Did you know it is not just the fish? Hundreds of thousands of seabirds are killed every year with longlines and nets are the main cause of death. Populations have declined by 70% in last 50 years.
Canada
It is disgraceful that our countries are subsidising fishing fleets far away from Europe decimating the fish stocks off the coast of Africa and in the Indian Ocean.
Belgium
On average 188m sharks are killed annually for their fins.
Sharks mature late (10 years on average) and produce few pups/eggs.
This has to STOP!
Germany
Can’t we do better?
Bycatch (catching unwanted sea life while targeting a particular species) leads to needless loss of billions of fish and hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales, sharks and sea birds.
Kenya
Did you know that under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) it is legal to put a million fishing boats on the high seas and fish 24/7?
Today 1.2 million tons of squid are being extracted from the ocean each year. This affects on the ecosystem that depend on squid for food including seabirds, whales, elephant seals and predatory fish such as sharks and tuna etc.
Ecuador
Bottom trawling drags heavy weighted nets across the sea floor to catch some targeted fish. These cut down and destroy the entire marine ecosystem along the ocean floor. David Attenborough has likened bottom trawling to razing the African plains to the ground to catch a few cheetah.
Why do we allow this still?
France
Did you know that under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) it is legal to put a million fishing boats on the high seas and fish 24/7?
Today 1.2 million tons of squid are being extracted from the ocean each year. This affects on the ecosystem that depend on squid for food including seabirds, whales, elephant seals and predatory fish such as sharks and tuna etc.
Ecuador