{"id":9208,"date":"2023-02-15T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T00:12:55","slug":"petition-fishing-the-high-seas-is-unprofitable-and-destructive-ban-it-and-save-our-shared-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9208","title":{"rendered":"Petition: Fishing the High Seas Is Unprofitable and Destructive: Ban It and Save Our Shared Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fishing the High Seas Is Unprofitable and Destructive: Ban It and Save Our Shared Ocean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/u\/banhighseasfishing\">Rashid Sumaila and Daniel Pauly<\/a>\u00a0have started a petition regarding the Treaty of the High Seas, which is reconvening talks on February 20<sup>th<\/sup>. Essentially, they are asking the BBNJ to ban fishing on the High Seas.<\/p>\n<p>The open letter, directed to Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (Secretary General of the United Nations)\u00a0and others, can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/fishing-the-high-seas-is-unprofitable-and-destructive-ban-it-and-save-our-shared-ocean\">https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/fishing-the-high-seas-is-unprofitable-and-destructive-ban-it-and-save-our-shared-ocean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are inviting \u201c<em>World Scientists and Global Citizens\u201d<\/em> to sign the petition.<\/p>\n<p>The more signatures they can get on this \u2013 the more of attention will be paid to it by media\u2026 and the more word will spread.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/fishing-the-high-seas-is-unprofitable-and-destructive-ban-it-and-save-our-shared-ocean\">https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/fishing-the-high-seas-is-unprofitable-and-destructive-ban-it-and-save-our-shared-ocean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,-<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOF Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:IOFCommunications@ubc.ca\">IOFCommunications@oceans.ubc.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries<\/p>\n<p>Faculty of Science, The University of British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>Located on the\u00a0traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwm\u0259\u03b8kw\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam) People<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/UBCOceans\">@UBCOceans\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/UBCOceans\">facebook.com\/UBCOceans<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/oceans.ubc.ca\/\">oceans.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Connect with us! \u00a0Receive updates on our research, news, events, and features via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ubcoceans\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ubcoceans\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/13545496\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.us13.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=a0cb61d2bc74ad8894635df4c&amp;id=f3f72678f7\">subscribe to our IOF events notices!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishing the High Seas Is Unprofitable and Destructive: Ban It and Save Our Shared Ocean &nbsp; Drs. Rashid Sumaila and Daniel Pauly\u00a0have started a petition regarding the Treaty of the High Seas, which is reconvening talks on February 20th. Essentially, they are asking the BBNJ to ban fishing on the High Seas. The open letter,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}