Play 'The Seagull Strikes Back!'

Dear Reader

Thanks to WWF supporters around the world, the pressure is on to Stop Over Fishing.

That's why I'm writing to you today. There's an important and simple way you can directly help Stop Over Fishing: play 'The Seagull Strikes Back' now and add your name to our Stop Over Fishing petition.

Close to 70% of Europe's fish stocks are over-fished, fishing industries are going under, jobs are being lost and coastal communities are in serious decline.

'The Seagull Strikes Back' lets you tell politicians you're serious - you're saying it's time to Stop Over Fishing or fishing will be over. At the same
time you'll have a laugh using your skills to blast the nonsense politics out of fishing.

The European Union's failed Common Fisheries Policy is under review for the first time in 10 years; which means the EU are ready to listen to what you have to say

Join us in demanding radical reform of the Fisheries Policy now - if the politicians keep delaying and obstructing change there may be no commercial fish stocks left!

We need thousands of people to sign our digital petition - so please forward this message to your friends and anyone you know who wants plenty more fish in the sea.

Many thanks

Sarah Bladen
Online Campaigner
WWF International

The Seagull Strike Back requires a Flash player, if you can't see the game download the free flash player or to go straight to the petition.

EUROPE'S FISHING POLICY IS A DISASTER.

As fish stocks plummet,unemployment in coastal communities increases - between 1990 and 1997 66,000 fishermen lost their jobs.

 

A GLOBAL PROBLEM.

As European stocks dwindle, European vessels are heading to Africa and Latin America. Unable to manage its own fisheries properly, Europe is now threatening the food security of poor countries like Angola.

 

DESTRUCTION OF OUR OCEANS.

Species not targeted by fishing fleets, such as marine mammals, seabirds and turtles are also under threat. In the North Baltic and Celtic Sea up to 10,000 harbour porpoises are caught in fishing gear each year. In 1990 alone, the Spanish longline fleet accidentally caught 23,888 turtles in fishing gear.

 

YOUR TAXES ARE PAYING FOR IT.

EU taxpayers pay up to 1.4 billion Euros - or 14,000 Euros per boat - every year to the fishing industry. This money is largely used to increase our capacity to catch more fish, of which there are less and less out there.

 

STOP THE FISHING MADNESS: JOIN THE VIRTUAL DEMONSTRATION.

You can voice your opinion directly to Europe's fisheries ministers. Digital video and audio clips can be submitted on the petition site and WWF will screen the petition at a virtual demonstration when the fisheries ministers meet in Brussels this December for their final decision. http://news.panda.org/cgi-bin1/flo?y=nEJk0BPVwq0Egz0BUYM0AW