Local fish merchant Matthew Stevens says keep buying Cornish line caught mackerel and North Cornwall's Nathan Outlaw who heads up the UK's only Michelin two starred restaurant says he will!
Monday, 11 February 2013
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Local fish merchant Matthew Stevens says keep buying Cornish line caught mackerel and North Cornwall's Nathan Outlaw who heads up the UK's only Michelin two starred restaurant says he will!
Should the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) be primarily focussed upon environmental factors?
Should the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) be primarily focussed upon environmental factors?
Click here to take cast your vote ahead of the official vote to be cast in June.
Policy ID number : A7-0008/2013 | EU Parliament date : 02.06.13
Today fishery is a sector in crisis. Since several years, European authorities note that the fishing stocks in the European seas are in bad conditions.\nThe reformed common fisheries policy, an agreement originated in 1983, has since undergone two big reforms. Now it needs to be reviewed to meet the workers’ demands better, but also the consumers’ needs. The European objectives are, according to the Irish minister of agriculture, to « maintain the sector, to enforce a better management of stocks whilst targeting jobs creation.\nVote at the EU parliament is due after the February, 5th debates at the commission. The final agreement is in turn scheduled for next june.\nIs the reformed common fisheries policy ready to take a drastic environmental shift?'
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David Miliband to head global fight to prevent eco-disaster in oceans
[media blue business opportunism] David Miliband to head global fight to prevent eco-disaster in oceanshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/09/lawless-high-seas-threaten-the-planet …
Full story from today's Guardian:
As leader of a campaign being unveiled this week, the ex-foreign secretary says exploitation of the seas has led us to a crisis point
Factory fishing in the Bering Sea: 'We are living as if there are three or four planets instead of one, and you can’t get away with that,' says David Miliband. Photograph: Natalie Fobes/Corbis An environmental catastrophe with greater economic impact than the global financial crash is occurring on the high seas, according to David Miliband. The former foreign secretary is to lead a new, high-level international effort to end the lawlessness of the oceans, which will be unveiled this week.
The high seas, which lie beyond any national jurisdiction, cover almost half the Earth's surface and decades of over-exploitation have caused trillions of dollars' worth of fish catches to be lost. Pirate fishing, often using slave labour and linked to cocaine and weapons smuggling, is rife and the damage caused to life in the oceans is harming the habitability of the whole planet. Future risks include sea-floor mining and rogue geoengineering.
"The worst of the current system is plunder and pillage on a massive scale," Miliband told the Observer. "It is the ecological equivalent of the financial crisis. The long-term costs of the mismanagement of our oceans are at least as great as long-term costs of the mismanagement of the financial system. We are living as if there are three or four planets instead of one, and you can't get away with that." Mil
iband, in an unpaid role, will lead the new Global Ocean Commission, along with Nelson Mandela's former finance minister, Trevor Manuel, and the former president of Costa Rica, José María Figueres. The launch in London on Tuesday will introduce further commissioners, including more former heads of state and senior ministers from leading G20 nations.
"We are coming to a crunch time: 2014 needs to be the year when we reverse the degradation of the high seas," said Miliband, referring to the deadline set at the UN's Earth Summit in 2012 for the first ever laws to protect biodiversity in the open oceans.
Miliband knows from personal experience the difficulty of the task. In 2009, as foreign secretary, he established the world's biggest marine reserve in which no fishing is allowed: more than 640,000 square kilometres around the Chagos archipelago in the Indian ocean. However, last month a bitterly fought legal challenge from Mauritius was allowed to proceed at the international court of arbitration in The Hague. Professor Callum Roberts, a marine biologist at the University of York, said protection for the open oceans was desperately needed: "The high seas are the last and most neglected of all natural spaces. They are home to some extraordinary species, for example, the leatherback turtle. It comes from a lineage 100m years old, but has declined by 95% in the last 20-30 years due to our depredations. Dolphins and sharks are in freefall.
"The oceans make up 95% of the living space on the planet and what happens there is extremely important for the habitability of our planet, from oxygen production to dealing with carbon dioxide and other pollution. Our impact means the oceans will do that less well, with serious consequences for humanity."
Miliband said: He said the seniority of the people leading the new commission was "really impressive" and pointed to the achievements of an analogous commission in the United States that successfully worked with the federal government to improve protection in American waters.
"We are going to try to fashion practical solutions that are an environmental win and an economic win, and with a commission which is avowedly across north-south, east-west, rich-poor divides."
