ABALOBI’s vision is to cultivate thriving, equitable and climate-resilient small-scale fishing communities — through financial inclusion, collective social entrepreneurship and data-driven fisheries rebuilding.
We support data collection and skills-building with fisher communities, NGOs and governments. Through our Fish With A Story platform, we connect fisher groups and cooperatives with fair markets and linked financial services.
Our approach stimulates co-management, implements fisheries improvement programmes, and uses innovative data, traceability and market technologies to poise small-scale fishers for social, economic and ecological sustainability.
We believe in participatory strategies for fisheries rebuilding that consider ocean life and livelihoods.
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
We co-innovate and deploy data technologies in partnership with small-scale fishers
INVESTMENT
We invest in coastal communities through infrastructural support, formal employment and tailored learning opportunities
DATA EMPOWERMENT
We create data toolkits to enable fishers to record their local ecological knowledge and build resilience
COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED FISHERIES
We develop fair markets for ecologically responsible and socially fair seafood, grow entrepreneurial capacity and institute food security initiatives
INCLUSION AND RECOGNITION
We address the gender gap in small-scale fisheries and catalyse financial, digital and cultural inclusion
FISHERIES IMPROVEMENT
We support fishers to implement community-led, triple bottom line Fisheries Improvement Programmes that can connect to global markets
FISHER-LED
'TECH + TOUCH'APPROACH
DATA OWNERSHIP
MARKETTRANSFORMATION
We co-design enabling technologies in partnership with small-scale fishing communities to stimulate sustainable ocean livelihoods, nurture ocean stewardship and leverage data to advance evidence-based fisheries rebuilding
Use our software and tools to efficiently manage your Community-Supported Fishery, fisher cooperative administration, co-management efforts, CBNRM or LMMA data collection initiatives, as well as catch reporting and traceability requirements.
Revive Our Oceans Finalist
Uplink Top Innovator
Ashoka Fellow Organisation
1000 Ocean Startups
ORIC Challenge Winner
Catalyst Fund Startup
Food Prize Finalist
UNESCO Digital Literacy Case Study
OceanHub Africa Startup
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ABALOBI is a South African-based organisation striving to elevate small-scale fishing communities for social, economic and ecological sustainability
