Andrew Sharpless: – working with Bloomberg. And then I went away and I thought about a conversation I had had in Geneva with the Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, Mr. He listened to me very respectfully talk about how there were all kinds of measures of serious problems in the ocean.
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And then he basically told you… i’ve a great mil people in China to pass through. South-west could have been overfishing the latest oceans for some time. We’re going to score our change. And i also leftover feeling which i got really mishandled this new meeting. Here, I got an email which was that we could have even more dinner out of a wealthy sea. I experienced totally did not make him keep in mind that bring about he read me personally providing the brand of old-fashioned preservation content that is an important you to but it’s merely just about biodiversity coverage.
That forced me to understand, well, hold off a moment, we could scale that which we are performing when you look at the a health-related metric which is the restaurants worth of an effective rebuilt water, your food financing regarding reconstructed water. Just how many edibles you will i supply from a remodeled ocean? I named Bloomberg backup and that i told you, wait one minute, we have a different sort of idea. And you will let us talk about it restaurants, meals metric.
Melissa Wright: You were able to bring back that epiphany and help develop what’s now a 3-country effort around overfishing. And I saw this work in action and in a recent trip to Brazil and was so impressed and inspired. And one of the side trips that we went on when I was in Brazil was to Itajai, and which I understand is one of the largest commercial fishing ports in Brazil.
Andrew Sharpless: They’re surprising big, aren’t they? I mean you – the audience should understand we’re not talking about like two guys in a little, you know, 15-foot skiff.
Melissa Wright: And Monica, the Brazilian rep from Oceana was telling me about how there was a lack of information, now, about what those boats are bringing in, which species, how much, when, and where they’ve been fishing because the country stopped monitoring their landings or their catch a few years ago. Can you speak to what impact that has had on the fisheries in Brazil and the work of Oceana?
Andrew Sharpless: So I’ve taken that same trip with you and it’s very impressive. The scale of our ability to catch ocean fish is enormous. And you see it as you go down that river and you’ll see these vessels that are stories and stories high – four or five or six stories high. So amazingly Brazil has collected no data on its own fisheries since 2008. Brazil’s had a kind of a budget crisis in that year. One of the ways they saved money was by cancelling all data collection efforts on fishery catches.
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And so dealing with, you know, our very own partners truth be told there we are now event landings research inside the an formal and you may reliable ways and you can revealing one to upwards. And they’re now collecting data for the from the forty% of your overall fishery hook.
Andrew Sharpless: Yeah. Which is a pretty basic step, we can all see how that starts to set the conditions for, you know, scientific and sensible management. We’ve just launched together with this little enterprise called Google, and Sky Truth, an NGO, is our other partner. It’s called Global Fishing Watch. And your listeners can go to .