There has been an overwhelming response to my call to stop over-fishing. UNEP made a map. Rupert Murray contributed a film, The End of the Line, destined to become the next eco-blockbuster; if it can beat Flipper-flick The Cove.
Google Earth volunteered spectacular improvements of their sea maps. Meanwhile, in India, M.S. Swaminathan 1 called for integrated coastal management and legislation. Thanks to Greenpeace for ratcheting up its campaign against pirate fishing. And to you for all the donations; keep them coming.
On the downside, Japanese “researchers” use military grade weapons to shake off activists that won’t let them kill whales; and Brazil’s fish exports may double this year.
- Coincidentally, he also appears in a BBC documentary about ‘forgotten crops’ that is being cable-casted as I write this; apparently a year later then in other places.
Also, a letter in Nature about fisheries. A fishy week.