Message from the President

I am struck by all we have accomplished this year.
Our staff completed 10 highly successful cruises
(85 days at sea!) and brought back encouraging news. We saw Yellow Eye and adult Cow Cod—both listed
as threatened species. We also saw juvenile Canary Rockfish, an over-fished species on the verge of being “threatened.” In a rocky area of Estero Bay, we saw formidable recovery just six years after it was closed to fishing, and we observed Dungeness Crab cheek to claw under the world-renowned Mavericks big wave surf site—who knew?
We also moved to a new Point Richmond office with far better access to San Francisco Bay for testing our equipment. We opened an office in Eureka, CA that is expanding our services to include ROV data processing, and we created and hired three new staff positions.
California will soon have a unified network of marine protected areas (MPAs). Oregon is not far behind, and Washington is working toward the same goal. But fish

don’t recognize these anthropogenic borders, and we still know relatively little about marine ecosystems—even coastal ones. To understand the impact of these MPAs and manage them for maximum benefit, we need a far better understanding of how coastal ocean ecosystems work, which requires far more visual data. We need to see what is happening in these ecosystems over time.
MARE is proud to be helping supply these critical data and to have completed work in all three of the California MPA zones established to date—the Channel Islands, the Central Coast, and the North Central Coast. We thank our tremendous partners, funders and donors for enabling our work.
Sincerely,
Dirk Rosen
MARE President and Founder

MARE President and Founder