The Black Fish Club talk
It will be held on the evening of Monday 22nd September 6.30-8.30pm, at Wright Robinson College
The Black Fish: Working for the Oceans
Black Fish is a European based, community driven, marine conservation organization. Through investigation, enforcement and prosecution we work to expose and challenge illegal and destructive fishing practices. Come and learn about the organisation, and see what you can do to help!
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The Black Fish: Working for the Oceans
We are The Black Fish; a European based, community driven, marine conservation organization. Through investigation, enforcement and prosecution we work to expose and challenge illegal and destructive fishing practices.
We believe in the power of ordinary people. You don’t need a degree in science to do your share in ocean conservation but you need the right training, tools and resources to be able to apply the talents and skills you already have. With that in mind, we have taken a few unprecedented initiatives that aim to lower existing barriers for people interested in getting involved, namely our recently launched Citizen Inspector Network and Training Programme.
The Citizen Inspector Network involves training volunteers as inspectors over the coming years, realising independent monitoring of fishing activity in Europe’s fishing ports and markets.
We train you all the way; you’ll visit fishing ports and learn how to recognize and document illegal fishing nets. We will introduce you to the world of coastal patrolling, which will be done by Citizen Inspectors with the required training. To make it sound even more adventurous; since 2013 The Black Fish has made use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to document fishing activity off-shore. This, together with numerous other speciality courses, offered in collaboration with European partner organisations, will give you the opportunity to be a Citizen Inspector with valuable skills of use in our work to end illegal fishing.
Through this training, we aim to make ocean conservation accessible to everyone by giving talented people the opportunity for specialist skills and capacity building. Our projects also facilitate networking between activists involved in conservation work in different European countries and inspire and support people to raise awareness on contemporary conservation issues through education.
As a talented diver, perhaps already doing your share in ocean conservationism, you know better than anyone else how happy spotting a whale shark makes you feel. And probably close to nothing makes you more excited than that manta ray flying over your head. Seeing those tiny creatures like seahorses and shrimp, you know life under water is vulnerable and needs protection.
Because besides all the breath taking beauty of the oceans you see every day when diving, you also witness first hand the ghost fishing nets spread out as a blanket of death over your favourite dive spot and you are also the one watching when the first fishermen go out to sea to catch the fish you would like to admire under water. And isn’t there a decline in the number of turtles every year?
Are you interested in saving the underwater life you love so much? Then get in touch with us. You are the one we need, since you are right on the spot.
