at St Helena Bay, South Africa 
Description "Community mapping of fishing areas and priorities at St Helena Bay" is based on several workshops and focus groups co-organised by Hub researcher Prof Merle Sowman (University of Cape Town, South Africa). This is part of process of documenting fisher knowledge to facilitate knowledge sharing with scientists involved in the South Africa Marine Spatial Planning process. This work is ongoing. The maps and narratives that support the map have been shared at one fishers and scientists meeting in 2022 - more to follow. Currently, Prof Sowman is exploring ways of integrating this knowledge onto a Geographic Information System (GIS) based map. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Scientists participating in the fisher-scientist exchange workshop were amazed at the depth of knowledge held by fishers and the understanding of local reefs and other environmental features that they were unaware of. This has led to a request for further meetings and exchanges. There have been shifts in perceptions regarding the value of fisher knowledge amongst some scientists. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/focus-on-south-africa/
 
Title Deep Connections | The importance of Culturally Significant Areas in South Africa's marine space 
Description Deep Connections is a reminder that we are all connected to the sea, and that we need to make sure that these connections are protected for the sake of past, present and future generations. The film is part of work underway to map Culturally Significant Areas in South Africa and signals a desire for closer co-operation between the biodiversity, heritage, and tourism sectors in identifying and looking after special places along our coast and in our ocean. These extend beyond archaeological sites, shipwrecks, and places for recreation to also include intangible cultural heritage. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Over 800 views on YouTube 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fgANwAFm9I
 
Title DiepRespek: Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems 
Description Diep Respek is music video which aims to promote empathy for vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME) within South Africa's trawling community, and to provide a resource for deckhands and skippers to better identify the VME indicator taxa so that move-on fishing practices can operate more smoothly and with motivation from within the community whose livelihoods directly depend on healthy oceans. The video included spoken word in a combination of English and Afrikaans as the main audience is majority Afrikaans. It also includes subtitles. The film is available for download, so fishermen will be able to circulate it on Whatsapp and have it as a resource on their phones. Diep Respek is an ode to the deep sea and hopes to more deeply connect fishermen with the mysterious worlds below, notably the Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems - or VMEs. These are parts of the ocean floor that are fundamental to the sustainability of our fisheries. They constitute a wide diversity of organisms that provide habitats for young fish and eggs, and other creatures. These ecosystems are highly sensitive to disturbance from trawling operations as the organisms are slow-growing and long-lived, and once trawled, may take two to three generations to recover, at least. To limit disturbance, trawlers off the coast of South Africa are adopting a system where they stop fishing and move to another area if they catch too many VME indicator taxa. For this system to work efficiently, crew members must have a good understanding of the indicator taxa and ultimately a personal desire to preserve these ecosystems. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Video was featured in a blog of the South Africa Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association, which noted that the video was "spreading quickly among fishing crews working in South Africa's trawl fishery for hake." Link to blog: https://www.sadstia.co.za/news/dieprespek-shines-a-fresh-light-on-vulnerable-marine-ecosystems/ 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6kdnR2eXmg
 
Title Documentary film set in Ghana: "Cocooned in Harmony" 
Description Cocooned in Harmony, a documentary film by Dr Eric Debrah Otchere (University of Cape Coast, Ghana), details how the songs of indigenous Ghanaian artisanal fisher-folk serve multiple purposes, ranging from providing reference points for coordinated activity to containing insights into issues of identity, power/inequality, agency, gender, and emotional connections to the ocean, among others. The documentary shows how through music, fishermen create and inhabit spaces where they find their (often sidelined) voice. The film has been screened within local communities in Ghana on 2 August 2022. A short video of the community screenings has also been produced and can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WL1b7VNXfQ 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Positive comments were received on YouTube page after the documentary was premiered on 31 August 2022 and during community screening in Ghana on 2 August 2022. The documentary has been shown on National Television in Ghana (News Channel - DSTV Channel 421, Ghana) for two days in a row on 28-29 January 2022, sparking discussion on identity and emotional connections to the ocean. The documentary has also been screened in Aarhus, Denmark on 17-28 August 2022. Audience who attended the film screening in Ghana and Denmark in 2022, provided very positive accounts about the documentary. The fishing communities in Ghana where data was taken were pleased with the film produced and research process conducted by the Hub. This was because in addition to recording their art, Hub researchers led by Dr Otchere have given copies of the documentary back to them and backed them up in the University repository. There are a few requests to screen the documentary at other places within and outside of Ghana and engage in discussions about it. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQgti_t34PU
 
Title Dugong 
Description Dugong is an acrylic ink, watercolours and fineliner pens on paper painting (38×27 cm) produced by Hub Director Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK). This painting is part of 'Marine Portraits', the first series of paintings Elisa Morgera has created. They were conceived and made during the first lockdown in the UK (2020) and loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. They are both a way to celebrate the uniqueness and allure of marine life, and to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity as the centre of gravity of Elisa's lifework as a scholar. Marine portraits is the second exhibition on the One Ocean Learn platform, launched on 15 December 2022. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage. 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title Durban Harbour 
Description Oil on canvas produced by Kenneth Shandu to accompany the oral history A Brother's Bond for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthed partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-brothers-bond-riazs-story/
 
Title Elaine Maepio for Vae Tailor Nautilus Eh'a Dress wearable art, Solomon Islands 
Description Elaine Maepio created the Eh'a Dress wearable art for the Vae Tailor Nautilus in Solomon Islands. The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors, and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Elaine Maepio for Vae Tailor Valusa Inspired Casual Wear 2022 wearable art, Solomon Islands 
Description In 2022 Elaine Maepio created 'Inspired Casual Wear' wearable art for Vae Tailor Valusa in Solomon Islands. The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Empatheatre Play: Umkhosi Wenala 
Description The Empatheatre team in South Africa (that recently performed at COP27) has embarked on a new journey to use restorative public storytelling to address issues of fairness and inclusion in the creation and management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), through a new theatre-based research project co-developed with 13 young artists (Mbazwana Creative Arts) in northern KwaZulu-Natal region. The project, titled "Umkhosi Wenala" (is Zulu for "Festival of Abundance") aims to create an innovative participatory decision-making space where rural youth can have a voice in the creation and management of MPAs that exclude cultural, spiritual and other local perspectives, concerns and questions. The musical tells the story of two twins, a brother Nkosana and sister Makhosazana, who inherit a kingdom after the disappearance of their grandmother, a queen, said to have drowned in the ocean. The two Nkosi's, destined to rule together, are divided by circumstance and political forces beyond their control. After two decades of betrayal and conflict between their competing kingdoms, the situation further escalates with the arrival of a fence which cuts the communities off from their village and resources and resurfaces past tensions and new resentments. The production weaves together many relevant moments from the last century of Northern Zululand's history and uses humour, pathos, satire, puppetry, ritual and music to tell its story. The musical deepens some of the Hub research findings, from across the South African research team, on gender and inter-generational dialogue, indigenous and local communities' customary laws, cultural and religious connections to the ocean, exclusionary practices in spatial planning and conservation, and fair and equitable benefit-sharing within communities and between communities, researchers and public authorities. As such, it also reveals multiple issues related to human rights, that will be further explored in 2023. At the conclusion of each performance, audiences are invited to join into a facilitated conversation with the performers and creative team, with a view to advancing understanding of these issues and explore generative opportunities for more inclusive ocean governance. The new Empatheatre Play: Umkhosi Wenala was created in Kwa-Zulu-Natal, with 13 young activists and eight elders, and other citizens. It was developed over 2021 and 2022, with final performances scheduled to take place in September 2023. For more information about the play watch here: https://vimeo.com/791847743/b95e473231. To learn more about the innovative partnerships behind this project and how the restorative public storytelling method is contributing to making ocean governance more inclusive in post-Apartheid South Africa read this blogpost here: https://oneoceanhub.org/fairer-and-more-inclusive-marine-protected-areas-through-restorative-public-storytelling/ The Umkhosi Wenala play has fostered collaboration between Hub researchers that are at different stages of their careers. Hub early career researcher, Dr. Philile Mbata (University of Cape Town, South Africa) for exampled has contributed to the play by sharing the stories that she had collected during her PhD over a decade ago in the Kosi Bay by working with indigenous knowledge holders, many of whom would have been the grandparents of the participants, and had subsequently passed away. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The Umkhosi Wenala brought many different knowledge holders together, who participated in post-show discussions. Including local Indigenous authorities and leaders, who engaged and offered feedback on the performance, the ethics of representation, and the text itself. This first iteration of the play has allowed the team to adapt it, to have even more significant impact on how audiences can work with the complexity of addressing the past injustices in how decisions are made in contemporary governance. The Empatheatre Team, with the support of the One Ocean Hub and the Coastal Justice Network, aims to extend the play further with a tour across Kwa-Zulu Natal, with a particular focus on a public consultation process underway in a neighbouring MPA further down the coast in 2023. Alongside this extend tour, the team aims to work with Hub researchers, community leaders and other knowledge holders, to use the post-show discussion as a think tank to draft a peoples' charter on marine protection. A documentary of this research collaborations will be launched at the closing events of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, which the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation is organising in mid March 2023 in Rome, Italy, where early insights from the extend tour and the draft peoples' charter on marine conservation will be shared internationally with policy makers and practitioners involved in sustainable fisheries and marine conservation. The engagement at the international level is expected to further co-develop the Hub research and policy contributions on how to make marine protection more inclusive, just and support multi-species flourishing (human and more-than-human alike). 
URL https://vimeo.com/791847743/b95e473231
 
Title Erhardt 
Description Oral history produced by Tamlynn for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/erhardt-tamlyns-story/
 
Title Evangeline Aravoha'a Molo wearable art Solomon Islands 
Description n 2022 Evangeline Aravoha'a Molo created a wearable art in Solomon Islands. The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Fisher voices must be heard. Pamphlet by Coastal Justice Network 
Description This pamphlet is designed by Hub researchers involved in the Coastal Justice Network including Anna James, Taryn Pereira, Dr Jackie Sunde and Dr Kira Erwin. It is produced in response to the South Africa Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries approach to reverse and review the process of allocating Small Scale Fisher (SSF) rights in the Western Cape following multiple complaints about the fairness and accuracy of the process in 2021. The pamphlet highlighted the need for the South Africa Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries to consult with small-scale fishers themselves about how they have been excluded from the past and present policy regimes, and ensure that any policy interventions that take place treats fishers fairly. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact The pamphlet has served as a useful piece of reading for fishers or someone interested in the policy, research and regulations that apply to small-scale fishers (including subsistence fishers) in South Africa. See here: https://fisherstales.org/useful-tackle/ 
URL https://fisherstales.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SSF-pamphlet-_-2-page-printable-version-_-Englis...
 
Title Fishers Tales Exhibition and public engagement activities in 2022 
Description The Kwa Zulu Natal South Africa Gallery ran the Fishers' Tales (https://fisherstales.org/) exhibition in the Park Gallery, South Africa from 2nd March - 3rd April 2022. Fishers' Tales is an arts-based storytelling project that collects the wondrous tales that fishers enjoy telling about their ocean adventures. This project explores fishers' connections and emotional bonds to the ocean using a visual storytelling approach. Each story is accompanied by a unique artwork. The Fishers' Tales exhibition also provides a platform to showcase the work done by young and emerging artists in Durban, as the project is specifically aimed to support creative students studying in the city. The stories and accompanying artwork seek to highlight the similarities and differences in fishers' engagements with the ocean from subsistence to recreational, provoking reflection, empathy, and dialogue. In this sense, the project hopes to build both awareness and solidarity with subsistence and small-scale fishers, who have enormous knowledge and care for the ocean that sustains them. The history of fishing in KwaZulu-Natal is where this project originates. Looking into the history of the diverse people who live along this coastal province, the daily moments captured by the artists offers insight into these experiences of connecting with the ocean, and the complex permitting regulations that impacts negatively on the livelihoods of fishers and their ability to practice fishing as part of their cultural heritage. The exhibition also highlights how climate change has affected marine life in the ocean and how that has negatively impacted the lives of small-scale and subsistence fisherfolk. Increasingly fishers along our coast line are joining the struggle for ocean wellbeing. The project contributes towards a bigger One Ocean Hub project for inclusive and transformative approaches to ocean governance. The project is managed by the Urban Futures Centre in partnership with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), and it is funded through the Deep Emotional Engagement Programme (DEEP) Fund (administered by the One Ocean Hub programme). 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Fishers Tales ExhibitionZNSA Gallery ran the Fishers' Tales exhibition in the Park Gallery from 2nd March-3rd April 2022 and public engagement activities in 2022 has sparked nation-wide conversation on fishers' connections and emotional bonds to the ocean. The exhibition in March 2022 was accompanied by a public programme: - 2nd March - Public Opening; - 18th March - School tour; - 19th March - Storytelling with Fishers; - 2nd April - Exhibition walkabout and ocean educational talk (Ocean Wellbeing with invited guest speaker). Other media and activities post the exhibition are listed as follow: National Media: Real Life on the "dolossea" by Duncan Guy. Independent Online written, Mar 12, 2022 (https://www.iol.co.za/ios/news/real-life-on-the-dolosse-ab2b9754-48c3-47ca-84c6-a78e65e6107b). Local and community Newspapers: Activism meets art at Fisher's Tale exhibition. Rising Sun Overport. April 21, 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWlcJWXqDYc). Art exhibition centers around Durban's fishermen. The Berea Mail. March 13, 2022. Fisherfolk take central stage. The Post. 23rd March 2022 (https://bereamail.co.za/282549/art-exhibition-centers-around-durbans-fishermen/). Blogposts: Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea by Kira Erwin 31st January 2022 (https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/) The art of engagement: The Fishers Tales Exhibition by Kira Erwin 29th March 2022 (https://oneoceanhub.org/the-art-of-engagement-the-fishers-tales-exhibition/). The Urban Futures Centre at DUT Partners with the SDCEA to showcase Fishers'tales at the KZNSA Gallery (https://www.dut.ac.za/the-urban-futures-centre-at-dut-partners-with-the-sdcea-to-showcase-fishers-tales-at-the-kznsa-gallery/) The Fishers Tales postcards were handed out to audiences on the Durban tour of the Lalela uLwandle in Phoenix and at the South African Marine Science Symposium, as well as at the Port Alfred national workshop with small-scale fishers and civil society on oil and gas. 
URL https://www.kznsagallery.co.za/Exhibitions/View/1005/fishers-tales
 
Title Fishers Unite 
Description Oral history produced by Tozi Mthiyane for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/fishers-unite/
 
Title Fishertales website 
Description Subsistence and small-scale fishers in KwaZulu-Natal practice a livelihood that holds deep spiritual and cultural meaning. In this coastal province of South Africa fishers make up a dynamic and diverse group that has vast intergenerational knowledge of the ocean, yet their voices are seldom heard in the rush for the Blue Economy. Hub researchers in South Africa, in partnership with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance have developed a website titled The Fishers Tales which showcases some of the everyday and extraordinary stories of these fisher men and women; from their earliest memories of learning to fish, how this gives their life meaning, enables them to put their children through school, and the political struggles they face. Each story on the website is paired with a unique artwork inspired by these tales with the sea. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact The Fishertales website is co-developed by One Ocean Hub researchers and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA). The SDCEA is an environmental justice organisation based in South Durban, South Africa that made up of 19 affiliate organisations and has been active since its formation in 1995. This partnership ensure that creative writing and art products published in the website to be widely shared among SDCEA networks. Links, pamphlets, and stories shared in Fishertales website also serve as useful resources for fishers and others who are interested on small-scale fisheries in South Africa. 
URL https://fisherstales.org/
 
Title Fishing Dreams 
Description Watercolour and ink produced by Elisa Morgera to accompany the oral history Erhardt for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/erhardt-tamlyns-story/
 
Title Fishing Like a Girl 
Description Ink on paper produced by Kira Erwin to accompany the oral history Fishing Like a Girl for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/fishing-as-a-girl/
 
Title Fishing Like a Girl 
Description Oral history produced by Tamlynn for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/fishing-as-a-girl/
 
Title Following Eddie: Short film exploring the challenges of small-scale fishers accessing the ocean 
Description One Ocean Hub researchers in South Africa have been working on a film exploring the challenges of small-scale fishers accessing the ocean and coasts in Tsitsikamma, South Africa after the area was established as a Marine Protected Area (MPA). The film, entitled Following Freddie, documents the complexities of sustainable ocean and coastal management in an area that forms a part of national conservation efforts in South Africa. In this case, the aim is to sustainably manage marine fauna and flora. The film was made together with filmmakers Senzo Xulu and Francois du Plessis, who are funded by the South Africa National Research Foundation (NRF) Community of Practice: Oceans Account Framework Project, researching the complexities of cultural heritage management at the coast of South Africa. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The film has only been released in January 2022. There is no notable impacts yet. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_r_swTOhlA
 
Title Highlights from Shell Wild Coast judgement 
Description "Highlights from Shell Wild Coast judgement" is infographic Infographics about the most pertinent and significant extracts of the Shell Wild Coast judgement in the Makhanda High Court. In September 2022 these were shared to the SSF National Leaders Whatsapp group, as well as other environmental justice whatsapp groups, and shared on the Coastal Justice instagram page where they were widely re-shared. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact "Highlights from Shell Wild Coast judgement" have contributed to a deepened, more empowered, more nuanced and more plural engagement with complex socio-ecological-political aspects of ocean relationships and governance. 
URL https://www.instagram.com/p/CiAH2JWqWw9/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
 
Title Hilleina Hilly's Lagoon Affair wearable art Solomon Islands 
Description In 2022 Hilleina Hilly created 'Lagoon Affair' wearable art in Solomon Islands. The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Hook, Line and Sinker 
Description Oral history produced by Snowy for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthed partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/hook-line-and-sinker-snowys-story/
 
Title Hurinin, People of the Sea 
Description The short film 'Hurinin, People of the Sea' tells how the marginalised Topnaar people in Namibia seek recognition for their ocean-related heritage, knowledge and rights. During the colonial rule, the Topnaar sub-clan known as the Hurinin ('the sea-people') were forced out of the coastal areas, disrupting their centuries-old reliance on ocean resources. In contemporary Namibia, the Topnaar continue to be excluded from decision-making on the ocean. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Over 600 views on YouTube 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-short-film-hurinin-the-sea-people-poignant-story-on-the-topnaar-peoples-...
 
Title I Got Hooked 
Description Oral history produced by PJ for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/i-got-hooked-jps-story/
 
Title Images from the use of photovoice method as part of the project titled 'indigenous knowledge and ocean management practices in Axim, Ghana'. 
Description Under the supervision of Hub researcher Dr Georgina Yaa Oduro a team of graduate students at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, have used of photovoice and other creative methodologies to document socio-culturally sensitive and relevant qualitative data on 'indigenous knowledge and ocean management practices in Axim, Ghana'. From the use of photovoice method the research team has produced an array of images. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact The students are intrigued by the novelty of the method while the participants also found it captiviating. 
 
Title In a Perfect World, Fishing Has No Gender 
Description Edited story produced by Thabisile Gumede for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for author Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/in-a-perfect-world-fishing-has-no-gender/
 
Title Indigenous Fishing 
Description Edited story produced by Thomas for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/indigenous-fishing/
 
Title Indigenous Peoples & the Ocean 
Description This short film highlights the voices of Indigenous peoples and local communities from Ghana, Namibia, and South Africa in ocean-climate action. The film was first shown at the High-Level Ocean Dialogue - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Bonn Climate Meeting in June 2022. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The film was first shown at the High-Level Ocean Dialogue - UNFCCC Bonn Climate Meeting in June 2022. It brought for the first time the voice of Indigenous Peoples and local communities at the High-Level Ocean Dialogue. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRzNMXiAz7I
 
Title Indlela Yokuphila (the soul's journey) 
Description Indlela Yokuphila is a transdisciplinary project that brought together a range of artists, traditional healers, marine sociologists and deep-sea marine ecologists to collaborate on a more holistic alternative to ocean mapping and decision making. According to the ancestral beliefs of the isiZulu people, the deep sea is a resting place of ancestors, where, after death, the soul travels to, through streams, rivers, estuaries and eventually into the sea. The animation film offers a dazzling digital storytelling experience led by animator/director Marc Moynihan, Empatheatre co-founders Dr Dylan McGarry and award-winning performer and theatre-maker Mpume Mthombeni and composer Braam Du Toit. The soul's journey in isiZulu traditional belief systems is remarkably similar to the scientific idea of the water lifecycle. The animation film is based on an interview with a traditional Zulu historian and a traditional Zulu healer. The interview was part of the One Ocean Hub research on transformative ocean governance in South Africa. The social scientists and artists working on this project use storytelling to illustrate how - if we are willing to listen closely - scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge can at times align. Please find a password-protected link to Indlela Yokuphila film (6 min 12 sec) below. The animation has not premiered yet, so please do not share this link outside of your organisation. https://vimeo.com/794877550 password: Indlela2023 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The non-colured version of the animation film was first screened at Climate COP26 in Glasgow, UK at an event that the One Ocean Hub co-organised with the Green Climate Fund titled "Climate-Related Conflict: Arts-Based Mediation and Recourse to Redress" on 10 November 2021, and two Hydrofeminsim events. Indlela Yokuphila film will be launched on 8 June 2023 at the UN World Ocean Day, UN headquarter, New York. 
URL https://vimeo.com/794877550
 
Title Julie Pelomo for JP Arty Design Kaftan Dress wearable art, Solomon Islands 
Description In 2022, Julie Pelomo for JP Arty Design created a Kaftan Dress wearable art. The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Julie Pelomo for JP Arty Design Mandarin Dress 2022 wearable art, Solomon Islands 
Description In 2022, Julie Pelomo for JP Arty Design created a Mandarin Dress wearable art.The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Keiskamma Art Project: Our Sacred Ocean 2022 tapestry, South Africa 
Description Our Sacred Ocean is a monumental tapestry created by the Keiskamma Art Project, South Africa. The circular tapestry is 3.5 metres in diameter. Production of the tapestry was facilitated by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund - a collaborative programme of international research that supports community-based art projects that communicate emotional bonds with the ocean. The Keiskamma Art Project convened intergenerational knowledge exchange workshops and storytelling sessions to collect local memories, prayers and rituals that express ancestral connections to the sea. The intricately embroidered motifs of the tapestry reveal the centrality of the ocean to the Eastern Cape communities of Hamburg and Bodium. Alongside imagery that depicts the ocean as a sacred space for cleansing and healing to ensure sustained good-health and wellbeing, the sea is also represented as a space for traditional modes of fishing and harvesting to ensure food and financial security. The tapestry emphasises the value and benefits of international research that embraces the principles of inclusivity, equity and respect. Our Sacred Ocean brought together diverse knowledge holders to give rise to marginalised voices that are underrepresented in conventional approaches to marine science and management. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/our-ocean-is-sacred-you-cant-mine-heaven/
 
Title Lalela Ulwandle - Empatheatre - SOUTH AFRICA 
Description Empatheatre is a research-based, theatre-making methodology. A script is developed and performed, emerging from a social science research process consisting of interviews and ethnogrpahy. Post-analysis the team sets out to shape the data into an engrossing and relevant true-to-life theatrical experience. Such experiences are intended to offer theatrical epiphanies that speak emotively to the realities of the situation, and above all to honour the informants' narratives, narratives which are carefully woven into the messaging fabric of the play. Performances are then played to strategic audiences, often made up of people with diverse, even conflicting, views on the central concern represented in the play. Post-play facilitated dialogues allow for another layer of reflexive data to emerge. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact The play has been performed to audiences that consist of hundreds of people who have reported not only realising the depth of their feeling and connection to the ocean, but also of the imperative to protect it. In South Africa, formal nature conservation has a damaging legacy of exclusion to answer for, given that our conservation policies 'have, to date, almost exclusively reflected Western scientific values and beliefs, with an emphasis on protecting nature from human impacts' (Cocks et al., 2012). South Africa is not alone in grappling with this tension; in many countries, well-meaning biodiversity protection policies have resulted in additional formal exclusions for indigenous and economically marginalized groups (Crandall et al., 2018). Some of the social impacts of Marine Protected Areas in South Africa include weakening of local participatory governance, the loss of tenure rights, access to resources by already marginalised communities, leading to food insecurity and reduced household income, and negative impacts on culture and identity (Sowman and Sunde, 2018). Recognizing how different knowledge systems and programs underpinned by these can lead to disparities and exclusions, environmental researchers have argued for an understanding of the important relationship between biodiversity and cultural diversity in conservation management (Cocks et al., 2012). Representatives of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) South Africa came to see one of the Durban Shows, and went on to bring more representatives to shows after that. Since the performance they have invited Lalela to two different events, one locally and another abroad. Empatheatre researchers plan to continue to cultivate particular audiences to encourage conversation and strategising around the tradeoffs that lead to conservation wins awarded at the expense of marginal groups, or where marginal groups are awarded socio-economic resources at the expense of environmental conservation. 
URL https://sancor.nrf.ac.za/Documents/Oct%202019%20Emphatheatre.pdf
 
Title Lalela uLwandle (illustrated short film) 
Description Lalela uLwandle is a research-based theatre project that makes visible stories of living with the ocean that are seldom seen or heard in the public domain. Lalela uLwandle means "Listen to the Sea" in isiZulu. This short illustrated film, works with extracts from two characters from the radio play: Nowandle an isiZulu woman who comes from a long line of healers, and Niren and Indian eco-activist who comes from a long line of fishers. Their particular reflections speak to the history of forced removals and impact of extractive oil, gas and minerals along our coast line. Lalela weaves stories, histories and contemporary concerns of diverse South African coastal communities into an Empatheatre production, Lalela uLwandle explores themes of intergenerational environmental injustices, tangible and intangible ocean heritage, marine science and the myriad threats to ocean health. Lalela uLwandle is an invitation to a participatory public conversation on ocean governance in South Africa. This film is a key output of the One Ocean Hub research focussed on participatory and democratic methods of engagement in ocean governance. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This short film was released on 21 September 2021 at a public tribunal led by a non-governmental organisation Green Connection as part of their "Who Stole Our Oceans?" environmental campaign in South Africa. The film and tribunal were also covered in online print media outlet The Daily Maverick (https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-29-the-true-custodians-of-our-seas-who-is-stealing-south-africas-ocean-heritage/). The short film was also shown during the One Ocean Hub exhibition at COP26 Green Zone on 12 November 2021. The short film was played throughout the exhibition to communicate the Hub's transdisciplinary research approach in uniting diverse stakeholders, including researchers, civil society, youth and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) to promote an inclusive approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_W3QBz9cPY
 
Title Lorna Tewa'ani Ghai Tangi's wearable art, Solomon Islands 
Description In 2022 Lorna Tewa'ani Ghai Tangi's wearable art was produced in Solomon Islands. The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Maama Water and the Apam Youth song and video 
Description In Ghana, Straight Family Entertainment has convened a collective of marginalised yet highly creative youth to realise the project Maama Water and the Apam Youth. The project was funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. Conceived in response to the tragic death of 12 children who drowned in the sea off Apam in March 2021, the project explores the legend of Maame Water - a spirit variously regarded as a sea goddess, mother of the ocean and African mermaid. The Collective - consisting of young musicians, poets, designers and producers - is examining relationships between Ghanaian folklore and the ocean that will result in the production of a song recorded in local languages and an associated video. Engaging with traditional knowledge holders, community elders and area council members, the sharing of intergenerational knowledge about customary practices and traditional rites is a key feature of the project. The conventions of African story-telling are adopted to record narratives that reveal the history, significance and relevance of Maame Water. In November 2022 the recording of Maame Water and the Apam Youth was launched. Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu0NHoagk-U 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Manatee 
Description Manatee is an acrylic ink, watercolours and fineliner pens on paper (38×27 cm) produced by Hub Drector, Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK). This painting is part of 'Marine Portraits', the first series of paintings Elisa Morgera has created. They were conceived and made during the first lockdown in the UK (2020) and loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. They are both a way to celebrate the uniqueness and allure of marine life, and to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity as the centre of gravity of Elisa's lifework as a scholar. Marine portraits is the second exhibition on the One Ocean Learn platform, launched on 15 December 2022. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage. 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title Mapping for Justice 
Description The film 'Mapping for Justice' shows how the Hub together with its partners in South Africa has been supporting the people of Kosi Bay to claim recognition of their customary rights in the context of the iSimangaliso UNESCO World Heritage Site. Research co-produced by the Hub and the local community highlights poor participation, and lack of recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural heritage related to coastal land as human rights issues arise from the exclusionary nature of conservation and ocean governance processes and practices at local, national and international levels. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Over 200 views on YouTube 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-short-film-mapping-for-justice-is-about-a-long-lasting-battle-for-custom...
 
