Yes, that's right, we are going to print. Jason and I have decided to self publish the book. We are looking for a printer. No Fish In My Dish will hopefully be available for purchase from our website for $9.95 plus shipping and handleing in about 6 to 8 weeks.
We would like to thank all of our partners sites, friends and family for their continued support and faith in our book. This is just the beginning for us all.
Watch out world, here comes No Fish In My Dish!
Monday, March 26, 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
PROTECTING THE WORLD'S OCEANS...
Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization focused 100 % on protecting the world's oceans. Industrial fishing vessels are scooping too many fish out of our oceans while industries on land are putting too many pollutants into our oceans. In just five years, we've already had tremendous ocean victories, and with the help of nearly 300,000 supporters worldwide, we hope to turn the tide on ocean destruction.
Like many of us, Oceana wants our oceans to survive. Oceana wants our oceans to be around for our children and grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Through their efforts our oceans may be able to survive. In order for them to accomplish the goal we all dream about, they need your support.
PLEASE, check out their website, www.oceana.org .
With your help, we can all contribute to making this a better planet for our families.
ANNOUNCING ANOTHER NEW PARTNER
Support for No Fish is gaining momentum. Jason and I would like to welcome our newest partner, John Gray Recyclers. John Gray Recyclers pledge is to increase the public's awareness of the importance of the protection of the ocean and the world's coral reefs. They believe that we must all take action to conserve the ocean to sustain the wonderful web of life on our planet Earth.
An example of their tireless work can be found in an article written by Katherine Whitehead, "The Demise of Coral Reefs". Here is an excerpt from her great article:
Coral reefs are a natural habitat for many fish, invertebrates and algae. They have been described by scientists as “the rain forest of the sea”, and are potentially the most diverse ecosystems on Earth.
These coral reef ecosystems are being destroyed by over-fishing, destructive fishing methods, interference from recreational divers, coastal development and global warming.
Due to advances in technology, fishing has become very efficient, over one hundred million tons of fish are caught each year. Sadly this has led to the downfall of many species of fish causing disruptions to the oceans food web. As the numbers of larger fish decline, smaller fish are caught to continue to meet demand. The declining numbers of smaller fish allow accelerated algal growth which starves the corals of sunlight preventing Zooxanthellae from photosynthesising and slows growth. This reduced growth makes corals vulnerable to boring animals, such as sponges, polychaete worms and molluscs which weaken the corals structure and cause them to collapse.
Many fishing techniques are incredibly damaging. Trawl nets used for deep sea fishing are armed with steel weights that are bulldozing entire reef ecosystems. Reefs that have taken thousands of years to develop are being reduced to rubble in an instant. These reefs will not grow back in our lifetime.....
....Forms of fishing that appear to be ecological, such as farming are also affecting corals adversely. Scientific studies have shown that waste from fish farms increases nutrient levels in surrounding waters, resulting in excess algae....
Please see the entire article at: http://www.johngrayrecyclers.org/id63.html
And, as with all of our partners, please help us support them. Go to their websites and see what they are doing to change the world!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
THE GOOD FISH TO EAT
As you all know, Jason is not telling the world to boycott fish. For those of us who like to eat fish two days out of the week, we should be looking for sustainable fish at the grocery store and restaurants.
What is sustainable fish? The Seafood Watch from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium (www.http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch ) defines sustainable seafood as "seafood from sources, either fished or farmed, that can exist over the long-term without compromising species' survival or the health of the surrounding ecosystem is sustainable."
So, Now that you know what type of fish to eat, the second question is WHERE DO I FIND IT?
Look for the fish with the ecolabel! The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC, www.msc.org) is an independent, non-profit organisation that provides a solution to the problem of overfishing. Its blue eco-label can only be used on products from fisheries that have been independently assessed and meet the MSC’s standard for a sustainable fishery. If you are concerned about overfishing and its environmental consequences, choose seafood with the MSC eco-label when you are shopping. The eco-label provides assurance that the product originated from a well-managed fishery and has not contributed to the environmental problem of overfishing.
