The Sustainable Seas Challenge has produced nearly a decade’s worth of research results, guidance, and tools from more than 100 projects.

In our final year, we’ve focused on synthesising this knowledge into accessible outputs that will lead to action and support continued efforts toward the Challenge vision. This synthesis brings together key messages and recommendations from our journey and provides knowledge generated in a format intended to enable its uptake, application, and further development.

We introduce nine topics prioritised by the Challenge community as being critical to enabling holistic ecosystem-based management (EBM) and te ao Māori approaches – and ultimately realise a healthy ocean and prosperous blue economy.

Click here for an overview of these nine topics, and their key messages and recommendations. You can also find detailed insights and recommendations for each of these topics by expanding out the sections below.

For each topic, you'll find a ‘summary’ that provides a high level outline of key messages and recommendations, along with ‘guidance’ documents providing more detail, information and examples to inform implementation.