17 January 2007
Trading Away Our Oceans
By Daniel, in Nairobi
It’s been a couple of months, since we haunted the World Trade Organization building in Geneva with our news that trade liberalization in fisheries are bad news for people and the planet.
But this Friday, as global global civil society is heading to Nairobi for the
World Social Forum , the time has come for a
follow up. My luggage will be heavy for Nairobi. I will be carrying dozens of
copies of “Trading Away Our Oceans”. We will launch this new report at the
Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi Friday at 11am. The room we have booked is next to the
pool, the Hotel staff inform me. Hope there won’t be any sharks in it!
At 74 pages, the report turned out to be weighty. But it’s message is simple:
Trade liberalization is bad for fish and for communities dependent on fish. We
didn’t make this up. The report uses available data from official bodies such
as the OECD (the rich nation’s club) and the EU. If you look at these figures, they tell you, that trade liberalization of fisheries would lead to more over-fishing and would undermine food security in developing countries.
I will send you an update on the report launch on Friday. You will then also be
able to download the report here as well!
[Ed's note: It's here! http://oceans.greenpeace.org/tradingaway]
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