It also turns the situation into a "fight" and a "war" when what is needed is that all sides work together to protect the LAST WILD FOOD supply and the ecosystems that produce it. His campaign is against the interest of the people and the planet. He and the organisations that fund his PR campaign and company, should answer for environmental crimes!
Courtesy of Fishing Zones.
Added to the mix:
"Protecting the last wild food supply" appeals directly to the foundations and NGO's that say they are attempting to do just that; protect it from nasty greedy fishermen!
And protecting an "ecosystem" for many NGO's is exactly that, protecting the "biodiversity" against a perceived loss from the actions of man and they believe that this is enough of a justification for displacing indigenous coastal communities of their rights and installing groups of competent eternal actors to save the seas. Geosystem is a better word because it is recognised as being the richer and more complex interaction of man with his milieu (milieu: The geographical milieu of a place includes the elements of natural order, artefacts of equipment and infrastructure, institutions and culture and relationship; in short all of the memories that inform and create the system of a place.)
Examples in the past of protecting the environment and ecosytems that show how vary we should be of such suggestions include over 100,000 Masai pastoralists who were forcibly displaced from their traditional lands in the name of "conservation" and native Americans who were virtually wiped out by colonial interest in the 1800's.
Despite fine wording by the WWF in 1996 that "Indigenous communities should be recognised as equal partners in the development and implementation of conservation strategies..." conflicts have multiplied as indigenous populations have formed themselves into competent organisations. Coastal communities, and the fishing industry in general, need to unite, onshore and offshore workers alike, into one voice to have any lasting influence on decision making.
NH Newlyn.
