most popular:
2008 Holiday Gift Guides



most popular: Hot Home Wind Turbines


most popular:
$19k Electric Car in US


th comments
Jay Fretz said: "If "The motors do not drive the car, but kick in to provide a power boost...", then how can "Range on electric alone is expected to to be in the or..." [read]

Jay said: "Sad story indeed. Unless we get the good fortune of offspring, Man will have yet again driven a species to extinction. Something it seem to be ve..." [read]

said: "OK, why isn't the option of voting to NOT tax gas guzzlers? There can be no shift to more fuel efficient vehicles unless more fuel efficient vehic..." [read]

Carl Trimble said: "I think its cell phone interference. If you talk to bees like I do, they hate cell phones. They want us to go back to land lines...." [read]

Used Pellet Stoves said: "Pellet Stoves are selling like hot cakes this year and I think the trend will continue to increase. Regards, Chris..." [read]

WWF Launches Campaign against Bycatch

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.22.07
Food & Health (food)

stopthenet.jpg

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.

Comments (1)

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.

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

th ads
th top picks
th ads