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The overexploitation of fish stocks in the Mediterranean region is linked to an issue of hyper-consumption, so much so that EU countries, despite the overexploitation of most fish resources, are extremely dependent on fish imports. 🦐 🍣 According to the FAO, the global per capita annual consumption of fish products rose from 9.1 kg in 1961 to 20.7 kg in 2022. In the Western Mediterranean region, according to the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products: ⛴️ 🇮🇹 Italy landed 149,000 tons of fish products in 2021, produced 146,000 tons from aquaculture, and imported 1.2 million tons of fish products, to meet a per capita consumption of 30.15 kg. ⛴️ 🇫🇷 France landed 484,000 tons, produced 193,000 tons from aquaculture, and imported 1.4 million tons of fish products for a per capita consumption of 32.18 kg. ⛴️ 🇪🇸 Spain landed 758,000 tons, produced 276,000 tons from aquaculture and imported 1.8 million tons of fish products, for a per capita consumption of 42.98 kg per year. - A new investigation by ONE EARTH doc just released on Internews Earth Journalism Network https://lnkd.in/dSdmRfdp

If you’re at the Oxford Real Farming Conference be sure to head over to the ‘Can Farmed Salmon Ever Be Sustainable?’ talk tomorrow (Friday, January 10th). Chaired by Gina Lovett, the panel includes highly experienced experts including Rachel Mulrenan at WildFish and Scottish campaigning photographer, Corin Smith. Do also watch an early screening of ‘Dying Lochs’, the latest short film by award-winning filmmaker Francesco De Augustinis at ONE EARTH doc. It examines the devastating impact of Scotland’s intensive salmon farming industry on both people and environment. (09:30 in the Assembly Room, Oxford Town Hall) 🎥 View the trailer using the link below to see why it’s a must-watch. https://lnkd.in/eWnntviZ #oxfordrealfarmingconference #fishfarmsout #sustainablefarming #aquaculture #salmonfarming #oneearthfilms Hannah Kapff Maddy Lowe Joanna Sullivan Patti Schaefer Eva Douzinas Fay Orfanidou Andrianna Natsoulas Catalina Cendoya Agustina Copello Nusa Urbancic Natasha Hurley Amelia Cookson Hazel Healy Mike Sampey Nikos Kopsidas Dr Tom Appleby Craig Yamey The GSFR | Global Salmon Farming Resistance

We published the first chapter of a new project, dedicated to the reasons that push the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be one of the countries with the highest incidence of hunger and food insecurity in the world every year. We have undertaken this project with ONE EARTH doc and with the support of the Pulitzer Center, with the aim to understand which strategies can really be effective to deal with hunger and climate crisis - not only in DRC, and which are instead fake solutions, whose sole purpose is to create profit. This project has led us to confront the history of the DRC: a history steeped in colonialism, exploitation, sometimes disguised forms of slavery and theft of resources. Today, acute levels of food insecurity affect 25 million people in DRC - or a quarter of the population - and the reasons are linked to similar dynamics. In this project we are talking about the interests of large corporations, producing crops intended for export, such as rubber or palm oil, opposed to the interests of those who practice subsistence agriculture. We are talking about conflicts, fueled by the control of mineral resources but also agricultural land and food. We are talking about old models of exploitation that are re-emerging, and possible solutions to write new pages of history. The first part of this investigation was published on Mongabay (in English) and Corriere della Sera (Italian), and obviously on the ONE EARTH doc website, where in the coming weeks we will publish other stories and other chapters of this new journey into the world of sustainability of the food system. https://lnkd.in/dAmYeD8v Stories produced by Francesco De Augustinis with the support of the Pulitzer Center - editors Iacopo Gori Terna Guyse - Thks to Antonio Loiacono Ngeunga Madeleine

Scotland is the world’s third-largest producer of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), after Norway and Chile. The industry is seeking to significantly increase production there, driven by growing foreign demand. However, it faces ethical concerns over mounting fish mortality, as well as environmental concerns about pollution, the proliferation of sea lice affecting wild salmon, and opposition from several local communities. A new investigation just published on Mongabay: https://lnkd.in/dq8s_epa Thanks Rebecca Kessler for editing