In February 2007 nearly 500 sustainable seafood products bearing the blue MSC eco-label were on sale in 25 countries around the world. See http://eng.msc.org/html/content_531.htm for stockists of MSC labelled fish.
Check out www.msc.org. If you don't find your favorite grocery store on their list of "Where To Buy", write a letter to the CEO. Tell them you want them to stock the GOOD FISH!
What is sustainable fish? The Seafood Watch from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium (www.http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch ) defines sustainable seafood as "seafood from sources, either fished or farmed, that can exist over the long-term without compromising species' survival or the health of the surrounding ecosystem is sustainable."
So, Now that you know what type of fish to eat, the second question is WHERE DO I FIND IT?
Look for the fish with the ecolabel! The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC, www.msc.org) is an independent, non-profit organisation that provides a solution to the problem of overfishing. Its blue eco-label can only be used on products from fisheries that have been independently assessed and meet the MSC’s standard for a sustainable fishery. If you are concerned about overfishing and its environmental consequences, choose seafood with the MSC eco-label when you are shopping. The eco-label provides assurance that the product originated from a well-managed fishery and has not contributed to the environmental problem of overfishing.
In February 2007 nearly 500 sustainable seafood products bearing the blue MSC eco-label were on sale in 25 countries around the world. See http://eng.msc.org/html/content_531.htm for stockists of MSC labelled fish.
Check out www.msc.org. If you don't find your favorite grocery store on their list of "Where To Buy", write a letter to the CEO. Tell them you want them to stock the GOOD FISH!
Thursday, February 22, 2007
OVERFISHING NEWS
Overfishing is a catastrophic problem that few people know about. It's hard to find a villain to blame. Fishermen have fished for thousands of years. They're doing what their fathers and grandfathers did. A mom going to the grocery store to buy a can of tuna to make sandwiches for her children is not out to destroy tuna. Yet, millions of fishermen and billions of moms are permanently eliminating our ocean's fish.
The BBC ran an excellent story last November in which it looked at a report from Dalhousie University in Canada concluding that there will be "virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue." Pause, and imagine what that would be like.
Steve Palumbi of Stanford University said, "This century is the last century of wild seafood." Read the whole sad story, and then read CNN's summary by numbers of the report.
Yes, the report from Dalhousie sure was a doozy. So much so that Dr. Simon Cripps, Director of the World Wildlife Fund's Global Marine Program said, "For centuries people have regarded the ocean as an inexhaustible supply of food, but in recent years human actions have finally pushed oceans to their limit. This study confirms the scale of the oceans crisis. Governments and industry must act or we'll reach the point of no return for fisheries and the marine environment."
Read the WWF's urgent update.
I'm afraid that Dr. Cripps and the rest of us are doomed to disappointment in governments and industry. One reason Jason wrote No Fish In My Dish is that he lost faith in the world's policy makers to act in time. They will continue doing the wrong thing until it's too late. That's why we need to focus on the consumer side of the problem. Eat fewer fish! That's the answer.
The latest evidence of policy makers letting fish down comes from Brussels, where the EU Fisheries Ministers just set 2007 quotas that are "worse than ever," in the words of Oceana. Ricardo Aguilar, the Research Director of Oceana Europe said, "It's incredible and incomprehensible how Ministers continue to play politics when our fish stocks are in serious trouble."
Folks, it's no joke. The ocean's fish are disappearing. Mr. Aguilar referred to the Dalhousie report when he said, "Only last month an important scientific study outlined how fish stocks risk global collapse if fisheries continue to be managed as they are now. How can Ministers continue to ignore this -- do they really want to be responsible for future generations living in a world of empty oceans?"
Read Oceana's brief on this disaster.
If you're still up for it, there's a lot more. Fill your mind and raise your consciousness by reading: Overfishing facts from Greenpeace About how even fish themselves are already starving, What the National Coalition for Marine Conservation is doing, The Marine Conservation Network's report on bycatch and its elegant 16-page look at the state of America's oceans
Like to eat fish? Don't we all. Luckily, with my solution, you still can. No Fish In My Dish urges you to refrain from eating fish for just five days per week. That leaves two guilt-free fish-eating days on the calendar.