Title Marine Portraits Exhibition 
Description The knowledge exchange platform One Ocean Learn's second art exhibition featured artworks by the Hub's Director, Prof Elisa Morgera. The online exhibition titled "Marine portraits" includes eight ink and watercolour paintings that Elisa created during the first lockdown in the UK in 2020. The artwork 'celebrates the uniqueness and allure of marine life' according to Elisa and allowed her to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity. The artwork is loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. The exhibition is accompanied by personal memories of the sea and reflections on ocean research and governance. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Marine portraits are exhibited in One Ocean Learn (OOL) that is co-developed by the Hub and UN Institute of Training and Research to inspire more artists to exhibit their works in this platform to reach more audience. 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title Marylyn Bae for MB Collection Coral Dress wearable art Solomon Islands 
Description In 2022 Marylyn Bae created Coral Dress wearable art for MB Collection in Solomon Islands. The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Marylyn Bae for MB Collection Kwairabu Dress wearable art, Solomon Islands 
Description In 2022 Marylyn Bae created Kwairabu Dress wearable art for MB Collection in Solomon Islands. The wearable art was created as part of the Ocean's Lens project in Solomon Islands funded by the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund. The project was led by the Association of Solomon Islanders in Creative Fashion. It brought together female fashion designers, tailors and young models to create wearable art that communicates customary relationships with the sea. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. Alongside knowledge exchange, the project provided practical training to increase the technical abilities of fashion practitioners. By way of strengthening skills in areas such as design, sewing, modelling, marketing and advocacy, the project provided opportunities for financial, creative and professional empowerment. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-deep-fund-projects/
 
Title Net Fishers 
Description Oil on canvas produced by Kenneth Shandu to accompany the edited story The Opressed Fishermen for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-oppressed-fisherman/
 
Title Netai en Namou Toc (Stories of Mother Ocean) illustrated book 
Description In 2022 the Erromango Cultural Association produced an illustrated book titled Netai en Namou Toc (Stories of Mother Ocean). Led by the Erromango Cultural Association in Vanuatu, the project foregrounds indigenous knowledge of the sea through an illustrated children's book. Customary stories and oral histories are presented alongside information about centuries old rock art, trade routes, fishing methods, poisoning remedies, wind names and maritime navigation. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Our community-led art-based research project Netai en Namou Toc (Stories of Mother Ocean) was showcased at the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion at Climate Conference COP27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt on 17 November 2022. The project also resulted in paid employment and training and promotion of transdiciplinary research practice in Vanuatu. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/indigenous-knowledge-and-inclusive-ocean-governance-a-case-study-from-vanuat...
 
Title Netai en Namou Toc - Stories of Mother Ocean 
Description his short film presents Netai en Namou Toc (Stories of Mother Ocean), a newly published illustrated children's book produced by the Erromango Cultural Association in collaboration with One Ocean Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement Programme (DEEP) Fund. The book harnesses the rich artistic and cultural heritage of Erromango, a southern island of Vanuatu, to record, preserve and promote indigenous knowledge, custom stories and oral histories relating to the ocean. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The book was recently presented at Climate COP27, Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion (Blue Zone) in Sharm-el Sheik, Egypt. The event was attended by Hon. Ralph Regenvanu, the Vanuatu's Minister of Climate Change, academia, and civil society. 
URL https://vimeo.com/763057594?fbclid=IwAR1vqBPdaBWILRAf1sdNPLol9Xa5cK1v78EoTOtzgijN_ZWd1vaLrywwKdw
 
Title Nibela River 
Description Oil on canvas produced by Kenneth Shandu to accompany the edited story Indigenous Fishing for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/indigenous-fishing/
 
Title Ocean & Women 
Description This One Ocean Hub's short film presents the story of a Ghanaian fish worker, Peace Gavour Abla, and discusses the challenges faced by Ghanaian women living in coastal communities. The film highlights the importance of improving the protection of women's human rights in small-scale fisheries and holding governments and businesses accountable. Around the world, women play a critical role along the entire economic value chain in small-scale fisheries, but their voice is often not heard. In Ghana, the One Ocean Hub together with civil society partners organises a series of workshops, aiming to better understand the barriers and opportunities to protecting the human rights of women in small-scale fisheries (read more here: https://oneoceanhub.org/opening-a-platform-for-women-in-small-scale-fisheries-in-ghana/ The film celebrates women in small-scale fisheries who strive for genuine participation in ocean-related decision-making. Produced by: What Took You So Long? 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact This short-documentary film on women small scale fishers in Ghana was premiered at the Hub's led in-person side-event titled 'The future and ocean WE (ALL) want: Inclusion and integration for strong, sustainable and equitable blue economies' at the UN Ocean Conference on 28th June 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal. The screening of the five-minute film Ocean and Women that gives voice to Ghanaian women fishers and their engagement with the blue economy sparked discussion between Hub, partners, and attendees including representatives from the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, the World Wide Fund for Nature, Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on opportunities and challenges women small-scale fishers face. It provided a starting point for the discussion to distil relevant lessons learnt for innovative approaches to inclusivity, human rights protection and non-discrimination in transformative ocean knowledge co-production and sustainable ocean-based economies. Excerpts from the film was also used during the Hub led panel titled "Indigenous Peoples, traditional knowledge, and ocean-climate action" at the Climate COP27 Virtual Ocean Pavilion on 10th November 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGLY0jwzllU&t=1744s). The documentary was also shared with women fishers in Ghana for feedback and engagement. Their responses mirrored the sentiments expressed in the documentary. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDCyjRznGEA
 
Title Ocean Connections Photovoice Exhibition 
Description Photovoice exhibition and ancillary multi-stakeholder workshop in Mandeni KZN, with Dr Mia Strand as part of her PhD. Written up in Strand PhD as well as forthcoming papers. Displayed in the in-person exhibition in March 2023 and kept up by choice by the Traditional Council for their community hall to reminder the community of the ocean connections and challenges in their community. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact We are hoping that this work will inform the development of the uThukela Marine Protected Area management plan but there is no guarantee that it will. We invited various officials and management authorities to the exhibition and the workshop so they know this knowledge exists but it is up to them to take this knowledge up as we do not have the capacity to follow this up. We also worked closely with the NGO, Wild Trust, who works in this area and are aware of this work and should help to take this knowledge and findings up into the management plan. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fyVrMjH7z0
 
Title Ocean Connections in Algoa Bay. An arts-based participatory research project 
Description This video provides a snapshot from an arts-based participatory research work with Indigenous and local knowledge holders in Algoa Bay, South Africa. The project forms part of a PhD project by Mia Strand, and a postdoctoral project led by Dr Nina Rivers. These are nested within the Algoa Bay Project, the SA/Norway Joint Research Programme on Ocean Research (SANOCEAN) project and the One Ocean Hub work on moving towards more inclusive ocean governance. You can read more about the project here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100178 and here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.886632 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Hub researchers who organised the exhibition, Dr Nina Rivers and Mia Strand (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) received positive feedback from co-researchers and government officials who attended the exhibition. The exhibition made co-researchers, that also include local Xhoi and San community, so proud to share their work and stories with representatives of the government of South Africa who attended the exhibition. This event has helped to inform the government representatives on the different and alternative uses of the ocean and coast in South Africa. Government officials involved in marine spatial planning in South Africa has said they have learned things they did not know about people's cultural connections to the ocean and coast. Representatives of coastal management and conservation authorities have highlighted that they need to work closer with Indigenous and local knowledge holders in the future. The workshop following the exhibition in March 2022 also informed specific pathways to ensure this. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-499UAZC3d0
 
Title Ocean Connections: a multimedia exhibition from Algoa Bay, South Africa 
Description Indigenous and local knowledge is important for how we use and care for our ocean and coasts. Too often, these knowledge systems and knowledge holders are excluded from how the ocean is used and managed. Working with Indigenous and local knowledge holders in Algoa Bay, South Africa, this project explores ways of using photography and storytelling to convey peoples' personal relationship with the ocean. The multimedia exhibition is the result of the research led by Mia Strand, and a postdoctoral project led by Dr Nina Rivers (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) to develop an integrated marine spatial plan for the Bay that will inform the national Marine Spatial Planning process. The research also forms part of the SANOCEAN Project and One Ocean Hub work on moving towards more inclusive ocean governance. The film is produced by: Amehlo Productions. In 2022 the multimedia exhibition had taken place at the South End Museum in Gqeberha in March 2022, at the Our Ocean is Sacred exhibition in Cape Town in November 2022, and at the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) marine science exhibition in Cape Town in December 2022. For more information see here: https://www.algoabayproject.com/ocean-connections. Follow link to virtual exhibition here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsavQOxyLFw&t=17s and to the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-499UAZC3d0&t=40s 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Hub researchers who organised the exhibition, Dr Nina Rivers and Mia Strand (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) received positive feedback from co-researchers and government officials who attended the exhibition. The exhibition made co-researchers, that also include local Xhoi and San community, so proud to share their work and stories with representatives of the government of South Africa who attended the exhibition. This event has helped to inform the government representatives on the different and alternative uses of the ocean and coast in South Africa. Government officials involved in marine spatial planning in South Africa has said they have learned things they did not know about people's cultural connections to the ocean and coast. Representatives of coastal management and conservation authorities have highlighted that they need to work closer with Indigenous and local knowledge holders in the future. The workshop following the exhibition in March 2022 also informed specific pathways to ensure this. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsavQOxyLFw&t=579s
 
Title Our Ocean Our Identity: Papua New Guinea 
Description Mural produced by Pax Jakupa for the DEEP Fund project Our Ocean Our Identity. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and capacity development for lead artist Paid employment and training for two youth artists Further mural commission for artist (University of Goroka) Notable Engagements: Project Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=our%20ocean%20our%20identity One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Our Ocean Our Identity: Solomon Islands 
Description Mural produced by Lloyd Newton for the DEEP Fund project Our Ocean Our Identity. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and capacity development for lead artist Paid employment and training for three youth artists Further mural commissions for artist (Coronation High School; National University of Solomon Islands) Notable Engagements: Project Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=our%20ocean%20our%20identity One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ Newspaper article 'Local Artist Wins Award', Solomon Star News, 13 March 2021, https://www.solomonstarnews.com/index.php/news/national/item/25266-local-artist-wins-award 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Our Ocean Our Identity: Vanuatu 
Description Mural produced by Alvaro Sumaki Kuautonga for the DEEP Fund project Our Ocean Our Identity. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and capacity development for lead artist Art training and capacity building for 40 women and youth Market of textiles produced by women and youth raised 66,000 vatu Further mural commissions for artist (private residence; Pikinini Play Time) Notable Engagments: Project Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=our%20ocean%20our%20identity One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ Newspaper article 'Local Artist Wins Award', Vanuatu Daily Post, 13 March 2021, https://dailypost.vu/news/local-artist-wins-award/article_15db1e24-8519-11eb-8138-1bad3ed14307.html Meeting with Mrs Karen Bell, UK High Commissioner to the Republic of Vanuatu, June 2021 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Our Ocean, Our Identity: Papua New Guinea 2021 mural 
Description The mural 'Our Ocean, Our Identity: Papua New Guinea 2021' was developed as part of the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund project titled 'Our Ocean Our Identity' by Pax Jakupa with Derrick Lendu and Georgina Woti. This project 'Our Ocean, Our Identity' was initiated in 2021 under the Deep Fund, led by Pax Jakupa (Papua New Guinea), in collaboration with artists in Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. An initiative of three local artists - Lloyd Newton in the Solomon Islands, Pax Jakupa in Papua New Guinea and Alvaro Sumaki Kuautonga in Vanuatu - the project is a rare opportunity for artistic cross-country engagement in a region often overlooked by global art markets. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Our Ocean, Our Identity: Solomon Islands 2021 mural, Solomon Islands 
Description Our Ocean Our Identity: Solomon Islands mural was produced by Lloyd Newton with Stanley Biriau, Allen Makana, Walex Raeti, Siru Tana, George Tino, and Susan Vivi in Solomon Islands. The mural was developed as part of the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund project titled 'Our Ocean Our Identity'. This project "Our Ocean, Our Identity " was initiated in 2021 under the Deep Fund, led by Pax Jakupa (Papua New Guinea), in collaboration with artists in Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. An initiative of three local artists - Lloyd Newton in the Solomon Islands, Pax Jakupa in Papua New Guinea and Alvaro Sumaki Kuautonga in Vanuatu - the project is a rare opportunity for artistic cross-country engagement in a region often overlooked by global art markets 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Our Ocean, Our Identity: Vanuatu 2021 mural 
Description The mural 'Our Ocean, Our Identity: Vanuatu 2021' was developed as part of the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund project titled 'Our Ocean Our Identity' by Alvaro Sumaki Kuautonga with Jean Yves Bihu, Rapsin Bihu, Jimmal Kuautonga, and Marisha Kuautonga This project "Our Ocean, Our Identity " was initiated in 2021 under the Deep Fund, led by Pax Jakupa (Papua New Guinea), in collaboration with artists in Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. An initiative of three local artists - Lloyd Newton in the Solomon Islands, Pax Jakupa in Papua New Guinea and Alvaro Sumaki Kuautonga in Vanuatu - the project is a rare opportunity for artistic cross-country engagement in a region often overlooked by global art markets. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Paddles without boats, Lamps without Paraffin 
Description "Paddles without boats, Lamps without Paraffin" is a playback theatre script and process to facilitate discussion around negotiating of fair and favourable contracts with private fishing companies. This play back theatre and related discussion was part of the Eastern Cape Small Scale Fishers workshop in June 2022, and videos of the play were shared on the Small-Scale Fishers National Leaders Whatsapp group. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The play has contributed to a deepened, more empowered, more nuanced and more plural engagement with complex socio-ecological-political aspects of ocean relationships and governance. 
 
Title Pele Moonsamy: A Fisher to Remember 
Description Edited story produced by Kira Erwin for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/pele-moonsamy-a-fisher-to-remember/
 
Title Pele and Bina 
Description Oil on canvas produced by Bandile Gumede to accompany the edited story Pele Moonsamy: A Fisher to Remember for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/pele-moonsamy-a-fisher-to-remember/
 
Title Privilege in the Distance 
Description Watercolour produced by Rohini Amratlal to accompany the oral history Segregated for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/segregated-jps-story/
 
Title Project Facebook page: Our Ocean, Our Identity 
Description The Facebook page of 'Our Ocean, Our Identity' provides information on activities and outputs related to this project. The project "Our Ocean, Our Identity " was initiated in 2021 under the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund, led by Pax Jakupa (Papua New Guinea), in collaboration with artists in Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. An initiative of three local artists - Lloyd Newton in the Solomon Islands, Pax Jakupa in Papua New Guinea and Alvaro Sumaki Kuautonga in Vanuatu - the project is a rare opportunity for artistic cross-country engagement in a region often overlooked by global art markets. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice 
URL https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=our%20ocean%20our%20identity
 
Title Reflecting on social impacts of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) on MPA Day 
Description "Reflecting on social impacts of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) on MPA Day" is infographics reflecting on the history and ongoing impacts of Marine Protected Areas in South Africa. The inforgraphics was shared to the Small-Scale Fishers National Leaders Whatsapp group in August 2022, as well as on the Coastal Justice Network instagram page. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact "Reflecting on social impacts of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) on MPA Day" infographics have contributed to a deepened, more empowered, more nuanced and more plural engagement with complex socio-ecological-political aspects of ocean relationships and governance. 
URL https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgzs7w8KtWA/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
 
Title Risks 
Description Photograph produced by Rohini Amratlal to accompany the oral history Fishers Unite for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/fishers-unite/
 
Title Sea Undertaker 
Description Acrylic on canvas produced by Derrick Lendu for the DEEP Fund project Our Ocean Our Identity. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and training for artist Notable Engagements: Project Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=our%20ocean%20our%20identity One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Sea Undertaker painting 
Description 'Sea Undertaker' is an acrylic on canvas painting produced by Derrick Lendu in 2021 in Papua New Guinea. This painting is produced as part of the 'Our Ocean Our Identity' project. The project "Our Ocean, Our Identity " was initiated in 2021 under the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund, led by Pax Jakupa (Papua New Guinea), in collaboration with artists in Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. An initiative of three local artists - Lloyd Newton in the Solomon Islands, Pax Jakupa in Papua New Guinea and Alvaro Sumaki Kuautonga in Vanuatu - the project is a rare opportunity for artistic cross-country engagement in a region often overlooked by global art markets. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice. 
 
Title Seahorse 
Description Seahorse is an acrylic ink, watercolours and fineliner pens on paper painting (38×27 cm) produced by Hub Director, Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK). This painting is part of 'Marine Portraits', the first series of paintings Elisa Morgera has created. They were conceived and made during the first lockdown in the UK (2020) and loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. They are both a way to celebrate the uniqueness and allure of marine life, and to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity as the centre of gravity of Elisa's lifework as a scholar. Marine portraits is the second exhibition on the One Ocean Learn platform, launched on 15 December 2022. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage. 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title Segregated 
Description Oral history produced by PJ for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/segregated-jps-story/
 
Title Short animation film: Defenders of the Ocean 
Description Launched on 10th December 2022 (International Human Rights Day), this short animation film tells the story of a South African small-scale fisherwoman, Hilda Adams, who poignantly talks about the challenges small-scale fisher communities face. The film explains how the One Ocean Hub works with small-scale fishers, UN agencies and other partners to protect small-scale fishers and their communities' human rights during the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries (IYAFA) and beyond. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The film was premiered at Climate COP27 in November 2022 at an event that the Hub co-organised with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, United Nations Office for Human Rights Commissioner, and Blue Ventures for the COP27 Virtual Ocean Pavilion. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agb9LCYhmWY&t=2s
 
Title Solidarity Map of Eastern Cape Small Scale Fishers 
Description "Solidarity Map of Eastern Cape Small Scale Fishers" is a participatory map of the Eastern Cape coastline, rivers and location of small scale fisher cooperatives in relation to one another, to catalyse discussions about building greater cooperation and solidarity between different fisherfolk communities. The map was created in real time / real life together with fishers at the Eastern Cape small scale fishers workshop in June 2022. A framed print of this map was exhibited at the 'Our Ocean is Sacred' exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa from September to November 2022. A version of this map is also available on the Coastal Justice Network instagram page: 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The map has contributed to a deepened, more empowered, more nuanced and more plural engagement with complex socio-ecological-political aspects of ocean relationships and governance. 
URL https://www.instagram.com/p/CeVibOhKeM0/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
 
Title St Helena Bay photovoice exhibition 
Description St Helena Bay photovoice project has used photovoice method to document hidden activities in the fisheries value chain. Images and audio recordings generated from this project will be used as part of exhibition material that Hub researchers at the University of Cape Town, South Africa will co-organise with fishers in 2023. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact The project is still in development but will provide the opportunity for the direct contribution of fishers to the mapping of their fishery activities. 
 
Title Stained Memories 
Description Watercolour and found object produced by Rohini Amratlal to accompany the oral history I Got Hooked for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/i-got-hooked-jps-story/
 
Title The Art of Fishing 
Description Oral history produced by Riaz for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-art-of-fishing/
 
Title The Battle for the Piers 
Description Edited story produced by Thabisile Gumede for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for author Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/battle-for-the-piers/
 
Title The Blue Blanket: An Illustrated Poem 
Description The Blue Blanket is an illustrated poem spoken from Ulwandle (Ocean) as a response to ongoing oil and gas prospecting and developments along the South Africa coast. The isiXhosa word for ocean, uLwandle, falls in the same noun class as 'ubuntu' - in Nguni languages, the ocean is not a thing, not an object, like ubuntu - we are, because the ocean is. Therefore a poem written from the oceans perspective would be a We, not and I. This poem challenges developers to feel from the perspective of the ocean. The film is directed, illustrated and edited by Hub researcher Dylan McGarry. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact The film was released on 25 of November 2021, few days before Shell's seismic survey on the Wild Coast in South Africa began. The film reached over 1868 viewers within the first 12 hours release. The film has been shared widely on social media and has reached nearly 10,000 views on YouTube. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UBubIpCWuk
 
Title The Human Chain 
Description Oral history produced by Snowy for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-human-chain-snowys-story/
 
Title The Ocean and Climate Change 
Description This short film introduces the One Ocean Hub's research efforts and approach at the ocean-climate nexus. It explains why integrated and inclusive ocean governance is essential in tackling climate change and ensuring a just transition to a low-carbon future in the face of the rapid and vast changes that climate change is causing to the ocean, ocean life and the lives of the people reliant upon it. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact The film was played at Climate Change COP26 Green Zone Exhibition in November 2021, in Glasgow, UK. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGqWCd9UR2Y&t=3s
 
Title The Opressed Fishermen 
Description Edited story produced by Thabisile Gumede for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for author Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-oppressed-fisherman/
 
Title The Sea is My Farm: Roy's Story 
Description Edited story produced by Doung Jahangeer for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for author Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-sea-is-my-farm-roys-story-by-doung/
 
Title The Treacherous South Pier 
Description Oral history produced by Snowy for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-treacherous-south-pier-snowys-story/
 
Title The nexus between tangible and intangible cultural heritage and ocean governance in Ghana: The Case of Canoe Inscriptions, Festivals and Asafo Companies 
Description The One Ocean Hub's research in Ghana contributes to bridging the disconnection between legal, scientific and socio-cultural dimensions of ocean governance and cultural heritage drawing on the voices and perspectives of local people. In this short documentary we take a look at the symbolism of canoes among coastal people in Ghana and its relationship with Asafo* groups and local festivals. Through local knowledge systems, the researchers demonstrated how canoe inscriptions and the political economy of Asafo companies draws attention to the nexus between the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of coastal people and communities and its implications for fisheries management and ocean governance. *Asafo companies were the traditional warriors in local communities in Ghana involved in both defence and rescue missions until the evolution of the modern military. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This documentary was first shown during the 'Canoe Culture and Heritage in Ghana' webinar by Dr. Georgina Yaa Oduro and Dr. John Windie Ansah of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Cape Coast. The webinar was part of the Hub's programme of events during the United Nations World Oceans Week in June 2021. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opi9ejkLjT0
 
Title Umkhosi Wenala Empatheatre play 
Description Umkhosi Wenala Empatheatre play is an Empatheatre and Mbazwana Creative Arts production related to the history of Isimangaliso Wetland Park. Hub researcher Dr Dylan McGarry (Rhodes University, South Africa) is one of the co-founder of Empatheatre. Hub early career researcher Taryn Pereira (Rhodes University) contributed some research towards the development of the script. The play was performed in Northern Kwa Zulu Natal in September 2022. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Umkhosi Wenala Empatheatre play has contributed to a deepened, more empowered, more nuanced and more plural engagement with complex socio-ecological-political aspects of ocean relationships and governance. 
URL https://www.empatheatre.com/umkhosi-wenala
 
Title Untitled acrylic on canvas painting 
Description The untitled acrylic on canvas painting was produced by Georgina Woti in 2021 in Papua New Guinea. This painting is produced as part of the 'Our Ocean Our Identity' project. The project "Our Ocean, Our Identity " was initiated in 2021 under the Hub's Deep Emotional Engagement (DEEP) Fund, led by Pax Jakupa (Papua New Guinea), in collaboration with artists in Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. An initiative of three local artists - Lloyd Newton in the Solomon Islands, Pax Jakupa in Papua New Guinea and Alvaro Sumaki Kuautonga in Vanuatu - the project is a rare opportunity for artistic cross-country engagement in a region often overlooked by global art markets. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and training, promotion of practice 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Untitled1 
Description Photograph produced by Casey Pratt to accompany the oral history An Unusual Catch for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/an-unusual-catch-tamlynns-story/
 
Title Untitled10 
Description Photograph produced by Nompilo Mthethwa to accompany the edited story A Family that Fishes Together Stays Together for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-family-that-fishes-together-stays-together/
 
Title Untitled11 
Description Photograph produced by Nompilo Mthethwa to accompany the edited story The Battle for the Piers for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/battle-for-the-piers/
 
Title Untitled12 
Description Photograph produced by Zimvo Nonjola to accompany the oral history A Dwindling Species for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-dwindling-species/
 
Title Untitled13 
Description Photograph produced by Kira Erwin to accompany the oral history Being Outdoors for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/being-outdoors-montys-story/
 
Title Untitled14 
Description Acrylic on canvas produced by Georgina Woti for the DEEP Fund project Our Ocean Our Identity. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment and training for artist Notable Engagements: Project Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=our%20ocean%20our%20identity One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/
 
Title Untitled2 
Description Photograph produced by Casey Pratt to accompany the oral history Where Have All the Fish Gone for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/where-have-all-the-bait-fish-gone/
 
Title Untitled3 
Description Photograph produced by Doung Jahangeer to accompany the edited story The Sea is My Farm: Roy's Story for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-sea-is-my-farm-roys-story-by-doung/
 
Title Untitled4 
Description Photograph produced by Ezami Molefe to accompany the edited story A Fishing Heritage in Peril for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-fishing-heritage-in-peril/
 
Title Untitled5 
Description Photograph produced by Ezami Molefe to accompany the oral history A Violation of the Sea for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/a-violation-of-the-sea-riazs-story/
 
Title Untitled6 
Description Photograph produced by Ezami Molefe to accompany the oral history The Human Chain for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-human-chain-snowys-story/
 
Title Untitled7 
Description Photograph produced by Lina Macanhe to accompany the oral history Close Encounters for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/riazs-close-encounter/
 
Title Untitled8 
Description Photograph produced by Lina Macanhe to accompany the edited story In a Perfect World, Fishing Has No Gender for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/in-a-perfect-world-fishing-has-no-gender/
 
Title Untitled9 
Description Photograph produced by Nompilo Mthethwa to accompany the oral history The Art of Fishing for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for artist Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-art-of-fishing/
 
Title View from the South Pier 
Description Photograph produced by Kira Erwin to accompany the oral history A Treacherous South Pier for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/the-treacherous-south-pier-snowys-story/
 
Title Whale 
Description Whale is an acrylic ink, watercolours and fineliner pens on paper painting (38×27 cm) produced by Hub Director Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK). This painting is part of 'Marine Portraits', the first series of paintings Elisa Morgera has created. They were conceived and made during the first lockdown in the UK (2020) and loosely inspired by Dylan McGarry's artwork for the One Ocean Hub's website. They are both a way to celebrate the uniqueness and allure of marine life, and to feel personally connected to marine biodiversity as the centre of gravity of Elisa's lifework as a scholar. Marine portraits is the second exhibition on the One Ocean Learn platform, launched on 15 December 2022. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage. 
URL https://www.oneoceanlearn.org/exhibitions/marine-portraits/
 
Title What is Empatheatre: Short Documentary Film 
Description This short documentary film introduces Empatheatre as a methodology in sculpting new social spaces that act as amphitheaters for empathy. A space for reflexive deep listening in society over a public concern, that contributes to participatory justice in decision making, meaning making and solidarity building across societal spheres. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact The documentary as published in December 2020 with the aim to engage a range of stakeholders, in particular researchers, policy makers, and practitioners responsible for undertaking public dialogues and consultation in policy and planning processes. The documentary seeks to introduce new approaches to participation in decision making. 
URL https://www.empatheatre.com/
 
Title Where Have All the Bait Fish Gone 
Description Oral history produced by Grant for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/where-have-all-the-bait-fish-gone/
 
Title You Live by the Sea; You Die by the Sea 
Description Oral history produced by Andre and William for the DEEP Fund project Fishers Tales. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Paid employment for project manager Training and capacity building of fieldworks Strengthened partnership between Durban University of Technology and South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Notable Engagements: Project website https://fisherstales.org/ Artwork shared via social media One Ocean Hub blog post Artfully Sustaining the Sea, 27 January 2021, https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ One Ocean Hub blog post Fishers Tales: Stories with the Sea, 31 January 2022, https://oneoceanhub.org/fishers-tales-stories-with-the-sea/ Exhibition and associated public programmes, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts, March-April 2022 Art(iv)istic Storytelling for Social Change workshop, May 2021, 37 participants 
URL https://fisherstales.org/andre-and-williams-story-you-live-by-the-sea-you-die-by-the-sea/
 
Description Our findings indicate that current approaches to ocean governance are insufficiently integrated, undermining ocean health, and are not inclusive of different needs in society, undermining economic and socio-cultural wellbeing. We have proven that a human rights-based approach to ocean governance supports more integrated and inclusive decision making, to the benefit of those whose lives and livelihoods are marginalised, but are most closely connected to the ocean. Our pioneering approach to a human rights-based and arts-based transdisciplinary research has continued to receive growing international and local recognition for enabling marginalized actors to voice their demands and exercise their rights.

In South Africa, we documented and support multi-stakeholder responses to violations of small-scale fishers' (SSF) human rights, in the application of policy and legislation on fisheries, blue economy developments, marine conservation and land-based developments negatively impacting on the ocean. We also shed new light on distinctive knowledge systems and livelihoods of women in small-scale fishing communities. Researchers further documented the exclusion of SSF communities from relevant policy and decision-making processes and undue enforcement action. We have also co-developed innovative approaches to support SSF communities to collectively strategize nation-wide and across scales on multiple challenges through the Coastal Justice Network (CJN) on threats arising from oil and gas explorations, blue economy activities as well as fisheries conservation and governance that negatively impact on SSFs' human rights. Furthermore, the Empatheatre play titled "Umkhosi Wenala" (isZulu for "Festival of Abundance") embodies new findings and methods (counter-hegemonic mapping, participatory rural appraisals) for inter-generational and gender-transformative dialogue on exclusionary marine conservation, gender inequity and indigenous communities' customary laws.

