Good news!
On September 3, 2020, Oceana and Earthjustice prevailed in a lawsuit to protect the Northern Anchovy! A federal judge ruled that “fishery managers failed to prevent overfishing of Northern Anchovy and did not use best available science to set catch limits”.
As I discussed in last week’s post, Should chickens eat fish?, the industrial fishing industry is hunting small fish, such as the Anchovy, to satisfy demand from farmers for fishmeal to feed to fish, pigs, and chickens. We are not leaving enough small forage fish in the ocean to sustain their populations. If the small fish don’t survive, entire marine food webs will collapse. The crash will not be silent. It will be deafening. Not only will the salmon, eagles, bears, and orcas have no fish, neither will we.
A BIG THANK YOU (and an exploding fist bump!) to Oceana and Earthjustice for holding fishery managers accountable to science and to the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act!
Go Deeper!
Go Deeper to explore the ocean and the Salish Sea through a curated list of articles, books, films, and other resources.
To learn more about the topic in this article, check out the following resources:
- Oceana Press Release. Oceana and Earthjustice Prevail in Lawsuit to Protect Ocean’s Small Fish
- Oceana. Anchovy: The Ocean’s Superfood
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020
- Oceana. Hungry Oceans: What Happens When the Prey Is Gone?
- The End of the Line. Movie web site. Movie on Amazon Prime (Run time 01:22:00)
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