📢NGOs launch guide to successfully address bycatch of sensitive species in the EU and call for bolder action 🐬🦈 Trends are worsening, populations are at risk, yet attention is declining. It’s time to #RethinkFisheries! 👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas... #EndBycatch #EUBiodiversity #EUOceanWeek

Yet another bottom trawling petition. But as long as this massacre continues we will fight to stop it. Thanks @aspielvogel.bsky.social for setting it up! chng.it/tbkkj64RYR

Spoiler: It's not. But probable... youtu.be/86k8N4YsA7c?...

Damit man das schön gesungene Lied besser hören kann, ohne das Weidel drüber sabbelt: toller Chor open.spotify.com/track/0t8RvT...

BREAKING: Das beste Sommerinterview, das die ARD je mit Faschisten geführt hat. Ausgerechnet in dem Land, in dem der politische Rechtsextremismus für die schlimmsten Katastrophen in der Menschheitsgeschichte verantwortlich ist. Heute, 18 Uhr bei der ARD. 🚀🚀🚀

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Jetzt reicht’s: Jedes Grundschleppnetz, das weiter die Vielfalt der #Doggerbank zerstört, ist eines zu viel. Helft uns jetzt bei der Rettung dieses bedeutenden Schutzgebiets und unterschreibt und teilt unsere #DoggerbankPetition! aktion.bund.net/doggerbank   Denn es ist ein Skandal, dass…1/4

Making waves at #UNOC with the best crew in town 🌊💙 When we say #ProtectedMeansProtected, we really mean don’t touch our bottom. @seasatrisk.bsky.social sailing strong for the ocean! 🐠🚫⛴️ #DefendTheDeep @tobiastroll.bsky.social @remico.bsky.social

It was HUGE. Yet tiny in comparison to a real trawling net. We deployed it at #UNOC3 #BlueMarch. Then the police came and wanted to take it. We sit on it. They left. #PowerToThePeople #ProtectTheOceanProtectLife

For everyone who wants to address the roots of the ocean poly-crises. Thursday afternoon in the #UNOC3 Green Zone (Ocean Basecamp) or online. Register for live streaming & share with anyone possibly interested! 🙏🏻 forms.office.com/e/Yzq0c3AD1F

See you at #UNOC in Nice!

How the 5 biggest Dutch fishing companies dominate the European sector and destroy marine environment, coastal and artisanal fishers across the globe ⬇️ Time to #RethinkFisheries www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Will you join the #BlueMarch2025 at #UNOC3 and march with us to protect the ocean and protect life? Sign up here: www.bluemarch2025.org

Time to stop eating fish until the end of the year. We consume way more seafood than the seas can actually provide us with & continue #overfishing. Let’s give the ocean a break!

🧨 New study: #DeepSeaMining isn’t the treasure chest it claims to be. Turns out, it’s more like burning cash at the bottom of the ocean for metals we don’t even need. 💸🌊Nature’s verdict: high risk, low reward, bad idea. #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

Over the past days I read many claims on the end of #globalisation, and on the #tariffs war being a chance for progressive agendas I wonder what's the political economy backing up these claims. Sounds as if global #capitalism couldn't accommodate even high #tariffs. 🧶 1/10

As everyone talks about trade and tariffs: can we seize the opportunity to leave both neo-feudalist protectionism and globalised capitalism behind and embrace “open re-localisation”? Great text by @vincent-liegey.bsky.social et. al. (2016!) www.projet-decroissance.net?p=2125

Feels pretty satisfying on a day like this that all my spare money is on a savings book with Triodos. Let the stock markets and financial capitalism collapse #panicmonday

Work with me to organise the Blue March at UNOC in Nice on 8 June!

📢New analysis No EU country has comprehensive plans to phase out #BottomTrawling from #MPAs by 2030. This is in spite of EU nature laws & international biodiversity commitments that bind Member States to protect their #MPAs. 🐟 #OceansPact #ProtectedMeansProtected seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...

Les collisions avec les navires et le bruit qu'ils génèrent menacent les baleines: réduire leur vitesse pourrait sauver des milliers de baleines. Appelez vos dirigeant·es à s'engager pour la protection des océans lors du prochain sommet mondial ! action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-6-...

A new @EU_Commission report confirms we're failing #OurOcean. 🌊 Implementation of the EU's overarching tool to achieve healthy seas (the #MSFD) is failing miserably & needs to be a top priority of the #OceansPact. 👀 Read: seas-at-risk.org/press-releas... #BlueManifesto @tobiastroll.bsky.social

“Competitiveness is part of the problem & not the solution. The growth paradigm has proven to be failure. We need to move to a regenerative wellbeing blue economy that serves both ocean & people.” Monica Verbeek from @seasatrisk.bsky.social gets to the core of the problem at EC's #OceanPact dialogue

"Unsustainable fishing practices [..] like trawling [..] deplete fish stocks and destroy habitats." Good to hear that this has landed with Charlina Vitcheva, director general at DG MARE. Let's implement the #MarineActionPlan and ban bottom trawling in MPAs!

