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Greenpeace returns ocean destruction to Canadian tuna giant Clover Leaf

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For Immediate Release

26 October 2011 (Markham) -- Greenpeace activists visited Clover Leaf Seafoods' Canadian headquarters this morning to return cases of the company's canned tuna products and deliver a platter of simulated marine life remains, representing the wasteful fisheries the company sources from.

"Canadian consumers deserve better than Clover Leaf's canned ocean destruction. As Canada's largest brand of unsustainably caught tuna, Clover Leaf can and should become a leader in responsible sourcing policies, as major European brands have already done," said Sarah King, Greenpeace oceans campaign coordinator. "Clover Leaf knows the tuna fisheries it sources from kill far more than just tuna and that there are greener options," added King.

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Fishing allowed in 99 per cent of Marine Protected Areas on Canada's Pacific coast, study reveals

November 16, 2010

VANCOUVER -- Fishing is allowed in all but one per cent of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) on Canada's Pacific coast, according to a study conducted by Living Oceans Society and published in Marine Policy this month. This is in spite of the fact that over half of the MPAs are rated as "strictly protected" and are intended to prohibit all fishing.

"Marine Protected Areas should be safe havens where species can regenerate, but the great majority of our MPAs are really just paper parks that offer almost nothing in the way of ocean conservation or sustainable fisheries," says Kim Wright, Living Oceans Society's Marine Planning and Protected Areas Campaign Manager.

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Saving the West Coast salmon fishery

Historically, the Pacific Northwest of North America has been one of those spots in the world where food is abundant. The sea along its coast has always been a good provider, and the most important gift it has offered up is the Pacific salmon that once filled its rivers and streams from far west of Alaska to Central California. That is changing.

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Protecting the ocean

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Currently less than one per cent of Canadian waters are protected. Greenpeace Canada says that setting aside open ocean in marine protected areas is absolutely essential to counter destructive fishing practices and resource extraction.

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Negotiating a sustainable fishing future

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With the total closure of salmon fishing off of the U.S. coast this year, the salmon farming industry is licking its chops and using the situation to set the stage for more pressure to expand the industry.

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babble: Morton calls upon BCers to save the salmon

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Alexandra Morton has spent over 20 years studying whales and salmon on the B.C. coast. That led her, inevitably, into conflicts about the fish farming industry.
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Is Ottawa ceding control of the East Coast fishery?

The Harper government is trying to rush the passage of a new agreement that could give European nations, which continue to overfish cod on the Grand Banks (over-quota again in 2008 to the tune of 119 per cent), a say in how Canada's fisheries are managed within its own 200-mile limit.


Worse, the provision was apparently drafted by the EU negotiators, without Canadian input. The Harper Tories merely acquiesced.


This new NAFO (Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization) treaty could come before Parliament for ratification within weeks, with the government refusing to allow debate on it.

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Canada at the UN: Don Quixote on the High Seas

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At the UN General Assembly in New York, Canada is lining up behind Spain, one of the world's most rapacious fishing nations, in an attempt to block a resolution that would impose a moratorium on the highly destructive practice of dragging for fish on the high seas.

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Politics rules the Atlantic fishery

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The young crab fisherman from St. Paul's River on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence where it rolls against the province of Quebec was on the radio, speaking to a national audience from this little known region of the country.
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No place for fish in a sustainable diet

July 24, 2009
| Ocean Wise, Seafood Watch and similar programs offer consumers the opportunity to select more sustainable seafood. Jennifer Jacquet says the choice is essentially meaningless.

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The fish really are getting smaller

April 29, 2009
| No-one believes fisherfolk when they say the fish aren't as big as they used to, but it turns out it's true.

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Sharkwater- Free Screening

Jan 15 2009 - 7:00pm
Jan 15 2009 - 9:00pm

Location

Hart House, University of Toronto,
7 Hart House Circle East Common Room
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 47.4012" N, 79° 23' 36.9384" W
See map: Google Maps

For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth.

Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.

Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

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