In Ghana, our findings indicate that key fisheries are under high fishing pressure, including potential collapse of the seabream fishery; reduced production in spite of increased fisher effort, and potential differences in temperature responses affecting the vulnerability of species important to ecosystem functioning. In parallel, we found what are the highest threats to the human rights of small-scale fishers (livelihoods, food), as well women within these communities (access to support; participation in decision-making) and children (health, education). We are finalizing innovative tools to integrate varied datasets and tools developed, to support different sectors of government in balancing multiple and competing fisheries and other marine sectors (e.g. oil and gas) with a view to protecting the most vulnerable (SDG 14b).

In Namibia, we clarified the value of marine resources for small-scale fisheries, blue carbon potential and coastal tourism, as well as for continued cultural connections and traditional fishing activities of displaced Indigenous communities (Topnaar), to ensure that decisions at the national level take a more integrated approach to the ocean and its benefits to society.

Internationally, our research clarified how more comprehensive human rights protection for SSFs, children, women and ocean defenders, supports the realization of multiple SDGs. We have also clarified the negative impacts on cultural rights of unsustainable and exclusionary blue economy initiatives, as well as "just transition" processes. Our recommendations were included in a variety of guidance documents addressed to States by different UN bodies.
Exploitation Route Co-production of research and sustainable development solutions with ocean-dependent communities through innovative human rights-based and arts-based approaches is enabling better understanding of historical and contemporary injustices linked to the ocean and its resources, as well as the distinctive knowledge of Indigenous and local communities. Supporting the integration of community experiences, values and knowledge in scientific assessments, management and decision-making on ocean conservation and the blue economy can lead to better protection of their rights, cultures and livelihoods while leading to more effective environmental protection at different levels. At national level, governments are benefiting from access to new integrated scientific evidence base, methods and technologies to underpin integrated ocean assessment and management. In marine protected area work and in marine spatial planning, more participatory approaches have been devised by new collaborations between natural scientists, social scientists and communities. Hub research has also produced evidence that was used to challenge governments when their decision-making processes did not align with national and international human rights standards. Finally, our research contributed to the co-development of international guidance by various UN bodies to clarify States' obligations to protect the marine environment, fight climate change and protect the human rights of communities, women and children.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy

Creative Economy

Environment

Government

Democracy and Justice

Culture

Heritage

Museums and Collections

URL https://oneoceanhub.org/
 
Description The One Ocean Hub aims to improve the lives and livelihoods of Indigenous and traditional communities that are dependent on a healthy ocean, with particular attention to women and youth in Ghana, Namibia, and South Africa, and to share learning and methods in the South Pacific and the Caribbean. The Hub is empowering, building capacity within, and learning from, the people who rely on the oceans, and who are disproportionately impacted by the failure to protect it. It is at the local and international levels that the Hub is having the greatest impact. In South Africa, the art-based and human rights-based approaches co-developed with Indigenous and local knowledge-holders, particularly by the Empatheatre collective and the Coastal Justice Network, but also those developed in Algoa Bay for the specific purposes of marine spatial planning have been integrated with research on marine biodiversity science, and have had impacts on policy, administrative and justice practice in South Africa. Findings from the Coastal Justice Network have also been shared with small-scale fishers at national scale and are being used at local level to challenge blue economy activities that impact on the human rights of small-scale fishers and marginalised coastal communities. In addition, research on gender and the ocean, as well as the use of art-based methods have also produced income-generation opportunities for local communities. The fisheries and social sciences research on small-scale and recreational fisheries have also had impacts on national regulation. We have analyzed these impacts in a series of case studies: - Empatheatre research-based theatre play Lalela uLwandle powerfully conveys the multiple threats to ocean health and human rights violations arising from the exclusion of small- scale fishers and Indigenous peoples from ocean-related decision- making processes, which led to judicial decisions in 2022-2023 to halt environmentally, socially and culturally damaging offshore oil exploration practices: https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Impact-Story-Empatheatre-Lalela_12.10.23.pdf - Empatheatre research-based theatre play Umkohosi Wenala provides an innovative public-debate space for inter-generational and gender-transformative dialogue on environmental and human rights concerns around marine protected areas: https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Impact-Story-Empatheatre-Umkhosi_Wenala_12.10.23.pdf - Hub fisheries research contributed to the imposition of a ban on environmentally unsustainable and socially disruptive drone-assisted fisheries: https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Impact-Story-Sounding-the-alarm-on-the-use-of-drones-for-recreational-fishing-in-South-Africa_12.10.23.pdf - Research with women in small-scale fishing communities provides opportunities for supplementary livelihoods and reveals exploitative practices in seaweed harvesting: https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Impact-Story_Eastern-Cape_12.10.23.pdf Research findings integrating fisheries, legal and social sciences, as well as art-based approaches on the knowledge and culture of small-scale fishers, in Ghana are being shared with national fisheries and environmental authorities, enforcement officers, the judiciary and the national human rights ombudsman to protect the human rights of small-scale fishers, women and children, in ensuring more sustainable fisheries. The initial impacts of this research in Ghana in paving the way for the recognition of the human rights and knowledge of small-scale fishers and their integration in decision-making have been documented at https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Impact-Story_Ghana_Humanrights_SSFs_12.10.23.pdf and https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Impact-Story_Ghana_Cocooned_12.10.23.pdf In Namibia, Hub research findings were fed into the development of the first policy on small-scale fisheries, through our partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. We are now working with the National Theatre of Namibia to support the consideration of human rights into the decision-making on blue economy initiatives with historical and current impacts on indigenous communities. We have documented and analysed the impacts in terms of capacity building, recognition and leadership of the Topnaar Indigenous community in developing an evidence base on their continued connections and human rights related to the ocean have been analysed at https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Impact-story_9_Topnaar_07.11.23.pdf Our DEEP Fund art projects in different countries in Africa and the Pacific have surfaced the priorities of Indigenous and local communities that are generally underrepresented in conventional approaches to marine science, management and governance; and strengthened the capacity and provided income-generating opportunities for community-based artists. Changes in attitude have been observed in Port Vila, Vanuatu, where has been an increase in appropriate litter disposal; and indigenous knowledge-based education materials were introduced in primary schools in Erromango, with the Vanuatu's Ocean Commissioner considering replicating the project in other islands. In South Africa, the art work enriched a proposal to the National Minister to start a dedicated process to ensure that Durban small-scale fishers are included under the Small-Scale Fisheries Policy. The global relevance of this area of research has been discussed in international forums such the UN Climate COP26-28, and World Ocean Weeks 2022-2023. Internationally, our findings were integrated in guidance to States by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and UN Special Rapporteurs on Cultural Rights and on the Environment. We submitted findings to three international tribunals who have been tasked to clarify States' obligations to address climate change in 2024. We have analysed the international policy impact of our research on children's human rights and a healthy ocean on the development of the 2023 UN General Comment on Children's Human Right and a Healthy Environment, as well as the impact on the practices of child rights advocates and climate justice advocates, at https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Impact-Story-Protecting-childrens-rights-at-the-ocean-climate-nexus_12.10.23.pdf and https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Impact-story-5-Children_informing-important-UN-Guidance_07.11.23-1458.pdf On the whole, the One Ocean Hub, over a period of 5 years of co-development and implementation with a variety of international partners (including numerous UN agencies) has established itself internationally as the most ambitious and advanced inter- and trans-disciplinary ocean research endeavour (findings, methodologies, partnerships for impact), with numerous examples of international and national impact to ensure equitable and integrated decisions on the ocean. This is demonstrated by the invitation from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to the Hub to become an Implementing Partner of the UN Decade for Ocean Science and lead on a programme on transdisciplinarity. In addition, the One Ocean Hub has been recognised as one of the most innovative prototypes globally of "fair research for sustainable development" programme, which has led to the development of a set of transformative governance practices that reveal unrecognized and untapped synergies between research and governance, that can be adapted and embedded into different institutional frameworks at different scales to tackle intractable problems (eg: global governance of digital data on genetic sequences) across a wide range of areas of the 2030 Agenda beyond ocean-related themes. This is demonstrated by the requests for the Hub to contribute transferable findings and approaches in the context of the WHO pandemics treaty negotiations. Finally, the One Ocean Hub has been further recognised globally for its thought-leading research on environment and human rights that are relevant and transferable across different areas of the 2030 Agenda. This has been demonstrated by the impacts of Hub research on biodiversity more broadly (rather than only limited to marine biodiversity) and human rights in the context of the development of the 2023 UN General Comment on Children's Human Right and a Healthy Environment, with a Focus on Climate Change, and the UN Development Programme's guidance on business responsibility to respect the human right to a healthy environment.
First Year Of Impact 2023
Sector Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural

Societal

Economic

Policy & public services

 
Description 4th Capacity-building Hub Summary Report
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact The inclusion of the Empatheatre (Lalela Ulwandle) in the UNFCCC report document has spotlighted the role of transdiciplinary approach and arts-based participatory methods in building capacity for climate adaptation and mitigation. The Empatheatre team has received invitation by the UNFCCC Capacity Building Hub to perform at the next Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai.
URL https://unfccc.int/documents/626647
 
Description A Regional Marine Spatial Planning Strategy for the Western Indian Ocean
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
URL https://nairobiconvention.org/clearinghouse/sites/default/files/05_Lombard%20et%20al_WIO%20MSP%20Str...
 
Description A regional Marine Spatial Planning strategy for the Western Indian Ocean
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
 
Description Advising on global biodiversity framework
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The advice provided by Dr Lynne Shannon has been published by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat as an official information document to support inter-governmental negotiations at the UN Biodiversity Conference to be held in Kunming, China, later in 2022. The advice has been covered by international press, including Guardian, Le Monde, Macau Business, Globe and Mail, as well as on Nature. It focuses on transformative change through a variety of inter-linked goals, with action being coordinated at every scale. Dr Shannon was quoted explaining that "there is no one-to-one linkage from any action target to a specific milestone or goal; instead, 'many-to-many' relationships exist among them. We need to recognize, therefore, the complex relationships among targets, milestones and goals and undertake our planning and actions in an integrated manner." Dr Shannon is co-chair of Future Earth's bioDISCOVERY programme, one of the two renowned international science bodies leading the Expert group initiative. Her biodiversity work is conducted under the auspices of the One Ocean Hub, which provides the ideal framework for bridging the science-policy gap to realize uptake of scientific research by global (and national) policy/decision-makers.
URL https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/16b6/e126/9d46160048cfcf74cadcf46d/wg2020-03-inf-11-en.pdf
 
Description Aliwal Shoal case study changes access for fishers
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact The Costal Justice Network supported the Fisherfolk Forum with crafting an agenda in which small-scale fishers' representatives were able to voice their concerns and ask questions about the evidence base The first meeting took place in June 2021 and was facilitated by Hub researcher Dr Kira Erwin (Durban University of Technology, South Africa) at the request of the Forum and was attended by other Hub researchers such as Dr Kerry Sink (South African national Biodiversity Institute, South Africa) to assist with explanations based on marine sciences. At the end of the meeting, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) South Africa and Ezimvelo, governmental organisation responsible for maintaining wildlife conservation areas and biodiversity in KwaZulu-Natal Province, committed to create a working committee with the Forum representatives and Hub researchers to address issues of exclusion and food security in the MPA. This process has changed access for fishers. The amended boundary was gazetted by the Government of South Africa in September 2023.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/the-unexpected-impact-of-a-letter-to-the-minister-from-one-ocean-hub-researc...
 
Description Assessing the feasibility and modalities of setting up a new EU-Africa Task Force for policy cooperation and dialogue on international ocean governance.
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The European Commission published their final report 'Feasibility Study on establishing an EU-Africa Task Force for policy cooperation and dialogue on International Ocean Governance' in January 2022. The purpose of the study is to further the EU's cooperation with Africa in a joint ocean governance agenda. The One Ocean Hub Director, Professor Elisa Morgera, was interviewed as part of the development of this report by the European Commission, DG MARE (Maritime Affairs and Fisheries), in September 2020. The report published reflected Hub's contribution to the report on: - The need for the inclusion of marine and social scientists, together with lawyers and economists, in the proposed task force. The report explicitly noted the need for the Task Force to engage expertise in 'international law, including expertise on the UN Convention on the Law of the sea and other ocean-related international instruments, value chain expertise for maritime products and social sciences' as part of the partnership (European Commission, 2022: 44). -For the task force to focus on science that can strengthen the science-policy interface for international ocean governance. Science-policy interface had been named as key strength of the Task force (European Commission 2022: 43). Given the emphasis on the science-policy interface, the report also outlined that stakeholder balance will be taken into consideration in the development of Task Force. At a minimum, the Task Force would include policy experts (e.g. European Commission services, African Union Agencies), academic and technical experts and civil society (e.g. non-governmental organisations, representatives of local communities, and private sector) (European Commission, 2022: 57). -The connectivity across various ocean challenges and land-based activities. The report mentioned land-ocean linkages as a possible thematic theme for the proposed work streams for the Task Force (European Commission, 2022: 119-120). It also underscored the need for mutually supportive collaborative framework across policy, science and market, and utilising governance tools such as Marine Spatial Planning (European Commission, 2022: 101). -The inter-dependency of ocean health and human rights, with a view to integrating relevant considerations in joint initiatives or coordination in international negotiations on the ocean, human rights and the environment. The European Commission report acknowledges that 'promoting rules-based good governance at sea and tackling safety and security issues will also help to achieve other priorities of the EU, including enhance human rights, freedom and democracy, create a level playing field for business and improve working conditions worldwide' (European Commission, 2022: 21). -The need for the task force to be "inclusive" in terms of connecting directly with local-level stakeholders and rights-holders in a meaningful way. The report adopted 'inclusiveness' as one of the key principles for the Task Force to operate under. The term inclusiveness in the report is understood as 'the engagement of a broad variety of relevant stakeholders, and a partnership of equals between the EU and Africa' (European Commission, 2022: 88). -Ensuring complementarity and value added of any new proposed EU-Africa initiatives with ongoing and planned initiatives on ocean governance in Africa. The point about value added is incorporated in the report as key principle guiding the operation of the Task Force. To quote the report, 'Added value: The Task Force should add value to existing cooperation initiatives and mechanisms and be complementary to them rather than overlapping with them' (European Commission, 2022: 55). See the full report here: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/13da3881-7cc6-11ec-8c40-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/contributing-to-the-eu-africa-joint-ocean-governance-agenda/
 
Description Biodiversity as a Human Right and its implications for the EU's External Action
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EXPO_STU(2020)603491
 
Description Blue Pacific Ocean Report' of the Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://opocbluepacific.net/publications/#blue-pacific-ocean-report
 
Description Co-development of a programme of collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme on marine litter
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact Professor Elisa Morgera involvement in the co-development of initiatives on marine plastics with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has led to the award of multiple consultancies by UNEP in 2021 to develop: 1) develop an e-learning course on Sustainable Development Goal 14 (life below water) and international law; 2) a legal toolkit and e-learning course on marine litter and ocean plastics; and 3) awareness-raising materials on environmental justice, human rights and ocean plastics (90.000 USD, March-November 2021). In 2022 as a result of this partnership UNEP has also 1) invited the One Ocean Hub to participate in Global Partnership on Marine Litter Action Track 5 and Digital Platform phase 3 release: Environmental Justice, Digital Transformation and Accessibility that will take place on 17 February 2022 and 2) further committed to provide 90,000 USD to the Hub to support the development of awareness raising materials on ocean plastics, including for production of a short video.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/partnering-with-unep-on-sdg-14-marine-litter-and-environmental-justice/
 
Description Collaborating with UNDP on SDG 14-16 synergies
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The study provides a great opportunity to deepen both the United Nations and Hub's own reflection on Sustainable Development Goal synergies from an ocean research and governance perspective and its various streams of research on human rights as an essential pre-condition for justice and strong institutions.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/collaborating-with-undp-on-sdg-14-16-synergies/
 
Description Concept Note Submission to the United Nations Environment Programme Nairobi Convention Western Indian Ocean Regional Science to Policy Meeting
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://nairobiconvention.org/clearinghouse/sites/default/files/WIO%20MSP%20Policy%20Brief_6%20Oct20...
 
Description Concept Note: Children's Rights at COP28
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Convention on Biological Diversity Thematic Workshop on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact OOH Deputy Director, Dr Daniela Diz (Strathclyde), was invited to contribute to the Convention on Biological Diversity Thematic Workshop on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in Montreal, Canada.
 
Description Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description DFFE launch new process to include SSFs
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Drone fishing ban (South Africa)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact The South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment released a public notice warning recreational anglers that the use of drones and other electronic devices is deemed illegal under the South African Marine Living Resources Act (MLRA 1998)
URL https://www.dffe.gov.za/sites/default/files/legislations/publicnotices/25february2022motorisedequipm...
 
Description Explicit reference to Hub evidence in the UN Secretary General's report on the right to food and climate change
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5347-adverse-impact-climate-change-full-real...
 
Description Hub evidence quotes in the report of the UN Special Report on cultural rights on the right to science
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/A-HRC-55-44-AEV.docx
 
Description Hub evidence relied upon by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact In her 2022 report, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Alexandra Xanthaki sought to: addresses the role of culture in sustainable development, with a view to assessing how cultural diversity and cultural rights have been mainstreamed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development so far; taking stock of the experiences in leveraging cultural resources and cultural rights in the pursuit of a more sustainable development, as well as the weaknesses encountered in doing so; and highlighting areas where increased cultural awareness may contribute to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals during the second half of the implementation timeline of the 2030 Agenda. The report also states at the outset the premise (para 1) that: "Cultural rights are indispensable to sustainable development. Development will only be sustainable if it is shaped by the values of the people that it involves and the meaning that they ascribe to it, protects their resources and uses their heritage in all its dimensions - tangible, living and natural. A human rights approach with a strong consideration for cultural rights is both a framework for and a guarantee of success for any development agenda." The Rapporteur also underscored that cultural rights and cultural diversity are essential to ensure that development is sustainable and gives a voice to marginalised people affected by development processes (para 5). She also emphasised that respect for cultural rights is part and parcel of "leaving no-one behind", recalling that (paras 9-10): "Cultural rights protect the right of each person individually, in community with others and collectively, to develop and express their humanity, their world views and the meanings they give to their existence and their development, including through, inter alia, values, beliefs, convictions, languages, knowledge and the arts, institutions and ways of life. Cultural rights also protect the cultural heritage of the individual and groups and the resources that enable such identification and development processes." Evidence from the One Ocean Hub was then cited by the Rapporteur in stating that "sustainable development cannot be separated from the recognition of individual and collective cultural rights, including spiritual and heritage rights" (para 20), although the prevailing development practices are lacking consideration of cultural rights, different values and worldviews, due to inequalities and stereotypes that prevent transformative change and are based on colonial legacies that have shaped dominant conceptions of development imposing a paradigm of "progress" that is not compatible with affected communities' understandings (para 21 and 25-26). She thus called for decolonising and democratising sustainable development, including by unearthing and acknowledging historical injustices committed in the name of progress and in violation of the cultural rights of local populations (paras 25-25).
URL https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N22/461/66/PDF/N2246166.pdf?OpenElement
 
Description Hub researcher, Prof Lynne Shannon (University of Cape Town, South Africa) spotlighted the Hub as a key example of ocean research initiative at European Marine Board workshop
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Dr Lynne Shannon's talk on the Ocean and Biodiversity spotlighted the One Ocean Hub as a key example of an ocean research initiative that builds connections between disciplines in achieving global biodiversity targets (see also here: https://oneoceanhub.org/hub-emerging-researchers-reflect-on-transdisciplinarity-in-transformative-ocean-governance-research/, here: https://oneoceanhub.org/towards-transdisciplinarity-which-route-to-take/ and here: https://oneoceanhub.org/towards-transdisciplinarity-which-route-to-take-part-ii/). This is by virtue of One Ocean Hub's transdisciplinary approach to knowledge co-production for sustainable ocean action. The European Marine Board later convened an expert group to write a foresight document on the marine science needed in the next 5 years - the "Navigating the Future Series," which is expected to be published in 2024.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/navigating-the-future/
 
Description Hub's contributions to the new pandemic treaty
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://healthpolicy-watch.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DRAFT_INB_Bureau-text_22-May.pdf?utm_sour...
 
Description Including the ocean in international guidance on children's right to a healthy environment
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/including-the-ocean-in-international-guidance-on-childrens-right-to-a-health...
 
Description Influencing practice of practitioners in the field of children rights
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact As part of the Working Group on Children's Rights and the Environment, the Hub has contributed to integrate in a vast global network of child rights and climate justice actors consideration of children's human rights and a healthy ocean. In addition, the Hub has been asked to take the lead in awareness-raising activities and policy briefs on the relevance of the 2023 UN General Comment 26 for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Convention on Biological Diversity, thereby contributing to ensure that advocacy initiatives on children's human rights and climate change are connected also with other environmental threats, notably in relation to the marine environment. Drawing from Hub's research on ocean-biodiversity-climate nexus and our experience in participating at the UNFCCC's Ocean Dialogue, the Hub is assisting the Working Group on Children's Rights and the Environment in strategizing and planning the first UN Children Experts Dialogue that will take place at the UN Bonn Climate Conference in June 2024.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/un-guidance-on-childrens-human-right-to-a-healthy-environment-calls-for-prot...
 
Description Informal summary report of the Ocean dialogue (SB58 June 2023) includes reference to the Hub
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://ocean-climate.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SB58_Synthesis-Report_Ocean-and-Climate_SBSTA-D...
 
Description Inputs into the UNDP guidance on business due diligence and the environment
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.undp.org/rolhr/consultation-hrddpluse
 
Description Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - transformative change assessment report
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change
 
Description Judicial decisions based on Empatheatre artwork
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact Lalela uLwandle has been relied on as evidence of intangible cultural heritage in three separate court cases in South Africa that were decided in favour of small-scale fishers (https://bit.ly/3BNm1dX), leading to an unprecedented recognition of cultural rights connected to the seabed and the need to protect procedural rights of Indigenous Peoples and small-scale fisheries in the context of licensing offshore oil and gas exploration (https://bit.ly/3IfGNGr). High Court of South Africa (Eastern Cape), https://groundup.org.za/media/uploads/documents/judgment_on_sustaining_wild_coast_v_minister_of_mineral_resources__energy__others.pdf Court judgement for the Shell case: https://cer.org.za/virtual-library/case- watch/challenges-to-shells-seismic- blasting-on-south-africas-wild-coast- december-2021 Court judgement for the Searcher Geodata case https://cer.org.za/virtual- library/judgments/high-courts/ christian-john-adams-others-v- minister-of-mineral-resources- and-energy-others-west-coast-seismic- blasting-part-a-interdict-march-2022
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Impact-Story-Empatheatre-Lalela_12.10.23.pdf
 
Description Lalela Ulwandle - Empatheatre- SOUTH AFRICA
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Law clinics for women in small-scale fishing communities in Ghana
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact The pop-up clinics allowed to identify recurring legal challenges for women in small-scale fishing communities and to provide immediate legal advice. They also identified follow-up steps for women to exercise their human rights.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/listening-closely-hub-engagement-in-ghana/
 
Description Mapping for justice: Mining maps used to support development applications
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact The dataset and the GIS maps produced have been used as the basis of discussions between the UCT team and small-scale fishers with the South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and the group of scientists who are currently developing the biodiversity maps. The biodiversity maps developed by SANBI and the scientists will serve as the basis for the marine spatial planning process in South Africa. The lead scientists involved in this process have indicated the usefulness of the GIS maps co-developed by the UCT team and small-scale fishers in contributing towards the adoption of an interim small-scale fisheries map. Currently, the maps produced from this dataset are used as a placeholder, whilst a more accurate small-scale fisheries map is developed. This is the first time that the small-scale fisheries sector has been represented on a map used by SANBI and South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) for the purposes of marine spatial planning. This pilot has produced notable impacts: The fishers have shared their geo-referenced maps with other small-scale fishers at a regional workshop held on 27 March 2023 held in Velddrif, Western Cape Province The workshop that took place on 28-29 March 2023 was attended by small-scale fishers from Northern Cape and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa (https://oneoceanhub.glasscubes.com/share/s/t7gtofvfernq1mfkvdb3eckme3). The fishers from the region, representing more than 10 fishing communities all requested that they also be assisted in developing maps of this nature as they could see this would strengthen their position in negotiations and marine spatial planning processes. The mining maps and supporting information is being used by various government departments to guide their responses to mining applications and other development applications, as well as policy decisions regarding mining in the coastal zone, and policy discussions regarding under what circumstances is a Strategic Environmental Assessment required. The project has also influenced the provincial government to recognise the value and importance of mapping and they have taken a decision to develop their capacity to do this mapping.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/mapping-for-justice-towards-an-accessible-transparent-database-of-mining-alo...
 
Description Namibia National Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries 2022-2026 (NPOA-SSF)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Namibia National Plan of Action on Small-Scale Fisheries was launched in June 2022 and mentioned about the One Ocean Hub in the list of acronyms and referred to video recording of FAO and One Ocean Hub webinar on Namibia's Experience in the Implementation of Voluntary Guidelines on Small-Scale Fisheries. The National Plan of Action on Small-Scale Fisheries is developed against the backdrop of the Global FAO Umbrella Programme "enhancing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and sustainable livelihoods" which supports the promotion, application, and subsequent implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of food security and poverty alleviation (SSF Guidelines) giving emphasis to empowering vulnerable and marginalised small-scale fisheries actors and their organizations to engage in relevant processes that affect their livelihoods.
URL https://namibia.un.org/en/207292-national-plan-action-small-scale-fisheries-2022-2026-npoa-ssf
 
Description National Ocean Policy of Fiji
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://www.economy.gov.fj/images/CCIC/uploads/Ocean/NOP_2020_Print01.pdf
 
Description New United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)'s e-learning course on gender and the environment
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The e-learning course on gender and the environment course explores the extent to which gender equality has been addressed under international environmental agreements, as well as international human rights processes, with regard to: land and terrestrial biodiversity, ocean, climate change, chemicals and freshwaters. It looks, each thematic area, at access to resources, participation in relevant decisions, mainstreaming, and access to support. By promoting gender equality, this course can help deliver better environmental outcomes. It is also served as a valuable training tool for students, practitioners, and policy makers.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/new-un-e-learning-course-on-gender-and-the-environment/
 
Description OOH Written Evidence Relied on by UN Secretary General Report
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.ohchr.org/en/climate-change/impact-climate-change-right-food
 
Description On going engagement as part of the Children Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact As part of CERI partnership, the One Ocean Hub has contributed on social media to a 'twitterstorm' calling for the right to a healthy environment to be recognised by the Human Rights Council. The governments of Costa Rica, Maldives, Morocco, Slovenia and Switzerland, or the "Core Group," formally introducef the resolution for the global recognition of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment at the Human Rights Council session on 13 September - 8 October 2021. On 8 October 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution recognising the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as an important human right. Following of the signing of MOU with CERI in September 2021 the Hub is co-developing an e-learning course for 13-15 year-old on children's rights to a healthy environment including the ocean and providing contributions to a new process for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to develop a General Comment on child rights, environment and climate change, as well as the UN Joint Commitment to promote the right of children, youth and future generations to a healthy environment and their meaningful participation in decision-making at all levels.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/hub-becomes-official-partner-of-the-childrens-environmental-rights-initiativ...
 
Description Policy brief: Applying coherently the human rights approach to small-scale fisheries for achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact This policy brief is one of the concrete evidence of Hub's efforts in bringing together different UN bodies to raise awareness and build alliances for the protection of small-scale fishers' human rights. Following the co-development of the policy brief the Hub, FAO, and OHCHR have been working closely in planning a series of events for the closing of celebration of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture in March 2023 in Rome, Italy. These include virtual dialogue series on the role of national human rights institutions and international human rights mechanisms to advance protection of small-scale fishers' human rights on 1-2 February 2023 and a series of hybrid workshops (in-person in Rome and virtual) on fisheries subsidies, capacity building session on small-scale fishers' human rights, arts-based participatory research, as well as Empatheatre performance.
URL https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cc3251en
 
Description Reflecting on women's rights to a healthy ocean, based on the 2023 report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact "Urgent, gender-transformative, rights-based climate and environmental action" is required to achieve gender equality and ecological sustainability- recently said the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment in his thematic report on women's and girls' human right to a healthy environment (A/HRC/52/33). Although the report does not refer often to women's and girls' human right to a healthy environment in the marine context, there are a few references to fisheries as a context in which particular human rights issues arise for women and girls. In addition, the vast majority of the points and recommendations formulated in the report are relevant for women's and girls' human rights and a healthy ocean, in particular women and girls in small-scale fishing communities.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/reflecting-on-womens-rights-to-a-healthy-ocean-based-on-the-2023-report-of-t...
 
