
He has guided whale watching and eco-tour expeditions and participated in ocean research from pole to pole. Zack Klyver is a scientist with thirty-year’s experience as a whale watch naturalist, marine mammal observer, and researcher. Establishing fishermen co-operatives and local management organizations.Strengthening the United States’ primary fishing law, the Magnuson-Stevens Act, and.Establishing conservation-based reforms of the aquaculture industry,.Croix River in Maine and Canada to river herring, Establishing the first ecosystem-based catch limits for Atlantic herring and other East Coast forage fish,.Establishing the first catch limits for the New England groundfish fishery,.Establishing deep sea coral protections from commercial fishing in U.S.Establishing and defending the Atlantic Ocean’s first National Marine Monument (the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument),.These efforts have helped protect thousands of square miles of ocean and coastal marine habitat, establish sustainable commercial fisheries, protect threatened and endangered wildlife, and preserve working ocean waterfronts. He has successfully litigated cases and worked on campaigns on behalf of commercial and recreational fishermen, local eNGO and watershed groups, and some of the world’s largest eNGOs. He has also taught at the University of Maine School of Law’s Center for Ocean and Coastal Law, and worked as a senior policy analyst in the New York State Assembly.

Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Prior to co-founding Blue Planet Strategies, he worked at Earthjustice, Conservation Law Foundation, the U.S. He combines this legal expertise with nearly as many years of experience in campaign strategy and policy development. Roger Fleming is an ocean law attorney with 20 years of experience in strategic litigation, administrative law, and legislative practice. We have worked with people all over the world, and built relationships with colleagues that enable us to expand our reach, access knowledge, and enter into partnerships that help us find solutions to the complex challenges facing our world’s oceans.

The Blue Planet Strategies team has local, national, and international expertise in Ocean Law, Science, Policy, Campaign Strategy, and Organizational Development.
