According to George Monbiot, fishing is “most harmful to all private industries” (The Attenborough Sea is the film I am waiting for my full career for – today the world should work on its message, 13 June). Fossil fuel lobbyists finally reached him?
The monbiot is correct to emphasize our satisfaction that is related, but with our attempts to solve the worst fishing abuses, especially unlikely the small fishermen – the most powerful shepherd.
In all the world, small fishermen using the gear-effect gear on the oceans on the beach is on the frontlines against the industrial repair. This is the first to feel the effects of reduced oceans and the best placed in suggesting solutions.
Is it true “the fishing industry wears everything”? No. Some gears, like the bottom of the trawls, actually harmful and need to be tightened. But small fisheries using gear-effects of gears are the opposite. They use friendly environmental ways to provide healthy, low-carbon food to coastal communities.
Is the fishing “the worst of all private industries”? No. Fossil fuel, mining and chemical lobbyists are smiling as readers manage their ire in local fishing fleet.
Should the UK government run away from fishing and make industrial deprivation? No. Current subsidyies unfairly favor industry vessels with outticized effects. Distribution funds and fast scale investments in small fishing gives divisions through strong food systems, bitter food systems, especially more healthier ecosystems.
If oceans are closed in fishing, barring some gazetted areas? No. The coastal seas should be fully handled by small fishermen to ensure that they are stewarded for future generations.
The world woke up with the effects under the trawling. Now it’s got to wake up to the important importance of small fishing fishing – and fast.
Tom Collinson
Manager Adbokasya, Blue Ventures
I read George Monbiot article with interest. I am one of the producers in Rupert Murray’s 2009 Film The end of the linePart of the sea destruction, funded on the channel 4, and it was broadcast. This film does not “carefully avoid” blame the fishing industry, and an independent study indicates that it has a public behavior, corporate and political policy.
Such film is well-inserted into the previous work of Charles Clovershowing the film and whose 2004 book of the same title is a milestone in the campaign to save the world’s ocean.
It’s not just a question of doing good and powerful programs. Now, those who have an offer before them, and a lasting effect has been achieved by a continued and continued campaign from the words of the civil society and the words of George “in George’s words let us know”. My concern is after seasBBC thinks “work done” and everyone in media agree.
Christopher Report
Dartmouth Movies
Echo George Monbiot’s is a lot of us “in the end!” In response to David Attenborough’s film. But I am disappointed that the names of the trawlers who snatch the oceans are broken. It was about time for international companies that seizes ecosystems in our seashells public.
Environmental ngos, especially locals used by citizen citizens to gather data in their own time and often unpaid, especially from water related. However we have more “consultations” in the sea-protected areas, which often changes with no change. I finished four in recent years about Scottish Scottish waters. There is a collision with the UK governments and their national science conservation organization and nature, and the NGOs of nature, in fear of losing financial, grants to remain silent.
Government proclaimed to extinguish 2023 First Harn Sea Steraty Agree to place 30% of this water to sea-protected areas. The ecosystems are the blood of our oceans and the end of us. Indulging, short term greed and financial return is the name of this game. Stop politics to delay – do it now!
Dr Sally Campbell
LAMLASH, ISLE OF ARRAN
