With awareness, comes solutions: Become aware, Britain - be aware, not a bully.
By misleading the world about the Chagos MPA, the UK is hurting the potential for finding solutions. The Chagossians can be an important part of reaching for those solutions. The Chagos MPA is not the enlightened step forward that it could be or being sold as. It's a blind stumble...
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"The EU is a global player when it comes to fisheries and seafood consumption. However, the EU is not yet a global leader in global fisheries governance, and its fishing activities can have serious impacts on the global state of fish stocks, local food security and development, as well as long-term EU food security." ~
"The EU’s fishing fleet is global. It fishes in other countries’ waters through Fisheries Partnership Agreements (FPAs) with coastal states or in international waters under the management of Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs). Around 8% of EU catches (2004-06) are made under FPAs and the EU spends around € 160M a year to gain access to fishing rights under these fisheries agreements. Another 20% of EU catches are taken on the high seas, mainly in regions under the care of RFMOs." ~
"The EU policy for fishing outside EU waters is driven by short-term interests of a relatively small commercial fishing sector. The risk that it could contribute to the collapse of fish stocks around the world is real. A recent study commissioned by WWF shows a dramatic increase in the fishing activity by EU and non-EU fleets around the globe since 1950." ~
"Europe’s external fishing activities are not sustainable from an environmental, social nor economic point of view." ~
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