The UN meeting on biodiversity, which aimed to stop the mass extinction that is already happening on the planet, has ended on Nov 1st in Cali, Colombia. Among other targets, the meeting aimed to make concrete steps toward the UN strategy of putting 30% of the oceans under protection by 2030. The event, however, has been defined as a half failure: "It is astonishing that CBD CoP16 focused so much on preventing regression on past commitments, often without success," the High Seas Alliance commented bitterly just after the conclusion. The same bitterness was expressed by several observers just a few days earlier, when another international meeting closed: the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the international body for the protection of the Southern Ocean, which met on Oct. 14-25 in Hobart, Australia. The CCAMLR meeting was another failure, with no steps forward in creating new much needed MPAs, and some backwards steps for industrial fisheries management in the Southern Ocean. With the ONE EARTH doc project we have investigated the reasons of the CCAMLR failure, to understand why international cooperation fails to make concrete progress in protecting biodiversity, even in a symbolic place like Antarctica. Predictably, what we found out is that everything is linked to economic interest, to the global growth that has already exceeded the ecosystemic limits of the planet and that only generates hyper-exploitation of resources. In Antarctica this frantic search for resources means industrial fishing for krill, driven by the spiking demand for raw materials of a voracious and ever-growing industry such as fish farming. To find out more: https://lnkd.in/d-cwsXCJ #fishfarms #asoc #antarctica #ccamlr #biodiversity

Quella della biodiversità è forse la peggiore crisi che sta attraversando il Pianeta, con circa il 69% delle specie selvatiche già scomparse dal 1970 ad oggi - un numero che ricorda molto il concetto di estinzione di massa e che non può lasciarci indifferenti, sia per la nostra dipendenza dagli ecosistemi in cui viviamo, sia perché le cause sono tutte di origine antropica, dal riscaldamento globale alla deforestazione, dall’inquinamento (chimica e plastica su tutti) all’antropizzazione dei territori. Su L'HuffPost abbiamo parlato di questo argomento, chiedendoci che ruolo possano e debbano avere le popolazioni indigene nel fare i guardiani delle ultime terre del Pianeta che sono ancora un tesoro di biodiversità. https://lnkd.in/d5juK7Yv

Domenica mattina alle 11.30 appuntamento a Roma, all'Orto Botanico, con Cinema In Verde. Tutti i dettagli sul sito -> https://lnkd.in/dB4Pbwu7

"L’allevamento intensivo di pesce non è sostenibile: gli animali vivono in condizioni orrende, sversa i suoi inquinanti direttamente nel mare, contribuisce al sovrasfruttamento del pesce selvatico, aiuta poco a sfamare il mondo e toglie il pesce accessibile ai poveri per venderlo con profitto ai ricchi." La recensione di "Until the End of the World" su Stradenuove | conoscere e approfondire: https://lnkd.in/dqQv7Jhs

"Siamo indiginati di assistere a questi festeggiamenti, che per noi significano lo sterminio" Quando si parla di acquacoltura, ci sono due "fazioni" che si scontrano: - quelli che vogliono fare affari, con l'industria alimentare che cresce più rapidamente al mondo, portando sul piatto dei consumatori abbienti prodotti costosi come i gamberi o il salmone; - quelli che vogliono mangiare, per una questione di sopravvivenza. Questa divisione è venuta fuori chiaramente all'ultimo meeting della FAO sulla pesca e l'acquacoltura, che si è tenuto a Roma a luglio, dove la politica nelle riunioni ufficiali ha parlato solo di "sostenibilità" dell'acquacoltura, mentre i piccoli pescatori, lasciati fuori dalla porta, parlavano di un sistema predatorio delle risorse, che li sta portando incontro alla rovina. Mai questo conflitto, che abbiamo raccontato nel documentario Until the End of the World, è stato più evidente. - CFFA Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements Rauch Foundation Centro Internazionale Crocevia SlowFood Italia https://lnkd.in/dK7QvtvD

On the Greek island of Salamina, and in nearby Diaporia, the authorities are planning a project to expand the farming of sea bass and sea bream, destined for export to Italy and Europe, which will increase the number of cages by 25 times. In recent days, the local Perivos association organized a meeting with citizens, attended by +100 people, who oppose this latest destructive project. The documentary Until the End of the World was screened during the meeting. We are honored that the film can be a tool available to these and other communities to understand the dynamics of the fish farming industry and better guide their own initiatives. The read more about the event, a story just published by LiFO (DYO DEKA SA) (in Greek): https://lnkd.in/dwm8hueB