We are a youth-driven storytelling movement for happy, healthy fishing communities.

What is a fishing village without fish? As industrial fleets overfish wild marine species, the ocean acidifies, and plastics choke the coastlines, small-scale fishing communities find their food security, livelihoods, sense of place, gender roles, cultural heritage, and human rights compromised. The COVID-19 crisis demonstrated how critical local food systems are to public health and the ramifications when fishermen were too ill to provide their families with cash and calories.

Coast 2 Coast offers small-scale fishing communities with audiovisual tools, communication skills training, and digital platform for local kids and their families to share their perspectives with the world. We co-create artistic and audiovisual narratives that address adverse socioecological situations. We work relentlessly for those dependent on healthy seas and sustainable fisheries to be represented in global discussions that determine our ocean’s future — their future and our collective fate on Earth. Marine conservation is a social justice issue.