He noted that the destruction of fisheries by over-exploitation costs $50bn (£32bn) a year in lost catches, according to the World Bank, totalling $1.5tn over the past three decades. This damages the livelihoods of the 200 million people supported by fishing, of whom 90% live in poor, developing countries.
A billion people already rely on fish as their key source of food, but catches are falling. With the global population expected to swell by three billion in coming decades, stocks must be allowed to recover to allow even greater catches to be sustainably harvested in future. Three-quarters of global fish stocks are already overfished or on the brink of being so, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation; not just well-publicised species such as tuna, but also many of the top 10 biggest fisheries, including Pacific anchovy, Alaskan pollock and Atlantic herring.
Pirate fishing is also a major issue, estimated to account for one-fifth of the global total market, worth $10bn-$23bn a year. The UN's Office on Drugs and Crime found that international fishing operators exploited corrupt systems even in nationally controlled waters. It also found that international gangs, often smuggling cocaine and weapons, had plundered valuable fish and often committed human rights abuses. The slave labour they use, sometimes children, are held as de facto prisoners of the sea, and deaths and severe physical and sexual abuse have been reported.
The governance of international waters – via the UN's 30-year-old laws of the seas, drafted to encourage exploitation – is dismissed as a "tragedy" by Miliband: "The current enforcement on the high seas is inadequate at best and worthless at worst." Roberts dubs the laws as "useless" and said that, when they were written in the 1970s, "people thought the resources of the oceans were limitless". Even so, the US has never ratified the treaty, deeply undermining its authority, while territorial disputes over the Arctic and Southern oceans rage on.
"The high seas were protected for thousands of years because people simply could not get there," said Miliband. "Exploitation has increased over 30 years, but the governance framework has not kept up." For example, there is no international mechanism at all for protecting biodiversity in the deep oceans.
New laws will also have to anticipate the growth of deep-sea mining for metals and potentially the dumping of tonnes of iron or minerals in the oceans in a bid to halt climate change – so-called geoengineering, Miliband said. In 2012, a 10,000 sq km geoengineering test took place off Canada without any authorisation.
"But enforcement in the modern world is not going to be a great new navy of ships polluting their way around the high seas," said Miliband. Satellite monitoring could be one solution, while another would be to force fishing vessels to carry location beacons at all times, as many merchant vessels already do.
No discards - a run down of today's conversations on Twitter
Did you know?
ENGOs invested more than 70 millions US$ in direct lobbying - in Europe!
On the surface, lobbying would appear to be a fair and necessary means to garner facts, data and opinion from the key players and stakeholders in any given arena.
The tweets below are just a few of those relating to reactions from around Europe in the wake of the historic EU Fisheries Council ending discards following a huge media campaign in which the UK played a significant role - largely through the public interest/awareness of Hugh Fearnely-Whittingstall's TV Fish Fight campaign.
How much weight has been given solely to environmental factors alone?
How can we be sure that the NGOs and other lobbyists - the bigger global ones funded to the tune of millions of pounds/dollars by 'blue charities' are acting in the interests of all?
The fishmeal plants are happy it seems!
@OrfordFishermen Sorry, this is a rhetoric tool called#wildernesshasnosocialcost. combined to #DavidvsGoliath well known from strategists
Yan Giron @PecheFraiche
The tweets below are just a few of those relating to reactions from around Europe in the wake of the historic EU Fisheries Council ending discards following a huge media campaign in which the UK played a significant role - largely through the public interest/awareness of Hugh Fearnely-Whittingstall's TV Fish Fight campaign.
How much weight has been given solely to environmental factors alone?
How can we be sure that the NGOs and other lobbyists - the bigger global ones funded to the tune of millions of pounds/dollars by 'blue charities' are acting in the interests of all?
Keep the question simple: Should the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) be primarily focussed upon environmental factors?
@PecheFraiche Low mortality rates for discards in selective inshore fishing. Careful husbandry of the sea#supportsustainablefishing- Who cares more for the small fishers?
