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Meet the Top 30 Finalists of Ocean Love Innovation Awards 2026

The Awards Ceremony will take place on October 11, 2026, at AltaSea, Port of Los Angeles, an afternoon celebrating this year's finalists and winners alongside ocean innovators, donors, students, and our global partner network.

Join us in LA - October

#protectourocean

Meet the Top 30 Finalists of Ocean Love Innovation Awards 2026

The Awards Ceremony will take place on October 11, 2026, at AltaSea, Port of Los Angeles, an afternoon celebrating this year's finalists and winners alongside ocean innovators, donors, students, and our global partner network.

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Finalists

Atlantic Origin

Portugal

Ocean Hack

Cameroon

Materials for Coral Reef Futures

Spain

AquaProX AI: Predictive Intelligence for Sustainable Aquaculture in Africa

Nigeria

BULIK MANIS — An Innovative Foldable Fish Trap Empowering Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries

Indonesia

The SATOORNIK Cascade™ (FC1 & FC5 Microplastic Samplers)

Germany

BahariHub Nexus

Kenya

Eco-Smart Fish Bait Solutions to Save Nyumba Sita, South Coast Kenya Juvenile Mangroves

Kenya

Living Seawall: Restorative Geopolymer Concrete Reinforced with Macadamia integrifolia Biochar for Coastal Resilience

Thailand

Enhancing the Artificial Reefs of Koh Tao through innovative 3D printing

Netherlands

Women of the Sea Network: Building the Next Generation of Female Ocean Stewards

Colombia

Learn, Live, Love the Ocean: An Integrated Model for Ocean Literacy in Coastal Tanzania

Tanzania

The Coir-Netting Cage Initiative: Scaling Plastic-Free, High-Yield Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) Substrates across Coastal Tanzania

Tanzania

Blue Bridges: Building Intergenerational Coastal Resilience

Ghana

Fishing the right way: A Community CARE for our Ocean Ancestors

Cameroon

OCEAN360 Global Academy — The First Unified Ocean Literacy Framework

United States

Ocean Shade Blanket

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Coastal Watch Schools: Youth Drones for Sierra Leone's Vanishing Shores

Sierra Leone

What If Sargassum Could Give Back?

Monaco

Reef-Blue: Sustainable Solutions for Global Coral-Reef Ecosystem Restoration

China

“Dahab” means gold

Egypt

Mo'orea Ocean Guardians

French Polynesia & Canada

Inang Alon: Empowering Coastal Mothers in West Philippine Sea through Circular Solutions

Philippines

NetCYCLE Africa

Ghana

GaiaOne Coral Academy

Indonesia/Malaysia

GoldenRoots: Jute-Weave Bio-Shields for Sundarbans Restoration

Bangladesh

PlanktonLens

Cameroon

WSANEC Territory, Southern Vancouver Island, Canada

Canada

Future of Sea Urchin Management

Australia

BlueDune Reservoir: Preventing Floods, Stopping Plastic, Restoring Dunes

Morocco

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