“Small Victories Win Big Wars”
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By , on June 28th, 2012 Leave a comment   Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government, Opinion & Editorial   , , , , ,  

The post title was exclaimed by French oceanographer Philippe Cury upon hearing the news that a tiny non-profit organization won a major battle with a large multinational corporation. Despite the backdrop of the overwhelming disappointment surrounding Rio+20, French deep-sea biologist extraordinaire Claire Nouvian and her small nonprofit BLOOM (who have an adorable logo!) made huge . . . → Read More: “Small Victories Win Big Wars”

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Deep sea fishing is ‘oceanocide’
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By , on September 15th, 2010 4 comments   Conservation & Environment, Fish, Fishing, Industry & Government   , , , , ,  

Claire Nouvian, author of The Deep, provides a blunt and passionate discussion of why deep-sea fishing is very, very bad over at CNN. In blatant ignorance of science and oblivious to common sense, bottom trawling — or “bulldozing,” as it should be called — goes on with the complicity of our governments and our own . . . → Read More: Deep sea fishing is ‘oceanocide’

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