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One week before the plenary vote of the entire European Parliament on the ban on deep trawling, the BLOOM team is mobilizing day and night to win the battle.
- The viral craze that the BD by Pénélope Bagieu generated will probably not have escaped you. Thanks to this incredible lever, BLOOM's petition has gone from 26 signatures on November 000 to nearly 18 signatures today. Boxes filled to the brim with signatures were delivered yesterday afternoon to the Elysee.
- Second step: raising awareness in the European Parliament by showing MEPs that citizens no longer want the industrial destruction of our common heritage. A petition this time addressed to MEPs, in partnership with Avaaz, is online on this link.
- The industrial lobbies were of course quick to respond, with their usual method of discrediting our actions with falsehoods, counter-reports and counter-figures. A round table at the National Assembly will have cut short this denigration enterprise when Ifremer withdrew its scientific endorsement by half-heartedly disavowing the only position paper which spoke of a very imaginary “sustainable” deep-sea fishing.
- BLOOM and the GoodPlanet foundation also received by mail yesterday the confirmation of the Casino brand that it would withdraw from sales, from January 1, 2014, the main deep-sea species (black scabbard, pomegranate and tusk) and that it maintained its decision, already dating from 2007, to no longer market blue ling and the emperor.
- For once, we are redirecting you to a article from Ouest France : a bewildering report shows “beautiful images” of trawls hauling several tons of fish completely crushed on top of each other, their eyes bulging and their mouths gaping… When we see on a human scale the huge iron panels weighing two tons each , we definitely no longer believe in the now famous lobbies' ritornello: “the impact of a trawl on the bottom is equivalent to that of the footsteps of a child walking on the sand”.
- Follow the press this week, you will hear a lot about BLOOM, starting with a page in Liberation yesterday morning (in web edition subscribers version here)
Deep trawling, little known not long ago, has finally become the hot topic that it has always deserved to be. The French oppose it. Researchers oppose it. Private actors are taking measures that go beyond the regulatory framework which they know to fall far short of the ecological emergency. What is certain is that our firepower, what we generate as a political movement and as an impact is totally disproportionate compared to our small team mobilized day and night!
More than ever, we need you and your support on the home stretch so that we can achieve this victory!
You can mobilize and:
- Sign the petition
https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Leaders_of_the_European_Parliament_Stop_the_industrial_destruction_of_the_deep_ocean/STOP the industrial destruction of the deep oceans!
- Relay the petition and our actions on your networks
- Amplify our strike force thanks to a donation
- payment by check: BLOOM Association - 27, rue du Faubourg Montmartre - 75009 Paris
- payment by bank transfer: RIB 30004 00782 00010065301 64 - IBAN FR76 3000 4007 8200 0100 6530 164 - BIC BNPAFRPPPGN
- payment on Paypal: http://bit.ly/1b63U0e
Thank you all for your continued support. We will of course keep you informed of the outcome of the vote in the European Parliament. If you don't want to wait until then, you can also follow our daily news on Facebook et Twitter
Sincerely.
The whole BLOOM team
3 comments
Signed petition.
Let us care about the future of our oceans.
I have just signed the petition “stop the industrial destruction of the deep oceans”
I shot this before what happened on the plane that we know but hey I still remain convinced that we are no safer in France than abroad and the events of these last days unfortunately proves me right 🙁