Description Regional framework for ecosystem monitoring in the Western Indian Ocean
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://www.dropbox.com/s/8vdo0fwmljwq5fe/WIO%20Science%20to%20Policy%20Platform%20Series_FV2.pdf?dl...
 
Description SEYCHELLES Ocean's Policy
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
 
Description Sans frontières - Ocean and Coastal Sustainability of the Western Indian Ocean
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
 
Description Scientific Advisory Group (SAGE) Sub-committee on Marine Ecology and Risk Mitigation's Advisory on the Use of Deep-Sea Seismic Surveys to Explore for Oil and Gas Deposits in South African Waters
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://www.assaf.org.za/files/2022/SAGE/SAGE%20Advisory%20on%20Shell%20Seismic%20Survey.pdf
 
Description Sharing transferable findings for a new World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The inputs provided by the One Ocean Hub at the workshop informed the development of a progress report to the 76th World Health Assembly in 2023, with the aim to adopt the development of a future international pandemic treaty by 2024.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/sharing-transferable-findings-for-a-new-who-pandemic-treaty/
 
Description South Africa Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) investigating impact of coffer dam mining
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact The South Africa Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has begun to investigate the impact of coffer dam mining at the request of the One Ocean Hub and fishers. Although this is in its early stages, it is a significant shift. Since the project started, the researchers have been invited by government departments at local, provincial and national level, as well as various NGOs and other associations, to present the state of knowledge of mining and prospecting on the west coast. This data is now being used by various government departments, committees, and task teams to inform planning and decision-making and has featured in several newspaper articles and consultant reports. By creating and maintaining this comprehensive database, we are working to support transparent and accountable decision-making.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/mapping-for-justice-towards-an-accessible-transparent-database-of-mining-alo...
 
Description South Africa Government Marine Spatial Planning Working Group
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description South Africa Government Scientific Working Group and Task Team
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description South Africa amending National Environmental Management Act
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Strengthening the capacity of small islands developing states (SIDS) in ocean governance
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact As of March 2024, a total of 35 capacity-building sessions were co-organized by the Hub with UNDOALOS, having reached 104,187 government officials, representatives of civil society organisations, regional and international organisations, students, academics, and general public on various thematic issues (e.g. gender, climate change, small-scale fisheries) related to fair and inclusive ocean governance, reaching at least 110 UN member countries. For detailed information on partnership with UNDOALOS see collaboration entry "Strengthening capacity in international ocean governance." For detailed information on partnership with UNDP see collaboration entry "Strengthening synergies across Sustainable Development Goals." The 2024 requests to the Hub from UNDOALOS and UNDP demonstrate that the integrated approach to understanding the law of the sea in connection with international environmental law and human rights is seen as an essential approach to be integrated in international capacity-building programmes.
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/sharing-law-and-art-based-research-insights-with-un-nippon-fellows/
 
Description Submission to the United Nations Environment Programme Nairobi Convention: Sans frontières - Ocean and Coastal Sustainability of the Western Indian Ocean
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://www.nairobiconvention.org/clearinghouse/sites/default/files/Provisional%20Agenda_Science%20t...
 
Description Submissions against coastal mining
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
 
Description Submissions on mining prospecting and exploration applications under the auspices of the Blue Economy highlighting the impacts on small-scale fishing communities
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description The Hub's direct contribution to the 2020-20221 Roadmap to Oceans and Climate Action (ROCA) Initiative Report
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
URL https://rocainitiative.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/roca-progress-report-2020-2021.final_.pdf
 
Description The UN General Comment on Children's Rights and a Healthy Environment refers to the ocean, following on Hub advice
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact The inclusion of the ocean and biodiversity in the UN General Comment on Children's Human Rights and the Environment has led to raising awareness and change in practices among child rights and climate justice advocates about the need to ensure the protection of children's rights in ocean-related decision making processes, and equally about the need to protect the marine environment as a way to protect children's human rights in climate change-related decision-making processes. In addition, the General Comment will not guide the role of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in monitoring State conduct on the protection of children's rights in environmental decision-making, as well as the conduct of civil society organizations that provide independent monitoring of State conduct to the UN Committee. While it is too early to provide evidence of changed practice within the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, we have already seen various advocacy materials on climate justice and children's human rights that integrate the ocean as a result of the awareness raised and advice provided by the Hub in the development of the UN General Comment. In addition, children rights advocates have approached the Hub to raise awareness about the UN General Comment among international ocean decision-making bodies.
URL https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/general-comments-and-recommendations/crccgc26-general-comment-no-...
 
Description UK Government Biodiversity and Ecosystems Enquiry
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/62/environmental-audit-committee/publications/oral-eviden...
 
Description UK Government Biodiversity and Ecosystems Enquiry
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/62/environmental-audit-comm
 
Description UKRI Final Report on Global Challenges Research Fund Evaluation Module: Research Fairness
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact The Hub approaches on fairness of opportunity, process, and benefits in research have provided guideliness and benchmarks to assess how UKRI funded international collaborative programme is treating partners, stakeholders and communities in the global South fairly, and contributing to the emergence of equitable and sustainable collaborations. The report published by the UKRI is crucial to asess fairness in research in relation to: strategy, vision and decision making; the commissioning process; programme-level partnership with key institutions in the global South; award-level partnerships; and broader stakeholder engagement. It considers the way in which GCRF as a whole interacts with research ecosystems in the global South ('contextual fairness') as a cross-cutting lens. This assessment report could serve as a useful toolkit not only for UKRI but also to other funders to guide their research fairness and equity review.
URL https://www.itad.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GCRF-Fairness-Stage-1a_Full-report_formatted-version...
 
Description UN Committee on the Rights of the Child consultation for the general comment on children's rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://oneoceanhub.glasscubes.com/share/s/2rmqn43m0nul1aohvd4ttr65eh
 
Description UN Food and Agriculture Organisation: Guide on Legislating for Small Scale Fisheries
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb0885en
 
Description UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment report on investor-State dispute settlement for climate and environment action and human rights cited Hub evidence
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a78168-paying-polluters-catastrophic-consequence...
 
Description UNEP consulation on Environmental Defenders
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or Improved professional practice
Impact The meeting brought together experts from across the world with the purpose of discussing and sharing practices such as defense activities, livelihood projects as well as prevention of and protection against attacks. They aimed to identify gaps in existing UN guidance with a view to putting forward practical recommendations to relevant bodies and mechanisms of the UN. The outcomes will inform a compilation of good practices and recommendations, that will be made available through a report and an online interactive tool, accessible via www.environment-rights.org. The global consultation was attended by the former and current UN Special Rapporteurs on Human rights and the Environment, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, as well as several representatives of UN agencies. UNEP has included the Hub policy recommendations on "ocean defenders" in forthcoming UN Guidance on the Protection of Environmental Human Rights Defenders, addressed to UN Resident Coordinators (who can mobilise at country level financial, legal and logistic resources to protect defenders).
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/one-ocean-hub-highlights-role-and-needs-of-small-scale-fishers-at-un-consult...
 
Description Workshop 2: International Sharing of Pathogens, Genetic Sequence Data (GSD), and Benefits: What are the options? 25 November 2022
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Hub contributions and future participation in the workshop series will contribute to the development of the new pandemic treaty that is led by the World Health Organization (WHO).
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/sharing-transferable-findings-for-a-new-who-pandemic-treaty/
 
Description (MISSION ATLANTIC) - Towards the Sustainable Development of the Atlantic Ocean: Mapping and Assessing the present and future status of Atlantic marine ecosystems under the influence of climate change and exploitation
Amount € 11,564,093 (EUR)
Funding ID 862428 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 08/2020 
End 08/2025
 
Description A Natural Capital Approach to Celtic Seas Pelagic Fisheries
Amount £30,000 (GBP)
Organisation Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) 
Department Marine Management Organisation (MMO)
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2023 
End 12/2023
 
Description Amagagasi -Tides - Mbazwana Public Storytelling Project
Amount R125,000 (ZAR)
Organisation National Arts Council of South Africa 
Sector Public
Country South Africa
Start 02/2022 
End 02/2023
 
Description Aquaculture potential over seabed within the Crown Estate jurisdiction
Amount £50,000 (GBP)
Organisation Crown Estate 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2023 
End 12/2023
 
Description Canada-CARICOM Faculty Leadership Program
Amount $3,200 (CAD)
Organisation Government of Canada 
Sector Public
Country Canada
Start 01/2023 
End 02/2023
 
Description Capacity Building of African Young Scientists in Precision Agriculture Through Cross-Regional Academic Mobility for Enhanced Climate-Smart Agri-Food System. Benin, Eswatini, France, Ghana, Morocco and Rwanda
Amount € 1,796,820 (EUR)
Funding ID NDICI-2023-MOBAF 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2024 
End 12/2028
 
Description Community of Practice (CoP): Marine Spatial Plan for Algoa Bay; Phase II Algoa Bay, South Africa
Amount R7,000,000 (ZAR)
Organisation South African National Research Foundation (NRF) 
Sector Public
Country South Africa
Start 09/2020 
End 09/2022
 
Description Community of Practice in "Western Indian Ocean: Assessing the applicability of the ocean-accounts framework (OAF)"
Amount R7,000,000 (ZAR)
Funding ID UID: 125455 
Organisation South African National Research Foundation (NRF) 
Sector Public
Country South Africa
Start 01/2020 
End 12/2022
 
Description Deep Connections
Amount R1,246,950 (ZAR)
Funding ID ACEP200210502862 - Grant Number: 129216 
Organisation South African National Research Foundation (NRF) 
Sector Public
Country South Africa
Start 01/2021 
End 12/2023
 
Description Deep Ocean Observing Strategy Collective Solution Accelerator
Amount $3,700 (USD)
Organisation University of California, San Diego (UCSD) 
Sector Academic/University
Country United States
Start 09/2023 
End 10/2023
 
Description ECO-ACE Research Grant funded by the National Research Foundation (South Africa) under the Global Change Grand Challenge
Amount R3,636,936 (ZAR)
Organisation South African National Research Foundation (NRF) 
Sector Public
Country South Africa
Start 01/2022 
End 12/2024
 
Description ECOWIND
Amount £400,000 (GBP)
Organisation United Kingdom Research and Innovation 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2022 
End 07/2026
 
Description EU Horizon 2020 Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Amount £217,973 (GBP)
Funding ID 101083922 
Organisation European Union 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 11/2022 
End 10/2027
 
Description Economic Valuation of Ecosystems (Marine and Inland Aquatic) Goods and Services, Impacts of Climate Change on Fisheries and Aquaculture, Africa
Amount $40,000 (USD)
Organisation African Union Commission 
Sector Public
Country Ethiopia
Start 06/2023 
End 03/2024
 
Description Ecosystem Change, Offshore Wind, Net Gain and Seabirds (ECOWINGS)
Amount £473,159 (GBP)
Funding ID NE/X008983/1 
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2022 
End 08/2026
 
Description Ecosystem-based adaptive capacity through community engagement (Eco-ACE)
Amount R3,600,000 (ZAR)
Organisation South African National Research Foundation (NRF) 
Sector Public
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Title A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status 
Description The blueprint was developed by Hub researchers, Prof Murray Roberts (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Prof Andrew Sweetman (Heriot-Watt, UK) in collaboration with other external researchers from organisations such as Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel and Christian-Albrechts-University, Germany and European Marine Observation and Data network (EMODnet) Secretariat, Belgium. The Blueprint is founded on whole-ocean observations implemented by (1) an autonomous floating sensor fleet with funding and participation by an international consortium (ARGO floats), (2) coordinated transatlantic oceanographic monitoring arrays, and (3) innovative cost-effective technologies and ocean models to expand the spatio-temporal scales of observations and so provide the physical oceanographic framework for ecosystem studies. To overcome disparities in research and equipment capacity, detailed research co-design between North and South Atlantic must include shared access to offshore vessels, data, training, and supporting infrastructure. It must include effective capacity building and wider engagement, and be completed in parallel with science planning. Barriers created by limitations in funding structure, travel restrictions, or more recently, pandemic-related regulations mean this remains challenging. The Blueprint advances six priorities that target fundamental gaps in our understanding of basin and regional-scale oceanography (Priority 1) and ecosystem resilience (distribution, connectivity, responses to climate change and multiple stressors; Priorities 2-4). It allows us both to deliver an integrated assessment of ecosystem status and dynamics and to understand resilience to global change in the deep and open Atlantic Ocean. These four research priorities must be grounded in close collaboration, capacity development and meaningful engagement with key stakeholders (Priority 6) to inform management priorities, aggregate, standardise and disseminate research data and products through regional and global platforms (Priority 5) and by embedding work at the science-policy interface throughout (Priority 6). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This Blueprint results from Hub research on deep-sea ecosystems and other collaborative research programmes that focus on the Atlantic Ocean (e.g. iAtlantic). It directly supports the UN Ocean Decade of Science for Sustainable Development Goal to facilitate capacity development and technology transfer solutions toward a more equitable world. Ocean ecosystems are at the forefront of the climate and biodiversity crises, yet we lack a unified approach to assess their state and inform sustainable policies. This blueprint is designed around research capabilities and cross-sectoral partnerships. It highlights priorities including integrating basin-scale observation, modelling and genomic approaches to understand Atlantic oceanography and ecosystem connectivity; improving ecosystem mapping; identifying potential tipping points in deep and open ocean ecosystems; understanding compound impacts of multiple stressors including warming, acidification and deoxygenation; enhancing spatial and temporal management and protection. These goals are best achieved through partnerships with policy-makers and community stakeholders, and promoting research groups from the South Atlantic through investment and engagement. Given the high costs of such research (€800k to €1.7M per expedition and €30-40M for a basin-scale programme), international cooperation and funding are integral to supporting science-led policies to conserve ocean ecosystems that transcend jurisdictional borders. 
URL https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00645-w
 
Title A new counter-hegemonic mapping tool and instrument 
Description In South Africa a growing network of small-scale fisher leaders, environmental justice organisations and researchers from the One Ocean Hub, called the Coastal Justice Network (CJN), has been responding collaboratively since 2020 to a range of injustices - social, environmental, economic - experienced by coastal communities and environments. We have worked collaboratively to respond to the expected negative impacts of proposed offshore oil and gas expansion, lack of participation and other human rights issues around the creation and planning of marine protected areas, policy and management failures towards small-scale fisheries, water crises in coastal communities, COVID lockdown-related limitations to public participation, and others. One significant area of work, with noteworthy recent impact, is the development of a new counter-hegemonic mapping tool and instrument aimed at linking up, mobilising capacity, and facilitating popular education processes for small-scale fisher leaders, traditional leaders, coastal youth and other coastal citizens who have been negatively affected by the expansion of the network of Marine Protected Areas (MPA). The historical and contemporary human rights issues related to MPA expansion include, but are not limited to, communities being forcibly displaced from coastal ancestral land, experiencing heavy restrictions to their access and livelihood practices along the coastline in disregard of their sustainable customary practices, exclusion from MPA planning, zonation and other decision making, and culturally inappropriate and ineffective participatory processes on these issues. The development of the new counter hegemonic mapping tool and instrument is expanding through the CJN based on a collaborative project between the One Ocean Hub and the Deep Connections project at Mbazwana in Kwa Zulu Natal. The counter-hegemonic mapping tool is developed by CJN closely with small-scale fishers' communities to: 1. Map their concerns; 2. Support efforts for small-scale fishers and other leaders to participate in online consultations around the country; 3. Document their capacity mobilization needs, and; 4. Continue ethnographic research (oral histories, interviews, focus groups, archival analysis) with small-scale fishers and other coastal groups. The CJN used novel creative methods in participatory research (Empatheatre, Public Storytelling, Counter-hegemonic mapping, transgressive learning, popular education) to translate the MPA draft management plan into isiXhosa (the local language), deciphering the complex language and research page by page with the leaders. CJN also used an 'embodied mapping' constellation process in which leaders paced out the draft maps and zonation of the MPA across the hall, using their bodies as reference points for land-marks and noticeable boundaries of the MPA. In 2022 the CJN used Counter Hegemonic Mapping and Empatheatre methodology ("Umkhosi Wenala" play) to create a new process of working that was co-developed by 13 young activities and 8 elders , who brought stories over a period of 200 years and iterated the resulting timeline over 18 months near Isimangaliso MPA (see: https://oneoceanhub.org/fairer-and-more-inclusive-marine-protected-areas-through-restorative-public-storytelling/). The CJN then also created relational maps of these, which were then through "call and response" methods added to a theatre production and living map of these stories and concerns. The play and maps were performed to communities and traditional authorities with feedback and further iteration. See this link for more detail: https://vimeo.com/791847743/b95e473231. The Counter Hegemonic Mapping using Empatheatre methdology has been captured in the "Umkhosi Wenala" script and manuscript, but not yet published. Hub researcher, Dr Dylan McGarry (Rhodes University, South Africa) and early-career researcher, Jen Whittingham (University of Cape Town) wrote a joint publication on this mapping method, which has shifted the ways in which traditional authorities can reflect on their decision-making systems around MPAs and other coastal decisions, and which allows the voices of women and youth to be heard despite embedded power, age and gender dynamics within these communities. The manuscript was submitted to Frontiers in Marine Science: Marine Affairs and Policy's special issue on Social Science Perspectives on Marine Biodiversity Governance. The title of the manuscript is; "Mapping for Connection, a life beyond mapping for control: Lessons from 'mapping-as-performance' with Empatheatre, in South Africa." 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Through the use of counter-hegemonic mapping process, a new tool was developed by the CJN that contributed significantly to the inclusion of small-scale fishers in the Amathole MPA consultation in 2021 and can be used or adapted by anyone. The counter-hegemonic mapping tool offered more nuanced and detailed understanding of the implications of the draft management plan for the MPA, enabled the small-scale fisher leaders to document their questions and concerns, and align their concerns to the specific page number of the management plan in preparation for the meeting to discuss the Amathole MPA with South Africa Department of Forestry Fisheries and Environment (DFFE) on 10 June 2021. On the day of the meeting, the three nominated small-scale fishers' cooperative leaders expressed their concerns and questioned aspects of the management plan. Although the atmosphere/agenda/tone of day was still very much in the control of government leaders, the meeting was held mainly in isiXhosa and our team were able to facilitate an interactive participatory mapping and public storytelling process. This allowed for rich, nuanced, place-based accountability to the impact of the management plan, and for dynamic dialogue - and associated tensions, to be expressed with generative engagement on both sides. This can be considered a watershed moment in MPA consultation, where past inequalities and exclusions from ocean-related decision making, could be discussed in communities' own language and on the basis of understandable maps and documentation. As a result, the authorities at the meeting expressed a commitment to include small-scale fisher cooperatives in the decision-making forum for the Amathole MPA moving forward. The insights and oral histories from the new dataset were also shared internationally, at the closing events of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, which the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation co-organised with the Hub on 27-31 March 2023 in Rome, Italy (469 people); a series of four side-events for the UN World Oceans Day 2023, which were co-organised with Peace Boat and Blue Planet Alliance on 7-9 June 2024 at the UN Plaza (111 people), New York and the official UN World Oceans Day celebration at the UN Headquarters in New York on 7 June 2023 (350 in-person attendees and 102,000 online attendees) with policy makers and practitioners involved in sustainable fisheries and marine conservation reaching a total of 102,572 people from 21 countries. The Hub will share insights from this dataset at the Small-Scale Fisheries Summit in July 2024 in Rome and at the Hub-led satellite event titled 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance' for the UN Decade for Ocean Science Conference in April 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. The Hub-led satellite event will consist of a roundtable covering Knowledge Integration work, a live performance of an excerpt from the Umkosi Wenala theatre play, and a dialogue forum lead by Hub Director Prof Elisa Morgera and Dr Emma Mckinley from Cardiff's Marine Social Science Network. The engagement at the international level is expected to further co-develop the Hub research and policy contributions on how to make marine protection more inclusive, just and support multi-species flourishing (human and more-than-human alike). Hub researchers Dylan McGarry and Elisa Morgera have been invited to write a chapter on these international-level findings in 2024 for a book titled 'Ways of World Knowing: Local Knowledge of Coastal Communities for a Just Ocean Governance' to be published by Oxford University Press. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/the-unexpected-impact-of-a-letter-to-the-minister-from-one-ocean-hub-researc...
 
Title A standardised ecosystem services framework for the deep sea 
Description Despite its remoteness, human activity has impacted the deep sea and changes to the structure and function of deep-sea ecosystems are already noticeable. In terrestrial and shallow water marine environments, demonstrating how ecosystems support human well-being has been instrumental in setting policy and management objectives for sustainable resource use. Foundational to this approach is a framework of ecosystem service (ES) classification and a synthesis of the knowledge base, which can then be used to structure decision-support tools such as ecosystem accounts or Environmental Impact Assessments. At present, no such framework exists for the deep sea. This ecosystem services framework is combined with already published frameworks (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Common International Classification of Ecosystem Service and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) and integrates deep-sea ecological knowledge that has been neglected. This can support the integration of considerations related to the need to conserve deep-sea ecosystems and the potential implications for human well-being of the potential loss or degradation of the services/benefits provided by these ecosystems in decision-making at the national and international levels. An article on the Ecosystem Services Framework led by Hub early-career researcher, Giulia La Bianca (University of Plymouth, UK) and co-authored by other Hub researchers including Sian Rees, Kirsty A. McQuaid, Holly J. Niner, Kerry L. Howell (University of Plymouth UK) and Kerry J. Sink (South Africa National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa) & Amanda T. Lombard (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) was published in 2023 in Frontiers in Marine Science (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1176230). Hub researchers also collaborated in co-producing science-legal inter-disciplinary journal articles on the ocean-climate nexus for a Hub-led special issue of The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law in 2023 (The articles are available at: https://brill.com/view/journals/estu/38/3/article-p411_2.xml?language=en; and https://brill.com/view/journals/estu/38/3/article-p447_3.xml?language=en). Giulia La Bianca has used this method to predict the distribution of deep-sea ecosystems and then translated their distributions to ecosystem services maps at fine scale resolution (200 x 200 m). The ecosystem services maps are not published yet. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This framework has significant implications for deep-sea management, conservation and policy, as it provides an ecosystem services-based tool that can be used in any deep-sea ecosystems management across the planet, and it also shows how critical these data gaps are for today's decisions and how seriously they should be considered in decision-making processes. The framework and the ecosystem services maps generated from this will provide significant inputs on how to manage and monitor biodiversity for deep-sea ecosystems. The development of this framework has also contributed to the success of Hub's deep-sea research endorsement by the International Oceanographic Commission of the UNESCO as a Decade Action. In June 2022, the Hub's deep-sea research ("One Ocean Hub Research Programme 4") was endorsed as an official Decade Action under the UN Ocean Science Decade's Challenger 150 programme. This is a collaboration between the University of Strathclyde, the University of Plymouth, the University of Namibia, SANBI and NMU. Under the Challenger 150 Programme, Hub researchers have supported deep-sea capacity development efforts through the establishment of a UN Decade African Network of Deep-water Researchers. To date, the Network comprises over 250 members from 27 African nations, representing over 140 institutions. 76% of members are self-identified Early Career Researchers (<10 years professional experience, following the global UN ECOP Programme). For detailed information, read also collaboration and partnership entry titled "MARINE HABITAT MAPPING IN THE SOUTH-EAST ATLANTIC"). Hub researchers at the University of Plymouth will present findings, experience and practices of the Hub deep-sea research at the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona, Spain in April 2024 as part of a satellite event titled "Deepening the Decade" to be held at the Banquet Hall of the Conference, Barcelona, Spain in April 2024 in collaboration with Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) (see also a separate collaboration and partnership entry titled "Contributing to the UN Decade for Ocean Science"). The legal and governance relevance of these methods has also been reflected in integrated in the Hub's written submissions to three international tribunals that have been asked to clarify States' obligations on climate change in 2023-2024: the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; the International Court of Justice; and the Inter-American Court for Human Rights. For more information read the following publications: Lancaster, AM. (2024). "Contributing to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in Clarifying State Obligations at the Ocean-Climate Nexus." Available from https://oneoceanhub.org/contributing-to-the-inter-american-court-on-human-rights-in-clarifying-state-obligations-at-the-ocean-climate-nexus/. Morgera E, Lennan M, Lancaster AMSN, Longo A, Ntona M and Webster E. (2024). "Legal Note: The request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the obligations of States in respect of climate change." Available from https://oneoceanhub.org/publications/legal-note-the-request-for-an-advisory-opinion-from-the-international-court-of-justice-on-the-obligations-of-states-inrespect-of-climate-change/ One Ocean Hub. (2023). "Contributing to the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea's opinion on State obligations at the ocean-climate nexus. Available from https://oneoceanhub.org/contributing-to-the-international-tribunal-on-the-law-of-the-seas-opinion-on-state-obligations-at-the-ocean-climate-nexus/ For detailed information please see collaboration and partnership entry titled "Influencing international courts on the ocean-climate nexus." 
URL https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1176230
 
Title Arts-based participatory methods 
Description Hub early-career researchers based at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa, Dr Nina Rivers and Mia Strands, have piloted the use of arts-based participatory approaches to (1) document knowledge, stories, and lived experience of Indigenous peoples and local communities and (2) identify culturally significant areas in marine and coastal environment. They have then adapted arts-based participatory methods (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTzCTnQNoD4&t=3122s) to suit the South African context by contextualising these methods in the form of storytelling and photography that researchers co-developed with indigenous and local community members of Algoa Bay as co-researchers. Using arts-based participatory research, the Hub team of researchers in South Africa has also been looking at ways to identify culturally significant areas along the coastline. The objectives of identifying culturally significant areas are to: build understanding of current research on coastal and marine socio-cultural values in South Africa; evaluate synergies between research initiatives and potential for collaboration; and develop a framework for identifying, mapping and assessing marine socio-cultural values in South Africa and work towards a potential collaborative peer-reviewed paper. One of the art-based approaches that Dr Rivers and Strands piloted in their research is the use of photovoice. It is arts-based participatory research methodology where co-researchers (research participants) are the authors of their own work and use photos and voice recordings to document their cultural connections with the ocean and coast. As part of the methods to map culturally significant areas in Algoa Bay, Dr Nina Rivers and Mia Strand have asked co-researchers, including local Xhoi and San communities that they work with, to mark places on a map of Algoa Bay and its coastline that are culturally significant to them. Out of this ,they identified different categories of culturally significant areas. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The development of arts-based participatory methods has led to the collaboration between Hub researchers based at Nelson Mandela University and the South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). SANBI had been working towards a national framework for identifying and mapping Culturally Significant Areas (CSAs) in the marine and coastal environment of South Africa. Hub researchers based at Nelson Mandela University developed methodologies to identify and map CSAs in the marine and coastal environment of Algoa Bay to support the development of South Africa national framework for mapping CSAs. The co-researchers, that include Indigenous Peoples and local community members, enjoyed it and the overall product (a multi-media photo exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsavQOxyLFw&t=579s; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-499UAZC3d0) was something different for not only policy makers and coastal managers to engage with, but also for civil society and coastal users in Algoa Bay. The co-researchers and coastal managers contributed to the development of a policy brief and an academic paper: Rivers, N., Strand, M., Fernandes, M., Metuge, D., Lemahieu, A., Nonyane, C.L., Benkenstein, A. and Snow, B. (2023). "Pathways to integrate Indigenous and local knowledge in ocean governance processes: Lessons from the Algoa Bay Project, South Africa." Frontiers in Marine Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1084674. As the research outputs have been published, Dr Nina Rivers and Mia Strand have been able to reach a broader audience. The arts-based participatory methods piloted by Dr Rivers and Strand are assisting the local Xhoi and San community to declare a culturally significant area (ancient fish traps) as a national heritage site in the Algoa Bay. Mia Strand has also contributed to Hub-wide reflections on the role of these art-based approaches for the protection of the human rights of Indigenous peoples, small-scale fishers and children, and is collaborating in a number of inter-disciplinary research papers. For more information see the recording of the Ocean Frontiers Institute Webinar: People and the Ocean (https://www.ofi.ca/event/social-science-and-humanities-seminar-series-webinar-7, attended by 51-100 people), blogpost "How art can support the advancement of human rights and the ocean" (https://oneoceanhub.org/how-art-can-support-the-advancement-of-human-rights-and-the-ocean/), and blogpost "Sharing learnings on the role of arts in transdisciplinary ocean research" (https://oneoceanhub.org/sharing-learnings-on-the-role-of-arts-in-transdisciplinary-ocean-research/). Insights from the methods had been shared at the UN Climate COP27 Virtual Ocean Pavilion event titled "Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Ocean-Climate Action" led by the One Ocean Hub early career researchers Mia Strand and Dr David Wilson, University of Strathclyde, UK on 10 November 2022 (attended by 77 people). The event recording is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGLY0jwzllU&t=1432s. In 2024, the One Ocean Hub will share knowledge about the methods at the Hub-led satellite event 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance' for the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference in Barcelona, Spain (April 2024). 
URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100
 
