Sea Gardens Across the Pacific — A Story Map

Indigenous Peoples have cultivated sea gardens for millenia rooted in intergenerational knowledge, ecological ingenuity, and cultural practices. Today, communities are working hard to reawaken diverse sea gardens. Their re-emergence has fostered rising momentum to cultivate resilient, sustainable and equitable food systems, and marine governance in response to the dual challenges of declining ocean health and social inequalities.

To learn more about unique Indigenous aquaculture systems around the Pacific, we invite you to dig deeper into this story map. Here, you will find short geographically-referenced synopses written by a collaborative group of Indigenous scholars and partnering researchers. Each feature is linked to longer descriptions that cover the ancestral connection, geographic and temporal extents, biophysical manipulations, target species, ceremonial and stewardship, and current status.