OPR NewEngland, Inc., is a US company created by and for both fishermen and all NewEnglanders who are in love with and treasure its legendary and extraordinary Nature.
We are pioneer ‘good shepherds’ of the world’s ocean ecosystems, its ocean pastures, and more. Our innovative ‘nature based’ solutions deliver proven, immediately deployable, and profitable large-scale ocean eco-restoration. Being good shepherds regenerates the oceans to the state of health, productivity, and biodiversity that existed centuries ago.
Our privately financed ‘public-private-partnership business’ is ‘good news for the planet.’ As a for-profit enterprise, we intend to become major tax payers not just another greenwash scheme that plans to feast at troughs of public tax money.
Ocean pastures nourish and sustain life on 72% of this blue planet, and they are in desperate trouble as evidenced by catastrophic declines of fish, seabirds, whales, and almost every form of ocean life.
Collapse of the oceans green phyto-plankton, responsible for the vast majority of global photosynthesis, is turning what once were lush green ocean Gardens of Eden into clear blue lifeless ocean deserts.
The OPR NewEngland team of fishermen, scientists, and business people are now working to repeat our dramatic success of ocean pasture restoration to bring fish back to New England to historic levels of health and abundance every year.
Our Previous Success: The Gulf of Alaska
Referencing the chart below, the arrow points to where we labored to restore our first Gulf of Alaska ocean pasture, about 5,000 sq. miles in size, a small fraction of the 600,000 sq. miles that makes up the Gulf of Alaska. The circle shows the result in the form of hundreds of millions of additional fat Pink Salmon that survived, thrived, came back and were caught in Alaska because of our work.
Our work in 2012 clearly and repeatedly produced the largest catches of salmon in Alaskan history! These bountiful catches injected upwards of a billion dollars of economic stimulus into the Alaskan economy.
In our new series of ocean pasture restorations in new England we will prove that we can safely, sustainably, and profitably regenerate and return New England’s vital ocean pastures to historic health and abundance. The salmon and cod will once again fill New England’s waters with more fish than we can catch.
As an intended co-benefit, our restored New England ocean pastures will provide healthy safe feeding pastures where whales and seabirds will find the food they need. Those pastures will be easy for ships to know to steer clear.