Title Collaborative anthropological research 
Description This method is developed by Hub early-career researcher, Dr Elsemi Olwage (University of Namibia, Namibia) to explore ways of co-producing ethnographic and oral history research and knowledge together with youth members of the Topnaar community. The method involved trying to capacitate members of the Topnaar youth to conduct research in their own communities through firstly, interviews and documentation (photos and short video clips). This was done in a series of two workshops, discussing interview techniques and questions, data management, and documentation. Secondly, the method includes a series of semi-structured interviews and discussions together with the youth. The plan was to conduct co-research activities with the youth to shape practice-based learning. Unfortunately, due to the project being on hold for two months and having been initially delayed for six months, this only happened once. Current challenges are processing the research materials on a grass-roots level in a context shaped by marginalisation (access to laptops, internet, and also capacity is lacking). There is a need for a lot of support. Collaborative anthropological research is time-intensive. It requires building long-term relationships, trust and rapport within a community. In the Hub, we managed to lay the foundation for the method to still be further developed in the future, including through ongoing engagements, such as the current applied theatre project. More time is also required to further process the research materials into outputs that can benefit the community in the long-term. This includes for example, not only scientific publications, but also possibly heritage tourism, or a local social learning centre. These should be considered legacy work. For more information please see collaboration and partnership entry titled "Supporting the implementation of a sustainable blue economy in Namibia." The Topnaar people were the first inhabitants documented as settling in Walvis Bay along the central Namib coast. For several centuries, their cultural livelihoods depended heavily on ocean resources. During colonial rule they were forcibly displaced from their coastal dwelling places, with their access to coastal marine resources and fishing grounds restricted. They were forcibly displaced from their coastal dwelling places, with their access to coastal marine resources and fishing grounds restricted through legal and historical processes of exclusion during colonial rule. They continue to be excluded from decision-making on the ocean in contemporary Namibia. The community now primarily resides in 14 farm settlements along the lower valley of the !Khuiseb river and in coastal urban centres. For the past three years, the Hub has been working with the Topnaar community. Our work has focused on facilitating connections - connections outside of the community, so they can be recognised as stakeholders and right-holders in ocean governance processes; as well as connections within, so that the Topnaar's own cultural memories and knowledge practices can be revived. Despite their historical cultural and economic connections to the ocean, the Topnaar had only limited involvement in consultations on the blue economy prior to the Hub's support. This method is developed as part of Dr Olwage's research and engagement in a new project "Hurinin: Sea People of the Namibian Coast," led by Glenn Kasper, a Junior Councillor in the Topnaar Traditional Council. The Hurinin project will collect Topnaar elders' living memories of their people's intangible cultural heritage and connections to the ocean. Songs and dances specifically related to fishing and the ocean were once an integral part of Topnaar culture. Before fishing, they would recite a poem to the ocean and only then start to fish. After fishing, they would celebrate through dancing. Story collection and traditional dances worked hand in hand. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This method informs the research conducted by the Hub's team at the University of Namibia to shape policy and law that will acknowledge the cultural and human rights of the Topnaar people. Hub researchers at the University of Namibia are finalising a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Office of the Ombudsman, that raises people's concerns relating to violations of human rights and protection of the environment. Once the MOU is in effect, UNAM research will be used to inform the Ombudsman's work. This method creates spaces of intergenerational learning where cultural memories can resurface and connections be rediscovered between their community and the ocean. As their stories travel, they may resonate with other Namibians, leading to yet more rediscoveries and connections. A short film 'Hurinin, People of the Sea' that tells how the marginalised Topnaar people in Namibia seek recognition for their ocean-related heritage, knowledge and rights has been produced and published in December 2023. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyhjQ50M2A&t=2s). The film shows how the One Ocean Hub has fostered connections between the Topnaar community and national and international actors to ensure more inclusive decision-making on the ocean. The film also depicts how songs, poems and dances specifically related to fishing and the ocean were once an integral part of Topnaar culture and how these cultural expressions of their former ocean-based way of life survive in the memory of very few Topnaar elders. The One Ocean Hub has supported an arts-based research project led by Mr. Glenn Kasper, a Junior Councillor in the Topnaar Traditional Council, collecting Topnaar elders' living memories of their people's intangible cultural heritage and connections to the ocean. The film wasscreened at the UN Climate COP28's Ocean Climate Spotlights Talk at the Ocean Decade & OceanX Pavilion: an ocean solutions partnership! on 10 December 2023 (attended by 12 people). This novel method will be shared at the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference in April 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, which will bring together decision-makers, civil society, the private sector, and different UN bodies. Insights and findings from the methods will be shared at the One Ocean Hub-led satellite event 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance' In 2024, the Hub has nominated Glenn Kasper, the Chairperson of the Topnaar Youth Council Traditional Authorities and Thalia Animas, the Head of Culture in the Topnaar Youth Committee, as keynote speakers for the UN World Oceans Day official celebration at the UN Headquarters in New York on 7 June 2024. Insights from the use of this method will be shared at the event if Kasper and Animas are selected by the UN World Oceans Day 20224 organizers. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/working-with-the-topnaar-to-protect-human-rights-and-revive-ocean-culture/
 
Title Collaborative scoring and data collection database for coastal fisheries monitoring 
Description The One Ocean Hub's research team at Rhodes University Ichthyology Department (South Africa) entered a partnership with the South African Shore Angling Association to co-develop a competitive angling scoring and data collection database for monitoring fish populations. The team at present has a ten-year database for the monitoring of the relative abundance and distribution of importance shore-based fishery species. The database is in the final stages of development, but the team has also been given access to the South African Shore Angling Association's competitive angling records from the 1970s. The team is about to submit a paper on the utility of competitive angler databases for fisheries monitoring. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The One Ocean Hub's research team at Rhodes University Ichthyology Department has simplified competition scoring for recreational anglers and developed a database for monitoring fish populations, allowing for the collation of essential information for fisheries managers. Careful management and monitoring of recreational fisheries is essential to sustain fisheries resources and prevent negative ecological impacts caused by overexploitation of fish populations and spread of non-native species. The spatial data from this dataset will be incorporated into marine protected areas planning processes in South Africa. 
 
Title DEEP Fund Community Art-Based Research Methodology 
Description This is an innovative research methodology that occupies the space between direct commissioning of an artwork from a community group or artistic collective and ethnographic observation of indigenous art practice. The DEEP Fund methodology is a collaborative working model that moves towards decolonising research funding. Decision making, from inception, to production, to outcomes, is led by grantees in Indigenous and local communities in collaboration with the research team. Counter to conventional commissioning processes, the DEEP Fund adopts a process whereby: a) only general thematic direction is given to participants, allowing maximal artistic freedom and giving space for local priorities to emerge; and b) the project focus is on documenting the production process and the meaning making in addition to the final outcome. Support in development is given to participants unfamiliar with standard application processes and a two-stage selection process allows projects to be worked up collaboratively developed between researchers and participants. A key aspect of the methodology is the rigorous assignment of ownership and copyright of the final product(s) to the originating artist(s) (again counter to conventional commissioning processes), with the researchers retaining a non-exclusive right to share outcomes for agreed purposes. This greatly enhances the value of the research outcomes in terms of capacity building and creative economies. Funding is awarded in two tranches, an initial 80% to allow communities/artists with no access to alternative funds or reserves to undertake the work immediately without expenditure/invoicing after completion - which is simply not possible for many of the groups with whom the DEEP Fund wish to work. A second tranche of 20% is paid on delivery of agreed outcomes (which may or may not be the final physical outcome of the project). Monthly reporting - which is intended to be manageable for projects rather than document/bureaucracy-heavy is used to ensure that the artwork development process is being captured in audio-visual formats. Research outputs from DEEP Fund projects are co-written with participants and detail both the project development process, project impact/outcomes and research outcomes. The DEEP Fund methodology also includes a potential third tranche of funding for impact activities identified throughout the project's development or as a consequence of the projects potential impact activities. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The DEEP Fund method has so far funded 10 community-led art/research projects. Each project has had multiple local impacts, e.g. in terms of capacity building, creative economies, as well as evidencing the value of Indigenous knowledge for understanding climate change and the impact of industrial fishing practices on local communities. A digital version of an exhibition of DEEP Fund works (held in Glasgow, in April 2023, https://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/u/undercurrents-art-and-ocean-in-africa-and-the-pacific/) was launched on World Ocean Day 2023 and remains available on the One Ocean Hub website (https://oneoceanhub.org/undercurrents/) and the Hub-UNITAR One Ocean Learn knowledge-translation platform. Various examples from DEEP Fund art works were also shared by Prof Stuart Jeffrey (Glasgow School of Art, UK) at the UN Climate COP26 roundtable discussion featuring leading academics on "The Ocean and Climate Justice: Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation" for the Scottish Government Climate Ambition Zone event on 5 November 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2145wf54XI, attended by 34 people). The Pacific story and method were shared (chaired by the Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change, Ralph Regenvanu) at the UN Climate COP27 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ-VvDVt5xM, attended by 16 people). In 2024, insights from the Hub's DEEP Fund Community Art-Based Research Methodology will be shared at the Hub-led side-event titled 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance' for the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference (April 2024, Barcelona, Spain); and a presentation by Prof Stuart Jeffrey, Dr Lisa McDonald (Glasgow School of Art, UK) ) and Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde) titled "Undercurrents: community art, indigenous cultural heritage and ocean governance" will be delivered at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that will take place on 16-21 June 2024. The impacts from the DEEP Fund projects, as shared by the project leaders, will be reflected upon in a book titled Undercurrents: Art and ocean in Africa and the Pacific to be published by Sidestone Press. The book is scheduled for an autumn publication (September/October 2024). The artists and local community members are the co-authors of the book. For more information see also the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (2022): Session "Tensions in Intangible Indigenous Cultural Heritage Practices and Knowledge" https://www.achs2022santiago.com/ McDonald, L. 2021. 'Artfully Sustaining the Sea.' One Ocean Hub blog post. https://oneoceanhub.org/artfully-sustaining-the-sea/ 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/deep-fund/
 
Title Future Scenarios Planning with Ghana - A pilot study using the Three Horizons Approach 
Description Hub early-career researcher Dr Nina Rivers (University of Strathclyde, UK) has led the development of a new method titled "Future Scenarios Planning with Ghana - A pilot study using the Three Horizons Approach" to co-develop future scenarios with the Ghana team in 2023. Dr Rivers' methods include transdisciplinary pilot process of co-developing transformative future visions for Ghana's ocean, coast and coastal communities. To help vision setting, three cross-cutting themes or threats in Ghana were identified: climate vulnerability, plastics pollution, and resource overuse. More threats exist but these three threats are selected because they overlap within a social-ecological framing of Hub's research in Ghana and speak to all of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Challenges. The aim of this method is to co-develop transformative future scenarios along with pathways to impact climate change, plastics pollution, and resource overuse that support more inclusive and integrated marine and coastal governance approaches. Dr Rivers uses the Three Horizons Approach, an accessible way to work across disciplines and with stakeholders. It provides a simple framework of three lines representing a system or pattern in the way things are done in the present (1st horizon), the future (3rd horizon) and pathways to get there (2nd horizon). The approach provides a simple way to work with complexity and much interest exists in how this approach has been applied in ocean governance in Ghana. The co-development process of this method was carried out in four months. This involved the co-organisation of three virtual workshops and one in-person workshop in Ghana involving Hub researchers based in Ghana, Namibia, and South Africa. A policy brief will be written out of this work in 2024. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This novel method will be shared at the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference in April 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, which will bring together decision-makers, civil society, private sector, and different UN bodies. Insights and findings from the methods will be shared at the One Ocean Hub-led satellite event 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for Transformative Ocean Governance' and through a poster presentation by Dr Nina Rivers entitled 'Weaving it all together: Inter and transdisciplinary co-design of ocean science for a sustainable and equitable future - a case study from Ghana' for the Barcelona Conference. In addition, the new methods have shaped the Hub's research and engagement as the Decade Implementing Partner focusing on transdisciplinarity since the Hub's formal endorsement by the Decade Secretariat in October 2023. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/our-endorsement-as-implementing-partner-of-the-un-ocean-decade/
 
Title Global online interest assessment using google trends to determine the extent of technological creep in recreational fisheries globally 
Description Due to reports from concerned members of the recreational fishing community and from social media threads we decided to investigate the potential effects and size of marine recreational drone fishing in South Africa. Due to the limit knowledge and active monitoring of marine recreational fisheries in South Africa we had to come up with new techniques to estimate both the extent of the issue in South Africa and globally. While there was considerable evidence from social media groups that the practice was widespread globally and in South Africa it was hard to quantify easily. We therefore turned to Google Trends (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%22drone%20fishing%22) to evaluate standardised interest into the topic globally. While Google Trends has been used for research purposes, to our knowledge this is first time that it has been used to detect, monitor and quantify interest into rapidly evolving fishing techniques. Luckily the techniques are easily reproducible and therefore it would be possible to revaluate interest into topic if management and policy changes to counter the effects of this new fishery are implemented. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This new method provides the ability to identify global trends remotely using openly available free data sources online. These methods were successfully used and published in the following paper: Winkler, A.C., Butler, E.C., Attwood, C.G., Mann, B.Q. and Potts, W.M., 2022. The emergence of marine recreational drone fishing: Regional trends and emerging concerns. Ambio, 51(3), pp.638-651.https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01578-y 
URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-021-01578-y
 
Title Habitat-services matrix and ecosystem services maps 
Description The development of habitat-services matrix and ecosystem services maps are derived from the research conducted by Hub early-career researcher Giulia La Bianca (University of Plymouth, UK). Through her research, Giulia La Bianca developed a dataset that contains the most up-to-date evidence on the contribution of deep-sea benthic habitats to ecosystem services (nature's benefits to humans). This is provided as a habitat-service matrix. Drawing from the habitat-service matrix, she also produced ecosystem services maps for deep-sea habitats in the Northeast Atlantic and transferred them to novel geographical regions in the South Atlantic, within Ascension, St Helena, and Tristan marine protected areas. This is the first time that any ecosystem services maps have been produced for the South Atlantic and it is applicable to other geographical regions. Neither of these outputs have been made available to others. It is expected that this research will be published in a peer-review journal in 2025. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact These outputs have strong potential in the application of marine spatial planning and also of nature conservation management plans. Insights from Habitat-services matrix and ecosystem services maps will also be shared by the Hub research team at the University of Plymouth at the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference in Barcelona, Spain in April 2024 as part of a satellite event titled "Deepening the Decade" to be held at the Banquet Hall of the Conference, Barcelona, Spain in April 2024 in collaboration with Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI). 
 
Title Intuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC) to facilitate conservation management 
Description The Hub's research team at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, under the leadership of Dr Lynne Shannon is investigating the use of Intuitive Interspecies Communication as a means of capturing alternative knowledge sources to facilitate conservation management where easing human-animal species interactions are central to successful conservation initiatives that include all species. The research conducted by Dr Shannon and her team has just started. Therefore, the results are not yet published. The methods have been published by Barrett et al. in 2021 (https://researchers.usask.ca/mj-barrett/documents/speaking-with-other-animals.pdf), but the novelty of Dr Shannon team's approach it to explore the use of Intuitive Interspecies Communication in the ocean space. The team has partnered with Wynyter Worsthorne from AnimalTalk Africa. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Dr Lynne Shannon will deliver a presentation on using Intuitive Interspecies Communication to facilitate conservation management at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in June 2024. Anticipated impacts from the method will include achieving a shared existence between human and animals; better understanding of animals' perspectives in ocean conservation; and deepening ways of communicating across species. 
 
Title Justice and small-scale fisheries map 
Description Researchers from the Hub's Coastal Justice Network have created the new online 'justice and small-scale fisheries map' on the Coastal Justice Network website. Derived from the Coastal Justice Network research the map visualised marine protected areas, ocean mining and small scale fisheries in relation to each other. This map has been used in public communication around ocean mining projects and in support of small-scale fishers struggles in South Africa. The map is particularly important in the light of efforts made by civil society organisations (e.g. Coastal Justice Network researchers from Rhodes University and University of Cape Town, the Legal Resources Centre, Natural Justice, Green Connection) to raise public awareness on the negative impact of an exploratory seismic survey on the fishing communities' food and economic security, as well as heritage and identity. Since 2021 until now the Coastal Justice Network and other civil society organisations have assisted small scale fishing communities on the West Coast and the East Coast of South Africa to prevent the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), Searcher Seismic, and Shell from conducting seismic survey that could affected their livelihood and well-being. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The research driven network and the production of the map has opened discussions between the policy makers and small scale fishers, enabling a more indepth engagement between these stakeholders. The impact of the Coastal Justice Network research, engagement activities, and the map that they have produced have been recognised through publications of two press releases which were then cited in local media articles listed below. 1. 'Another fishing community in limbo as west coast seismic survey loom', 23 January 2022 in The Citizen. Available from https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/2984959/fishing-community-in-limbo-west-coast-seismic-survey/ 2.'Fishers and civic organisations take legal action against West Coast seismic surveying,' 21 January 2022 in Daily Maveric. Available from https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-01-21-fishers-and-civic-organisations-take-legal-action-against-west-coast-seismic-surveying/ 3. 'West Coast community prepares for a court battle over a new seismic survey', 19 January 2022 in Cape Town Etc. Available from https://www.capetownetc.com/news/west-coast-community-prepares-for-a-court-battle-over-a-new-seismic-survey/ These media articles have contributed in raising public awareness about blue economy developments in South Africa. The map together with other Hub's participatory research method such as Lalela Ulwandle (see separate method entry Lalela uLwandle: An Experiment in Plural Governance Discussions) supported the work of small-scale fishers and civil society in three separate court cases in South Africa (https://bit.ly/3BNm1dX), leading to an unprecedented recognition of cultural rights connected to the seabed and the need to protect procedural rights of Indigenous Peoples and small-scale fisheries in the context of licensing offshore oil and gas exploration (https://bit.ly/3IfGNGr). Insights from the development of this map was shared at a side-event titled "Workshop on using arts-based and knowledge-solidarity network approaches for the empowerment of small-scale fishers to have their voice heard" on 29 March 2023 for the Closing of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (27 attendees attendees), which the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation co-organised with the Hub in Rome, Italy, with policy makers and practitioners involved in sustainable fisheries and marine conservation.'Justice and small-scale fisheries' map was also shared at "Arts-Based research and solidarity practices with Indigenous Knowledge Holders in Plural Ocean Governance - lessons from South Africa" side-event on 9 June 2023 at the United Nations Plaza, New York for the UN World Oceans Day in New York that the Hub co-organised with Peace Boat, Blue Planet Alliance and the UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (attended by 26 attendees). 
URL https://coastaljusticenetwork.co.za/mapping/
 
Title Knowledge integration data collection tool 
Description This research tool is a simple yet useful table to collect and capture different knowledge across the Hub from the various work packages such as fisheries, law and gender, culture and heritage, climate vulnerability, and socio-economics to establish what we know, research gaps, what are potential synergies across work packages and countries. From this tool, Hub early-career researcher, Dr Nina Rivers (University of Strathclyde, UK and Nelson Mandela University, UK) ran workshops with Hub researchers in Namibia and Ghana to identify and co-develop high impact themes and legacy themes. This work has not been published yet. Dr Rivers will first be writing about this tool up as a report (expected April 2024) then will draft a paper (later in 2024). The themes captured by the tool are being used to inform the legacy work going forward for the One Ocean Hub and the high-impact themes had informed a Hub's knowledge integration writing workshop in February 2024, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Although the tool is not published yet, key findings collated and captured by using this tool will be shared by Dr Nina Rivers and the Hub's team during the One Ocean Hub-led satellite event 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance' and the poster presentation by Dr Nina Rivers entitled 'Weaving it all together: Inter and transdisciplinary co-design of ocean science for a sustainable and equitable future - a case study from Ghana' at the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference in April 2024 in Barcelona. This tool is also among various methods and tools co-developed by the Hub in its capacity as a UN Decade Implementing Partneron 'Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance'. Therefore, the tool will further contribute to the UN Decade's approach for research co-development. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/our-endorsement-as-implementing-partner-of-the-un-ocean-decade/
 
Title Lalela uLwandle: An Experiment in Plural Governance Discussions 
Description Lalela uLwandle is a research-based theatre performance and public dialogue developed by a South African collective called Empatheatre, who are part of the One Ocean Hub. From the inception phase of the One Ocean Hub, Lalela uLwandle was initially used to co-design Hub research to co-identify community concerns to guide and inform Hub research and public engagement. Hub researchers conducted 7 months of social science research into the lives of citizens who live along the Kwa-Zulu Natal coast, including groups of small-scale fishers (SSF), traditional healers, civil society and marine science researchers. The data was gathered through oral histories, interviews, focus-group discussions, archival research and collection of mythologies. These findings fed into a scripted play where fictional characters portray diverse hopes and concerns at community level for the ocean. A "call and response" approach for iterative research co-design is inspired by African singing tradition: community representatives collaborate in reviewing various drafts of the play, confirming the accuracy of the research findings and making further suggestions. Such a process allows for ongoing ethical engagement between researchers and community representatives. helps practitioners and decision-makers to "see" which communities depend on the ocean and why, and therefore should have a voice in decisions, and to "hear" more effectively and empathically communities' views, needs, customary norms and knowledge about the ocean (2019). Throughout 2019-2021, Lalela uLwandle was performed across South Africa to support collaborative examination of research findings and data with diverse publics (other communities, researchers, civil society, and decision-makers). Through a 6-town tour, the live performances attracted 747 participants, approximately 56% were women. Media impact (print, online and broadcast) reached an approximate total of 1047164 people, broadening public dialogue around ocean decision making in the Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) coastline - an area targeted in blue economy developments and on the intersection of tangible and intangible heritage and economic development. Recurrent themes of discussion were the pressures on the ocean arising from South Africa's blue economy plan 'Operation Phakisa', as well as the national fisheries policy, and exclusion from decision-making. In 2022, Lalela uLwandle (Empatheatre) ran again for a series of key performances in Durban and the Eastern Cape, and for the first time in Cape Town. What was a new method was to perform at national strategic workshops in South Africa that brought together fishers from across the coastline, and civil society actors (including NGOs, researchers and lawyers). Bringing in these performances to a workshop space offered fishers the chance to express their hurt and pain from the apartheid past, and how they feel it is still shaping their present. The audience feedback from the 2022 Lalela ulwandle have been captured and added to the Lalela uLwandle feedback forms dataset. Whilst grounded in South African experiences, the inter-generational stories of the sea performed in Lalela uLwandle resonate strongly with an international audience. The Hub's Empatheatre team was invited to perform Lalela uLwandle at (1) the UN Climate COP27 in November 2022 in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, (2) the high-level closing event of the International Year of Fisheries and Aquaculture in March 2023 at the headquarters of FAO in Rome, (3) four side-events in NY for UN World Oceans Day on 7-9 June, which were co-organised with Peace Boat and Blue Planet Alliance and (4) the official UN World Oceans Day celebration at the UN Headquarters in New York on 8 June 2023. In 2024, the Hub will share knowledge about these methods at the UN Decade Ocean Conference in Barcelona (April 2024) and Small-Scale Fisheries Summit (July 2024). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Lalela uLwandle provided workshop participants a chance to express their emotions and emotional responses to each other's stories. While other workshop activities focused on political awareness and strategies for resistance and engagement, making a space for the recognition of emotions and experiences is equally important for building solidarity between and among groups. The audience were involved in identifying implications of the research in relation to their lived experience after each performance, through a discussion facilitated by researchers - as opposed to usual public debates where both the speaker and the audience are already primed to take a stand for or against a position in a critical debate. The play supports: a) changing practitioners' and decision-makers' understandings of ocean-dependent communities' diverse needs, knowledge and legitimate claims (human rights). This is a significant change compared to current practices, whereby communities are "bundled up" as one uniform group focused on opposing development/conservation. Instead through empathy, practitioners' and decision-makers may come to appreciate the value of communities' experiences and knowledge for contributing to better decisions (contributing to a larger evidence base and fuller understanding of trade-offs at stake); and b) changing practitioners' and decision-makers' processes for public engagement / public consultation into a more imaginative and collaborative space for mutual learning and co-development of solutions. This is a significant change compared to current practices whereby public engagement focuses on pre-determined options presented in a non-accessible way. Even when communities may be invited to the decision-making table, they may not express themselves effectively if they can't do so in their own terns or if the counterpart is not fully aware of the multiple injustices communities have experienced over time and across sectors Lalela uLwandle also performed at the UN Climate COP27 Capacity Building Hub in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, on 14 November 2022 which was the first international performance for the play. There was good media coverage of Lalela uLwandle at COP27. • "Cop27 bulletin: Waiting for a sign from Bali," 16 November 2022. Available from https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/11/16/cop27-bulletin-waiting-for-a-sign-from-bali/ • "Cycle power and gender rights: days eight and nine at Cop27 - in pictures," 15-16 November 2022, available from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2022/nov/15/cycle-power-and-gender-rights-days-eight-and-nine-at-cop27-in-pictures • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/unfccc/52500936723/in/photostream • "One ocean: the power of storytelling at COP27," https://www.newton-gcrf.org/impact/stories-of-change/one-ocean-the-power-of-storytelling-at-cop27/ Building on the success of the performance at COP27, the Hub's Empatheatre team received invitations from FAO to perform at the Closing events of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (2023) in Rome, and to develop a short live performance for the UN celebrations of World Oceans Day (2023) reaching a total of 102,572 people across 21 countries (https://bit.ly/3Mvfafa; https://bit.ly/3O83gcq). Hub researchers Dylan McGarry and Elisa Morgera have been invited to write a chapter on the findings arising from Lalela international performances for a book titled 'Ways of World Knowing: Local Knowledge of Coastal Communities for a Just Ocean Governance' to be published by Oxford University Press in late 2024/2025. Lalela uLwandle has been relied on as evidence of intangible cultural heritage in three separate court cases in South Africa (https://bit.ly/3BNm1dX), leading to an unprecedented recognition of cultural rights connected to the seabed and the need to protect procedural rights of Indigenous Peoples and small-scale fisheries in the context of licensing offshore oil and gas exploration (https://bit.ly/3IfGNGr). The research insights have been analysed in a book chapter by Dr Dylan McGarry 'When ancestors are included in ocean and decision-making' in the 2024 Routledge book titled 'Hydrofeminist Thinking With Oceans Political and Scholarly Possibilities.' In 2024, the Hub will share knowledge and stories about "Lalela uLwandle: An Experiment in Plural Governance Discussions" at the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference in Barcelona, Spain (April 2024), the World Biodiversity Forum (Davos, Switzerland, June 2024), and Small-Scale Fisheries Summit (Rome, Italy, July 2024). 
URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99347-4_20
 
