It
all started in Cornwall in the fishing village of Falmouth, where 'Clarence' the
Cod made his first appearance at the Sea Shanty Festival and wowed the crowds on
stage with the Fisherman’s Friends Band.
Not a dolphin, but a pygmy blue whale that breaks the surface in the waters 250 miles west of Maputo, Mozambique.
You’ll see it best on the darkest nights. When the moon is empty and clouds cover the stars – that’s when the ocean and algae collude. Like the Arctic’s Northern Lights, this is one of those natural phenomena that leave you giddy, wide-eyed in wonder: Psychedelic dolphins.
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4 October 2012 at 10:49am -
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Luís comes from a family of fishermen. His great-grandfather
started fishing in the tiny village of Cabo de Gata, near Almería, Spain, many
years ago. Today, Luís is teaching is son the ropes. He's the first of the fifth
generation of fishermen from this family.
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24 September 2012 at 2:09pm -
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Today our cooperation with Mozambique’s Ministry of
Fisheries comes to an end after two weeks. As part of a ship tour of the Indian
Ocean with the Rainbow Warrior that started in Mozambique, we have been
patrolling a large portion of Mozambique’s waters and facilitating inspections
of foreign fishing vessels that are targeting mainly tuna and endangered
sharks.
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30 August 2012 at 9:07am -
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The local fishing community in Thiaroye, Dakar, is celebrating. Since
the new Senegalese government took action to stop overfishing, fisheries in the region
are slowly regenerating, and fishermen are returning home with healthier
catches.
Cornish fisherman, Ben, with Greenpeace campaigner, Alicia, raising the Be a Fisherman's Friend campaign flag
This year, as we've been working closely with UK small
scale fishermen, one thing has become abundantly clear: the EU Common Fisheries
Policy, or CFP, is not working. Full stop.
Joint declaration between Greenpeace, NUTFA, UK Fishermen’s Associations and fishermen on the reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy.
The EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has not worked and is not working for fish, fishermen, the marine environment, coastal communities, or consumers. The system is broken and the 2012 reform process is our best, last chance to fix it.
Greenpeace volunteers and members of a sea shanty band
My colleague Alicia
and I recently had the great opportunity of travelling down from the Greenpeace office to
Falmouth to meet the amazing all-female Cornwall group composed of Vicky,
Helen, Leila, Lisa and Becky. They were accompanied by Clarence the Cod (aka
Colin – the only man in the group) to spread their contagious enthusiasm for
our Be a
Fisherman’s Friend campaign to the public.
I don’t
know what I expected notorious Spanish fishing barons to look like. Strapping and medallioned, with deep tans and fancy wrist watches? Or sinewy, wiry and sly?
In any case, the four defendants (three men and one woman) looked like fairly
normal folk, if a little perplexed by the throngs of local and national media
wielding cameras and questions outside the Truro Courthouse in Cornwall.