I really appreciated @humbertodrosa.bsky.social's description of sustainability - not as a three-pillar concept, but as a layered concept (similar to a wedding cake 🍰). It reminded me of this graph, which I always found a much more helpful depiction of sustainability than the three-legged stool...

Two minutes into this important event on the European Ocean Pact, Geneviève Pons quotes @seasatrisk.bsky.social director Monica Verbeek: “we need a holistic ocean policy”. The Ocean Pact must be holistic & deliver on the just transition to a regenerative blue economy, based on the #BlueManisto!

Der Deutsche Bauernverband hat 2023 laut Lobbyregister des Bundestags mindestens 1,7 Millionen Euro vom Staat bekommen. Aber mit den vom Bauernverband organisierten Bauernprotesten gegen die Ampel hatte die Union kein Problem. #NGOs #Anfrage @cducsubt #Landwirtschaft

Very much looking forward to this pivotal discussion at Kairos/London on Blue Commons (Guy Standing), Blue Justice (Chris Armstrong), Blue Activism (Antje Scherenberg) and Blue Doughnut (me :-). We need to repair our Ocean. Towards a regenerative blue economy! www.kairos.london/event/revivi...

Thanks Tobias Goldschmidt, environment minister of #SchleswigHolstein, for a very useful exchange this morning on the EU #OceanPact, #BlueManifesto & the necessary just transition to a #RegenerativeBlueEconomy. The #BlueEconomy needs healthy, productive marine ecosystems, like all of us!

LIFE is life! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...

#RethinkFisheries Rethink the blue economy! Toward an ambitious #OceanPact based on the #BlueManifesto

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: weact.campact.de/petitions/mu...

The most competitive economy is a regenerative economy. Let's use the #CompetitivenessCompass and the #OceanPact to get there.

We need a #JustTransition to low impact, small scale fisheries and #BanBottomTrawling

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin. – Buy a Tesla, support facism!

“Deutschlandland ist eines der sichersten Länder der Welt” “Menschen fliehen vor Krieg und Verfolgung” “Wir brauchen mehr Begleitung von traumatisierten Geflüchteten” Endlich mal eine Stimme der Vernunft, und auch noch von der #SPD. Danke @carmenwegge.bsky.social

🌊 Last night, the Swedish gov proposed a law change to enable a future ban on #BottomTrawling in #MPAs. NGOs welcome this important milestone!💙 #PressRelease 👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas... #BanBottomtrawling #ProtectedMeansProtected #OceanPact

„Mehr #Musk wagen!“ oder wie war das noch mal, #ChristianLindner #FDP @fdpbt.de ? 🤮🤮🤮

Kolumne: Union und FDP tun als setzten sie auf Atomkraft – geknüpft an unerfüllbare Bedingungen. Und auch die Internationale Energieagentur träumt von einer »neuen Ära der Atomenergie«. Doch die Realität sieht völlig anders aus. www.spiegel.de/wisse... 1/3

Watched “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”. A brilliant essay on colonial brutality, Cold War geopolitics & black culture. Here a 2015 sketch for a stunt denouncing failed Belgian decolonisation. Both never happened. 10 years & #BlackLivesMatter later Leopold II is still around 😭. Where is Lumumba?

Preaching to the converted here but hey, let’s share! On #January20 day of Trump introduction Let's Quit X! #helloquitx www.helloquitx.com

European #OceanPact discussed with Fisheries&Ocean Commissioner Costas Kadis & @christopheclergeau.bsky.social at @delorseurope.bsky.social tonight. There’s always a #BlueManifesto & a #Zinnebir not far 💙🍺 #BlueTransition @seasatrisk.bsky.social @oceanaeurope.bsky.social @clienteartheur.bsky.social

Netherlands faces court as pressure to end #BottomTrawling in #MarineProtectedAreas mounts. This isn’t just about one country. EU law is being undermined across multiple Member States. #PressRelease seas-at-risk.org/press-releas... #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectedMeansProtected

“phasing out [..] overfishing, bycatch and the use of [destructive] fishing gear [..] is crucial for [..] a sustainable future for fisheries.” #EEA August 2024. Unfortunately totally absent from #FishersOfTheFuture study presented today by DG MARE. www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

#FishersOfTheFuture presents the status quo (high demand of EU-caught fish combined with a supposedly „moderate planetary crisis“) as the most desirable scenario. Yet the depleted oceans of today, with ever increasing consumption of imported seafood, are not a situation we can or want to perpetuate.

The #FishersOfTheFuture study ignores continuing overfishing. A just transition to fair, low impact fisheries is absent from the study. The future of fisheries will be low impact or it won’t be. The EU #OceanPact needs to address this. oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/fishers-futu...

X abschalten! aktion.campact.de/s/musk-stopp...

We are counting down the days to our event with @umwelthilfe.bsky.social, 🌬️Wind and Waves: Advancing Offshore Wind and Solutions for Marine Sustainability 🗓️ Will you be in Brussels? Register online and join us on Jan 15! 🔗 seas-at-risk.org/events/wind-...