Title Lexicometric content analysis of Pacific ocean policies 
Description The methodology has been developed by One Ocean Hub researcher, Pierre Mazzega (INSERM, France), the author of the mathematical models, in association with researchers from different disciplines. The approach used to analyse the policies is based on lexicometric content analysis, which measures the frequency of use of words within the studied texts. From these usage frequencies, mathematical and statistical indices can be derived which allow the interlinkages between texts to be interrogated and emergent perspectives to emerge. The specific methods used and described here have been designed and coded specifically for the particular requirements of the analysis rather than using proprietary lexicometric software. The application of the employed lexicometric analyses are novel for ocean policy and for the Pacific, but lexicometric analyses have been widely used in other studies including law and public policy (Boulet et al., 2019). The extraction of the information for the analysis from the corpus of 18 policy texts into a structured hierarchical classification involved the following 6 steps (a set of definitions, a list of themes and further technical detail on steps 2, 5, and 6 are all provided in the Supplementary Material here: https://bit.ly/3uMgAtl): • Step 1: convert documents from .PDF to.txt format and cleaning up the files; • Step 2: extract noun phrases (or "expressions") from the corpus of policy texts; • Step 3: edit and filter the list of all the distinct expressions extracted from the corpus. The list obtained forms the vocabulary of the corpus; • Step 4: identify the main themes of interest for the characterisation and analysis of the content of policies. Partition of all themes into domains; • Step 5: each word of each expression is put in its canonical form, its lemma, and each lemma is assigned to one and only one theme. The hierarchy lemmas < themes < domains form the taxonomy; • Step 6: for each policy, for each theme, counting the number of distinct lemmas assigned to the theme and found in the expressions of the text. The distribution of the number of lemmas by theme constitutes the profile of the policy. Estimation of the similarity between the policies taken by pairs. Step 1 is commonly performed in natural language processing (NLP) of textual corpora but it is not a fully automated process. It includes the homogenisation of texts (UTF08 encoding), the elimination of layout markers and references to figures, etc. For this reason, text tables have been omitted unless they presented useful information in textual form. Step 2 uses algorithms for the automatic extraction of noun phrases. However, this extraction is a relatively complex task which requires in particular the parsing of the text into sentences, then their parsing into tokens (most of them being words), followed by a syntactic analysis making it possible to identify the noun phrases through the grammatical function they occupy in each sentence. In order to ensure a good recall of this step, we use three free- or share-wares as detailed in the Supplementary Material. The lists of expressions produced by these three approaches are then merged into a single list, keeping both any nested expressions and the phrases into which they fit (e. g. "environmental impact assessment" is nested in "application of environmental impact assessment"). This resultant single list is then analysed (Step 3) to remove all expressions that have an indeterminate or too general meaning when they are detached from the sentences in which they were used. Reading them in a list, outside the textual context, does not allow to link them to a theme or policy sector (e. g. "annual growth rate," "potential earnings"). After this lexical filtering, more than 13,500 distinct expressions endowed with an autonomous meaning (independent of the context), form the vocabulary of the corpus of 18 policies. Each expression or noun phrase is made up of one or more words. A set of themes is then formed from the vocabulary. The approach chosen in this fourth step (Step 4) is based on the differentiated and complementary expertise of the co-authors to identify these themes rather than on a purely lexical-semantic analysis or a clustering statistic. In this way the identified themes are meaningful in the context of the making of policies and regulations related to the oceans and marine resources, socio-ecological changes and development, in particular in the specific context of the Pacific region. The 34 themes thus obtained were divided into 5 domains, "activities," "development," "environmental changes," "governance," and "law, policy, and politics". In Step 5 (see Supplementary Material for details), each word entering the composition of an expression of the vocabulary, except stop-words, is lemmatised. More than 3,800 of such lemmas were obtained and each lemma is then assigned to a theme. The hierarchy formed by the list of lemmas assigned to the 34 themes themselves partitioned into five domains. This constitutes the taxonomy of the corpus of policies analysed. By construction, an expression comprising several lemmas can be linked to more than one theme, for example, "advocacy for low carbon development" is related to the themes "law" [label: LAW], "environment and climate change" [ENCC] and "development" [DEVe] via the lemmas "advocacy," "carbon," and "development," respectively. Acronyms and frozen expressions are not lemmatized but directly related to a theme. The policy texts are taken one by one in Step 6, to search for each expression. For each policy, the number of distinct lemmas assigned to each theme is counted. The presentation of this result in the form of a histogram constitutes the profile of policy. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Hub researchers have contributed to the long-awaited Blue Pacific Ocean Report launched by the Pacific Ocean Commissioner in 2021. The Report provides a stocktake of the progress of ocean policy implementation and proposes forward-looking strategies to improve ocean governance and sustainability. A team drawn from the Hub contributed a section called "Lessons from a Research on the analysis of regional ocean policy inter-linkages". This analysis used a lexicometric content analysis of regional ocean policies and identified opportunity for policy retirement, embedding of expanding sectors to reduce fragmentation and increased coherence of the Ocean with key regional development themes. This analysis was carried out by Pierre Mazzega (CNRS, University Jean Jaurès, France), Claire Lajaunie (INSERM, University Aix-Marseille, France), Jeremy Hills (USP) and Payal Maharaj (USP). The work was carried out in collaboration with the Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner who are the Hub's project partners. See the Blue Pacific Ocean Report here: https://oneoceanhub.org/publications/blue-pacific-ocean-report%E2%80%AF/ 
URL https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.676944/full
 
Title Making space for small-scale fishers: Community-based, participatory GIS linked mapping tool 
Description This is a participatory research method, embedded in our larger 'Community-based, participatory Marine Planning' project in St Helena Bay. This particular tool takes the form of a process of individual interviews with fishers using a geographic information system (GIS) referenced map to enable them to identify their traditional fishing spots. We worked with local fishers in the St Helena Bay area to facilitate a process of them mapping the areas where they fish, what they fish and how much they fish. We used large maps and encouraged fishers to draw on the maps where they fished for different species. This information from each fisher was then captured using GIS and a series of maps (species-specific) showing where the main fishing areas are were produced - so-called heat maps. A sample of 12 fishers undertook this mapping process, assisted by Hub researchers from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who captured qualitative data shared by the fishers whilst he or she was mapping their fishing spots. This data was then aggregated to develop a heat map showing the common spots identified by the fishers. A more focused component of the research then follows, in which a dedicated sample of 6 skippers uses a map with the fisher identified fishing sites on it to identify their monthly fishing trips and record their catches. This process is currently underway but will enable the team to link fishing area and catch per unit of effort (CPUE) for this pilot sample. This method has been shared with other small-scale fishers as a tool to enable them to advocate for a small-scale fishing zone and to provide evidence to be used in the Marine Spatial Planning process. However, to date, the actual tool has not been replicated elsewhere. This tool was produced in 2023 and piloted from March to September 2023. It has not been published and has only been used by the University of Cape Town Environmental & Geographical Science team thus far. The methodology is being written up and will be submitted for publication in 2024. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This pilot has produced notable impacts: The fishers have shared their geo-referenced maps with other small-scale fishers at a regional workshop held on 27 March 2023 held in Velddrif, Western Cape Province. The workshop that took place on 28-29 March 2023 was attended by small-scale fishers from Northern Cape and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa (the workshop report is available here: https://oneoceanhub.glasscubes.com/share/s/t7gtofvfernq1mfkvdb3eckme3). The fishers from the region, representing more than 10 fishing communities all requested that they also be assisted in developing maps of this nature as they could see this would strengthen their position in negotiations and marine spatial planning processes. The maps have been used as the basis of discussions with the South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) team and the group of scientists currently developing the biodiversity maps which will serve as the basis for the marine spatial planning process in South Africa. The lead scientists have indicated the usefulness of these maps and the maps have contributed towards the adoption of an interim small-scale fisheries map used as a placeholder whilst a more accurate SSF map is developed. This is the first time that the small-scale fisheries sector has been represented on a map by the SANBI and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment of South Africa (DFFE) for the purposes of marine spatial planning. The use of this interim map is regarded as an important step in addressing the marginalisation and discrimination experienced by the small-scale fishers in these planning processes to date. The methodology has been shared with other researchers and also fisheries and conservation research teams who are eager to include this data in the maps that South Africa is generating for the marine spatial planning process. The data and the maps belong to the fishers and they will decide what maps and what data to share with government. This method of gathering local data on fishing activities is of great interest to researchers who have been tasked with mapping priorities of different sectors for the marine spatial planning process in South Africa. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/mapping-for-justice-towards-an-accessible-transparent-database-of-mining-alo...
 
Title Methodologies for collecting microplastics that is relatively inexpensive 
Description Methodologies for the collection of plastics have been devised by a student in another project that involved One Ocean Hub researcher, Professor Bhavani Narayanaswamy from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (see Paradinas et al. (2021) A New Collection Tool-Kit to Sample Microplastics From the Marine Environment (Sediment, Seawater, and Biota) Using Citizen Science. Frontiers in Marine Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.657709). Under the One Ocean Hub these methodologies are being refined to be used in Ghana. Details about these methodologies are explained below. We developed a simple, cost-effective and practical tool-kit to collect microplastics from the coastal environment and engaged the public in scientific research. The tool-kit was designed to take into account the latest recommendations for sampling each environmental substrate, whilst being practical for citizen scientists to use. This research demonstrates that using a semi-structured to structured project with a defined sampling approach including the participation of the public with local knowledge can be an effective way to monitor microplastics in the marine environment along the Scottish coastline. This approach, can be adapted to other projects monitoring microplastics to increase the use of citizen science in projects, allowing more studies to take place, more samples to be collected, and a greater understanding of the occurrence and the potential impact of microplastics in the environment. Sampling kits were designed to be simple tool-kits, easily used by all volunteers. The tool-kit consisted of a pole-water sampler, glass jars (15 of 7 ml), plastic bottles (5 of 500 ml), sealable plastic bags, filter paper already placed in Petri dishes, aluminum foil, deionised water (1l), electrical tape, water-resistant pencil, ice blocks (3) and a cool box (Figure 2). The water-sampler, bottles, bags and jars were rinsed and cleaned with deionised water and 70% ethanol prior to being sealed. The filter papers and Petri dishes were examined using a stereomicroscope 37.5× magnification prior to sealing with electrical tape to ensure no contamination. Bottles, bags and jars were partially labeled to facilitate the work in the field by the volunteers. All materials were stored in an insulated cool-box immediately after collection and during transport of samples to the laboratory, which allowed safe transportation of materials. The cool-box provided thermal insulation for the samples, resulting in slower development of organic matter, as well as a convenient way to transfer materials to and from the site. The volunteers were asked to take a knife (Swiss army type knife) prior to going into the field, to be able to remove the mussels from their substrate. At all research locations, intertidal sediment (i.e., sand), coastal water and benthic organisms (i.e., M. edulis) were collected four times during the year (every 13 weeks) to investigate seasonal variability in microplastic abundances, polymer types and shapes. All the sites were sampled at the same time (e.g., over the same weekend) to avoid large weather and tidal disparities between locations. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact We are using a methodology for collecting microplastics that is relatively inexpensive and hence can be used by a developing country to undertake microplastic collection. From this methodology a new dataset is being developed by Hub researchers based at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), UK and the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. The dataset contains number of particles and the polymer type of these particles. It quantifies the level of micro/meso plastic found on water and sediment from four different mangrove regions in Ghana during the wet season. Anticipated impact rests on the availability of data for fisheries-human health research, with potential impacts on livelihoods. In addition, this knowledge will help inform future research needs on micro and nano plastics. Please see also a separate entry under database, dataset, and model section titled "The dataset on microplastics: Quantity and identity of plastics in mangroves and beaches." 
URL https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.657709/full
 
Title Methods for investigating coralporosis in coral skeletons 
Description Methods are adapted for ocean sciences from the field of osteoporosis. Ocean acidification is a threat to the net growth of tropical and deep-sea coral reefs, due to gradual changes in the balance between reef growth and loss processes. Here we go beyond identification of coral dissolution induced by ocean acidification and identify a mechanism that will lead to a loss of habitat in cold-water coral reef habitats on an ecosystem-scale. To quantify this, we present in situ and year-long laboratory evidence detailing the type of habitat shift that can be expected (in situ evidence), the mechanisms underlying this (in situ and laboratory evidence), and the timescale within which the process begins (laboratory evidence). Through application of engineering principals, we detail how increased porosity in structurally critical sections of coral framework will lead to crumbling of load-bearing material, and a potential collapse and loss of complexity of the larger habitat. Importantly, in situ evidence highlights that cold-water corals can survive beneath the aragonite saturation horizon, but in a fundamentally different way to what is currently considered a biogenic cold-water coral reef, with a loss of the majority of reef habitat. The shift from a habitat with high 3-dimensional complexity provided by both live and dead coral framework, to a habitat restricted primarily to live coral colonies with lower 3-dimensional complexity represents the main threat to cold-water coral reefs of the future and the biodiversity they support. Ocean acidification can cause ecosystem-scale habitat loss for the majority of cold-water coral reefs. There are few papers in press and in submission derived from the development of the methods (see https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00668/full and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355093148_Multiscale_Mechanical_Consequences_of_Ocean_Acidification_for_Cold-Water_Corals). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The new methods are being used in working towards modelling when reefs of the future will lose habitat. The new methods were presented at the UN Climate COP26 side-event "The Ocean and Climate Justice: Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation," the Scottish Government Climate Ambition Zone, 5 November 2021 in Glasgow, with a view to improving our understanding of climate impacts on cold-water corals and subsequent loss in ecosystem functioning and associated services humans rely on globally (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2145wf54XI). The Economist launched a film titled 'Climate change: what is ocean acidification?' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVWZyDz--30) on 2 February 2023 that reported on these new methods (from 6 minutes on). The film has been viewed 114,958 times. The methods also have the potential to identify critical cold-water coral habitat for restoration and in need of protection. From the use of these new methods, the Hub's research team at the University of Edinburgh have developed a new dataset "Physiological data, skeletal dissolution and water parameters of a long-term multiple stressor aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum." The dataset was uploaded to PANGAEA, Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science, but is not published yet. 
URL https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00668/full
 
Title Methods for preparing thin sections of steenbras and kob otoliths for chronologies 
Description Hub researcher, Dr Margit Wilhelm (University of Namibia, Namibia), developed new methods in preparing thin sections of steenbras and kob otoliths to examine age and growth chronologies of fish. From the removal of the otolith in the field to the final mounting and photographing for analysis, Dr Wilhem and her research team have tested out the protocols for otolith removal, storage, embedding, slicing and mounting. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage, but it is expected that fish age determination laboratory and protocols established at UNAM will allow for the first independent sampling in Namibia resulting in chronologies and genetics for different target fish species that can lead to differentiated management for fish species. 
 
Title Methods for vulnerability assessment and identification of adaptation options for large scale fisheries (small pelagics and Namibian rock lobster fisheries) 
Description One Ocean Hub researchers at Rhodes University led by Profesor Kevern L. Cochrane, Professor Warren Potts and Professor Warwick Sauer have developed a tool to measure vulnerability of fisheries to climate change. The tool developed in assessing vulnerability and identifying adaptation options is consistent with the standard vulnerability assessment (VA) framework applied by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In accordance with that framework, vulnerability is split into two components, ecological vulnerability and social and economic vulnerability (e.g. Marshall et al., 2009). In addition, for the purposes of this project a third component is also included, referred to as National Economy and Governance. The new tool is new and novel because it takes into account social and economic vulnerability data. In contrast to the availability of reliable information on the impacts of climate change on the ecology of Benguela ecosystem and ecological vulnerabilities, there has been little work done, and hence there is only limited information, on the social and economic vulnerabilities of the fisheries of the Benguela countries. Any such information that is available will be examined and used where appropriate but the primary method for this component will be to collect information through consultation with stakeholders, particularly those stakeholders who are directly dependent on the fisheries for their livelihoods, as well as the responsible government agencies. National workshops will be held in each country as a primary tool for consultation but follow-up consultations will also be held with specific stakeholders as required. This will include visits to processing factories to consult directly with factory workers and fishing crews. In accordance with the standard IPCC practice, social and economic vulnerability is determined as the combination of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. These three indicators are defined as (Sowman et al. 2018): • Sensitivity: the degree to which a system is affected, either adversely or beneficially, by climate related stimuli; • Exposure: the nature and degree to which a system is exposed to significant climatic variations; • Adaptive capacity: the ability of systems, institutions, humans, and other organisms to adjust to potential damage, to take advantage of opportunities, or to respond to consequences. For further information on this method please read here: https://oneoceanhub.glasscubes.com/share/s/nkheb8n1mt7e37it6561rd3k2o 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The method allows communities, companies and managers to make informed decisions on fisheries in the future. The Food and Agriculture Organizationis is going to publish the method as part of its publication. Three research papers based on this method had been published: Cochrane, K., L., Eggers, J., & Sauer, WHH. (2020). A diagnosis of the status and effectiveness of marine fisheries management in South Africa based on two representative case studies. Marine Policy. 112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103774 Iitembu J.A., Kainge P., Sauer W.H.H. (2021) Climate Vulnerability and its Perceived Impact on the Namibian Rock Lobster Fishery. In: Leal Filho W., Luetz J., Ayal D. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3_265-1 Kelly Ortega Cisneros, Kevern L. Cochrane, Nina Rivers, Whh Sauer (2021) Assessing South Africa's Potential to Address Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in the Fisheries Sector (2021) Frontiers in Marine Science 8 Follow journal https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.652955 
URL https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.652955
 
Title Multi-modal workshop synthesis and feedback 
Description For workshops with small-scale fishers, the Hub research team in Rhodes University, South Africa, has developed and refined innovative methods for synthesising highly detailed and specific discussions, so that there is a succinct and strategic summary of the discussions for small-scale fishers and their partners to be referred back to and use in other ocean governance spaces, as well as to provide feedback to small-scale fishers in their communities who are not present at the in-person workshops. This includes graphic/ illustrated summaries of stories, discussions or perspectives shared by small-scale fishers; as well as translated voice note summaries of the proceedings and key discussions and decisions (which are shared on the team's small-scale fishers' leaders Whatsapp group), along with the usual written reports. The research team has also developed useful methods for facilitating participatory engagement with the content of the discussions, for example through inviting voice note or other responses from small-scale fishers, to correct or add to the summaries we share, or using 'Polls' to vote on particular issues. All of this is done over very accessible platforms (usually WhatsApp) which makes it very accessible. The data and airtime the research team provides out of the One Ocean Hub funding also makes this possible. These different methods reinforce one another and ensure that people with a range of literacy levels, languages and experience are able to learn from and contribute to the discussions. It also contributes to solidarity building and organising efforts amongst small-scale fishers from different regions and communities, because it becomes more possible to develop a shared set of priorities and strategies when people are able to build a shared picture of small-scale fishers' experiences and struggles. The research team is working on a paper about this, to be published in 2024. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The methods that Hub researchers in South Africa used have facilitated organisation building and unity among small-scale fishers around key issues affecting small-scale fishers. The methods enable the resolution of contesting views and coordinate action among small-scale fishers' organisations. Aspects of how this network works has been published by early-career researcher Taryn Pereira Kaplan and further publication is forthcoming in the form of a peer-reviewed academic paper and case study report for the One Ocean Hub in 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2023.2260502). Notable impacts were demonstrated through (1) collective response by small-scale fishers in giving input into consultations around oil and gas in three separate court cases in South Africa (https://bit.ly/3BNm1dX), leading to an unprecedented recognition of cultural rights connected to the seabed and the need to protect procedural rights of Indigenous Peoples and small-scale fisheries in the context of licensing offshore oil and gas exploration (https://bit.ly/3IfGNGr and (2) addressing challenges in putting the small-scale fishers' right to fish for squid in practice in 2020-2022 particularly among the sixteen of the Eastern Cape small-scale fishers cooperatives (https://oneoceanhub.org/deepening-partnerships-with-eastern-cape-small-scale-fishers-south-africa/). 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/deepening-partnerships-with-eastern-cape-small-scale-fishers-south-africa/
 
Title Multidisciplinary approach to capacity development in offshore research cruises 
Description The One Ocean Hub's Capacity Development Cruise conducted in February 2023 aimed to build the offshore sampling capacity of emerging researchers from Southern Africa and develop the skills, relationships and multiple knowledge types to support developing ocean economies. The research cruise was designed by young researcher to meet their needs and incorporated multiple disciplines in marine science to simultaneously collect complementing datasets to accomplish objectives across the fields of taxonomy, phylogeny, habitat, ecology, impacts and benefits from biodiversity. The information is supporting marine spatial planning for seafloor and pelagic habitats in the Eastern Cape. The cruise brought 10 emerging researchers together from five institutions, supported by three established scientists, building multi-disciplinary research relationships locally, using locally developed equipment aboard a local vessel and fostering a strong human capital and transformation agenda. The research cruise plan was co-developed for and by emerging researchers and led by an emerging researchers. The team was based in East London, South Africa but data was also collected during transit between Port Alfred and the East London Harbour. The Research Vessel Observer, a 15m cat with twin Hamilton jet engines was used to conduct offshore research. Sampling covered the offshore area between Port Alfred and Kei mouth. Of the 17 days of the expedition, 12 days were spent at sea. A total of 29 ROV stations (OOH001-OOH029), totalling more than 14 hours were completed in the 43 m to 230 m depth range. Of these, most were biodiversity surveys to support ecosystem description and mapping, but four dives were dedicated to collections for eDNA, taxonomic, genetic and biodiscovery research. Ten landers were deployed in the 300 - 1000m depth range. CTD transects were conducted to collect oceanographic data and sediment samples were collected to provide grain size data. Biodiversity surveys were complemented with dredges to sample marine invertebrates from the seabed. Evening sessions provided knowledge sharing on data processing and curation, progress in ecosystem classification and patterns in benthic assemblages, fish research and molecular science and ecology. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact A total of 45 specimens were collected for biodiscovery and barcoding to support integrated taxonomic research. The cruise thus supported the SeaMap project funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) Foundational Biodiversity Programme and built capacity within two projects funded by the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme, Deep Connections and Agulhas Bank Connections. Eighteen Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) casts were strategically deployed on the East London shelf to resurvey established monitoring CTD lines and to understand the oceanography of the submarine canyon systems. Nine sediment samples were collected by cone dredge between 80-90 m deep with one opportunistically collected from one of the landers legs. This survey extended depth capabilities by deploying deep sea landers fitted with Stereo-Baited Remote Underwater Video. The landers were deployed at ten stations between 230-1035 m for the first time in a high current environment on the East London slope. Building on previous efforts, four sponges were collected for natural product chemistry research at the Dorrington lab at Rhodes University. Many stations were to support MSc and PhD students including Sinothando Shibe at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mari-Lise Franken and Caroline Sejeng at the University of Cape Town and Jody Oliver, a molecular PHD student from Rhodes University. All these students will benefit from the data collected. The first observations and collection of the cf. Enallopsammia cold water corals from the Gxulu Canyon will also support species distribution modelling for this taxon for which current capacity was under development through the team conducting research on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME). Interesting observations included deep observations of the south coast rock lobster Palinurus gilchristi at 230 m, dense seapen aggregations inside the Amathole Offshore marine protected area and diverse sponge dominated reefs along the submerged paleo-shoreline. Two dredges were conducted to collect specimens for SeaMap barcoding efforts. Targeted water and six sponge samples were collected to support cutting edge molecular research for Jody Oliver's PhD. The observations from this cruise will support the developing reference image library that will be useful for future work analysing seabed imagery and can support future technological innovation such as the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Excellent imagery and video were collected by ROV and lander to support science engagement and communication work. Emerging science communicator Caiti Allison led the social media campaign for this research cruise. The research team utilised bad weather days to further transdisciplinary areas of work including the identification and mapping of Culturally Significant Areas and the identification of culturally important marine species. We took opportunity to visit outlets for imithi (traditional medicine), interact with traditional healers to understand the use of marine product in traditional medicine and ritual and to document indigenous knowledge in the region. This method is made available in a cruise report and has been shared in: - The African network of deep water researchers and at the marine regions forum in Tanzania. The Network comprises over 250 members from 27 African nations, representing over 140 institutions. 76% of members are self-identified Early Career Researchers We have seen increased capacity among students and researchers and increased research interest. Chief scientist, Luther Adams is now registered for a PhD that will apply machine learning in analysis of ROV and lander or remote camera footage. His leadership of the cruise was a key factor in supporting his success in obtaining a highly competitive bursary for his PhD studies. Ms Shibe has graduated with an MSC in marine science and Ms Oliver is completing her PHD but has secured a three-year post as a lab technician at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/publications/cruise-report-one-ocean-hub-capacity-development-cruise/
 
Title Participatory rural appraisal methods 
Description Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) methods have been piloted by Hub Deputy Director, Dr Philile Mbatha (University of Cape Town, South Africa) in her research on critical blue economy in Kosi Bay and Richards Bay, South Africa. These are the two case studies areas of Dr Mbatha research as part of the One Ocean Hub. The PRA consists of a suite of data collection techniques that are useful when data collection is conducted in marginalised contexts. The techniques involved include timelines, Venn diagrams, participatory mapping as well as oral history interviews collected in focus groups and with individuals. The use of these methods in Dr Mbatha research has started before she joined the One Ocean Hub. With funding from the Hub, Dr Mbatha has continued to use the methods in Kosi Bay and Richards Bay. Findings from Dr Mbatha's research in Kosi Bay informed her current research with the Empatheatre team within iSimangaliso UNESCO site. Together, with the Empatheatre team, Dr Mbatha ran a series of workshops in the Mbazwana area in iSimangaliso with youth and elderly Indigenous knowledge holders. In the workshops the research team collected data through focus groups, storytelling, participatory mapping - all of which are inspired by PRA methods. Dr Mbatha also shared her research findings with the Empatheatre team which, in triangulation with the data from the workshops, informed the development of Umkhosi Wenala play. The play, titled "Umkhosi Wenala" (is Zulu for "Festival of Abundance") aims to create an innovative participatory decision-making space where rural youth can have a voice in the creation and management of MPAs that exclude cultural, spiritual and other local perspectives, concerns and questions (https://oneoceanhub.org/fairer-and-more-inclusive-marine-protected-areas-through-restorative-public-storytelling/). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The use of participatory rural appraisal methods that has informed the development of the Empatheatre's new play "Umkhosi Wenala" (is Zulu for "Festival of Abundance") were shared at the closing events of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (27 attendees attendees), which the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation co-organised with the Hub on 27-31 March 2023 in Rome, Italy, with policy makers and practitioners involved in sustainable fisheries and marine conservation. The methods were also shared across the Hub's four side-events for the UN World Oceans Day in New York that were co-organised with Peace Boat, Blue Planet Alliance and the UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea on 7-9 June 2023 (attended by 111 attendees). The One Ocean Hub team will also share insights from the use of the methods at the Hub-led satellite event 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance' for the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference in April 2024 in Barcelona, Spani. The Hub-led satellite event will include a live performance of an excerpt from the Umkosi Wenala theatre play. Dr Mbatha will further share knowledge and experience in using participatory rural appraisal methods at the Small-Scale Fisheries Summit in Rome in July 2024 with policy makers, civil society and small-scale fishers. The engagement at the international level is expected to further co-develop the Hub research and policy contributions on how to make marine protection more inclusive, just and support multi-species flourishing (human and more-than-human alike). 
 
Title Photovoice to represent children's views about fisheries 
Description This method enables the use of pictures to represent children's views about fisheries. These include the view of (1) children engaged in fishing whilst in school, (2) children engaged in fishing without being in school, and (3) children in school that do not engage in fishing. Each category of children is made to provide a pictorial view of their future as fishermen. Children are made to explain what they have pictured down. Such a method is used for data collection is used by a graduate student at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana in his thesis on "Children and Indigenous Knowledge Systems" supervised by Dr Georgina Yaa Oduro and Dr John Ansah (University of Cape Coast). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This research method provides a better explanation to the reality of children's perspective on fisheries than the traditional qualitative methods of data collection. Findings from the use of this method has been shared by Dr Georgina Yaa Oduro as part of the following Hub's written evidence submissions to: • the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on "the impacts of loss and damage from the adverse effects of climate change on human rights," January 2024 (https://oneoceanhub.org/accounting-for-the-impacts-of-loss-and-damage-from-the-adverse-effects-of-climate-change-on-human-rights/); • the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on "the adverse impact of climate change on the right to food," December 2022 (https://oneoceanhub.org/ensuring-sufficient-attention-to-the-link-between-the-ocean-climate-change-and-the-right-to-food/) that has been included in the UN Secretary-General's Report on "Adverse impact of climate change on the full realisation of the right to food" (A/HRC/53/47; https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5347-adverse-impact-climate-change-full-realization-right-food); • the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment on Women, Girls, and the rights to a Healthy Environment (https://oneoceanhub.org/protecting-womens-and-girls-rights-to-a-healthy-environment/); • the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on climate change impacts on the realization of the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl (https://oneoceanhub.glasscubes.com/share/s/b1rrdlt4hlbs9m06v2vea8hq3m); and • the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development: Call for input for the 2024 report on the right to development of children and future generations (https://oneoceanhub.glasscubes.com/share/s/pv9f3td0863d2rpupfjq4u4iae). 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/protecting-womens-and-girls-rights-to-a-healthy-environment
 
Title Piloting recreation specialisation theory to the South African Marine Shore-Based Fishery (MSBF) 
Description Hub early-career researcher, Kyle Hewett (Doctoral Student at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) is piloting recreation specialisation theory to the South African Marine Shore-Based Fishery (MSBF) to identify angler heterogeneity. Although angler specialisation itself is not a new a tool, what is novel is piloting this method in the context of the South African MSBF. The crux of the specialisation theory argues that that outdoor recreational fishery participants can be placed on a continuum from general interest and low involvement to specialised interest and high involvement. Each level of specialisation is associated with distinctive behaviours and orientations, such as equipment preference, type of experience sought, desired setting for the activity, attitudes toward resource management, preferred social context, and vacation patterns (Bryan, 2020, pp.18-21. available here: bit.ly/3ZjR4HK). No publications have been produced from piloting recreation specialisation theory to the South Africa MSBF as the research is still at the data collection phase. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Findings generated from piloting recreation specialisation theory to the South African Marine Shore-Based Fishery will be used to aid in management of the fisheries in South Africa. It is expected that outputs produced from this method will be able to shape the recreational fishery in a well-managed and sustainable manner. 
 
