BLUE SEAS PROTECTION CALL FOR WORLD BAN ON "INDUSTRIAL GREED FISHING "

BLUE SEAS PROTECTION CALL FOR WORLD BAN ON "INDUSTRIAL GREED FISHING "

The Issue

WE TERM MANY OF THE INDUSTRIAL FISHING METHODS AS "GREED FISHING".

Where fishing vessels tow their nets into large shoals of fish often catching hundreds of tonnes of fish in one haul then the vessel finds it needs additional fish to load to full capacity so it shoots the trawl net again capturing hundreds more tonnes of fish.  It removes enough fish from this haul to load vessel to capacity.  The remaining catch is dumped dead back into the sea.

In addition to this we now have 100+ dutch beam trawlers now fishing using electric shock fishing which kills or stuns all fish whether edible or not, nothing can survive .

  Commercial fish stocks are down by 80% since the 1950s.

  Latest findings predict that seas will be empty of fish by 2040

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The Issue

WE TERM MANY OF THE INDUSTRIAL FISHING METHODS AS "GREED FISHING".

Where fishing vessels tow their nets into large shoals of fish often catching hundreds of tonnes of fish in one haul then the vessel finds it needs additional fish to load to full capacity so it shoots the trawl net again capturing hundreds more tonnes of fish.  It removes enough fish from this haul to load vessel to capacity.  The remaining catch is dumped dead back into the sea.

In addition to this we now have 100+ dutch beam trawlers now fishing using electric shock fishing which kills or stuns all fish whether edible or not, nothing can survive .

  Commercial fish stocks are down by 80% since the 1950s.

  Latest findings predict that seas will be empty of fish by 2040

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The Decision Makers

George Eustice MP
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Farming, Food and the Marine Environment
Government
Government
prime minister, environment minister,
Marine Management Organisation
Marine Management Organisation

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Petition created on 7 January 2018