Richard Branson
Business investor – Founder of Virgin Group

“I call on citizens across the world, on governments in Europe and Members of the European Parliament to…”

Nicolas Hulot
President of the Nicolas Hulot Fondation

“The ocean is the memory of Life on Earth and of the mystery of the common origins we share with all living things…”

Alison Sudol
American singer-songwriter, pianist

“Imagine this: what if you had a little house on a large plot of wild, beautiful untouched woods…”
David Mayer de Rothschild
British Environmentalist

“We are all creatures of the ocean! without it we are nothing!”
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Member of European Parliament

“European fleets fishing in deep waters are among the largest in the world.”

Hélène de Fougerolles
Actress

Deep-sea bottom trawling is a scandal! I support BLOOM in their effort to stop this aberration!
Hubert Védrine
Political Figure

“Protection must be strictly monitored and the conversion of fishermen be ensured in a human and economically viable way, as it should be done for all human activities to be “greened”…”
Nainoa Thompson
Navigator

“Every time we hurt the oceans, we hurts ourselves. Every time we take life away from the oceans, we take it away from the inheritance of our children…”

Rob Stewart
Photographer - Film director

“The oceans are the most important ecosystem on earth – regulating our climate, oxygen, and food, and everything should be done to protect them from the menaces of deep sea trawling…”
Marie-Monique Robin
Film director – Investigation journalist

“Fish that inhabit the oceans are like bees: they are the sentinels of the state of the planet…”
Marc Guillemot
Sailor on Safran

“To continue fishing in the Deep Sea means to remove the cradle of life on the surface!…”
Marielle de Sarnez
Member of European Parliament

“Scraping the ocean floor and catching all the fauna is not fishing, it is a massacre…”

Allain Bougrain-Dubourg
President of Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux

“Against all odds, we found that the subtle intimacy of the Deep were the setting for an unlikely fauna…”

Isabelle Autissier
Sailor

“The biodiversity of the Deep Sea is a common treasure, it is urgent to stop the massacre.”
Pascal Durand
Member of European Parliament

“It is vital to stop deep-sea bottom trawling because it means the preservation of life itslef…”

Stéphane Peyron
Producer - Film director

“Deep-sea fishing is harms ourselves as well as the generations to come…”
Laurence Rossignol
Member of Parliament

“Deep sea marine life must be protected from fishing and other human activity…”
ALBERTO LUCA RECCHI
Under-water photographer - reporter

” All of us are really concerned about environmental issues when we can see them and sea’problems are often hard (…)
Jean-François Julliard
Director of Greenpeace France

“Bottom trawling is a “crime” hidden away from public view… “

Gilles Boeuf
Biologist

“Deep-sea trawling is of very little interest on the vast sandy-muddy soft beds because biomass is low and these environments require long periods of time to produce…”

Olivia Piana
Paddle World vice-champion

“”The ocean is my second home. The destruction of this paradise is unthinkable…”
Denis Ody
Director of the Ocean department at WWF France

“What to shout, and who to shout it to, for reason to prevail?…”