Title Policy Text Mining Tool 
Description Hub researcher, Pierre Mazegga (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France and the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance, University of Strathclyde, UK) developed 'Natural Language Processing Tool' for the representation and analysis (using mathematical graph theory) of policy and legal texts. In addition to the production of appropriate evidence from analysis of very large textual corpora (composed of billions of words), two additional objectives are pursued from this new tool: (a) to design an approach capable of highlighting idiosyncratic uses of terms from a restricted textual corpus; (b) identify a first essential property of policy or legal texts that an analysis in context of the linguistic material can reveal, and outline the consequences on the normative level. On a technical level, the purpose of using conceptual graphs is generally to build up a knowledge base that can then be queried (to answer questions or produce new knowledge) via machines. Our posture is different: the work of formalising legal proposals, sentences or articles via conceptual graphs creates the conditions for an interrogation in direct contact with the legal matter (data), on mechanisms, artifices and techniques-implicit or explicit, intentional or unconscious, known or hidden-used by "the legislator" in the production of normative texts. Even if the theory of conceptual graphs cannot claim the universality of its capacities to transcribe any text into natural language and therefore presents limits of applicability, the formalisation exercise offers the opportunity to explain a part of the latent cognitive options which govern the choice of expressions in natural language and their conceptual underpinning. In this process, the nature of these revealed choices makes it possible to question the clarity and distinction of the concepts used and, admittedly a more adventurous step, to try to understand the consequences of these choices. Pierre's publications related to the policy mining text tool include: 1. Mazegga P. (2021). "Conceptual Graphs and Terminological Idiosyncrasy in UNCLOS and CBD." Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.664621 and 2; and Hills JM., Lajaunie C, Maharaj PN., Mazzega P. (2021). "Orchestrating the Ocean Using a National Ocean Policy: The Case of the Solomon Islands." Frontiers in Marine Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.676944. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The text mining tool developed by Pierre Mazegga contributed to the development and finalisation of Fiji's first National Ocean Policy in 2021, which was endorsed by the Cabinet and is a significant milestone for Fiji's sustainable ocean governance. The mining tool developed was also used by the Hub research team in the South Pacific to undertake textual content and network analysis on the existing ocean-related development policies of Fiji and identified their linkages with Fiji's National Development Plan. See the letter of acknowledgment from the Fiji's Ministry of Economy here: https://oneoceanhub.glasscubes.com/share/s/3ud67lnoq8h52ggf9tgls045p9. The text mining tool was presented by Dr Jeremy Hills (University of the South Pacific, Fiji) at the MARE Conference panel 'Exploring (and subverting) the appropriation of blue economy aspirations' in June 2020; by Dr Jeremy Hills, Dr Bernadette Snow (at the time with University of Strathclyde, UK), and Kelly Hoareau (University of Seychelles, Seychelles) at the UN Climate COP26 side-event 'The Ocean and Climate Justice: Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation,' Scottish Government Climate Ambition Zone on 5 November 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2145wf54XI); and by Dr Bernadette Snow at the UN Climate COP26 Virtual Ocean Pavilion live event on 'SBSTA Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue Theme: Strengthening cooperation and collaboration among relevant UN bodies in tackling ocean and climate change' on 1 November 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kEMOrIYswA). 
URL https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.676944
 
Title Principles and Practices for Solidarity in Transdisciplinary Research between academic researchers and community based environmental justice activists 
Description These practices and principles have been co-developed within the Coastal Justice Network's engagements between scholar activists and small-scale fishers and other coastal justice activists. They are principles for relationships based on reflexive, situated solidarity, in which academic research is orientated towards being accessible, useful and responsive to the justice struggles of community-based activists and the social movements they are part of. The Coastal Justice Network (CJN) brings together SSF leaders from 13 cooperatives and other fisher organisations with researchers, local civil society organisations and legal professionals, to build and mobilize capacity of SSFs to engage in ocean governance processes that affect their lives and livelihoods, by: 1. Building support networks of and for SSFs to coordinate nation-wide and strategise as a sector; 2. Providing training, access to knowledge and practical resources, and networking; 3. Supporting fishers and other civil society organisations in responding to ongoing developments and issues as they arise;. 4. Working with civil society supporting ocean-dependent communities to change practices to promote community empowerment and leadership; and 5. Working with national and local public authorities to change behaviours and practices to enhance the inclusiveness of public participation, consultation and co-management. The Network has created a structure to understand the needs of under-resourced coastal peoples addressing multiple, inter-connected, threats to their wellbeing. It then makes available legal, scientific, capacity-building, financial and logistic resources to communities, so that they can approach these issues in a strategic and coordinated way. Hub early-career researcher, Taryn Pereira (Rhodes University, South Africa) is writing up four peer-reviewed articles, as part of her PhD thesis. One of the peer-reviewed journal articles led by Taryn Pereira titled "Surfacing solidarity praxis in transdisciplinary research for blue justice" was published in Ecosystems & Peoples in 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2023.2260502). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Principles and practices of solidarity in transdiciplinary research have enabled a core group of One Ocean Hub researchers to contribute towards efforts of community-based activists to stand up to un-democratic ocean governance related to deep-sea oil and gas exploration, coastal and seabed mining, human rights violations in marine protected areas, fisheries resource management, and other aspects of ocean governance in South Africa. A series of successful judicial challenges have been brought before national courts as a result of this approach, which have been praised by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment as good practice of environmental human rights defenders. For further explanation on the Hub researchers' contributions to stand up to un-democratic practices of ocean governance, read a blogpost written by Taryn Pereira titled 'The court has a duty to step in and protect those who are offended and the environment' Judge rules in the Shell Seismic Survey case in October 2022 at: https://oneoceanhub.org/the-outcome-of-the-shell-seismic-survey-case/. Insights from the method have been shared with 103,321 environmental justice and human rights practitioners, government officials, researchers and students around the world through: - presentations by Professor Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde) and Dr Dylan McGarry (Rhodes University, South Africa) for the Inaugural Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) - UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Summer/Winter School 2021 across three sessions: o Environmental human rights defenders at the time of the pandemic: https://gnhre.org/critical-perspectives-on-human-rights-and-the-environment-the-2021-gnhre-unep-summer-winter-school/2021-summer-winter-school-environmental-defenders-in-times-of-pandemic/. The event was attended by 50 attendees. o Participation as resistance: https://gnhre.org/critical-perspectives-on-human-rights-and-the-environment-the-2021-gnhre-unep-summer-winter-school/2021-summer-winter-school-participation-as-resistance/. The event was attended by 50 attendees. • presentations by Dr Kira Erwin (Durban University of Technology, South Africa) and Dr Dylan McGarry and Taryn Pereira Kaplan (Rhodes University, South Africa) for the GNHRE-UNEP Summer/Winter School 2022 o "Oceans, Art and Environmental Defenders," 22 June 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42I6P1kIDc&t=1664s). This event was attended by around 50 attendees. o Defending the ocean at the kelp roots: Stories from Small scale fisher ocean defenders in South Africa, 28 June 2022 (https://oneoceanhub.org/hub-led-panels-for-the-2022-summer-winter-school-on-human-rights-and-the-environment/). This event was attended by around 50 attendees. • Taryn Pereira's presentation for the GNHRE-UNEP Summer/Winter School 2023 titled "Transforming ocean conservation and sustainable use: rethinking blue economies in terms of environmental and socio-cultural justice," 13 September 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtg-afz5tnA). This event was attended by 38 participants. • Taryn Pereira's presentation for the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) Reimagine Webinar Series: A Global Spotlight on Ocean Defenders, 29 November 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v11nLsazmaw&t=20s). This event was attended by 101 attendees. • the Hub-led event for the UN World Ocean Week 2022 titled "Exploring Challenges, Opportunities and Alliances for the Protection of Small-scale Fishers' Human Rights" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaBnVZQS6_o&t=768s, 52 attendees). • the closing events of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, which the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation co-organised with the Hub on 27-31 March 2023 in Rome, Italy (469 attendees); • a series of four side-events for the UN World Oceans Day 2023 co-organised with Peace Boat and Blue Planet Alliance on 7-9 June 2024 at the UN Plaza, New York (attended by 111 people) and the official UN World Oceans Day celebration at the UN Headquarters (350 in-person attendees and 102,000 online attendees) in New York on 7 June 2023 with policy makers and practitioners involved in sustainable fisheries and marine conservation; and • Taryn Pereira's presentation at the the 2023 annual conference of the Association of Human Rights Institutes titled, 'Human Rights Defenders Under Siege' (7-9 September 2023, Bilbao, Spain). The Hub will share insights from "Principles and Practices for Solidarity in Transdisciplinary Research between academic researchers and community based environmental justice activists" at the Hub-led satellite event 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance' for the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference (April 2024, Barcelona, Spain) and the Small-Scale Fisheries Summit in July 2024 in Rome. 
URL https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2023.2260502
 
Title Questionnaire: Social survey on Namibian anglers 
Description The questionnaire was prepared by a group of One Ocean Hub researchers based at the University of Namibia, Namibia, and Rhodes University, South Africa, who set to understand and evaluate angler compliance, behaviour, attitudes, and perceptions towards regulations set by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Namibia. The output of the survey is in preparation for submission as a journal article. Hub researcher, Dr Margit Wilhelm (University of Namibia), is leading the development of dataset derived from the social survey on Namibian anglers. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact A substantial amount of information was collected that can be used for improving fisheries governance in Namibia. 
 
Title SMarTaR-ID Web Portal and South Atlantic species catalogue 
Description SMarTaR-ID Web Portal and South Atlantic species catalogue serve as a tool from which to develop standards in image analysis. The use of image-based data in marine ecology is now routine. However, there are challenges in the identification of marine animals from imagery, and the taxonomic level it is possible to achieve in the field. To support field identification of marine animals, many different organisations have developed their own in-house reference image libraries. Some have published their libraries as websites, apps, or papers. These reference libraries have proved a valuable source of information in supporting interpretation of image-based data. However, there are currently no standards around the identification of taxa from imagery. The aim of SMarTaR-ID is to provide a reference standard to which image-based data can be annotated. Our intention is to make it easier to combine image-based datasets for analysis by ensuring some commonality in how animal morphotypes are named (e.g. my anemone 1 is the same morphology as your anemone 1). In support of existing efforts, we have tried to align as far as possible with the CATAMI classification in our morphological filter. Standardisation is very important to marine biodiversity survey and monitoring. In addition, SMarTaR-ID aims to provide the tools to support training of researchers in the field-based identification of marine animals. Taxonomists within the SMarTaR-ID family have developed field keys to some taxa and we hope to develop more over time. We have also begun the development of field-based multi-access keys to marine animals in the form of filters on the database. This is a first step and we recognise there is much more to be done. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This tool supports the aims of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, particularly capacity development, ocean literacy and technology transfer for implementing Sustainable Development Goal 14 - Life below water. The production of this novel tool paved the way for the formal endorsement of the One Ocean Hub research on deep-sea ecosystems as a new Decade Action on 3 June 2022 from the UN Decade of Ocean Science. The significance of this tool has been recognised internationally through an invited presentation at the International Seabed Authority in September 2020 (https://isa.org.jm/files/files/documents/WS%20Report_Taxonomic%20Standardization.pdf) and a publication (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218904) in 2019. https://oneoceanhub.org/new-network-of-deep-water-researchers-aims-to-build-africas-capacity-for-deep-water-research/). In October 2023, the Hub has been endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Implementing Partner, focusing on transdisciplinary research. Hub researchers at the University of Plymouth will present findings, experience and practices of the Hub deep-sea research at the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference in Barcelona, Spain in April 2024 as part of a satellite event titled "Deepening the Decade" to be held at the Banquet Hall of the Conference,Barcelona, Spain in April 2024 in collaboration with Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI). 
URL https://smartar-id.app/
 
Title St Helena Hidden Harvest Survey Tool 
Description St Helena Hidden Harvest Survey Tool was developed by Hub researchers at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, based on the hidden harvest surveys by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This instrument seeks to quantify the contribution of undocumented small-scale fisheries to the local economy and livelihood of St Helena Bay, South Africa. By doing so, this new tool aids the efforts in protecting small-scale fishers' livelihoods from increasing threats arising from Blue Economy initiatives. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Surveys were conducted in the second half of 2022. The Hub research team at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is still processing the data, but it has yielded incredibly important preliminary data quantifying the contribution of small-scale fisheries. This has been fed into national legal and policy process in South Africa and the development of the FAO SSF-LEX that was published in January 2023. The impact of the survey to the legal and policy process in South Africa is reported under the section New Model, Database and Dataset titled 'St Helena Bay (South Africa) Small-scale Fisheries Database'. SSF-LEX is FAO's free online legal and policy database entirely dedicated to small-scale fisheries that supports the implementation of the SSF Guidelines. SSF-LEX provides country profiles with information about national small-scale fisheries socioeconomic data, international and regional commitments, constitutional provisions, institutional arrangements, definition(s) of 'small-scale fisheries' and related terms, and a list of national legislation and policies relevant to small-scale fisheries. The database helps identify good State practices and needs for improvements. The research, tool and methods co-developed by the Hub researchers at the University of Cape Town, South Africa with small-scale fishers in St Helena Bay has led to the co-production of Community-based, participatory GIS linked mapping tool in 2023-2024. This tool is reported under a separate entry titled "Making space for small-scale fishers: Community-based, participatory GIS linked mapping tool." 
 
Title The 'Oceans for Life: a Coastal Community Blue Justice resource process' methodology and tools 
Description The One Ocean Hub research team in South Africa led by Dr Jackie Sunde and Professor Merle Sowman (University of Cape Town) is using and developing a methodology named the 'Oceans for Life: a Coastal Community Blue Justice resource process' that is relevant for a developing country context. It is a human rights-based, participatory research methodology that aims to simultaneously recognise local communities' ecological knowledge and build their advocacy capacities to ensure their rights are protected. It is a community- and human rights-based approach to assessing and transforming Blue Economy development initiatives into life-affirming processes that are equitable and sustainable. Hub researchers are in the process of applying and refining an "oceans for life" assessment tool and "oceans for life" action tool which they have developed over the past year. The tool has been applied in one of the University of Cape Town research team case study sites thus far. The purpose of this community-based tool is to provide an understanding of community vulnerability to ocean economy projects and ascertain the knowledge, skills and resources and actions needed to build resilience. This resource process includes two inter-linked components: 1. Oceans for Life Assessment Tool which is a dynamic, participatory, human- rights based assessment tool that enables coastal communities to assess Blue Economy developments from a human rights-based perspective to check whether the development complies with international and national human rights laws and policies and will contribute to sustaining their lives and that of the ocean upon which they depend; and 2. Oceans for life action tool, which equips coastal communities with the information and an array of resources that will assist them in ensuring that Blue Economy policies, developments and processes comply with relevant human rights and environmental legislation and strategies and activities to transform these development processes into actions that will contribute towards equitable and sustainable oceans and coastal life and livelihoods. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This is work in progress. The Hub research team has developed a draft Tool and Methodology for Assessing the impact of Blue Economy projects on small-scale fisheries in South Africa. The tool and methodology have been piloted in one fisheries site, with additional testing and refinement planned in 2024. The One Ocean Hub's "Oceans for Life" are a community-based assessment and action tool aimed at supporting coastal communities to assess the impacts of Blue Growth on their lives and livelihoods and to act in order to promote equitable, sustainable and socially just oceans. It is being developed by Hub researchers at the University of Cape Town's Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and One Ocean Hub Small-scale Fisheries research team through their partnership with coastal and small-scale fisher communities with whom it works in South Africa. Most notably, it is a human-rights based methodology. It is still in the piloting phase and has not been published. Hub researchers are noting that the methodology is having impacts within the communities with whom they are working, where the communities are demonstrating their awareness of their rights and the importance of combining their local ecological knowledge with marine science and spatial mapping tools in order to defend their rights and livelihoods. Building upon these method and tool, the Hub's research team at the University of Cape Town are developing a new tool to support small-scale fishers titled "Community-based, participatory GIS linked mapping tool." This new tool is reported under a separate "research tool and method: entry. The Hub will share insights about "The 'Oceans for Life: a Coastal Community Blue Justice resource process" methodology and tools at the Small-Scale Fisheries Summit in July 2024 in Rome. 
 
Title Transdisciplinary audit tool 
Description The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets out a transformative vision which has yet to be realised for Sustainable Development Goal 14 and the ocean. Recognition of the "indivisibility" of the Goals and enhanced integration of ocean governance support this transformation, but require at least multidisciplinary, or probably transdisciplinary, approaches. For regions which are highly dependent on development finance, a powerful leverage point for a transdisciplinary transformation is in the design of development investments. The tool developed by Hub researchers Prof Jeremy Hills and Payal Maharaj (University of South Pacific, Fiji) identifies design features of ocean development-financed projects involving substantial amounts of research in two Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Transdisciplinary approaches were closely aligned to what is established as Mode 2 research modalities which focus on participation and multi-knowledge systems, as opposed to Mode 1 which have a predominantly scientific basis. From the literature, an analytical indicator framework was developed which scored projects on their modes of research within four categories: People, Process, Policy and Product. This framework was applied to five development-financed projects, and permitted the balance of Mode 1 and Mode 2 to be assessed and significant differences between projects identified. The work surfaces project features which can be embedded in the design of ocean investments that promote transdisciplinary. The tool can analyse development projects to determine to assess the research and knowledge production mode of the project. Literature recognises mode 1 which is based around sectoral scientist approaches and mode 2 which is more context-driven, inclusive and multidisciplinary process. From literature indicators of mode 1 and 2 were devised under categories of People, Policy, Process and Product which reflected the different dimensions of the knowledge research process. This analytical frame was applied to a number of ocean-related development projects in the Pacific. The results demonstrated that the indicators captured the different approaches used in the projects. Transdisciplinary approaches are only feasible within mode 2 research modalities, thus, the indicators provide insight into how to design research in terms of People, Policy, Process and Product. These results provide insight into the project design required for allow transdisciplinary approaches to develop. With integrated and transdisciplinary outcomes being required to deliver the SDGs, as fully recognised by GCRF, this work is a significant step for designing appropriate interventions. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This tractable and practical recognition of transdisciplinarity has connotations to the UN Ocean Decade, in its ability to deliver on its transformation rhetoric. With capacity weaknesses and constrained financial resources in developing countries, and urgent ocean-related challenges especially in SIDS, moving to designed-in transdisciplinary and transformational outcomes remains a priority. This novel method serves as a pilot work to identify transdisciplinary design for ocean development projects - for potential use in other projects or the UN Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainable Development. In 2024, Hub researchers from Ghana, Namibia and South Africa integrated this methods in a new knowledge-integration paper on transdisciplinarity. 
URL https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1075759
 
Title 2023 socioeconomic survey of the recreational angling sector in Namibia 
Description The Namibian coast is renowned for its excellent angling opportunities, particularly in the central and northern coastal regions. As popular as the recreational sector is and the livelihood opportunities it provides for coastal communities, the popularity of this fishery has reduced the fish resources and while these were well monitored and managed in the 1990s, they have been neglected in recent years. The poor management of the recreational fishery has placed additional pressure on the fish stocks, having a considerable impact on other users of the resource, including subsistence fishers who rely directly on the fish for their livelihoods. Most anglers will tell you "Daar is nie meer visse nie" or "There are no more fish to catch". Climate change is also threatening fish stocks. For example, central and northern Namibia are recognised as an ocean warming hotspot and changes in temperature are having a marked impact on the distribution, movement patterns and life history of coastal top target fishery species such as kob. The dataset was developed in 2023 by the Hub team in Namibia against the background of these interlocking problems through a survey that was rolled out in 2023. The dataset includes data on the socio-demographic features of anglers at the coast, as well as their economic expenditures related to participating in angling. Recreational fishing is more than just a hobby, but rather a lifestyle for anglers in Namibia. The survey and the dataset it produced also provide information on the economic contributions of foreign/tourist anglers during their fishing trips in Namibia and to better understand shore angler behaviour and opinions towards angling regulations. More information is available at: https://oneoceanhub.org/working-in-a-transdisciplinary-team-to-understand-climate-vulnerability-on-recreational-fishing-in-namibia/ 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The dataset was made available to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Namibia in June 2023. It sheds new light on the economic contribution of the recreational angling sector and provides insights into appropriate changes in the licensing system for recreational fishers in Namibia. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/working-in-a-transdisciplinary-team-to-understand-climate-vulnerability-on-r...
 
Title A framework on children's meaningful participation in ocean governance 
Description Hub early-career researchers Dr Sophie Shields & Dr Andrea Longo (University of Strathclyde, UK), Dr Mia Strand (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) and Hub Director, Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK) co-developed a framework for facilitating children's participation in international processes at the ocean-climate nexus. Children are still largely invisible in decision-making processes on the marine environment, even if they are increasingly recognised as environmental human rights defenders in decision-making processes on climate action. States' international obligations in relation to children's human rights and the protection of the marine environment can and should be read together to offer a starting point to put children's right to be heard at the heart of international decision-making at the ocean-climate nexus. Children's right to be heard extends to all aspects of their lives - including voicing their views, influencing decisions, accessing justice and remedies, and participating in international law-making and policy-making processes relevant to the marine environment. Building on well-established scholarship and practice on children's participation, Hub researchers from the legal and social sciences led by Sophie Shields suggest how to create a space for the meaningful inclusion of children in international decision-making at the ocean-climate nexus, which is fun, safe, inclusive, based on inter-generational learning and partnership-building, and more likely to lead to transformative decisions to the benefit of present and future generations. The proposed framework consists of four key components including: - Space: Children must be given safe, inclusive opportunities to form and express views about the ocean. - Voice: Careful consideration must be given to facilitation in order for children to express their views about the ocean. - Audience: Adult facilitators must listen and give due weight to the views of children on the ocean. - Influence: Children's views on ocean governance processes must be acted upon, as appropriate. This model for children's participation in international processes has been published in a peer-reviewed journal article: Shields S, Longo A, Strand M and Morgera E. (2023). "Children's Human Right to be Heard at the Ocean-Climate Nexus" 38(3) International Journal of Marine & Coastal Law, available from https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-bja10140 and policy brief Shields S, Morgera E, Strand M & Longo A. (2023). "A framework for facilitating children's participation in international processes at the ocean-climate nexus," available from https://oneoceanhub.org/publications/policy-brief-a-framework-for-facilitating-childrens-participation-in-international-processes-at-the-ocean-climate-nexus/. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This framework was developed as part of the Hub's ongoing international collaboration and inputs into the development of the UN General comment No. 26 (2023) on children's rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change that was published by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in August 2023. The General Comment No. 26 specifically incorporated references to biodiversity and the ocean as advocated by the One Ocean Hub (paras 1,20,21, 35, 39, 58, 59, 64, 65, 91,92, 101; see the General comment No.26 text here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/general-comments-and-recommendations/crccgc26-general-comment-no-26-2023-childrens-rights). See also our entry for global collaborations titled "RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT CHILDREN'S RIGHT TO A HEALTHY OCEAN." The model has been presented to the Children's Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI) in 2023, in preparation for the UN Climate COP28, which adopted a historic decision to convene for the first time an expert dialogue on children and climate change in 2024. The Hub continues to advise UNICEF and other CERI partners on the preparations of the expert dialogue. In addition, and has been referred in several Hub submission to UN processes on children's human rights and child human rights defenders in 2023-204 (UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders on child and youth human rights defenders; and the UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on "youth participation in intergovernmental forums: challenges and opportunities."; UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development on the right to development of children and future generations). 
URL https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-bja10140
 
Title A marine spatial plan for biodiversity and nature-based activities in Algoa Bay, South Africa 
Description Hub researchers at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, used systematic conservation planning tools to develop a marine spatial plan that includes the conservation and nature-based activities in the Algoa Bay, South Africa. The project built the first set of online data-bases, freely available on Algoa Bay project website (https://www.algoabayproject.com/). 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The marine spatial plan feeds into the final marine spatial plan of Algoa Bay that is being developed now, with co-funding from the Hub. This research was funded mostly by the South African government, and the Hub provided continuation funding.The marine spatial plan will benefit 12 partner organisation based in South Africa including South African Maritime Safety Authority; South Africa Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries; Nelson Mandela Bay Maritime Cluster; and Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism; Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds; Sustainable Seas Trust; South African National Parks; Bayworld; CEN; National Research Foundation, South African Environmental Observation Network, and South African International Maritime Institute. For detailed information see collaboration and partnership entry titled "COLLABORATION IN DEVELOPING THE ALGOA MARINE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TOOL (AlgoaMSAT)." 
URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109574
 
Title Age and growth data and chronologies of steenbras from northern and southern Namibia 
Description Hub researcher, Dr Margit Wilhelm (University of Namibia, Namibia) and her research team are developing a new dataset containing age and growth data and chronologies of steenbras from northern and southern Namibia. The dataset has not been completed yet. Some otoliths have been analysed, but there is still some data that needs to be collected. Age and growth data from this new dataset can be used in an updated stock assessment model. Data about chronology from the otoliths can be used for climate change and tipping point analyses. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage, but it is expected that fish age determination laboratory and protocols established at UNAM will allow for the first independent sampling in Namibia resulting in chronologies and genetics for different target fish species that can lead to differentiated management for fish species. The dataset is being developed by an Msc student at UNAM who will make the dataset available once the Masters thesis is done. The Hub's research team at UNAM led by Dr Margit Wilhem will publish the dataset as soon as possible after the Masters thesis is completed (expected May 2024). Building on this work, Dr Wilhem's research team is also developing a dataset of steenbras genetics from the west coast of Namibia. 
 
Title Broad-scale benthic habitat classification of the South Atlantic 
Description Broad-scale benthic habitat classification of the South Atlantic is a seafloor habitat classification model predicting the distribution of habitats across the South Atlantic, produced by clustering environmental variables using two different methods. In December 2022 Hub early-career researcher, Dr Kirsty McQuaid (University of Plymouth, UK) submitted a response and revised manuscript based on reviewers' comments to journal Progress in Oceanography. The manuscript was published in 2023, the model is now made available online, open-access (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103016). 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The model has been compared with national-level mapping by co-authors in Uruguay and shows good performance for use in data-poor environments such as deep-water habitats and open ocean. This model has been recognised through the Hub's deep-sea research ("One Ocean Hub Research Programme 4") endorsement as an official Decade Action under the UN Ocean Science Decade's Challenger 150 programme by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the UNESCO. "One Ocean Hub Research Programme 4" is a collaboration between the University of Strathclyde, the Plymouth University of Plymouth, the University of Namibia, SANBI and NMU. Hub researchers at the University of Plymouth will present findings, experience, and practices of the Hub deep-sea research, including insights from this model at the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona, Spain in April 2024 as part of a satellite event titled "Deepening the Decade" to be held at the Banquet Hall of the Conference, co-organised in collaboration with Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI). 
URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103016
 
Title Combined impact of global change factors on marine organisms model 
Description This model is developed by Hub researcher, Dr Emmanuel Acheampong (University of Cape Coast, Ghana). It is derived from microcosm experiments that Dr Acheampong conducted to investigate functional responses of marine plankton to cadmium (proxy for heavy metal pollution) and sea surface warming (proxy for global climate change) in Ghana. Four manuscripts related to the use of this model have been published between 2021 and 2023. These articles address impacts associated with climate change (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-023-00967-7), overfishing (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2021.106048), heavy metal pollution (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-023-01009-y) and capacity needs for plankton research in developing tropical countries (https://doi.org/10.3390/w15244288). 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Anticipated impact is improved adaptation and mitigation measures in light of climate change and pollution. Four articles based on this model were published between 2021 and 2023. These include: (1) Townhill, B., Harrod, O., Painting, S. Acheampong, E. et al. "Climate change risk and adaptation for fisher communities in Ghana." Journal of Coastal Conservation 27, 45 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-023-00967-7 (2) Cook, R., Acheampong E., Aggrey-Fynn, J., Heath, M., "A fleet based surplus production model that accounts for increases in fishing power with application to two West African pelagic stocks." Fisheries Research, Volume 243 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2021.106048 (3) Opoku, M., Koomson, A., Abubakar, F. Miyittah, M., Acheampong, E. "Cadmium exposure experiments on calanoid copepods reveal significant shortfall in water quality criteria for managing coastal marine ecosystems in West Africa." Journal of Coastal Conservation 28, 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-023-01009-y (4) Adhiambo R, Mensah PK, Acheampong E. "Widespread Geographical Disparities in Phytoplankton Ecology Research in the Face of Climate Change: A Review." Water. 2023; 15(24):4288. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15244288 The Hub research team in Ghana, including Dr Acheampong, shared findings from Hub's fisheries research with members of the Ghanian parliament in 2023. Dr Acheampong will share insights from this model with decision makers and civil society who will attend three dissemination workshops that will be organized in Ghana in the first part of 2024. These workshop will share Hub's research findings and outputs on human rights, climate change adaptation, and small-scale fishers' customary laws. 
URL https://doi.org/10.3390/w15244288
 
Title Databases of genome sequences of novel bioactive marine bacteria 
Description The Hub research team at the University of Plymouth, UK, led by Prof Mathew Upton has created databases of genome sequences of novel bioactive marine bacteria from UK waters and investigated for the presence of gene clusters that may encode new antibiotics. These data will be made publicly available once the research team has secured protection for any relevant intellectual property. The research team has also created collections of bioactive marine bacteria that are being investigated for the production of novel antimicrobial compounds. These will be the focus of future funding applications as the team is seeking to develop new medicines from marine environments. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Anticipated impacts will be the production of new antibiotics and medicines from marine environments. Interim research findings and insights from this dataset were shared by Prof Mathew Upton with decision-makers, representatives of civil society and international organisations at the following international events: - Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Summer/Winter School for Human Rights & the Environment "Ocean and human health: transitioning and transforming to an era of interdisciplinary competencies," 11 September 2023. Available from https://oneoceanhub.org/part-2-one-ocean-hub-participates-in-five-panels-for-the-2023-summer-winter-school-for-human-rights-the-environment/. Attended by 40 people. - The roundtable titled "One Health, the Ocean and Climate Change," 16 November 2022 at the UN Climate COP27 Health Pavilion, Sharm-El Sheikh, Egypt. Attended by 20 people 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/exploring-the-links-between-one-health-the-ocean-and-climate-change/
 
Title Dataset from community-based, participatory GIS linked mapping tool 
Description This dataset is built by the Hub research team based at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, led by Prof Merle Sowman and Dr Jackie Sunde. It is generated through the use of the participatory mapping research method, embedded in the team's larger 'Community-based, participatory Marine Planning' project in St Helena Bay. Data collated through the mapping exercises involved individual interviews with fishers using a geographic information system (GIS) referenced map to enable them to identify their traditional fishing spots. For detailed information about the method, see the separate entry under method and tool titled "Making space for small-scale fishers: Community-based, participatory GIS linked mapping tool." Through the One Ocean Hub's Flexible Fund, the team is expanding the mapping work to four other fishing communities. The intention is that once the methodology has been applied in a number of communities, the South Africa government will continue - either through raising funding for consultants/researchers - to continue doing this work around the country since this information is very useful for small-scale fishing communities who are participating in various ocean planning processes, in particular in articulating their priorities in the marine spatial planning and ocean economy planning processes underway. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The dataset contributed to the development of GIS maps that have been used as the basis of discussions between the UCT team and small-scale fishers with the South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and the group of scientists who are currently developing the biodiversity maps. The biodiversity maps developed by SANBI and the scientists will serve as the basis for the marine spatial planning process in South Africa. The lead scientists involved in this process have indicated the usefulness of the GIS maps co-developed by the UCT team and small-scale fishers in contributing towards the adoption of an interim small-scale fisheries map. Currently, the maps produced from this dataset are used as a placeholder, whilst a more accurate small-scale fisheries map is developed. This is the first time that the small-scale fisheries sector has been represented on a map used by SANBI and South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) for the purposes of marine spatial planning. 
 
