Despite the vocal protests of the Swedish government, Greenpeace has started its plan to drop large boulders into the Kattegat sound between the Danish and Swedish shores in a bid to stop bottom trawling by cod fishermen. The global activist group will toss 180 boulders that weigh between one and three tonnes each into two endangered cod areas in the Kattegat.
The Swedish government is anything but appreciative. Eskil Erlandsson, the Swedish agriculture and fisheries minister, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper, “The actions foreseen by Greenpeace rest on confrontation and unilateralism, which risks threatening necessary cooperation. My hope is that Greenpeace will renounce such action and that instead we solve problems together.”
But Greenpeace has no intention of backing down from its agenda, The Local reports. Staffan Danielsson, a spokesman for Greenpeace, accused the Swedish government of holding the cod “hostage” by being irresponsible about the dangers of bottom trawling.
“The cod in the Kattegat is severely depleted, it’s in very bad shape, but there are other things in the oceans as well. We have marine biodiversity (at the seabed) such as reeds, sandbanks, seabirds, corals, and algae forests that need protection from bottom trawling,” he stated.
The group performed a similar stunt off the shores of Germany last year, and claim it has proved effective at discouraging irresponsible fishing there. “This is a conservation measure in order to protect habitats, which is what governments are supposed to do,” Danielsson said.
If Greenpeace wants to save the Cod they should lobby Nordic nations in EU to get out of it back to EFTA.
That would sure safe the fish from extinction.
“I’ll be long dead by that time…or able to eat only oatmeal :-)”
Dont worry, we will by that time have genetically altered mutant giant fish grown on some aquariums filled with mildly radioactive acid watered down with the sewage no one wants to drink, if you dont like the taste or smell of it some modifications will be made to you or the fish, depending on cost efficiency :)
“the planet will completely run out of fish by 2048.”
I’ll be long dead by that time…or able to eat only oatmeal :-)
I don’t like to promote external stuff (it might be spam), but have a look to “The End of the Line” movies, please.
Summarizing: “It explores the devastating effect that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. Scientists predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet will completely run out of fish by 2048.”
(overall better than Al Gore’s footages, imo)
Are Greenpeace gays?
Bottom trawling should be outlawed, it leaves the sea bed looking like a parking lot, the fishermen all know how bad this is and will support this action in the future because they will still have fish to catch,
its about time some one did something about the poor state of fishing stocks over there.
Shame on you Alexander for thinking about evil fishermen when there are poor helpless fish to save. ;)
So who will be responsible when a trawler sinks after catching some of this boulders?