Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the famous Jacques, hopes to improve New York waterways with his nonprofit and a public school partnership.
- Plant a Fish, Mr. Cousteau’s new nonprofit, focuses on ocean restoration around the world. Its first project: The Hudson River.
- Cousteau is working with students from the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, a public city high school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, to plant thousands of oysters near Bay Ridge on Monday, June 14th.
- The Harbor School offers its students scuba diving lessons and constructs its curriculum around New York’s waterways. The school will relocate to Governors Island this fall.
Facts & Figures
- On Monday, June 14th, Mr. Cousteau and The Harbor School expect to plant 130,000 oysters.
- Future Plant a Fish projects include planting one million corals in the Maldives and Florida Keys and one billion sea turtles in the mangroves of El Salvador.
- The estimated cost per program ranges from $15,000 to $65,000
Best Quote
“We need to see our natural world as a bank account where we have to live on the interest rather than eating away at the capital. Plant a Fish is one of the ways that we can start restoring that capital.” – Fabien Cousteau, Founder, Plant A Fish