Kudos to Rauch Foundation partner Ian Urbina of The Outlaw Ocean Project for receiving the 2024 Edwin R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation for its reporting on China's role in seafood production and processing. We are so proud to include Outlaw Ocean among our grant partners! Patti Schaefer Eva Douzinas Anne Halligan Ella Reynolds https://lnkd.in/ekteFnEG
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Building on the Rauch Foundation's long history of providing evidence-based research and data to inform policy, our work in food systems is centered on exploring the nexus between the food we consume and the systems involved in its financing, sourcing, production and delivery. Using the island of Poros, Greece, and its efforts to stop the expansion of industrial fish farming as a case study, we are interested in how global, national, and regional actions impact the health of communities, economies, and the environment. Our school-based work in financial literacy acknowledges growing national support for a curriculum that helps young people develop the skills to navigate a successful future for themselves and their families.
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A glimpse into the amazing film "The Sanctuary of Poseidon" by Mike Sampey and Kirsten Bacon which unveils the true impacts of carnivorous fish farming in destroying our marine environment and depleting our ocean of wild fish, in greater quantities than the farms produce. See https://lnkd.in/ej2-R7Sd to arrange a showing. The GSFR Katheti Don't Cage Our Oceans North American Marine Alliance Elias Papatheodorou Patti Schaefer
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Fish oil from food fish in Mauritania going into cosmetics and vitamins in the global north; ocean grabbing; tilapia cages constructed in Lake Victoria pushing local fishers off their land; destruction of mangroves to make way for prawn farming in southeast asia; small scale fishers excluded from discussions and strategic planning at the United Nations FAO. Just a few of the things we're learning at #COFI36 from conversations with the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, CAOPA CFFA Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements Nadine Nembhard and so many others who have been so generous tied their time and stories. Rauch Foundation
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Happy to be in Rome for FAO #COFI36 on the state of world fisheries. Many thanks to CFFA Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements and Joelle Philippe for inviting us to be part of their coalition. Eva Douzinas Rauch Foundation. Our goal is to meet others concerned about the consequences of industrial scale carnivorous fish farms. #fishfarmsout
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In the last decade, factories producing fishmeal and fish oil have proliferated along the West African coastline, taking pelagic fish from that region to feed farmed salmon, sea bass and shrimp. These operations, which not only take fish from food-insecure regions, also cause pollution and job losses in communities in which the factories are located. DeSmog's research reveals that fishers and women fishworkers from West Africa are absent from three so-called sustainability initiatives set up by powerful players in the fishmeal industry in response to these critiques, despite their bearing the brunt of the industry's impacts. Meanwhile, three of the world’s biggest suppliers of salmon feed are represented in all three initiatives and sit on oversight committees of the main standard setter for the fishmeal industry, MarinTrust. “How seriously can you take a certification programme, if it’s just the companies developing their own sets of criteria and then they are the ones who hold the reins on any kind of accountability?” said Devlin Kuyek, a researcher who focuses on global agribusiness at GRAIN. “There’s nothing to really check power in any of that.” Rauch Foundation Hazel Healy
Revealed: Industry-led West Africa Fishery Protection Measures Marred By ‘Massive Conflicts of Interest’
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Very good news out of British Columbia and an example of what can be achieved in other regions when leaders listen and respond to the prevailing will of their citizens. To learn more about this issue and what's happening on a global scale, visit https://lnkd.in/evQjZvwE Living Oceans Society The GSFR
Responsible, Realistic, and Achievable: The Government of Canada announces transition from open net-pen salmon aquaculture in coastal British Columbia
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Launching #FishFarmsOut has involved incredible support from NGOs and experts across the world. A huge thanks to The GSFR, Don't Cage Our Oceans, Slow Food, WildFish, Feedback and so many other valued collaborators. A special thanks, too, to Julia Caesar for the opportunity for Rauch president Eva Douzinas to appear on BBC's World Business Report to explain why the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation FAO must clarify its position on "sustainable" aquaculture and stop promoting the farming of salmon, sea bream, sea bass, and other carnivorous fish as a sustainable practice. Not only is carnivorous open net pen fish farming incredibly destructive to the coastlines and habitats where it is sited, it’s also based on the myth of ‘feeding the world.’ We find this to be the most egregious use of greenwashing, when fish are being taken from countries in west Africa to be turned into fish feed for farmed fish in the Mediterranean, where it takes a staggering 1.2 kilos of wild fish needed to produce just 1 kilo of farmed fish. If you’d like to help send a message to world leaders and tell them #fishfarmsout: Share the 1 minute video below with your network (be sure to tell them it's only a minute!) Sign the petition to the FAO: https://lnkd.in/eYrwHpp2 Visit our website:www.fishfarmsout.org We thank you - and please stay tuned!
