Goleta Kelp Reef Restoration Project

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Meeting ID: 848 572 865 31 

Our speaker requests we view his lecture prior to the program. On Wednesday he will do an overview and field questions. Here is a link to the lecture: https://vimeo.com/441955653 

The Fish Reef Project, named Goleta Kelp Reef Restoration Project, aims to create 220 acres of offshore reef systems with manufactured fish reef units and quarry rock. This process will give kelp a place to attach, grow, and kick off the recovery of kelp forests and critical habitats for many forms of marine life, including sea otters.  

Chris Goldblatt, a 40-year veteran of our local waterways, founded the Fish Reef Project (https://www.fishreef.org/) to ensure long-term ocean health by turning empty seafloor into thriving marine ecosystems and home, breeding and feeding grounds to millions of marine mammals, sea birds, turtles, fish, lobster, abalone, scallops, marine algae and much more. These manufactured fish reefs will reduce pressure on natural reefs, thus reducing over fishing while helping to restore damaged natural reef systems. Goldblatt has a BS in Fisheries & Business from Humboldt State, and has been a guest lecturer at UC Santa Barbara and an International Seabed Authority observer, contributor, and speaker since 2014. In 2018, he was the Invited Guest Speaker at the Civil Society Forum of the Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. An early pioneer of the sustainable seafood movement, Goldblatt is also an accomplished author, business owner, fisherman, diver, and fishing boat owner and operator.  

Agenda: 

Please join Zoom early and say hello! 

7:15 a.m. - Zoom doors open 

7:30 a.m. - Rotary Business Meeting 

8:00 a.m. - Program