#NFFO or#NUTFA@GreenpeaceUK investigation is worrying for sustainable fishing. - Why not publish details
@NFFO_UK RT@josh__atkins: And more here from Fish News EU http://www.fishnewseu.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9826:nffo-under-fire&catid=44:uk&Itemid=55 …#NFFO
OrfordFishermen Yan Giron
get rid off lobbying !!! and do not forget latest vote on fishery in EPhttp://brusselsbusiness.arte.tv/fr/film
Lobbyists fire now turning direction to Fishery Ministers media-bashing #bebrave @rbenyon #poll_is_the_only_democracyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/feb/11/eu-fishing-discards-ban-richard-benyon?CMP=twt_gu …
Committee chair & fisherman @nedclark3: "We have the interests of the home fisherman at the heart of everything we do."http://www.nffo.org.uk/news/fishing_fact_fishing_fiction_2013.html …
no discard, cheap supply for fishmeal, full 100% exploitation of marine protein via @Salmoskius http://is.gd/IFFOdiscards IFFO welcomes EP vote
Fishmeal & fish oil industry/IFFO welcomes EP vote; Potential for use of fish #discards & by-products http://is.gd/IFFOdiscards #CFPreform
We can reverse overfishing & reduce #IUU if "bold action is taken & sustained" @damanaki Looking towards @GOceanC for leadership.#GOceanC
When I want to influence a MEP, I go to the POLL - I don't go to the poll to elect an ENGO #fake #democracy financed by who?@JorisLohman
Film Festival "Fishermen World" at Sea 2013.
The International Film Festival "Fishermen World" invites the public to a new fishing films Sea 2013.
From 19 to 24 March 2013 Ploemeur and Lorient, the fifth edition of "Fishermen World" offers to the public on April 3 movies where the people of the sea unfold and tell, go to war against the rampaging elements, reflect on their future and remember. dreams pictures, images of freedom, images of fear, sensitivity and different approach, the ocean inspires filmmakers.
Moments of pure cinema.
Preview the Festival will present Tuesday, March 19 at 20:30 Cinéville Lorient feature the highly acclaimed Senegalese Moussa Touré La Pirogue on a dangerous journey of young Africans from Senegal to Europe, film selected at Cannes 2012 and won prizes at numerous international festivals.
By opening night, Wednesday, March 20 at 20h at Océanis Ploemeur and free entry, the Festival will start in a beautiful trip the seven seas with Planet Ocean Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michel Pitiot.
Then, the Festival will anchor from March 21 to March 24 Ricoeur and dining room Gilles de Gennes at the entrance of the school Dupuy O L I Lorient with 44 films in his nets a dozen countries, including 15 films competition:
Indoors, many documentaries on fishermen around the world with beautiful testimonies such as these fishermen of Japan refusing the installation of a nuclear power plant in their bay Like the bee that makes the earth turn Japanese Hitomi Kamanaka or that these illegal immigrants Senegalese Mbëkk Mi, the breath of the ocean Sophie Bachelor or the European fishermen who compete in the Peace ofGulf of Patrice Gerard.
Sea cinema film can be as pure as the feature film avant-garde Verena Paravel and Leviathan Lucien Castaing Taylor filming the sea as a work of art or docu-fiction India Sengadal, the Dead Sea Leena Manimekala on Indian fishermen in the conflict in Sri Lanka.The festival is also dating images with fishing communities Siberian, Thai, African and Canadian and moments of memory with Man of Aran Robert Flaherty made 1934 fishing west of the Ireland orSailors Croix-migration to Keroman a fascinating study conducted by the college of St. Tudy on the migration of fishermen Groix to the port of Lorient. A beautiful journey in perspective.
Festival a unique event for people of the sea
Place of meetings and discussions with directors, professional fishermen, scientists, the Festival supports quality cinema offering numerous unpublished in France and a Festival Award given by a jury of professionals and an award Young given by a jury of students. S ince its inception in 2008, more than a hundred films from all continents were screened and the Festiva received nearly 5,000 spectators and filmmakers from all continents.
PRICES FESTIVAL 2013
Before first Cinéville: price: € 5,Opening night room Keragan (Océanis, Ploemeur): freeSelection Reflection of the world and films in competition room
Ricoeur:
Festival Pass: Full price: 20 €. Reduced price: 10 € day pass: Full price: 8 € Reduced price: 5 €Session Pass: Full price: € 4 Reduced: € 2, Selection Box movies, room G de Gennes free entry.
Catherine Le MautCommunications OfficerMobile: 06729590765th edition of the International Film Festival "Fishermen World"from 19 to 24 March 20131, avenue de la Marne
56100 LORIENT
Tel: 02.97.21.15.63
festivalpecheursdumonde@yahoo.fr
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