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Once upon a time we went fishing
Once upon a time in the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand there was a great tradition. Hopeful anglers would gather to face off in the annual Whakatane Tuna Tournament. I say ‘once upon a time’ because the Whakatane Tuna Tournament no longer exists.
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Look what the FAD dragged in
Greenpeace has long been concerned about the bycatch caused by the use of Fish Aggregating Devices, or FADs, with purse seine nets. This fishing method is a deadly combination of a floating object, left adrift for weeks or months, and a huge encircling net that takes everything in the vicinity. Original Blog post by…
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Thank you times two million!
When you’re as far north as we are right now, communications come to you like telegrams; they’re few and far between, and only the most important make it through. Blogpost by Martin Norman – October 3, 2012 So when Steve, the radio operator on board the Arctic Sunrise, hand-delivered me a message today, I knew…
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Super-trawlers are feeding on EU fishing subsidies.
In banning supertrawlers from our waters for two years, the Australian Government has sent a strong message to the bloated and subsidised European fishing industry. This Op-Ed first appeared in The Australian 24 Sept 2012 Fishing in Europe is governed by the EU’s law on fishing, known as the Common Fisheries Policy. It has been…
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How Australians banded together to stop the super trawler
How it all happened: It all starts back in West Africa, where super trawlers had destroyed fisheries and left locals without jobs. 13 March 2012: Greenpeace highlights the plunder of super trawlers in West Africa. March 2012: The Government of Senegal bans all foreign trawlers following outrage from fishermen that all their fish had…
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Environmental movement needs the human touch
Greenpeace CEO David Ritter considers whether environmental activists have talked too much about targets and quotas instead of real people’s lives. Originally posted on ABC Environment Earlier this week I swapped Facebook messages with an old mate with whom I used to go fishing, in the days when we were both teenagers at school in…
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Stop the Margiris and spare the oceans
We Australians love a local link. When big news happens around the world, instinctively the first thing we check is whether an Aussie was involved. But, this time around, the story is coming to us in the form of the imminent arrival of the 142 metre long Margiris super trawler. The Margiris is the second…
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Super trawler threatens coastal communities from Perth to Brisbane
Press release – 6 August, 2012Call for super trawlers to be banned across AustraliaSYDNEY, 6 August 2012: As the Magiris super trawler steams toward Australian waters, Greenpeace has today escalated the issue, calling on the Gillard Government to ban all super trawlers from Australian waters. “This is an opportunity for the Gillard Government to say,…
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Guest blogger Callum Roberts: Future oceans
Imagine a world, not very far in the future, where families shun the idea of a seaside holiday because the sea is too unpleasant to visit, perhaps even dangerous. The beach is heaped with rotting green seaweed and bodies of jellyfish litter the strand. Getting in the water you risk illness; even the air might…
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Come together, to save the Arctic
1968. That was a hell of a year. The people were on the streets, revolution was in the air, we released the White Album, and perhaps the most influential photograph of all time was taken by an astronaut called William Anders. Blogpost by Sir Paul McCartney It was Christmas Eve. Anders and his mission commander…