More comments resulting from Peche Development's report on Blue Charities connections within the European fishing industry and their attempts to present the industry in a bad light.
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Fishery:
Blue Business in decoding Ecological issues
The
French NGO “Pêche et développement” has made a big wave in the sea of
already-made ideas about sustainable management of the fishing resources. Its
report “Blue Charity Business” (http://www.peche-dev.org/spip.php?article685)
shows that many NGOs committing against overfishing (WWF, Greenpeace, New
Economic Foundation), which contribute through their lobbying in Bruxelles to
conduct the on going reform of the European Common Fisheries Policy, are widely
funded by a small group of big foundations, mainly American.
Yet,
these organisations choose to wrongly present fishing activities as a whole as an
organised looting of the seas, warns the report. Warning is also issued to the
beneficiaries (E NGOs). Foundations also promote a privatised management of the
fishing quotas. Such influence could result in a drastic drop of fishing
employment, to which public opinion is formed by false messages presenting a
caricatural image of environmental impacts of the fishing industry.
