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The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC)
The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition's (ASOC's) Southern Ocean Fisheries Campaign works on five continents to stop the Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing that is dramatically depleting toothfish stocks - the most important commercial fish in the Southern Ocean. At the same time, the long-liners are killing thousands of endangered albatrosses and other seabirds each year. ASOC is also very concerned about the ecological impacts that the action of bottom trawlers may be having in the area, particularly on fragile and unique ecosystems such as sea mounts, which are present in the Southern Ocean. Bottom trawlers scour the bottoms and destroy all marine life present in their paths, not only the target species. |
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Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental
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Conservation International
Conservation International is a leader and catalyst in biodiversity conservation worldwide, engaging partners in more than 40 countries on four continents to preserve species-rich, threatened ecosystems in the biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas and key marine environments. |
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Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, Inc, (ECO)
Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, inc, (ECO) is the major national public advocacy umbrella group for environmental and conservation issues in New Zealand. We have some seventy national and regional member organisations with an interest in the environment, conservation and outdoor recreation from throughout New Zealand. Included in our membership is a host of local environmental and conservation organisations, branches of international organisations such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth; National Council of Women; some professional organisations; recreational organisations and coalitions including some with a marine focus. ECO is involved in lobbying Ministers and relevant Government departments and raising awareness through our member organisations about the destructive practice of deep sea bottom trawling. Our involvement in fisheries management processes provides further opportunities. |
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Ecoceanos
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Ecology Action Centre
The discovery of deep sea corals, hot smokers, and other fantastic underwater features is transforming society s understanding of the ocean floor. No longer do we consider the seafloor devoid of life and structure. Scientists are determining that many fish species rely on the ocean floor and are recommending to fishery managers that they minimize the impacts of trawling. In Canada we had some of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Today most are closed due to overfishing and destructive trawling, and many stocks show no sign of recovery more than a decade later. The time to protect high seas habitat from destructive trawling is now. For 15 years we have been fighting to protect ocean habitat from destructive fishing practices. In 2000 we organized the First International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals. Today, we promote conservation and sustainable fishing practices through research and education. On our website you will find documents describing the impacts of trawling (or dragging as we call it in Atlantic Canada) including a bibliography of scientific documents. The Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals are available from the Centre. |
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Forest and Bird
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand is New Zealand's largest national conservation organisation. The Society's mission is to preserve and protect the native plants and animals and natural features of New Zealand. Forest and Bird is active on a wide range of conservation and environmental issues. These include the protection of coastlines, and marine ecosystems, sustainable fisheries, wetlands, native forests, tussock grasslands, energy and resource conservation, and sustainable land management. |
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Fundación Jatun Sacha
Established in 1989, the Jatun Sacha Foundation is a private Ecuadorian non-governmental organization dedicated to the conservation, investigation and management of ecologically important habitats, environmental education and community development. Since 2000, the Jatun Sacha Foundation is part of a strategic alliance with the Central Corporation for Conservation of Data, CDC- Ecuador, a private non-profit institution dedicated to generating and disseminating research data from all relevant disciplines and cartographic information about biodiversity on the local, regional, and national levels for conservation management applications. The Foundation also maintains affiliations with various national and international institutions. |
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-profit organization, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. Greenpeace speaks for 2.8 million supporters worldwide, and encourages many millions more to take action every day. As a global organization, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment, exposing environmental criminals, and challenging government and corporations when they fail to live up to their mandate to safeguard our environment and our future. Ancient forests are in danger... deep under the ocean. Biologists estimate that somewhere between 500,000 and 5,000,000 marine species have yet to be discovered. But these very species are in serious danger from the world's most destructive fishing practice - bottom trawling - and we are campaigning to stop this destruction before it is too late. This is truly the last undiscovered wilderness left on the planet. For more information, visit: http://www.greenpeace.org/deepsealife. Or contact your local Greenpeace office. |
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International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) is an international non-government organization that works towards the establishment of equitable, gender-just,self-reliant and sustainable fisheries, particularly in the small-scale, artisanal sector. |
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Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI)
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Mundo Azul
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National Fisherworkers' Forum
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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
The Natural Resources Defense Council is a US non-profit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has more than 1 million members and e-activists nationwide, served from offices in New York, Washington, Santa Monica and San Francisco. |
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Oceana
Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world's oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope and dedicated to conservation, Oceana has campaigners based in North America (Washington, DC; Juneau, AK; Los Angeles, CA), Europe (Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South America (Santiago, Chile). More than 200,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana. |
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Programa Restauración de Tortugas Marinas (Pretoma)
PRETOMA is a Non Profit Civil Association, with headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica. We are biologists, naturalists, conservationists, and citizens concerned over the plight of the sea turtles and the marine habitat in general. Our mission is to protect, conserve, and restore, the populations of sea turtles that use the marine environment of Costa Rica to either nest, feed, or migrate. We also work to protect the diverse habitats along the Central American isthmus and international waters upon which they depend during their different life stages. We strive to work directly with the social groups that interact with the sea turtles, such as coastal communities and fishermen, respecting their cultural and economic needs. |
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ProNaturaleza
ProNaturaleza was founded in 1984 and is one of Peru's oldest and most prominent non-governmental conservation organizations. Its mission is to conserve Peru's biodiversity - one of the richest on the planet - implementing sustainable development projects, participating in environmental policy development and promoting a culture of environmental awareness. ProNaturaleza is a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Since its foundation, our activities have grown in magnitude, scope and influence. Today, more than 20 projects in key areas of Peru provide support for the management of 13 protected areas; our professional team includes biologists, anthropologists, geographers, forest engineers, sociologists, communicators and teachers. |
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Seas At Risk
Seas At Risk is an independent non-governmental federation of national and international environmental organisations concerned with the protection and restoration of the marine environment, specifically the waters of the North and Irish Seas and the wider North East Atlantic. Its participant organisations are primarily nationally based, although some are international groups, and it acts principally as a technical and political platform for environment group intervention at international political and legal meetings of government. Seas At Risk is currently campaigning to effect international political change on issues as diverse as overfishing and fishing-related damage to the marine environment, pollution from shipping, the harmful effects of offshore oil & gas exploration and exploitation, species & habitat protection, and the introduction of hazardous substances into the marine environment. |
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
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World Forum of Fisher Peoples
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WWF
WWF's global Marine Programme is working in more than 50 countries to stop overfishing and to establish a network of marine protected areas covering at least 10% of the world's oceans. WWF is championing the protection of the deep seas, one of the planet's last major frontiers. For more information, click here. |
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