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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

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

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

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!

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

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)