On those other two days, though, you should still be careful about what goes down the hatch.
To help you make gracious decisions, here's Seafood WATCH from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Do your part. Read the book. For five days a week, don't eat fish. Tell others about this site. Join the no fish list.
The BBC ran an excellent story last November in which it looked at a report from Dalhousie University in Canada concluding that there will be "virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue." Pause, and imagine what that would be like.
Steve Palumbi of Stanford University said, "This century is the last century of wild seafood." Read the whole sad story, and then read CNN's summary by numbers of the report.
Yes, the report from Dalhousie sure was a doozy. So much so that Dr. Simon Cripps, Director of the World Wildlife Fund's Global Marine Program said, "For centuries people have regarded the ocean as an inexhaustible supply of food, but in recent years human actions have finally pushed oceans to their limit. This study confirms the scale of the oceans crisis. Governments and industry must act or we'll reach the point of no return for fisheries and the marine environment."
Read the WWF's urgent update.
I'm afraid that Dr. Cripps and the rest of us are doomed to disappointment in governments and industry. One reason Jason wrote No Fish In My Dish is that he lost faith in the world's policy makers to act in time. They will continue doing the wrong thing until it's too late. That's why we need to focus on the consumer side of the problem. Eat fewer fish! That's the answer.
The latest evidence of policy makers letting fish down comes from Brussels, where the EU Fisheries Ministers just set 2007 quotas that are "worse than ever," in the words of Oceana. Ricardo Aguilar, the Research Director of Oceana Europe said, "It's incredible and incomprehensible how Ministers continue to play politics when our fish stocks are in serious trouble."
Folks, it's no joke. The ocean's fish are disappearing. Mr. Aguilar referred to the Dalhousie report when he said, "Only last month an important scientific study outlined how fish stocks risk global collapse if fisheries continue to be managed as they are now. How can Ministers continue to ignore this -- do they really want to be responsible for future generations living in a world of empty oceans?"
Read Oceana's brief on this disaster.
If you're still up for it, there's a lot more. Fill your mind and raise your consciousness by reading: Overfishing facts from Greenpeace About how even fish themselves are already starving, What the National Coalition for Marine Conservation is doing, The Marine Conservation Network's report on bycatch and its elegant 16-page look at the state of America's oceans
Like to eat fish? Don't we all. Luckily, with my solution, you still can. No Fish In My Dish urges you to refrain from eating fish for just five days per week. That leaves two guilt-free fish-eating days on the calendar.
On those other two days, though, you should still be careful about what goes down the hatch.
To help you make gracious decisions, here's Seafood WATCH from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Do your part. Read the book. For five days a week, don't eat fish. Tell others about this site. Join the no fish list.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
ANNOUNCING NEW PARTNERS
Things are really moving here at No Fish. The support that we have been receiving is mind blowing. It is wonderful to see so many people from so many parts of the world to come together to support one cause: SAVING THE WORLD'S OCEANS, ONE FISH AT A TIME!!
REEF RELIEF is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to Preserve and Protect Living Coral Reef Ecosystems through local, regional and global efforts. Reef Relief's mission is to:
OCEAN Magazine is a celebration of our earth's water - its beauty, resources, wildlife - where treasures of the sea exist bountifully but not infinitely.
I would like to announce our new partners:
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REEF RELIEF is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to Preserve and Protect Living Coral Reef Ecosystems through local, regional and global efforts. Reef Relief's mission is to:- Increase public awareness of the importance and value of living coral reef ecosystems
- Increase scientific understanding and knowledge of living coral reef ecosystems
- Strengthen grassroots community-based efforts to protect coral reef ecosystems
- Design, develop, and help implement marine protected areas associated with coral reef ecosystem
- Encourage and support eco-tourism as part of sustainable community development that protects and preserves coral reef ecosystems
- Strengthen our organizational capacity to carry out our mission
Check out their website at http://www.reefrelief.org/
OCEAN Magazine is a celebration of our earth's water - its beauty, resources, wildlife - where treasures of the sea exist bountifully but not infinitely. The ocean, despite its vast power, is fragile. OCEAN is also about protection of the earth's water - its environment, ecology, health, and conservation. Oceanic resources are intrinsically linked to our continued existence.
