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Interview with a Fish Fighter: Paula Terrel
2007-09-13
Growing up, Paula Terrel was neither a fisherman nor an environmentalist.
Interview with a Fish Fighter: Jorge Valera
2007-09-13
Biology professor Jorge Varela was working as a fishing instructor for the National Autonomous University of Honduras, when he was confronted with a choice that would change his life.
Interview with a Fish Fighter: Niaz Dorry
2007-09-13
In Gloucester, Massachusetts - the oldest settled fishing port in the US - Niaz Dorry defends the livelihoods of small-scale fishermen by advocating for environmental and economic justice.
Interview with a Fish Fighter: Pietro Parravano
2007-09-13
Pietro Parravano of Half Moon Bay, California, doesn’t have much time to go fishing anymore. After 25 years as a commercial fisherman, Pietro has become a national advocate for sustainable fisheries management, fighting for the future of American commercial fishermen.
Fish Fighters: Margaret Curole
2007-09-13
Margaret Curole’s community in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana has deep roots in commercial fishing, but that tradition may be coming to an end.
Fish Fighters: Anne Mosness
2007-09-13
Fresh out of college, Anne Mosness was working as a social worker in Seattle, Washington, when her father invited her to join him for a summer on his fishing boat in Alaska.
Fish Fighters: Alfredo Quarto
2007-09-13
Free-lance writer Alfredo Quarto was not excited to be writing about shrimp farms on his first trip to Thailand in 1992. Unfamiliar with the issue, the peace activist didn’t expect it to capture his passion. However, he would soon discover the dark reality behind the tasty seafood, knowledge that would change his life forever.
Fish Fighters: Marianne Cufone
2007-09-13
When Marianne Cufone was a teenager, the coast was polluted with medical waste. Walking along the beach one day, she saw a beached jellyfish pierced by a dirty syringe. She thought ‘Gee, someone should do something about that,’ and then later Marianne thought ‘Maybe I could do something about that.’
Fish Fighter: Shawn Dochtermann
2007-09-13
Shawn Dochtermann is working to persuade the North Pacific Council to allocate Bering Sea Crab quota share to a crewmen’s cooperative, so that the fishermen who actually go out on the boats can benefit from their work. When an Individual Fishing Quotas program for Bering Sea crab was implemented in 2005, crewmen were not given quota shares. As a result, almost 1,000 workers lost their jobs.
Fish Fighters: Father Sinclair Oubre
2008-03-18
Father Sinclair Oubre is taking the hard and compassionate stance that the welfare of Gulf shrimpers must be protected at the same time that environmentalism and sustainability are practiced. In his eyes, the path to prudence and responsibility means avoiding excessive buffets of all–you–can eat imported shrimp and eating reasonable amounts of Gulf–caught shrimp.