February Club Dive: Dive Aunties X Fish On presents Marine Protected Areas.
Sat, Feb 21
|Laguna Beach
Join us as our guest speaker & Auntie Anupa Asokan tell us more about Marine Protected Areas. Learn about MPAs and dive a MPA with us!
Time & Location
Feb 21, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Laguna Beach, Treasure Island Beach, Wesley Dr, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA
Guests
About the Event
Dive Aunties X Fish On: MPAs
Dive Aunties presents to you our first guest speaker of the year: Auntie Anupa Asokan. She'll be educating us on the topic of MPAs.
Anupa Asokan is the founder and executive director of Fish On, a non-profit organization representing recreational anglers and spearfishers in ocean policy. Anupa is a passionate ocean advocate who has worked at NOAA, led the Ocean Initiative and Government Affairs at XPRIZE Foundation, and supported organizations like NRDC and the World Surf League. Beyond her advocacy, Anupa is an avid waterwoman who regularly spends her free time fishing, surfing, diving and stand-up paddling. With a conservation career inspired by her lifelong love of fishing and fueled by her passion for spending time in the ocean, Anupa consistently saw the needs of recreational and subsistence fishers misrepresented in ocean conservation. Fish On was born to support the needs of conservation-minded fishing…