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ANNOUNCEMENT
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We would love to connect with the coalition’s supporters when we travel to Lisbon for the UN Oceans Conference in June. Please complete this short form if you plan to attend and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for regular updates.
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Transform Bottom Trawling Coalition
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Newsletter: May 2022
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Both events will give the coalition a platform to advocate for the adoption of coastal bottom trawling exclusive zones and the prohibition of bottom trawling in marine protected areas.
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We have a busy month ahead as we prepare for the UN Oceans Conference. Over the coming weeks, we will release a series of bottom trawling factsheets to highlight bottom trawling’s social, economic and environmental impacts alongside social media posts to amplify our conference plans.
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CAMPAIGN UPDATES
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UN Oceans Conference proposal accepted!
The UN Oceans Conference has accepted the coalition’s proposal for a side event exploring the role of bottom trawling exclusion zones in protecting coastal ecosystems and fisheries.
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The Director of Fisheries from the Belize Fisheries Department and Madagascar’s Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy will be joined by small-scale fisher spokespeople and researchers from Duke University and WorldFish to exchange ideas for safeguarding small-scale fisheries and ecosystems using exclusion zones and other models for managing fishing access.
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Official representatives will share the steps that Belize and Madagascar have taken to protect coastal fisheries, whilst small-scale fisher representatives will share perspectives from the front lines of our ocean emergency.
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Speakers from Duke University and WorldFish, leaders of the Illuminating Hidden Harvests initiative in partnership with the FAO, will provide a global perspective of the extent of preferential access areas (PAAs) for small-scale fishers, delivering valuable insights on progress towards SDG indicator 14.b.1.
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The event will take place from 08:00 - 10:00 am GMT+1 on Friday the 1st of July in the Oceanário de Lisboa. It will also be streamed online.
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Please register your interest via this link.
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IMPAC5 proposal accepted!
We will share more information closer to the conference, which will take place in Vancouver, Canada, in February 2023.
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COALITION UPDATES
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New media assets
Coalition member Film The Trawlers has generously contributed a series of images and videos to the Media Asset Bank. The project aims to document bottom trawling activity at sea to increase public awareness of its impacts.
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The team collected the new material in the Media Asset Bank during recent hair-raising surveillance missions to the Puysegur Bank.
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You are free to use the materials according to the copyright guidelines associated with each image and video.
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Please get in touch with [email protected] if you have bottom trawling photos, videos, illustrations, infographics or other visual material to contribute to the Media Asset Bank.
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BOTTOM TRAWLING NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
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Global
Asia and Asia-Pacific
Africa
Europe
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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
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Are there bottom trawling news or events you would like us to amplify via this newsletter or our social media channels? Please contact Tom ([email protected]) and Marijn ([email protected]).
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