21 June 2017
21 June 2017
Thanks to efficient lobbying by the Netherlands, a conference was held in the European Parliament on 21 June 2017 on the issue of electric fishing, a technique that shocks the sediments to catch buried fish. BLOOM considers that electrocuting fish cannot be promoted as a desirable alternative to other fishing techniques. Although we had prepared a speech, we had More…
09 June 2017
09 June 2017
Press Release New York 9 June, 2017 The UN adopts a clear call for action to eliminate harmul fisheries subsidies From the UN Ocean Conference, BLOOM, the Paris-based NGO with a large marine conservation portfolio, welcomed Our Ocean, Our Future, the political declaration adopted today.[1] Claire Nouvian, founder and Board Chair of BLOOM, highlighted that More…
09 June 2017
09 June 2017
9 June 2017, New York, US Today, at the Ocean Conference of the United Nations, Seas At Risk, supported by its 34 members and Mission Blue, BLOOM, the Deep Sea Mining Campaign and Earthworks, called on the international community to stop deep sea mining in its tracks. At the Ocean Conference of the United Nations, Dr Monica Verbeek, Executive Director at Seas At Risk More…
01 June 2017
01 June 2017
THE UN OCEAN CONFERENCE, NEW YORK, 5-9 JUNE, 2017 Press Release BLOOM, the Paris-based Non-Governmental Organization recognized for its landmark campaign for the protection of deep-sea biodiversity, will participate in the first High level UN Ocean Conference convened by the General Assembly,[1] to support a crucial point of the agenda: the elimination of harmful fisheries More…
01 June 2017
01 June 2017
BLOOM supports Seas at Risk’s statement for the Ocean Conference at the United Nations, New-York, 5–9 June 2017. Our ask For more than a century we have ripped apart the land, exploiting it beyond its limits in our insatiable quest for gold, silver, copper, manganese, cobalt, nickel, rare earth elements and other minerals. Now the More…
02 March 2017
02 March 2017
Paris, 2 March 2017 BLOOM welcomes the position of the French Minister of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, Mrs Ségolène Royal, who strongly opposed, in a letter sent to the European Commission on 24 February 2017, the exemptions granted to vessels allowing them to practice pulse fishing in EU waters despite this fishing technique More…
14 February 2017
14 February 2017
How industrial fisheries reduce perfectly edible wild fish into fishmeal to farm carnivorous fish, pigs and poultry. BLOOM dived into the opaque world of ‘reduction fisheries’, which catch fish low on the food chain – such as sardines and anchovies – to reduce them into fishmeal and fish oil to support the farming of fish, More…
12 January 2017
12 January 2017
London, January 12, 2017 The new deep-sea fishing regulation which incepts the ban on deep-sea bottom trawling beyond 800 meters in depth comes into force on Thursday 12 January 2017. After a long and painful reform process, the European regulation (EU)2016/2336 finally replaces the former legislation (EC)2347/2002, which had become obsolete and ineffective in protecting More…
12 January 2017
12 January 2017
In London on January 11th 2017, BOAT Magazine and the Blue Marine Foundation organized the second annual edition of The Ocean Awards, “which celebrate individuals and projects that have made outstanding contributions to the health of the oceans.” Claire Nouvian won the Policy Award, for BLOOM’s outstanding and eight-year long campaign that resulted in an EU-wide More…
14 December 2016
14 December 2016
Electric pulse fishing is a technique that consists in sending electroshocks in the sediment to capture flatfish species living in it. This technique was banned in 1998 by the European Commission,[1] but “experimental” exemptions were delivered for the North Sea area (see map) at the request of the Netherlands: 5% of the trawlers’ fleet of each More…
