Aug 24, 2020
Playing around with coral using water colours. Trialling different Patterns and colour
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Playing around with coral using water colours. Trialling different Patterns and colour
This is an example of what a previous successful bottom trawling campaign BLOOM Association- ‘Hands off our Bottom”) used to promote awareness in Europe.
“This video was produced to assist the work of the BLOOM Association, and their partners at the Environmental Justice Foundation, The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust, Greenpeace, the Marine Conservation Society, the National Trust for Scotland, the New Economics Foundation, Oceana, and The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition. Video production support is provided by the Conservation Media Group (CMG). www.conservationmediagroup.org Production by Compass Light. Music from “Escape Artist” by Zoe Keating. "
http://www.earthforcefightsquad.org/videos/hands-off-our-bottom.html
Bycatch is the name given to marine animals caught accidentally in nets and on hooks while people are fishing.
Bottom Trawling is commercial fishing method that results in the consequence of bycatch. The practice is completely unsustainable and destructive as there is no gear selectivity. Trawl fisheries generate the highest records of non-target species, marine mammals and seabird bycatch. Bycatch and habitat destruction are the main environmental damages happening due to bottom trawling. More rare species will become extinct and there will be no biodiversity if there isn’t change now.
Jun 6, 2019 Greenpeace NZ Video Our oceans are being plundered for profit by the fishing industry. Together we can stop this bottom trawling destruction of our fragile ecosystems.
Apr 8, 2014 Europe is currently discussing the fate of the deep ocean in the North East Atlantic. The European Commission has proposed to ban what scientists describe as the most destructive fishing gear in history, deep-sea bottom trawling, a heavily subsidized, fuel-intensive fishing method that destroys fragile millenary corals that live in the dark depths of the ocean. But industrial fishing lobbies from France and Spain have launched a war on European institutions to defeat the will of citizens and scientists in order to protect their short-term interests. With a petition signed by over 835,000 people, the non-profit organization BLOOM, founded by Claire Nouvian, is at the forefront of a battle against absurd economic and ecological models of exploitation.
This talk was very informative about what bottom trawling actually is- how it works, what it does and the consequences that come of it. Since then, in 2014, the petition Europe citizens were signing along with organisation BLOOM has been successful. She also talks about how the petition gathered a huge response after design systems and illustrations were displayed increasing their numbers and creating awareness. If Europe can do it, so can New Zealand.
some coral doodles to play with colours and pattern
A landmark agreement has been reached to end high seas bottom trawling, one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices, in nearly a quarter of the world’s oceans.
Calls to ban bottom trawling on seamounts and other ecologically sensitive areas.