Fish Farms Out - World Ocean Day
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Here is Rauch president Eva Douzinas’ interview on BBC World Television discussing industrial fish farming on #WorldOceansDay and making the point that an industry using more wild fish, pound for pound, to feed the amount of farmed fish it produces can hardly be called “sustainable.” #FishFarmsOut
Great to have Eva Douzinas, President of the Rauch Foundation as one of our Global leader interviews on BBC World television discussing fish farming. Over 160 groups from around the World will present an open letter to the UN’s FAO, demanding that carnivorous fish farms be excluded from its definition of ‘sustainable aquaculture’. The move on World Oceans Day, will urge the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to re-evaluate its support of fish farms. Carnivorous fish farms – where the fish are fed fishmeal and fish oil extracted from wild fish, have been criticised for the negative impact they have on the environment. Global returns for aquaproduction, recorded by the FAO, was estimated at 406 billion dollars in 2020. Many thanks to Hannah Kapff and Maddy Lowe from Curious PR for all their help making this happen.
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June 7 is World Oceans Day and we are grateful to be part of a worldwide effort to inform the public of the devastating effect of farming salmon, sea bream, sea bass, and other carnivorous fish. It is an unsustainable business model that consumes more wild fish than is produced, yet the industry continues to promote the myth that the so-called blue revolution is "feeding the world." Polluting our waters and coastlines, fish farms decimate communities both where the fish are farmed and where the wild fish are taken for fish meal. As we have learned more and more about the effects of fish farming on coastal communities and marine ecosystems, we have met extraordinary people and groups from around the world that are leading the opposition to this destructive industry, many of whom are listed below. If you love nature and care about the natural world our children will inherit, please watch this video produced by the amazing Mike Sampey and visit fishfarmsout.org to join a coalition of coastal communities, NGOs and scientists from 6 continents that have signed on to a letter to the Food and Agricultural Org (FAO) of the United Nations to tell them: #FISHFARMSOUT Eva Douzinas Fay Orfanidou Andrianna Natsoulas North American Marine Alliance Don't Cage Our Oceans Leslie Hatfield GRACE Communications Foundation Catalina Lopez Catalina Cendoya Agustina Copello The GSFR Joanna Sullivan Hannah Kapff Curious PR Conscience Consulting Nikos Kopsidas Natasha Hurley Feedback Patagonia Frederik W. Mowinckel Living Oceans Society Mission Blue / Sylvia Earle Alliance Blue Marine Foundation Seastemik Seas At Risk Aquatic Life Institute One Fish Foundation Center for Food Safety Animal Legal Defense Fund DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION Slow Food USA BEYOND PESTICIDES CFFA Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements Francesco De Augustinis Watershed Watch Salmon Society WildFish Mangrove Action Project (MAP)
Fish Farms Out - World Ocean Day
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Friday June 7 is World Oceans Day and I am grateful to be part of a worldwide effort to inform the public of the devastating effect of farming salmon, sea bream and sea bass (among other carnivorous fish). It's a fundamentally unsustainable industry that consumes more wild fish than it produces, pollutes our waters and coastlines, and harms communities both where the fish are farmed and where the wild fish are taken for fish meal. I learned of all of this because of the direct threat to my beloved island of Poros which in turn led to the Rauch Foundation learning more and more about this illogical and destructive industry that hides under misleading messaging around "sustainable" aquaculture. If you love nature and care about the natural world our children will experience, please visit fishfarmsout.org which was put together with our partners, The GSFR of Argentina and Don't Cage our Oceans of the US and represents 160 coastal communities, NGOs and scientists from 6 continents. #fishfarmsout #saveourseas ❤️🐟🌎🌍🌏❤️ 🎬 @lowcoau Catalina Cendoya Agustina Copello Andrianna Natsoulas Patti Schaefer Joanna Sullivan Hannah Kapff Fay Orfanidou Francesco De Augustinis Mike Sampey alessandro bocconcelli