Title Dataset on small-scale fisheries in Ghana 
Description In 2022, Hub researcher Dr Wisdom Akpalu (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) carried out two surveys for data collection on (1) the enforcement of fishing regulations and (2) multidimensional poverty among artisanal fishers in Ghana. The data has been analysed and are being used to write two papers. Data collection on the enforcement of fishing regulations was conducted by Dr Akpalu from October 2021 to January 2022 in Greater Accra, Western Region and Central Region, Ghana. Data collection on multidimensional poverty was carried out by Dr Akpalu in November 2022 in various areas in Ghana, including Greater Accra (Awudun and Ashamang Fishing District) Central Region (Abandze, Aboadze, Biriwa Fishing Districts), and Western Region (Shama, Axim). Primary data was collected to estimate determinants of multi-dimensional poverty among artisanal fishers in Ghana. The data set contains variables such as education, health and standard of living indicators, as well as food consumption and expenditure, and other socio-demographic characteristics. Dr Akpalu and his research team are currently working on two draft papers, therefore, as of March 2024, the data has not yet been shared with others. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact No notable impacts to be reported at this stage. 
 
Title Eastern Cape Small -Scale Fishers Qualitative Dataset 
Description The One Ocean Hub's Coastal Justice Network has developed a dataset contains qualitative data generated from small-scale fishers group discussions in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, about their perspectives and priorities for marine spatial planning throughout 2023. This dataset includes data from the Coastal Justice Network's National Workshop for small-scale fishers in Gqeberha (25-26 October 2023), which aimed to support small-scale fisher leaders in engaging on issues pertaining to the Ocean Economy Master Plan (OEMP) and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and defending their rights as a sector in these processes. This workshop built on three Regional Workshops that were held earlier in 2023, focusing on these policy processes. A report titled "Anchoring small-scale fishers' rights: Our Ocean, Our Commons for a just future" containing the qualitative data was published online in October 2023 and shared with small-scale fisher networks (https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CJN_SSF-national-workshop-Report_Dec23-1-1.pdf). 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact It is anticipated that small-scale fishers in Eastern Cape, South Africa, and beyond will use the report in their engagements with ocean governance and policy processes (https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CJN_SSF-national-workshop-Report_Dec23-1-1.pdf). Findings from the dataset has also been shared by Hub Country Director for South Africa, early-career researchers Taryn Pereira, at the following international events with human rights practitioners, representatives of governments and civil society organisations: • Transforming ocean conservation and sustainable use: rethinking blue economies in terms of environmental and socio-cultural justice, 13 September 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtg-afz5tnA). This event was attended by 38 participants. • IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) Reimagine Webinar Series: A Global Spotlight on Ocean Defenders, 29 November 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v11nLsazmaw&t=20s). This event was attended by 101 attendees. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CJN_SSF-national-workshop-Report_Dec23-1-1.pdf
 
Title Fleet based surplus production model: a new fish stock assessment model 
Description One Ocean Hub researchers including Dr Robin Cook and Professor Michael Heath (University of Strathclyde) and Dr Emmanuel Acheampong and Professor Joseph Aggrey-Fynn (University of Cape Coast) developed a new fish stock assessment modelling tool suited to catch and effort data available by fleet. This is a Bayesian statistical model that uniquely accounts for technological creep and therefore corrects for bias in existing methods that use fishery dependent data. It provides estimates of maximum sustainable yield which offers fishery managers advice on sustainable exploitation of coastal resources. Assessments of 11 stocks of fish in Ghana waters were developed and saved for further analysis. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Assessments of many West African fish stocks rely on fishery-dependent catch and effort data. Typically, these treat the catch data as error free and some assume that fishing power does not change over time. To address these issues, One Ocean Hub researchers Dr Robin Cook, Professor Michael Heath, Dr Emmanuel Acheampong and Professor Josep Aggrey-Fynn develop a fleet-based surplus production model that accounts for increases in fishing power. It allows errors both in effort and catch data, so avoiding the assumption that catch data are exact. Mean annual fleet fishing power increase can be estimated when data from multiple fleets are available, provided it can be specified for at least one fleet. The model is tested using simulated data and then applied to western stocks of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and bonga shad (Ethmalosa fimbriata) in the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) area. Both stocks appear to be over-exploited and near to collapse. Corrections for fishing power are important in the anchovy assessment and help to explain conflicting trends in the data. Uncertainty in the assessments is explored with a range of sensitivity tests. This model has enabled the detailed and robust assessment of the status of all fish stocks in Ghanaian waters for the first time. Dr Acheampong shared research findings and insights from this fish stock assessment model at a capacity building session for the UN-Nippon Fellows and Alumni - the majority of whom are government officials from 80 low-and-middle income countries - "Oceans and Climate Change: Impact and Adaptation" on 30 November 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzR9cHUQ9WE; attended by 46 persons) and "Ocean and Climate Change: Building Adaptation, Mitigation, and Resilience" webinar on 27 September 2021, co-organised by One Ocean Hub for the UKRI Climate Adaptation and Resilience online series, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCPn_UmcAR4, attended by 113 persons). 
URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2021.106048
 
Title Knowledge integration dataset 
Description Hub early-career researcher, Dr Nina Rivers (University of Strathclyde, UK and Nelson Mandela University, South Africa), is building a dataset of the knowledge from Namibia and Ghana across five distinctive clusters: (1) fisheries, (2) law and gender, (3) culture and heritage, (4) climate vulnerability, and (5) socio-economics. This dataset incorporates knowledge/findings, research gaps, synergies across countries and work packages, bright spots and legacy themes. This work has not been published yet. Dr Rivers is writing it up into a report. The dataset informs the legacy work going forward for the One Ocean Hub. It has also informed a Hub's knowledge integration writing workshop in February 2024, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Anticipated impacts include findings informing future papers, funding proposals, and a policy brief on research co-development. Although the tool is not published yet, key findings collated and captured by using this tool will be shared by Dr Nina Rivers and the Hub's team during the One Ocean Hub-led satellite event for the UN Ocean Science Decade Conference, as well as in a poster presentation by Dr Nina Rivers entitled 'Weaving it all together: Inter and transdisciplinary co-design of ocean science for a sustainable and equitable future - a case study from Ghana' for the same Conference (April 2024, Barcelona, Spain). This tool is also among various methods and tools co-developed by the Hub in its capacity as a UN Decade Implementing Partner on 'Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance'. Therefore, the tool will further contribute to the UN Decade's approach for research co-development. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/our-endorsement-as-implementing-partner-of-the-un-ocean-decade/
 
Title Lalela uLwandle Audience Feedback Dataset 
Description This research dataset is developed through Lalela uLwandle performance and post-performance dialogue. Lalela uLwandle is a research-based theatre performance and public dialogue event developed by a South African collective called Empatheatre, who are part of the One Ocean Hub. As part of the Empatheatre methodology, the performance was followed by a facilitated public-discussion with researchers, performers, decision-makers, and the audience on the themes that emerge from the play. In 2022 Lalela uLwandle had been performed 15 times throughout its tour across South Africa (Durban, Western Cape, and Eastern Cape) and once at UN Climate COP27 Capacity Building Hub (Blue Zone), Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. Building on the success of the performance at COP27, in 2023 Lalela uLwandle was performed at the Closing Ceremony of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (2023) at the HQs of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, and on the sidelines of the UN celebrations of World Oceans Day, together with an international première of our animation and live performance at the UN HQs in New York in June 2023 (https://bit.ly/3Mvfafa; https://bit.ly/3O83gcq). For details, see artistic product entry on Empatheatre Lalela uLwanldle. At all performances, a short feedback form is completed by the audience. The feedback form asks three questions: How did the play make you feel?; Are there any characters in the play you felt you could relate to? If so, why?; How should we make decisions about the oceans?. The feedback form data from the 2022 Lalela ulwandle performances in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and the Western Cape in South Africa have been added to this dataset, which now includes data spanning three years of performances: 875 forms in total. Parts of the 2019 and 2020 dataset have been analysed and published as findings in the book chapter: Erwin, K., Pereira, T., McGarry, D., Coppen, N. (2022). Lalela uLwandle: An Experiment in Plural Governance Discussions. In: Boswell, R., O'Kane, D., Hills, J. (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99347-4_20. The full dataset that includes the 2022 and 2023 performances will be used as data for a research report on arts-based methodologies for more inclusive ocean governance, which will also be submitted as a journal article in 2024. In 2023, a post-doctoral researcher has been brought on to research the development impacts of Lalela uLwandle. They analysed the collected data and carry out interviews with a wide range of stakeholders who have been involved and impacted by the production. In addition, the post-performance discussions of Lalela uLwandle have helped us identify new interdisciplinary research questions around inclusiveness and benefit-sharing in the establishment of Marine Protected Areas and the potential role for intangible cultural heritage in legal decisions on the ocean. They have also provided the groundwork for a new production, Umkhosi Wenala. Co-written by 13 young performers/activists from the Mbazwana Arts Centre, this play aims to create an innovative participatory decisionmaking space where rural youth can have a voice in the creation and management of Marine Protective Area. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Previous impacts in 2019/2020 include the use of data in litigation led by NGOs against offshore oil & gas exploration applications by energy companies in South Africa. The data was included in the appeal as evidence of ocean-related intangible cultural heritage, which received very little, if any, consideration in current decision-making processes on the ocean. Lalela uLwandle has been relied on as evidence of intangible cultural heritage in three separate court cases in South Africa (https://bit.ly/3BNm1dX), leading to an unprecedented recognition of cultural rights connected to the seabed and the need to protect procedural rights of Indigenous Peoples and small-scale fisheries in the context of licensing offshore oil and gas exploration (https://bit.ly/3IfGNGr). In 2022 results that have been interpreted and analysed were presented to marine scientists at the South African Marine Science Symposium to show how cultural and spiritual understandings of the ocean are important to consider in marine planning and conservation efforts. Lastly, the findings from the book chapter published in 2022 that analyses some of this dataset were presented at the UN World Ocean Week event "Blue Heritage: The Role of Ocean Art and Culture in Ocean Science and Management" on the 7 June 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGYDqEuAdj0; attended by 69 people) and at the UN Climate COP27 Capacity Building Hub on 14 November 2022, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (See the recording of Land & Ocean Day of Capacity Building Hub here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Vxk043HzY - Watch Lalela uLwandle from 09:10:27, attended by 34 people). The UNFCCC's Capacity-Building Hub moderators said "the Empatheatre performance felt like the most important experience they had had at COP27[it helped] feeling the problems, not just rationalising them." (https://bit.ly/3NpIDrt). The second international performance at FAO HQs in Rome in March 2023 was attended by 35 people. The live performance at the UN HQs in New York for World Oceans Day in 2023 was attended by a total of 102,000 people in person and virtually. In 2024, the Hub will share key findings of Lalela uLwandle (Listen to the Sea) at the Hub-led satellite event for the UN Decade Conference 'Presenting Transdisciplinary Toolbox for transformative Ocean Governance' on 9 April 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, and at the Small-Scale Fisheries Summit on 5-7 July 2024 in Rome (https://bit.ly/3Mvfafa; https://bit.ly/3O83gcq). Overall, insights from Lalela uLwandle dataset have provided awareness raising and capacity building on inclusive ocean governance to 102,572 people from across 21 countries. 
URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99347-4_20
 
Title List of Namibian Marine datasets 
Description The Hub research team developed a list of all marine datasets for Namibia that have been accessed during the project on "Blue Carbon Potential in Namibia" led by Namibia Nature Foundation and the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute The aim of this work is to identify potential sources of Blue Carbon and associated Carbon Credits within Namibia including collating available information on existing and potential projects. In addition, to identify data needs and gaps, and as part of the broader project, to identify and collate relevant data and identify and engage with relevant stakeholders. A literature review of the subject has been conducted between April and July 2023 and circulated to members of the One Ocean Hub Namibia and stakeholders. Extensive consultation and web-based searches have been conducted to identify and collate potentially valuable data sources. The majority of data is available from a few key data repositories, notably the data layers developed as part of the Marine Spatial Planning process (Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Namibia, 2021), and the earlier Benguela Current Commission "BEHP" project (De Cauwer 2007) and the more recent Namibian Atlas project (Atlas of Namibia Team 2022). Prefix BEHP stands for projects that are managed by the Activity Centre for Biodiversity, Ecosystem Health and Pollution in Luanda, Angola. The list of Namibian Marine datasets has been published as a report titled "Blue carbon potential in Namibia - blue carbon habitat mapping report" in January 2024. This report was co-developed by Namibia Nature Foundation, the One Ocean Hub and the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute. Key data repositories are listed in Table 1 of the report. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The list of datasets has been used by the Namibian Islands Marine Protected Area Project 
URL https://www.south-atlantic-research.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/web_OOH-SAERI-Namibia-Blue-Carbon...
 
Title Mapping of small-scale fishers' squid rights database 
Description This database is built by Hub researchers in South Africa based at Nelson Mandela University and Rhodes University. This database in Excel shows the distribution of small-scale fishers' rights over squid and interactions with various commercial companies, including analysis of shifts in the value of rights and income/livelihood derived by small-scale fisheries. At present, researchers are still collecting information to update the database to include data across three fishing seasons. Hub researchers Irna Senekal (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa), and Taryn Pereira Kaplan and early-career researcher Buhle Francis (Rhodes University, South Africa) are writing a comparative case study report and a peer-reviewed article derived from this database. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Hub researchers have used some of the data to inform educational material with fishers and to provide inputs into a 2023 court case brought by commercial rights holders against the South Africa Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) and small-scale fishers that have rights/permit to fish squid. In November 2019 and March 2020, South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment granted small-scale fishing (SSF) rights to 72 SSF co-operatives in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. This was widely celebrated as a long-overdue milestone in the struggle for rights and recognition by small-scale and subsistence fishers in the province. However, this process was understood to be just the beginning of a journey, with a lot of expectations built regarding the kinds of support (financial investment, equipment, training and so on) that these newly formed co-ops would receive from the government to enable their transition from having rights on paper to utilising their rights in practice. From 2019 to 2024, the Hub research team in South Africa has worked with small-scale fishers' co-operatives to understand and address the specific challenges they were facing. More information is available at: https://oneoceanhub.org/deepening-partnerships-with-eastern-cape-small-scale-fishers-south-africa/ 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/deepening-partnerships-with-eastern-cape-small-scale-fishers-south-africa/
 
Title Our Ocean Is Sacred You Can't Mine Heaven 
Description Our ocean is sacred, you can't mine heaven" was a slogan seen on placards held by protestors against seismic surveys and ocean oil and gas exploration along the South African West and East Coast in 2022-2023. The 2022-2023 High Court judgments in favour of small-scale fishers and communities over large-scale Oil and Gas companies, have sparked greater traction and public interest (and advocacy) against the rush towards oil and gas in the sea, and has, in its own way, created a new public conversation around ocean heritages, cultures, and livelihoods that are deeply entangled and related to the ocean. This slogan was used to title a Public Storytelling Project and radical an-archive, led in collaboration by Dr. Dylan McGarry (Environmental Learning Research Centre, ELRC) and Dr. Boudina McConnachie (International Library of African Music, ILAM), which surfaced sacred ocean cultures through art, some of which were used as evidence alongside small-scale fishers' affidavits and testimonies in court interdicts in 2022-2023. "Our Ocean is Sacred, you can't mine heaven" also became an in-person Exhibition, which was open to the public at the Zero Gallery, on the corner of Church and Berg Street, in Cape Town, South Africa, from 4 August to 30 September 2022. It was a curated exhibition funded by the One Ocean Hub's Deep Fund, Elephant in the Zoom (EITZ), and the National Arts Festival 2022 (https://www.cmm.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Our-Ocean-is-Sacred-Press-Release.pdf). Prior to this "Our Sacred Ocean," a monumental tapestry created by the Keiskamma Art Project, made its public debut as part of the South African National Arts Festival exhibition "Our Ocean is Sacred, You Can't Mine Heaven" from 23 June to 3 July 2022 (https://oneoceanhub.org/our-ocean-is-sacred-you-cant-mine-heaven/). Curated by Hub researcher Dylan McGarry, the exhibition was conceived during ongoing dialogue with academics, artists, scientists, traditional healers and knowledge holders, heritage specialists, activists, lawyers and passionate citizens who are working in solidarity to reframe narratives and policies regarding the ocean and its shared future. The exhibition also entailed a living classroom, which expanded ocean literacy beyond scientific debate into socio-cultural discourse towards ocean influences. Supported by Michaela Howse from Keiskamma Art Project and Luke Kaplan from Coastal Justice Network, ethnomusicologists, traditional healers, sociologists, poets, scientists, activists, lawyers, and citizens united to re-frame narratives about our oceans. McGarry & McConnachie (2022) assert: "tangible artworks made in solidarity with customary rights holders of their intangible heritages have now shown that they serve as evidence in court cases, challenging existing evidence hierarchies". Acting as an 'an-archive,' where engagement with the artifacts of agency and other ways of knowing, the project urges artists and storytellers to work with customary rights holders to translate these intangible heritages into tangible artworks, as this can reshape evidence hierarchies within judicial processes, asserting the exhibition as a library of meaningful evidence for ocean defenders. For detailed information on ocean defenders please see collaboration and partnership entry titled "Expanding alliances on ocean defenders. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact As mentioned above, some of the data "Our Ocean Is Sacred You Can't Mine Heaven" public story telling were used as evidence alongside small-scale fishers' affidavits and testimonies in court interdicts in 2022, leading to an unprecedented recognition of cultural rights connected to the seabed and the need to protect procedural rights of Indigenous Peoples and small-scale fisheries in the context of licensing offshore oil and gas exploration (https://bit.ly/3IfGNGr). As McGarry explained: "This event wasn't just an exhibition; it became a collaborative hub, inviting diverse backgrounds to engage with the central theme of the sacred ocean. Our multimedia approach aimed to support Indigenous communities in unveiling the intangible heritages of the ocean ethically. Collaborating with civil society groups like the Legal Resource Centre and Natural Justice, and working closely with Dr. Jackie Sunde, a Hub researcher from University of Cape Town, we strategically integrated early versions of artworks as appendices to the brave affidavits submitted by Small Scale Fisher leaders, the real heroes of this story." The development of this dataset also led to the Hub research team at Rhodes University, South Africa led by Dr Dylan McGarry, to engage with several schools, the Centre for Creative Education, and non-profit organisations such as The Beach Co-op (https://www.thebeachcoop.org/about-us/#our-story). It is estimated that the two exhibitions contributed to raising awareness and building the capacity of over 500 people. The exhibition was captured through virtual reality in collaboration with the Glasgow School of Art and opened online in December 2023 at https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oSfnkYPp6as. In total 2240 people visited the exhibition in-person and 175 visited it online. In 2024 it will also be included in the One Ocean Learn knowledge-translation platform the the Hub is co-developing with UNITAR 
URL https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oSfnkYPp6as
 
Title Physiological data, skeletal dissolution and water parameters of a long-term multiple stressor aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum dataset 
Description The Hub's research team based at the University of Edinburgh conducted a long-term (6-month) multiple stressor aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum (syn. Lophelia pertusa) under future environmental conditions. The experiment with live corals consisted of four different treatments to investigate the combined effect of ocean acidification, warming, deoxygenation and food limitation on their physiology: "control" (9 °C, pH 8.1, 100 % oxygen, 100 % food availability), "multiple stressor with high feeding" (12 °C, pH 7.7, 90 % oxygen, 100 % food availability), "multiple stressor with low feeding" (12 °C, pH 7.7, 90 % oxygen, 50 % food availability) and "reduced oxygen" (9 °C, pH 8.1, 90 % oxygen, 100 % food availability). The physiological response (mortality, growth and respiration rates) of the live corals was determined every 6 weeks over one year. In a parallel experiment, they also examined the dissolution rate of dead coral skeletons in response to the combined effect of ocean acidification, warming and deoxygenation ("control" and "multiple stressor" treatment) and under three different ocean acidification scenarios (pCO2: 750, 1000 and 1250 ppm). Water parameters (temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen concentration) were measured five times per week in every coral tank. In the meantime, we have published parts of this dataset with the data collected over the first 6 months of the experiment: • Physiological data: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965082 • Mortality rates: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965083 • Skeletal dissolution rates: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965098 • Water parameters: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965080 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The data from our long-term multiple stressor experiment will improve our understanding of how cold-water corals will be affected by future environmental changes and how ocean acidification affects their skeletal integrity and the framework of cold-water coral reefs. Ultimately, this will allow us to predict which ecosystems will be at risk and to quantify the habitat loss under different ocean acidification scenarios. Furthermore, the information on the expected change in habitat complexity of cold-water coral reefs and the extent of potential loss of associated biodiversity will inform governmental organisations to contribute to the decision-making process for conservation measures in the deep-sea. 
URL https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965082
 
Title Richards Bay (South Africa) Small-Scale Fisheries Dataset 
Description Hub early-career researcher Aphiwe Moshani (University of Cape Town, South Africa) has developed the 'Richards Bay (South Africa) small-scale fisheries dataset' as part of her doctoral research. This dataset consists of two sets of household survey data, oral history interview data, and focus group data that has collected during a series of field trips in Richards Bay on November 2021 and October 2022. Aphiwe Moshani's data collection has specifically focused on two coastal communities in Richards Bay - Gubethuka and Ndindima communities. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Although the dataset has not been published, it has informed the intervention made by Hub early-career researchers Dr Philile Mbatha and Aphiwe Moshani (Cape Town University, South Africa) at the global consultation organized by the UN Environment Programme, titled "Towards a common understanding of the support to Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs) concept" in May 2021. Dr Mbatha and Ms Moshani shared their research findings on the role of small-scale fishing communities as EHRDs, bringing in perspectives also on traditional knowledge and customary rights, including in the context of the creation of marine protected areas. Dr Mbatha and Moshani began their presentation by providing an overview of the expansion of blue economy interventions of the coast, and how their implementation tends to focus on neoliberal objectives at the expense of social ones. The displacement and disempowerment of many traditional fishers on the northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), Dube and Mkhwanazi, due to the continuation of a mining lease in the Zulti South Mining Lease Area in 2019, was used as an example. The mining lease covers the coastal area between the south of Richards Bay and the uMhlathuze river and the north of Port Dunford extending 20km of this coast and has destroyed small-scale fishing grounds, displaced 645 people and 79 households, and further displaced additional 586 households. They also drew attention to the harassment and killing of EHRDs (https://oneoceanhub.org/one-ocean-hub-highlights-role-and-needs-of-small-scale-fishers-at-un-consultations-on-environmental-human-rights-defenders/). Although the dataset has not been published yet in a peer-reviewed outlet, Aphiwe Moshani has shared insights from the dataset in 2023 and 2024 on the Hub's podcast 'Gender and the ocean' (https://oneoceanhub.org/podcast-on-gender-and-the-ocean/) and a Learning Pathway 'Ocean, culture and cultural heritage' for the One Ocean Learn, an innovative online knowledge-translation platform that the Hub is co-developing with the UN Institute for Training and Research (https://oneoceanhub.org/new-learning-pathway-ocean-culture-and-cultural-heritage-published-on-one-ocean-learn/). In the podcast, Aphiwe talks about women's knowledge of the ocean, their distinctive ocean-related practices, including seaweed harvesting, and the challenges they face, from experiencing and witnessing climate change, to their struggle to ensure gender equality in the context of the blue economy. The Learning Pathway focuses on the interlinkages of the ocean, culture and cultural heritage - exploring ocean-related cultural values, history, heritage, and Indigenous and local knowledge systems. Among other issues, the Learning Pathway discusses how Indigenous and local ocean knowledge and cultural heritage, particularly intangible cultural heritage, as often underrepresented in ocean governance processes, such as Marine Spatial Planning and Marine Protected Areas, highlighting the need for their integration into ocean management approaches. The datasets collected are a central point of Aphiwe Moshani (University of Cape Town, South Africa) thesis. Following her thesis submission and examination she will be using some of the dataset for a number of publications in the year 2024. 
URL https://oneoceanhub.org/one-ocean-hub-highlights-role-and-needs-of-small-scale-fishers-at-un-consult...
 
Title Sampling Effort Metadata for the Central and South Atlantic Offshore and Deep-Sea Benthos 
Description Biological sampling effort in the South Atlantic dataset is composed of historical records of where biological sampling has been carried out in the South Atlantic. The biological sampling effort in the South Atlantic dataset carried out under the One Ocean Hub fed into a larger dataset titled 'Sampling Effort Metadata for the Central and South Atlantic Offshore and Deep-Sea Benthos' (https://zenodo.org/record/7381493#.Y_jKrXbP2uV). The metadata has been published, with an initial embargo period until 31 May 2023. Thereafter, the database will be open access. Metadata containing information on the sampling of benthic taxa in =>30 m water depth in the Central and South Atlantic. This data was compiled as part of a baseline review of the science, policy and management of the region (Bridges et al. in press). Metadata was compiled from sources identified through a literature search and information provided by members of the Challenger 150 Central and South Atlantic Regional Scientific Research Working Group. The database has been included in a paper reviewing the science, policy and management of the Central and South Atlantic (Bridges et al. in press). The full reference of the paper is as follow: Bridges. A.E.H., Howell, K.L., Amaro, T., Atkinson, L., Barnes, D.K.A., Bax, N., Bell, J.B., Bernardino, A.F., Beuck, L., Braga-Henriques, A., Brandt, A., Bravo, M.E., Brix, S., Butt, S., Carranza, A., Doti, B.L., Elegbede, I.O., Esquete, P., Freiwald, A., Gaudron, S.M., Guilhon, M., Hebbeln, D., Horton, T., Kainge, P., Kaiser, S., Lauretta, D., Limongi, P., Mcquaid, K.A., Milligan, R.J., Miloslavich, P., Narayanaswamy, B.E., Orejas, C., Paulus, S., Pearman, T.R.R., Perez, J.A., Ross, R.E., Saeedi, H., Shimabukuro, M., Sink, K., Stevenson, A., Taylor, M., Titschack, J., Vieira, R.P., Vinha, B. & Wienberg, C. "Review of the Central and South Atlantic Shelf and Deep-Sea." in Benthos: Science, Policy and Management. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, published in 2023. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The development of this dataset supports the aims of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, particularly capacity development, ocean literacy and technology transfer for implementing Sustainable Development Goal 14 - Life below water. The production of this novel tool paved the way for the formal endorsement of the One Ocean Hub research on deep-sea ecosystems as a new Decade Action under Challenger 150 on 3 June 2022 from the UN Decade of Ocean Science. This metadatabase also fed into a review of the South and Central Atlantic published in 2023. Hub researchers at the University of Plymouth will present findings, experience, and practices of the Hub deep-sea research, including insights from this dataset at the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona, Spain in April 2024 as part of a satellite