This document discusses the depletion of marine life due to a lack of integrated ocean governance and overfishing. It presents a new case proposing that these issues violate the rights of the ocean as outlined in the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. Specifically, it notes that regional fisheries organizations set catch limits higher than scientific advice for many fish stocks, threatening their ability to survive. It also discusses inadequate conservation efforts and the impacts of pollution, deep sea mining, and other threats. The document argues for improved ocean governance and adherence to catch limits that allow fish populations to maintain their vital cycles.
13. Lack of Integrated Ocean
Care and Governance
Proliferation of:-
โข Declarations
โข Recommendations
โข Treaties
โข Resolutions
14. Lack of Integrated Ocean
Care and Governance
500 international agreements on
the environment, containing:-
โข Targets
โข Pledges
โข Protocols
To what effect??
15. Lack of Integrated Ocean
Care and Governance
โข Ecosystems continue to decline
โข Ocean acidification gets worse
โข Climate change accelerates
17. Regional Fisheries Management Organisations
67% of RFMO managed commercial fish
stocks were recorded as depleted or
overfished in 2012
18. Lack of Ocean Care & Governance:
Violations of the Universal Declaration of
the Rights of Mother Earth?
โข The right to maintain its identity
and integrity as a distinct, self-
regulating and interrelated being
โข The right to life and to exist
โข The right to continue vital cycles
and processes free from human
disruption
20. Common Fisheries Policy 2014
Agreed that Total Allowable Catch
(TAC) should accord with scientific
advice so fish stocks can be rebuilt
New Case Proposal -
Depletion of Marine Life
21. Northern European Fish:
Total Allowable Catch (TAC) set for 96 fish
stocks (28 species).
60 of these 96 stocks were given catch
levels higher than scientists had advised
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22.
23. Baltic Sea Fish (10 stocks):
In 2015: 5 out of 10 stocks were given
catch levels higher than scientists had
advised
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In 2016: 8 out of 10 stocks were given
catch levels higher than scientists had
advised
24. Deep Sea Fish (16 stocks governed by
scientific advice):
11 of these 16 stocks were given catch
levels higher than scientists had advised
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25. Ministers acting illegally under EU Law
and
in violation of Article 2 of U.D. Rights of
Mother Earth โ that is, the right to life and to
exist, and the right of these fish species to
continue their vital cycles and processes free
from human disruptions
EU Common Fisheries Policy 2014
26. Part 3
Inadequacy of marine
conservation efforts
New Case Proposal -
Depletion of Marine Life
36. The EUโs Marine Strategy Framework
Directive requires that:
โPopulations of all commercially
exploited fish and shellfish are
within safe biological limits,
exhibiting a population age and
size distribution that is indicative of
a healthy stock.โ
Ref. Marine Strategy Framework Directive, 2008/56/EC,
Annex 1, paragraph 3.
