WoDEF - The World Day for the end of Fishing calls for the abolition of fishing and fish farming.
In 2020, it will take place on March 28th!
Animal Rebellion Turtle Island encourages all local chapters to create an action on this day or join in solidarity any local actions organized for this event.
The World Day for the End of Fishing is held the fourth Saturday of March every year. It calls public attention to the “aquatic question”, that is, the existence of sentient beings whose lives we usually ignore and who are subjected to routine violence. It offers an opportunity to progressive people and organizations to condemn the exploitation of aquatic animals and express solidarity with them.
The World Day provides an opportunity to ask publicly the abolition of the exploitation of aquatic animals, that is, the prohibition of fishing and fish farming. This prohibition will not come in a day. We need to speak out now on how these animals are treated. The aim of the World Day is to attract public attention to the exploitation of aquatic animals in order that this day may come.
Animal Rebellion Turtle Island’s mission is innovative, strong and unique. Our aim? End of Animal Agriculture and Industrial Fishing.
We have woken up to the climate and ecological emergency unfolding around us. We know it is of our making—which means we have the power, and responsibility, to stop it. Every day we know more about how we’ve reached this point. Every day it becomes clearer that animal agriculture and fishing are leading causes of climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse. Billions of land animals and trillions of fishes are killed every year in an unjust and unsustainable food system that destroys rainforests, depletes our oceans, and cannot feed the planet. We know time is running out.
Within Animal Rebellion, justice for animals (anti-speciesist and systemic approach) and justice for a healthy environment are coming together. We are environmental movement for all, working towards a compassionate and safe world for all sentient beings, regardless of their species.
Some Pictures from past actions from WoDEF
We invite the actions to concentrate on both environmental and anti-speciesist aspects.
Some anti-speciesist aspects.
- Fish do feel pain. They all have a distinctive personality traits and they recognize individually their congeners, with whom they communicate.
- Octopuses and squids also have remarkable cognitive capabilities. They feel pain too, just like lobsters, crabs and shrimps.
- It is not because we often have spontaneously less sympathy for aquatic animals that their life and their happiness have less importance – it is their life, their happiness which matters first of all, before our sympathy, our preferences.
Some environmental aspects.
- Approximately 46% of the 79 thousand tons of ocean plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of fishing nets, some as large as football fields
- More than 640,000 tonnes of nets, lines, pots and traps used in commercial fishing are dumped and discarded in the sea every year, the same weight as 55,000 double-decker buses.
- “Nets and lines can pose a threat to wildlife for years or decades, ensnaring everything from small fish and crustaceans to endangered turtles, seabirds and even whales,”
More Pictures from past actions from WoDEF
