The woman pictured weaves fishing nets in a small fishing town near Sihanoukville, Cambodia as part of the domestic business of fisheries – a role that is often not explicitly prioritized in economic production. / Annie Young Song

More often than not, inequities can exist in the distribution of benefits from Marine Protected Areas. Ocean Nexus Strategic Advisor, Dr. Cinda Scott finds that power can have an unequivocal ability to influence the conservation of mangroves (or lack thereof) despite Marine Protected Area laws. / Cinda Scott

For millennia, the Maldives, a small island developing state in the Southwest Indian Ocean, has relied on environmentally sustainable tuna fishing techniques to ensure its food security and economic development. Pictured are some of the current Maldivian pole-and-line tuna fishers that master’s student Katrina Côté-King photographed and interviewed during her research trip aboard the vessel. / Katrina Côté-King

This photo documents one of the several stages of Dr. Russell Fielding’s long-term research project investigating the human health and sustainability implications of whaling in the Caribbean, which mainly takes place from the island of St. Vincent. / Adam Gravel for Ocean Nexus