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DSCC members will be attending or monitoring the following meetings.
Contact us
for more information.
2007
5-9 March: FAO COFI (Rome)
9-21 March: UNICPOLOS PrepCom (NY)
23-27 April: UN Fish Stocks Agreement, Meeting of the Parties (NY)
25-30 June: UNICPOLOS (NY)
30 April-4 May: South Pacific RFMO Negotiations (Chile)
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Marine scientists, conservationists and biodiversity experts in Australia, Canada and the UK have called on their governments to support a moratorium on bottom trawling in international waters.
This is the latest unprecedented action by scientists following on from the scientists' statement now signed by 1,452 of the world's leading deep ocean scientists from 69 countries calling for urgent action to protect fragile deep sea habitats from the devastating impact of high seas bottom trawling.
Moved by the failure of the international community to take such action, a number of the world's leading deep ocean
scientists toured Europe in 2005 to bring their concerns directly to decision makers.
The scientists underlined their call for an immediate UNGA moratorium on high seas bottom trawling as the only viable, short-term measure that can halt the destruction of these vulnerable deep-sea habitats - providing scientists with the time to study them and policy makers the space to adopt and implement longer-term measures for their protection.
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Science Tour Schedule 2006
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Science Tour Participants
The following marine experts and scientists will be conducting meetings and
speaking at venues around Europe as part of the science tour. For further
information about these events please contact Mirella von Lindenfels (contact details above).
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Dr. Sylvia Earle
Renowned US oceanographer and environmentalist, Dr. Sylvia
Earle is Executive Director of Conservation International's
Global Marine Division and Explorer-in-Residence at the National
Geographic Society.
Deep sea life can be saved - if the international community acts now, DSCC feature
Why
we shouldn’t eat the dinosaurs of the deep, an interview with Dr. Earle, DSCC feature
Leading marine biologist urges world to stop eating fish, ABC Pacific Beat, 26 October 2005, an interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle.
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Peter Etnoyer
Peter Etnoyer is a marine ecologist with Aquanautix, a Los Angeles based environmental project and data management company. Peter has a background in biogeography, octocoral systematics, and physical oceanography. |
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Dr. Elliott A. Norse
Dr. Elliott A. Norse is President of Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) in Redmond,
Washington USA, President of the Society for Conservation Biology's Marine Section and a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation.
Watch the following videos:
A one time opportunity
The destructiveness of high seas bottom trawling
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Dr.
Rainer Froese
Dr. Rainer Froese is a senior scientist at the Leibniz-Institut für
Meereswissenschaften IfM-GEOMAR in Kiel. Germany.
Unexplored Realm - the Deep Sea (Unerforschte Region - Tiefsee), rbb Inforadio Interview with Dr. Froese, 28 April 2005 (in German)
Dr. Froese on why action must be taken now to protect the deep sea. View video in English / German
Dr. Froese on overfishing. View video in English
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Professor Callum Roberts
Professor Roberts is professor of marine conservation at the University of York in England and a Pew Fellow in
Marine Conservation.
Watch video
Deep Sea Threats, an interview on Radio National Breakfast News, 18 October 2005 / Listen to the interview (Real Audio)
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Professor Ricardo Santos
Professor Ricardo S. Santos is Director of the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (DOP) and Dean of the University of the Azores, Vice-Chair of the Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), Chair of the Fisheries Observers Program of the Azores and Chair of the Observatory of the Sea, also in the Azores.
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Matthew Gianni
Matthew Gianni is the Political Coordinator of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.
Watch the following videos:
Growing momentum
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Kristina M. Gjerde, J.D.
Kristina M. Gjerde is high seas policy advisor to IUCN - the World Conservation Union.
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Dr. Alex Rogers
Dr. Alex Rogers is Prinicipal Investigator in Biodiversity Research at the British Antarctic Survey.
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