You need a driver for a usb-serial device.
Since there are only 2 brands of usb-serial chips it should be quite easy to get the AIS
nmea strings on you Mac native.
First have a look on the manufacturers page if there is an OSX driver.
If not:
The first driver I would guess you should try is the
pl2303 which can be found here:
Products
Second option would be the fdti chipset:
FTDI Drivers
Once you installed the driver you should have a look in Systemprefs->Network and see if there is a new interface. This interface cab be used in OpenCPN or other
chartplotter software.
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