WHY HAVE WE GOT SUPERTRAWLERS ?

WHY HAVE WE GOT SUPERTRAWLERS ?

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4 November 2019
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UK.Government and
Signatures: 7,478Next Goal: 7,500
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THE USE OF SUPER TRAWLERS IS  NOT SUSTAINABLE OR RESPONSIBLE AND SHOULD BE BANNED.

LAST YEAR 2019 IN U.K. WATERS SUPER TRAWLERS' PELAGIC TRAWLING KILLED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLPHINS AS BYCATCH.  WHILE FISH STOCKS ARE AT AN ALL TIME LOW - 90% OF WORLD FISH STOCK GONE IN LAST 100 YEARS - WE ARE FISHING THE LAST 10% OF FISH ON EARTH .

WHILE THE UK IS IN CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN THIS, AND OTHER ECOCIDAL MONSTROSITIES, CONTINUE.

ONE FACTOR FUELING THIS IN THE UK IS THE M.S.C.  ( MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL) WHO ACT AS A MIDDLEMAN BETWEEN THE  SUPERMARKETS AND THE FISHING COMPANIES BY BRANDING "ETHICALLY SOURCED" FISH PRODUCTS. ONLY LARGE FISHING COMPANIES CAN AFFORD TO BUY THE M.S.C. ACCREDITATION BRANDING  WHICH IS NOT WON ON MERIT BUT PAID FOR. ONLY LARGE COMPANIES SUCH AS THE OWNERS OF SUPERTRAWLERS CAN AFFORD ACCREDITATION, SO SMALL INSHORE BOATS WHICH ARE SOURCING FISH SUSTAINABLY ARE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS AS THEY CANT AFFORD THE ACCREDITATION  FROM THE M.S.C !

M.S.C. MADE MULTI MILLIONS LAST YEAR WITH SELLING THEIR BRANDING TO SUPERMARKETS AND TO BIG FISHING COMPANIES WHO ARE PLUNDERING THE OCEANS FOR ALL FISH  KILLING EVERY THING IN THEIR PATH INCLUDING DOLPHINS.

M.S.C. ARE A REGISTERED CHARITY "NOT FOR PROFIT " WE ASK : HOW CAN THIS BE ?

BUT ACCREDITATION SELLS FISH !

PEOPLE WANT TO BUY FISH THAT HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLY SOURCED.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT  IT HAS NOT BEEN RESPONSIBLY OR SUSTAINABLY SOURCED !    THOUSANDS OF DOLPHINS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE SUPER TRAWLERS' PELAGIC TRAWLING METHOD. IT WAS BANNED FROM FISHING IN AUSTRALIA  IN 2013 IT HAS TO BE BANNED HERE!

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