Enemies of the Ocean
A list of companies, politicians, and countries who do the most damage to the world's oceans.
Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.)
Pombo has used his position as chair of the House Resources Committee to try to weaken laws protecting fisheries and marine mammals, as well as end a 24-year-old federal moratorium on offshore drilling. Though he represents an inland district, he’s one of the only American supporters of commercial whaling. He has read a pro-whaling resolution into the Congressional Record and has accepted more than $23,000 in foreign junkets from the International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources (IFCNR), which attacks antiwhaling and other environmental regulation worldwide. Pombo later claimed he didn’t know IFCNR was private and therefore that accepting its money may have violated the law. The group is identified as a “private foundation” in the “Who We Are” section of its website.
Japan
Japan offers multimillion-dollar “grants” to poor countries in exchange for pro-whaling votes on the International Whaling Commission. In a famous example, both St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines changed their antiwhaling position two weeks after their prime ministers took trips to Tokyo. The two countries then received $20 million in aid from Japan.
Gorton’s
Generations of U.S. consumers have been told to “Trust the Gorton’s Fisherman,” but its Japanese parent company, Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd., has killed some 2,700 whales under the guise of “scientific research” since buying Gorton’s in 2001. McDonald’s gets its Filet-O-Fish from Gorton’s.
Pesticide and Fertilizer Industries
Chemicals used in Midwestern farms flow down the Mississippi toward the Gulf of Mexico, where the largest dead zone in America waits. The industries are such strong backers of Rep. Pombo that he let them write a bill undoing the Food Quality Protection Act and introduced it into Congress.
Cruise Lines
Cruise ships can produce 30,000 gallons of sewage and 19 tons of garbage a day, most of which is dumped into the ocean, often in brazen defiance of federal laws. Add to that diesel exhaust equal to 12,240 cars, and you’ve got what the Bluewater Network calls “an emerging crisis.”
Canada
Blame Canada for having lax offshore dumping regulations and municipal waste laws, and for each year allowing hundreds of thousands of seal cubs to be clubbed, shot, and sometimes skinned alive and left to die on the ice. Until 2001, Canada even subsidized the seal hunt.
Red Lobster
To protest the seal slaughter, the Protect Seals Network launched a boycott of Canadian seafood. Darden Restaurants, the U.S. parent company of Red Lobster and Olive Garden and a major seafood importer, has refused to bow to Protect Seals’ demands. Instead, it co-funds IFCNR with the likes of the International Fur Trade Association, the Japan Whaling Association, and Monsanto.
The FDA
Toxic PCBs are regulated by the FDA in commercially sold fish while the EPA issues consumption guidelines for fish caught recreationally. Using standards set in 1984, the FDA allows such high levels of cancer-causing PCBs in farmed salmon that, according to an Environmental Working Group study, were they present in wild salmon, the EPA would restrict consumption to one meal per month.
Europe
Since Europe’s waters are running out of fish, fishermen subsidized by the European Union (to the tune of $350 million in 2001) have headed toward West Africa, where fish stocks have fallen 50 percent in the past 20 years. The rarity of fish in West Africa contributes to the bushmeat trade—meaning that leopards, monkeys, hippos, and antelopes are paying the price of EU overfishing.
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CANADA. Baby seal hunt has been banished 20 years ago
NB I have been told that Naturalists want no more seal hunt. They use old pictures of the baby seal hunt.
A horror show about nature is not necessary more true because it is horrific. Beware and investigate again, please.
Canada has not fully quit subsidizing the Seal Hunt since 2001. It uses DFO- and coast guard boats to help the sealers wooden and steel hulled boats through the ice and that costs millions of dollars of taxpayers money, and last spring , 2008 the coast guard boat rammed the anti-whalers boat the 'Farley Mowatt' and then boarded it and attacked the crew, dropped them to the deck and handcuffed them and left them for hours in the cold and in ususual positions of stress. That is illegal by the human rights resolutions--UN, that says it is illegal to treat human beings in a cruel and unusual way. --- a ban of torture anywhere and for any reason. On top of this illegal act at sea in internatinal waters, which means Canada is guilty of piracy at sea, the RCMP- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, then seized the boat and then flew the crew to jail in the maritimes and the ship is still being held at port. All this for "taking pictures" of the barbaric cruel seal murdering by hakapik barbarians called sealers. This is not a seal hunt it is a mass murder commited in front of the seal mothers of her helpless baby innocent seals who are too young yet to swim out of harms way. It is the largest sea mammal kill in the world and portends the end of seals as the massacre is unsustainable by natual law. Only the Imperialist predation of the Empires murding system would do such a thing. Canada should be ashamed of itself. The EU has told canada that no baby seal skins will be allowed in the EU unless it has been proved to be killed humanely. That should end the slaughter, but the killing of baby seals cannot be but inhumane and wasteful as it breaks natures laws and it is now proven that the seals actually prey on the fish that eat the cod, and so are not at all the reason there is no cod left. The loss of cod on the grand banks fishing ground is because the Department of Fisheries and Oceans set the quota above the ability of nature to sustain the necessary ecological organic balance of life in the grand bank fishery. Such incompetince is throughout the fishery in Canada, where ever the DFO sets the limits, and every fishing person has complaints in all areas. For this gros ecological crime the Canadian Government subsides are costing additional millions to lose the natural fishing abundance that nature require for a sustainable yeild. No wonder the redcoats were booted out , but now we hear that the fish and sea mammals are not doing any better in the U.S.A. either. We need workers from the fisher people to collectively set a sustainable and increasing fishery with hatcheries and care giving to the ecological balances of mother nature. This the inland fishers tried to do by picketing against the huge govt. and police guided bottom dragging boats but the RCMP beat them up and hand cuffed them and charged them as criminals They were the ones that were trying to set a sustainable fishery. Present plunder is not working in either country. The huge bottom draggers are the demise of the fishery and the guarantee that the cod will not be back any time soon. The Seashepard conservation Society boat the Farley Mowatt is still in capture by the Canadian state police and they are charging a humungus docking fee for each day. Sea Shepard is charging the Canadian government thousands each day for piracy of the sea criminal charges against the Canadian Governement. The whole thing is set for court dates in the comming year. Change is a necessity not an option. We need a victory to the sea shepard and all conservation organizations globally before the life of the oceans is killed beyond recovery.
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