Amanprana and Save the Sea

STOP overfishing: 70% of all fish is overfished. Only 3% of fish varieties are currently not endangered. STOP illegal fishing: The fishing limits are too high to help fish stocks recover. Furthermore, one in two fish is caught illegally. STOP cutting the mangrove forests for shrimp farms. Mangrove forests are an important breeding place for fish; they also protect islands and coral reefs. STOP the corals from disappearing as a result of the rising sea temperatures and the destructive fishing practice of bottom trawling. STOP painful killing methods. Cod and herring die from asphyxiation which can take anywhere between 20 to 60 minutes. Many fish are gutted alive and are in pain for 10 to 50 minutes. STOP the bycatch. For each fish that is caught, another one is killed as a result of bycatch and thrown back into the water. Every two minutes a dolphin, tortoise or whale loses its life in the nets of fishermen. STOP the fishing subsidies. Fishermen vote but fish don’t. There are too many people working in the fishing industry at present. According to the WWF, the majority of fisheries subsidies cause severe harm to the sea environment. STOP fishing practices that destroy nature. Trawling nets destroy the bottom of our seas. Scientists suspect that 98% of sealife takes place on the bottom of the sea. STOP industrial fishing in Africa and the Pacific. Europe is the largest plunderer and Charles Clover calls fishing rights for Africa “neo-colonisation”. STOP overconsumption of plastics. Plastic doesn’t disappear. It ends up in the soil, in the air or in the sea. Scientists estimate that there is 6 times more plastic than plankton in the oceans. Plastic parts act as xenoestrogens. Female snails exposed to certain chemicals develop a penis. STOP the reckless deep sea fishing that empties the seas from fish. 1500 scientists are asking to put a halt to deep sea fishing. STOP polluting the oceans. The North Sea was once one of the richest and clearest fishing areas. It is now an industrial mud pool and its bottom an empty desert. STOP fish farms. They are huge polluters of ecosystems and consume way too much fish flour made from small wild fish. STOP sushi and sashimi with tuna. WWF estimates that the Atlantic blue fin tuna will have disappeared from the seas by 2015 if we don’t.