WWF Launches Campaign against Bycatch
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.22.07
We have discussed the issue of by-catch before- the problem of how many fish, turtles, mammals and birds get killed when the net is thrown out to get our choice for dinner. In an earlier post on shrimp we learned that it can be as much as a ten-to-one ratio. In Canada, the World Wildlife Fund has started a campaign to stop the loss of thirty million tonnes of bycatch per year. They say : Stop fishing? Absolutely not. We just need to fish in the right place, with the right gear, at the right time.
The advertising campaign is very clever; the radio ad is effective and the TV ad is powerful stuff. Cute kids in ads are a cheap trick but this girl pulled it off. Go to ::WWF Canada to watch and listen.
I give my full support to this campaign from WWF Canada. As one of their loyal donators, I am proud of what they achieve to protect the wildlife and nature in concert with the human population way of life.
I love eating fishes and I want to still do it when I am an old lady. I think we need to implement stricter regulations to improve the fishing practices in Canada and over the globe. There are a lot of species, corals and under sea plant life form that need our protection.