#endoverfishing

[travelokapi]

A massive fleet of Chinese fishing vessels (more than 260!) is currently lighting up #Galapagos islands horizon, killing millions of protected sealife species for human consumption. My heart is bleeding as it's on the edge of a huge protection zone, on the migration route of many endangered species and home to the largest shark biomass in the whole world 🌎 . Please help by signing the petition (link in bio or down below) to increase pressure on the political leaders 💪 To learn more, follow @fishactorg, @globalfishingwatch and other amazing organizations or look at recent #sosgalapagos posts. . Photo taken on #Floreana, one of the Galapagos islands, in 2019. . . . #endoverfishing #industrialfishing #biodiversityloss #iuufishing #globalchange #ecuadorwildlife #ecuador #greenseaturtle #flotachina #islaviva #barcoschinos #noalapescadetiburones #noalapescaindiscriminada #mantenlavida #reservasprotegidas https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRZ6PCFxAc/?igshid=gesjodxicpte

[enibas22]

from Deutsche Umwelthilfe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-mMpXjNhQM (uploaded 7th. December 2018)

“Tom Wlaschiha for a sustainable fishing.

Actor Tom Wlaschiha supports us in the fight against overfishing and for sustainable fishing.”

The little video is 31 seconds, German language.

[verabugatti]

And finally the sketch. This is the best part in my work. 'Food for thought' my last 3D piece in Malta. 3x6 m. Thank you Maeve Simons & Tommy Crawford from Dancing Fox for make it happen. Thank you Our Fish and Fish 4 Tomorrow! The global conference Our Ocean starts Today and Mediterranean is in crisis! #OurOcean #FoodForThought #anamorphic #3dart #3dartist #verabugatti #dancingfox #ourfish #fish4tomorrow #3doctopus #environment #endoverfishing #verabugattiart #saveocean (presso Saint Julian'S, Malta)

[gillianaofficial]

The European eel will become extinct if European Ministers don't back a ban on eel fishing in EU sea waters. 

Please sign here NOW to help #EndOverfishing ⬆️

[sangklp]

RT @our_fish: Under lockdown? Thinking about ways to save the Ocean, Save the Climate? Get your brain engaged with this #origami fish! Go Go here - https://t.co/FTQB5eR6xc & tweet to #EndOverFishing https://t.co/kW6WAVPSph https://www.youtube.com/c/lifesang

[fishing-exposed]

@our_fish: “When #STECF fisheries experts say European Ministers & Governments are behind schedule #endoverfishing, it’s time to act”. NGOs raise red flag: end #EU overfishing now or miss legal deadline! https://t.co/5pgznCCYR3 @KarmenuVella @EU_MARE https://t.co/mz4I318d1k

[perr-m]

This photo will exist forever, as a symbol of my commitment to #EndOverfishing. What legacy will EU fisheries ministers and Commissioner @karmenuvella have? Send them your message to end #EU #overfishing once and for all! @ourfish @fishlovecampaign

gilliana

[coldrealitycampaigns]

Fish and Ships: What's On Your Plate?

Back in early 2017, I wrote a blog, 2016 in review: What I Got Up To and What Happens Next, about what I’d been working on, and who I had been working with. It was a way of thanking everyone I had collaborated with during the year, to take stock and to get me thinking about  the future.

I also wanted to explore how people really use social media tools like LinkedIn. Despite time spent – or wasted – making connections on digital social networks, we often have no idea what our friends, and colleagues – and even family are working on. I wanted to see who was engaged, and what ideas could be fired up.

Friends and former colleagues responded; we caught up, shared stories, talked about families, and where we were living. In the maelstrom of daily life, time passes quickly – we can easily miss how our friends change careers, countries, even continents. I found that we can all end up working in silos – assuming that everyone else is too busy to talk.

A few days after I sent the message out, a message popped up from Steve Campbell, a former colleague at both the Antarctic Ocean Alliance and Greenpeace. Steve asked me if I knew someone who could help with EU Comms. I responded – yes, I did, me. Steve, a funding partner at Funding Fish, put me in touch with another ex-Greenpeacer, policy whirlwind Rebecca Hubbard.

In the following months, Bec and I developed and launched Our Fish, a rapidly expanding campaign aimed at pushing EU countries to achieve sustainable fish stocks in European waters. Put simply: stop overfishing, and stop tossing perfectly edible fish back into the sea. It’s not just a good idea, it’s actually EU law, as we keep reminding policymakers.

