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NO FISH, NO FUTURE
Message from performers from #OceanRebellion wearing ‘Fish Heads’ & pinstripe suits made a last minute plea to the UK Government to use their power & influence to end the war on fish
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📸 Guy Reece
Message from performers from #OceanRebellion wearing ‘Fish Heads’ & pinstripe suits made a last minute plea to the UK Government to use their power & influence to end the war on fish
READ, share🐟 🧵⬇️ #WorldFisheriesDay
📸 Guy Reece
The ‘Fish Heads’ stood in pools of blood, dead fish & entrails outside the front entrance of DEFRA. The ‘Fish Heads’ carried briefcases with WAR ON FISH, ECOCIDE and END OVERFISHING emblazoned on the side. It’s time to take action to #EndOverfishing #OceanRebellion #Ocean
Background ‘NO MORE FISH IN THE SEA’ highlighting the fate of the UK seas if the UK government turns against nature & doesn’t make a commitment to a better planet #WorldFisheriesDay
New #GlobalSharkStatus analysis published in @CurrentBiology finds that #overfishing is driving one-third of shark, ray, and chimaera species toward global extinction: bit.ly/GlobalSharkSta… #HealthyOcean #IUCNcongress
New 8-year long #GlobalSharkSatus analysis warns of rising extinction risk for 391 sharks, rays and chimaeras bit.ly/GlobalSharkSta… #GlobalSharkTrends #Overfishing #BiodiversityCrisis #IUCNcongress
New #GlobalSharkStatus analysis funded by @SharkRayFund benefited from a doubling of scientific output over the last ten years. #GlobalSharkTrends #GlobalSharkStatus #IUCNcongress bit.ly/GlobalSharkSta…
Fishing down the food web is the process described by Prof Daniel Pauly whereby fisheries, "having depleted the large predatory fish on top of the food web, turn to increasingly smaller species, finally ending up with previously spurned small fish & invertebrates"
What does this look like in an Irish context? Here are the landings of finfish & crustaceans in the Irish Sea from 1970 to 2017. Overfishing has hollowed out the ecosystem decimating many fish populations, with unquantified implications for ecosystem functioning.
Here is another look at the collapse in Cod (-97%) and Whiting (-88%) in the Irish Sea over recent decades in terms of catches. Whiting is so overfished that @ICES_ASC have advised that zero fish be caught since 2001.
All this talk of Sexy Fish has reminded me of the GREATEST campaign of all time: FishLove. Celebs posed with dead fish to raise awareness of the dangers of overfishing. I’ll start with Gillian Anderson and a large conger eel...
Have you seen two happier people than Dame Emma Thompson and husband Greg Wise playing with black scabbard?
Imelda Staunton posing with a blonde ray. Iconic.
