The Black Book Organisation

THE BIG BLUE NEEDS YOU

The World Ocean's cover 74 percent of the earths surface an with it creates over half our oxygen, drives weather systems and is home to 80 percent of all the life on Earth.

However we are quickly killing The Big Blue,

We have a responsibility to defend our oceans because without them, life on Earth cannot exist. Its up to all of us to act now on behalf of all lifeforms that call not just the oceans home, but the Earth home.

The rapid rate of destruction is deeply alarming. Both large an small corporations are raping the ocean for profit an greed, having no regard to life its self, instead using the ocean as there own toxic garbage dump. Degraded and stripped of their diversity, ocean ecosystems are losing their inherent ability to regenerate. However its not just big business that's to blame, our carelessness attitude is wiping out 1000's of species daily.

Take the Leatherback Turtle for example.

This animal has been swimming the big blue for 100 million years, survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. We are threatened them with extinction, due to plastic garbage that we humans directly and indirectly deposit in the oceans.

ALL GARBAGE WE DISCARD FINDS ITS WAY INTO THE OCEAN !!

KILLING MILLIONS OF ANIMALS DAILY

*HOW CLEARLY ARE WE RECIEVING THIS MESSAGE *

THE RAPE OF THE WORLD'S OCEAN.

*OVERFISHING

-Canadian Fisheries expert Dr Daniel Pauly warns that "if this continues our children will be eating jellyfish. Meaning, more and more fishing fleets are competing for less and less fish and worsening the existing oceans crisis.

*FISHING NETS/ BOTTOM TRAWLING

-Every year, fishing nets kill up to 300,000 Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises, Sharks an Turtles globally. Drowning in these nets is the greatest threat to the survival of many species. Bottom trawling, destroys entire ancient deep sea coral forests and other delicate ecosystems. In some areas it is the equivalent of ploughing a field several times a year.

*THE FISHERIES

-The traditional fishing grounds in the north have all but dryed up due to over fishing, Large fishing fleets has increasingly turned to Africa and the Pacific. Pirates that ignore regulations and effectively steal fish are denying some of the poorest regions of the world much needed food security and income. Greedy governments turn a blind eye as there pockets grow deep.

THE FARMING INDUSTARY
(Unsustainable aquaculture)

-Aquaculture (fish and shellfish farming) is seen as the future of the seafood industry, but it is not a solution to overfishing. Many modern aquaculture practices emphasise the unsustainable production of species for high-value export markets. Rapid expansion of intensive aquaculture has resulted in widespread degradation of the environment and the displacement of coastal fishing and farming communities.

SHRIMP AQUACULTURE

-Shrimp aquaculture industry is the most destructive, unsustainable and unjust fisheries industry in the world. Mangrove clearances, fishery destruction, murder and community land clearances have all been widely reported.

*GLOBAL WARMING

-The ocean and its inhabitants will be irreversibly affected by the impacts of global warming and climate change. Scientists say that global warming, by increasing sea water temperatures, will raise sea levels and change ocean currents. The effects are already beginning to be felt. Whole species of marine animals and fish are at risk due to the temperature rise - they simply cannot survive in the changed conditions. For example, increased water temperatures are thought to be responsible for large areas of corals turning white and dying (bleaching).

*POLLUTION

-Another significant impact of human activity on the marine environment is pollution. The most visible and familiar is oil pollution caused by tanker accidents. Yet despite the scale and visibility of such impacts, the total quantities of pollutants entering the sea from oil spills are dwarfed by those of pollutants introduced from other sources. These include domestic sewage, industrial discharges, urban and industrial run-off, accidents, spillage, explosions, sea dumping operations, mining, agricultural nutrients and pesticides, waste heat sources, and radioactive discharges. 8 million tons of toxic waste is dumped illegally into the sea.

There are always solutions and measures necessary to create sustainable oceans.

World wide governments need to come together to address this massive problem facing the marine world. because what happens underwater affects everything above the water.

Strict controlled Marine reserves are the only solution can be defined as areas of the ocean in which the exploitation of all living resources is prevented.

ALSO

Strict controlled laws need to be enforced by the United Nations or a moral worldwide governing body. Hefty penaltals given out to ALL who do not abide my the laws. Fines, Boats seized and Imprisionment and needs to be enforced by these authorities.

Working together we will bring that change

Without the Oceans there is NO LIFE NO EARTH.