Our Fish has been getting up to shenanigans in Brussels, Luxembourg and Malta,  being a thorn in the side of those responsible for depleting Europe’s fish stocks in return for a quick buck. As I write, Our Fish has just had its second visit to Luxembourg for the annual AGRIFISH meeting on Baltic fish stocks, where we condemned decisions made by EU fisheries ministers for setting Baltic fishing limits at unsustainable levels.

Our Fish and Maltese street artist Twitch create a spectacular light painting, depicting a swordfish leaping from of the waters surrounding Valletta while being consumed by humans. Twitch, in collaboration with Our Fish and Dancing Fox and has created the artwork to send a message to 20017 Our Ocean conference delegates that they must help protect Mediterranean sea life. Photo: Dave Walsh Photography

The Our Fish team has expanded to include Dutch, German and Danish campaigners; we’ve got a petition calling on EU fisheries ministers to #EndOverfishing (with help from More Onion). We’re producing a series of cool animations in partnership with filmmaker and animator Daniel Bird, and a new website built by Barcelona-based web cooperative Jamgo.

Our Fish campaigners offers chocolate herring and satirical newspaper The Daily Catch to delegates attending AGRIFISH meeting in Luxembourg, 15 October 2018, where EU fisheries ministers will decide on Baltic fishing quotas for 2018. Our Fish is calling on EU governments to fulfill their commitment to end overfishing and the discarding of fish in EU waters. The fishmonger stand was accompanied by pictures of German and Danish actors from the Fishlove campaign. Photo: Dave Walsh

Our Fish has collaborated with many NGOs across Europe, as well as creative troublemakers Brian, Tommy and co at Dancing Fox, and Camille at Green Exchange (who is based near me here in Barcelona), and Fishlove, along with many other artists and doers and fixers and experts. You can follow Our Fish on Twitter: @our_fish

Another person who noticed my blog post was Maike Nicolai at GEOMAR, the German marine science institute in Kiel. I met Maike in Svalbard back in 2010, when GEOMAR collaborated with Greenpeace on an ambitious ocean acidification research project; Greenpeace had provided its ship, the Esperanza to ferry tonnes equipment from Kiel to the Arctic and back; I was on board to provide communications support.

Seven years, and a massive body of research later, the BIOACID project was near completion, so Maike, and Ulf Riebesel – who had led the initiative from the outset – drafted me in help edit the final project brochure (which was presented at COP23) and to get the story into the media (check out this BBC story and this Guardian story: in short, CO2 in the ocean is not a good thing, as it tends to play havoc with food webs. Action required? Quit burning fossil fuels. Maike has since departed GEOMAR and is clearly busy shaking things up, with the recent, devastating 1.5C report from the IPCC – the call to action the world needs.

When not doing fishy stuff, I’m working on shipping – as communications advisor to the Clean Arctic Alliance, which brings together organisations stretching from Alaska to Brussels to Moscow. We’re campaigning for a ban on the world’s dirtiest marine fuel, heavy fuel oil (HFO) from Arctic shipping, because of its black carbon emissions, and the risk of oil spills – basically impossible to clean up in Arctic conditions.

The campaign has chalked up considerable success. Although HFO is already banned from Antarctica and Svalbard, a year ago, the idea of an Arctic HFO ban could barely be spoken about in the shipping world, never mind within the International Maritime Organization (IMO) – the UN body that governs shipping. Yet this April, the IMO’s Maritime Environment Protection Committee (MEPC72) in London, a number of countries pushed forward with a ban, with backing from many other member states. They sealed this agreement in October 2018, by sending the ban for development to a technical meeting early next year.

Along with my colleague, Dr Sian Prior, I wrote this article about the campaign win – what it means, how it was achieved, how the ban will come about. More recently, Sian and I co-authored an article for the journal Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. The article, A Vision for a Heavy Fuel Oil-Free Arctic goes deeper into why heavy fuel oil must be banned in the Arctic.

I also wrote What Does a Communications Advisor Do All Day?, also examines how communications played a role shifting the narrative on the heavy fuel oil issue – and how it can contribute to change on other matters too:

“To do this, I have had to pull the HFO issue out of the rarefied environment of the IMO into public discourse, so that it could be discussed in shipping, environmental and Arctic media not just as a nice to have (that we might phase it out) but as a must have – then continuing the discussion so that the inevitability of a ban becomes rooted in people’s minds. Decision-makers and their advisors – hopefully – come to see the ban, not as some weird fringe topic being wielded by a bunch of polar-bear-loving-hippies, but as a win-win solution; as something achievable, politically desirable and quite simply, a good thing.”

