Friday, July 27, 2007

Call on International Agencies to Support the Fishers of Gaza

The freegaza group (human rights observers, aid workers, and journalists with experience in Gaza and the West Bank) calls:

• upon Fisheries Research Institutes around the globe to conduct research and promote technological development in the fishery sector of Gaza.
• ask this industry to raise their voice over this issue.
• call on them to join the Free Gaza international initiative as independent researchers when we sail to Gaza in the fall.
• ask them to conduct on-the-ground research to reveal the environmental impact of over fishing that has devastated the people of the Gaza Strip.

Their aim is to publicise the problem amongst Fisheries Institutes b) so that Fisheries Institutes take the decision to conduct research in the Strip.


More information on their site. Their research work is based on two UN documents:
http://overfishing.org/interesting/documents/fisheries_gaza/2007_OCHA_special_report_gaza_fisheries.pdf
http://overfishing.org/interesting/documents/fisheries_gaza/2007_gaza_WFP_food-security.pdf

 
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