My week's highlight? Exchanging with 🌊 director Colin Butfield at Villars Ocean Forum on communicating 🌊 conservation. Learning from the best #EndBottomTrawling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzG9...
It's quietly astonishing what Jono Ridler and team are doing with Live Ocean in Aotearoa NZ. Pushing athletic limits and raising awareness of a devastating practice that threatens our oceans and us. Swim on, Jono! #GlobalWaterFutures #SwimForTheOcean #EndBottomTrawling
liveocean.org/swim4theocean/
🌊Europe has a unique chance to protect the ocean.
The #OceanAct must not only coordinate but deliver: fix implementation gaps, #EndBottomTrawling in MPAs, stop #PaperParks, protect 30% of EU seas (10% strictly), and put coastal communities first.
👉 ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
🌊This #WorldFisheriesDay, we’re highlighting three ways we are reconciling fisheries with marine conservation, at all scales.
To learn more, visit www.projectseahorse.org
#ProjectSeahorse #SustainableFisheries #EndBottomTrawling #AdvancingMarineConservation #SavingSeahorses
In 🇩🇪 >70,000 urge government to #EndBottomTrawling in marine protected areas. @bmleh.de @bund.net @oceanunger.bsky.social @wwf.de @umwelthilfe.bsky.social @greenpeace.de
Bottom trawling is one of the most destructive fishing methods, and here are our top six reasons why it must end.
🔗 projectseahorse.org/...
#ProjectSeahorse #SavingSeahorses #EndBottomTrawling #TrawlFreeOcean
End Bottom Trawling #EndBottomTrawling
@projectseahorse.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=b_04... #EndBottomTrawling #UK #StephenFry #TheoJames #BlueMarine #SustainableFishing #WantFriesWithThat
If you want to #EndBottomTrawling as much as I do... here's our one minute video summary of some #BottomTrawling concerns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ5X...
@projectseahorse.bsky.social Please repost.
Some of our @projectseahorse.bsky.social research on #BottomTrawling is featured in this story. We have much more emerging, too, as we work to #EndBottomTrawling
We must transition determinedly to #EndBottomTrawling,
📢Today representatives of small-scale fishers, scientists, citizens & civil society handed in a petition to Costas Kadis - EU Commissioner for the Ocean - signed by +250K European citizens calling to #EndBottomTrawling in #MPAs. 🐠
#ProtectedMeansProtected
👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...
📢NGOs welcome Denmark’s new proposal to ban destructive bottom trawling in key areas – and urge the EU for stronger action. 🐟🦈🐡#PressRelease 👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...
#EndBottomTrawling #MPAs #MarineProtectedAreas #ProtectedMeansProtected
Over 35% of UK seas are officially protected but industrial fishing continues to bulldoze fragile ecosystems. It's time to stop. Today, we’re delivering a 197,000+ strong petition to @SteveReedMP to urge the UK government to #EndBottomTrawling in MPAs 🌍✊ #WorldFisheriesDay
Great read ! Trawling the Depths - a 14-hour shift aboard a Mallorcan fishing boat exposes the harsh truths and hidden costs of #bottomtrawling through a photographer’s lens 🐡🪸🎣 by Julia Ochs
eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/storie...
#patagoniastories #endbottomtrawling
Massive fishing nets continue to bulldoze Marine Protected Areas in the UK. 😮Today, we’re delivering the demands from close to 200k Europeans, urging Steve Reed MP and his government to fully protect our #MPAs and help restore our ocean. #EndBottomTrawling #WorldFisheriesDay
Bottom trawling is the world's most destructive fishing method, regularly impacting 50% of EU waters.
Sign the petition & join the call to #EndBottomTrawling in #MarineProtectedAreas across Europe!
✍️ action.wemove.eu/sign/2023-05...
Over 35% of UK seas are officially protected but industrial fishing continues to bulldoze fragile ecosystems. It's time to stop. Today, we’re delivering a 197,000+ strong petition to @SteveReedMP to urge the UK government to #EndBottomTrawling in MPAs 🌍✊ #WorldFisheriesDay