During the recent MEPC73 meeting in London, the Clean Arctic Alliance hosted a photography exhibition: The Arctic on Our Watch, to remind delegates of what’s at stake in the Arctic. The exhibition featured  several of my images:

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I’ve been keeping up with other polar work –  I continue to serve on the board of The Arctic Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank, and have been getting involved in, CER-Arctic, a new Arctic Research Centre at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Finally, my partner, Nathalie Parès, launched her website, The Ingredient, as part of her organic food consultancy – and has dragged me out of the oceans, and into the world of food and farming. Check out her interview on Spanish newswire EFEAGRO, about the performance of Spanish organic sector and details of her forthcoming appearance on Catalonia’s TV3.

So what happens next? Our Fish has a busy couple of months coming up, with a major fisheries meeting coming up in December. I’m also busy developing communications plans for clients, and laying out some new projects for 2019. What’s on your plate? Let me know, and perhaps we can find a way to collaborate!

Fish and Ships: What’s On Your Plate? was originally published on Dave Walsh

[blacklotuslondon]

Continueing the #fish theme... My #goldfish - an observational study 🐠💌🐟 #stss #nofishnonothing #endoverfishing #fish 🎨📒#artwork #goldfishpicture #marinelifeart #fishart #goldfishart #painting #paint #paintingnature #animalpainting #animalart #blacklotuslondon

[enibas22]

pictures from Deutsche Umwelthilfe FB and Twitter

The first picture is Tom's official poster for the “Fishlove” campaign.

“Tom Wlaschiha (and many other actors) support the campaign # EndOverfishing with Our Fish and Fishlove.”

To draw attention to the problem of overfishing, actors and actresses were photographed for the "Fishlove" photo campaign. The portraits of Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Vicky Krieps, Christiane Paul, Katja Riemann and Tom Wlaschiha have been on public display since Thursday. In a mobile exhibition, the large posters wander through Berlin's city center. Fishlove aims to encourage European governments to end overfishing by 2020.

The posters on their way through Berlin:

   (first “wandering” poster from IG britta_bi)

[verabugatti]

Picture from the opposite side respect to the point of view 😜'Food for thought' my last 3D piece in Malta. 3x6 m. Thank you Maeve Simons & Tommy Crawford from Dancing Fox for make it happen. Thank you Our Fish and Fish 4 Tomorrow! The global conference Our Ocean starts Today and Mediterranean is in crisis! #OurOcean #FoodForThought #anamorphic #3dart #3dartist #verabugatti #dancingfox #ourfish #fish4tomorrow #3doctopus #environment #endoverfishing #verabugattiart #saveocean @theecowarrior (presso St Julians)

[verabugatti]

'Food for thought' my last 3D piece in Malta. 3x6 m. Thank you Maeve Simons & Tommy Crawford from Dancing Fox for make it happen. Thank you Our Fish and Fish 4 Tomorrow! The global conference Our Ocean starts Today and Mediterranean is in crisis! #OurOcean #FoodForThought #anamorphic #3dart #3dartist #verabugatti #dancingfox #ourfish #fish4tomorrow #3doctopus #environment #endoverfishing #verabugattiart #saveocean (presso St Julians)

[enibas22]

“Tom is also an environmental activist who joined the global campaing seeking to protect the oceans from overfishing throughout the European Union. #EndOverfishing We asked him about the shooting, script, locations, cast, production, piracy problems and more of GOT. #MustWatch We saved this interview for the final season! Enjoy it and please share it if you like it.”

The link brings you to an interview with Tom Wlaschiha. The video is 10:42 minutes, the spoken language is English. 

The interview is from “The GoT touring exhibition” in Barcelona (October 2017).

[enibas22]

from IG fishlovecampaign (Instastory)

fishlovecampaign: Fishlove campaign @ourfish amazing portrait @tomwlaschiha by @olafblecker #EndOverfishing #fishlove produced by @moshimobrighton

“The Fish Love Project: Fish stocks should be conserved so that people will be able to eat fish for generations to come, and that people who depend on fishing for their livelihoods can continue to do this into the future.”

Many actors are part of this campaign.

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Tom posted this picture now also on his IG

"tomwlaschiha: Wir leben vom Meer — lassen wir das Meer leben ! 🌊🌊 #Überfischungstoppen — Unsere Gier nach immer mehr zerstört die Lebensgrundlage für zukünftige Generationen — Let‘s all get bold for our #oceans ! Ask @juliakloeckner and EU governments to #endoverfishing by 2020 !! Support @fishlovecampaign by signing the petition https://save.our.fish/ — check out more pics of wonderful colleagues @ourfish @umwelthilfe — 📷 @alangelati 🐟 St Peter Fish"