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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.
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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.
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EUROPE'S FISHING POLICY IS A DISASTER.
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As fish stocks plummet,unemployment in coastal communities increases
- between 1990 and 1997 66,000 fishermen lost their jobs.
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A GLOBAL PROBLEM.
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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.
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DESTRUCTION OF OUR OCEANS.
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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.
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YOUR TAXES ARE PAYING FOR IT.
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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.
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STOP THE FISHING MADNESS: JOIN THE VIRTUAL
DEMONSTRATION.
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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
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