OCEAN Magazine publishes articles, stories, essays, poems, and photography about and of the ocean - observations, experiences, scientific and environmental discussions - written with fact and feeling.
Please visit OCEAN Magazine at http://www.oceanmag.org/
Please extend a warm welcome to our new partners and visit their websites!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
NEW FISH WELCOMES WILDCOAST
Jason and I would like to welcome the folks at Wildcoast, www.wildcoast.net . WiLDCOAST has partnered up with No Fish to help save the world, one fish at a time.
WiLDCOAST protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the Californias and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas.
Some of their programs are:
Clean Water Now
Clean Water Now! is the rally cry for thousands of coastal residents in south San Diego County and Tijuana who are demanding an end to the ocean pollution threatening their way of life. It is time for our elected officials and policy makers to support a real comprehensive solution to this pollution. Clean Water Now! is the rally cry for thousands of coastal residents in south San Diego County and Tijuana who are demanding an end to the ocean pollution threatening their way of life. It is time for our elected officials and policy makers to support a real comprehensive solution to this pollution.
Laguna San Ignacio
Laguna San Ignacio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is home to sea turtles, peregrine falcons, ospreys, and hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowls and shorebirds, and is the last undeveloped gray whale birthing lagoon on the planet. Laguna San Ignacio is part of a 248-mile-coastline wetland complex that includes intertidal mudflats, salt flats, sandy beaches, and mangroves. This wetland complex is a global treasure and one of the world’s most biologically significant coastal sites.
Sea Turtles
Sea turtles have existed on Earth for more than 150 million years, meaning that they co-existed with dinosaurs. There are seven species of sea turtles, five of which spend long periods on Mexican coasts, especially on the coasts of the Baja California peninsula.
They come from places as far as Japan, southern Mexico and Hawaii. Sea turtles symbolize SURVIVAL, if they survive our destructive and ethnocentric civilization, all other species can survive as well.
Defiende el Mar
Defiende el Mar (Defend the Sea) is a movement in which all individuals, organizations and communities play a very important role. Everyone should be a part of it. We all need to have a basic knowledge of what is happening in our oceans, so we can take action and defend the sea
Check out thier blog at:
http://www.wildcoast.net/site/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=135
WiLDCOAST protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the Californias and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas.
Some of their programs are:
Clean Water Now
Clean Water Now! is the rally cry for thousands of coastal residents in south San Diego County and Tijuana who are demanding an end to the ocean pollution threatening their way of life. It is time for our elected officials and policy makers to support a real comprehensive solution to this pollution. Clean Water Now! is the rally cry for thousands of coastal residents in south San Diego County and Tijuana who are demanding an end to the ocean pollution threatening their way of life. It is time for our elected officials and policy makers to support a real comprehensive solution to this pollution.
Laguna San Ignacio
Laguna San Ignacio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is home to sea turtles, peregrine falcons, ospreys, and hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowls and shorebirds, and is the last undeveloped gray whale birthing lagoon on the planet. Laguna San Ignacio is part of a 248-mile-coastline wetland complex that includes intertidal mudflats, salt flats, sandy beaches, and mangroves. This wetland complex is a global treasure and one of the world’s most biologically significant coastal sites.
Sea Turtles
Sea turtles have existed on Earth for more than 150 million years, meaning that they co-existed with dinosaurs. There are seven species of sea turtles, five of which spend long periods on Mexican coasts, especially on the coasts of the Baja California peninsula.
They come from places as far as Japan, southern Mexico and Hawaii. Sea turtles symbolize SURVIVAL, if they survive our destructive and ethnocentric civilization, all other species can survive as well.
Defiende el Mar
Defiende el Mar (Defend the Sea) is a movement in which all individuals, organizations and communities play a very important role. Everyone should be a part of it. We all need to have a basic knowledge of what is happening in our oceans, so we can take action and defend the sea
Check out thier blog at:
http://www.wildcoast.net/site/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=135
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