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To: UK Environment Secretary of State, Steve Reed OBE
David Attenborough's Ocean - Farewell or Rebirth?
Insist that the UK Government representative attends the World Oceans Conference in June 2025.
Press for the formation of Total Sea Protection Areas around 30% of the world's coasts.
Demonstrate practical intent by starting Total Protection from fishing around 30% of UK coastal areas within the next 5 years.
Press for the formation of Total Sea Protection Areas around 30% of the world's coasts.
Demonstrate practical intent by starting Total Protection from fishing around 30% of UK coastal areas within the next 5 years.
Why is this important?
David Attenborough has during a long career revealed to us many of the wonders of the natural world. In "Ocean" he shows us the devastation resulting from indiscriminate, factory fishing.
Current practices will turn the seas into wet deserts without life. Factory fishing will have cut its own throat and leave much of the world's population gaping.
But he also demonstrates why he, at the age of 99 years, still has hope.
The evidence presented makes it clear that the sea-bed if, undisturbed, can regrow its living partners and their full diversity in a few years. These areas spill over beyond their bounds to re-seed wider areas which can be fished. Fishing can become sustainable.
World leaders at The Ocean Conference must collectively agree on action. The UK must argue for this from the basis of having taken steps now to ensure a future for fishing.
Current practices will turn the seas into wet deserts without life. Factory fishing will have cut its own throat and leave much of the world's population gaping.
But he also demonstrates why he, at the age of 99 years, still has hope.
The evidence presented makes it clear that the sea-bed if, undisturbed, can regrow its living partners and their full diversity in a few years. These areas spill over beyond their bounds to re-seed wider areas which can be fished. Fishing can become sustainable.
World leaders at The Ocean Conference must collectively agree on action. The UK must argue for this from the basis of having taken steps now to ensure a future for fishing.
