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2 June 2011 at 5:10pm -
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Your fish costs more than you think. A billion people worldwide depend on fish as their main source of protein, many living in the world’s poorest nations - including Africa.
Celestino Oliveira, Abdou Karim Sall and Issa Moustapha Diop meet fishing communities in Penzance
Last week,
three African fishermen - Karim of Senegal, Celestino of Cape Verde and Issa of Mauritania
- were in the UK for the African Voices tour to deliver an urgent message: that
EU fleets must stop stealing fish from African Waters.
Greenpeace Campaigner Hanne Larsen holds a Cod to be discarded due to current EU quota systems
In case you missed it, last week a progressive debate was held in the House of
Commons about the future of UK fish: centred on the urgent need for reform of European fisheries
laws, and ending the needless waste of excess catch known as ‘discards’.
African Voices: Harbour and hub of Joal. Unloading of fish from pirogues.
Three leaders of West African fishing communities arrived in the UK on Sunday to embark on a week long mission: to reveal how massive European fleets are not just destroying ocean ecosystems in Africa, but also lives and communities.
Prince Charles at the launch of Selfridges' sustainable fishing event Project Ocean
Selfridges launched Project Ocean with a bang last week. The
legendary department store's front is draped with a giant
banner asking ‘No more fish in the sea?.’ Their famed Oxford Street windows are filled with installations
on fish issues - grabbing attention and headlines. And they’ve pulled
in a host of celebrity supporters, from Katherine Hamnett to Elle McPherson. But that's just the start of this month long celebration of our seas...
Project Ocean: Selfridges celebrate, fundraise and reach out to save our seas
There’s a big splash on Oxford Street today as Selfridges -
the world’s best department store, on the busiest shopping street - has been
taken over for five weeks to help save our seas with Project Ocean.
The disastrous effects of
overfishing by European fleets aren’t confined to our continent's waters: destructive EU vessels are now exploiting the waters of the world’s
poorest nations - threatening ecosystems, depriving local
fishermen of their livelihoods and the food security of their communities. So Greenpeace have brought them and their stories to Europe.
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