WTO:: Make Fishing Fair!
Avaaz supporters and ocean lovers,
It has been long known that the livelihood of species of fishes are endangered because of predatory fishing. It makes it hard for us to prevent it since most of the time there is no way of knowing where the fish that ends up on our table comes from.
Some surprising news is that a lot of it might come from the cost of Africa, which means the fish that rightfully belongs to coastal communities that have depended on fishing as a form of subsistence for generations, is now going to Europe and the United States.
Read the article - Global Fishing Trade Depletes African Waters - Wall Street Journal:
http://www.illegal-fishing.info/item_single.php?item=news&item_id=1797&approach_id=12
Avaaz now partnered with our friends at Oceana - www.cutthebait.org - to take on this fight. Oceana is a group of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates who work on specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life.
Thanks to these efforts the issue is gaining increasingly attention from the media and the perfect opportunity is coming up with the WTO negotiations for a new fisheries subsidies agreement. Read how scientists and advocacy groups have been pushing the issue to the WTO:
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2346864120070524?feedType=RSS&pageNumber=1
Thanks for joining the campaign and help spread the word!
Graziela
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