http://endoftheline.com/blog Imagine a world without fish Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:06:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The End of the Line, Fish 2 Fork and the Blue Marine Foundation team are still on a high after winning the first ever PUMA Creative Impact Award. Current TV will be screening the Award in their show Docs That Changed The World on Saturday 22 October at 9pm which ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1352 The End of the Line has won one of the film world’s most valuable awards after being hailed for bringing about real change in its efforts to stop the oceans being emptied of fish. It was announced the winner of the inaugural Puma Creative Impact Award at a ceremony in ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1340 The film, The End of the Line, achieved lasting change in consumer attitudes to buying fish, a study has shown. The ground-breaking exposé of over-fishing also provoked companies to change their sourcing policies and had a significant impact on political awareness of the problem of declining catches of wild fish. Over a ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1337 Sometimes the old tricks are the best tricks. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish Fight campaign, launched in three hours of television on the UK’s Channel 4 last week, asks us to sign up to a petition to save the insane waste of fish caused by the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy. Around ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1327 Well, I turn up for the annual talks about tuna quotas at the notorious International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) - aka the International Conspiracy to Catch All the Tuna - in Paris. And guess what? I'm not allowed in. Now, I'm used to being ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1325 One of the things about the global overfishing crisis that you get used to is that you can travel to the other side of the world and hear a story that you might well have been told about one of the fish you have at home. That’s what when ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1322 Commercial fishing around the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean ends today making it the largest “no-take” marine reserve in the world. The remaining fishing licenses will expire at midnight, following the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) decision to create the reserve in April. The coalition government decided to proceed ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1319 By Lewis Smith and Charles Clover of Fish2fork Explosive advice to fisheries ministers has been issued telling them they have a legal obligation to ban bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean and Atlantic for at least three years. European Union fisheries ministers meeting in Brussels were given a 20-page briefing by ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1316 We are all very excited about the news that The End of the Line will be screened in Japan on the NHK channel on 4th October as part of their biodiversity series. So if you have any friends or family living in Japan please pass on the good news! http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1309 The End of the Line will be released at the below cinemas on October 22nd. You can find further details here In Cape Town Nu Metro V&A Ster Kinekor Nouveau - Cavendish In Johannesburg Nu Metro Hyde Park Ster Kinekor Nouveau - Rosebank In Durban Nu Metro Pavillion In Pretoria Nu Metro Menlyn Park http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1306 Watch a news report of the launch on The End of the Line in South Africa featuring an interview with Charles Clover. http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1302 Talks are at an advanced stage between the Foreign Office, the Bertarelli Foundation and the Blue Marine Foundation about funding the creation of the largest marine reserve in the world around the British Indian Ocean Territory. Watch a video of the Chagos here: Chagos Marine Protected Area from Jon Slayer on ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1296 The End of The Line has won the Environment Award at the 2010 One World Media Awards against stiff opposition from Channel 4 News and ITN. The film about the over-fishing of our seas was announced as the winner before a packed audience in London at a ceremony that celebrated ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1289 Rome, Italy. June 9 Based on the announcement today that the European Union’s industrial fishermen have already reached their share of this year’s Atlantic bluefin tuna catch and must return to port at midnight tonight, WWF points out that this indicates the huge overcapacity of fleets - and is urging ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1283 A Greenpeace activist had to be airlifted to hospital after having a boat hook slice through his leg during violent clashes at sea with fishermen. French fishing crews sank two Greenpeace inflatables and badly damaged another as the conservationists tried to prevent them catching Atlantic bluefin tuna. Frank Hewetson, an activist on ... http://endoftheline.com/blog/archives/1277