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.

And it also turned into specific in my opinion the way the more components of the energy actually work together getting a larger perception

And he fundamentally said… i have a great billion members of Asia to feed. South-west could have been overfishing the brand new waters for a long period. We’ll get the turn. And that i kept perception which i got very mishandled new appointment. Right here, I experienced an email that was that individuals may have even more eating away from an abundant sea. I got entirely didn’t make your keep in mind that bring about he heard myself providing the particular conventional preservation message that is an essential you to however it is simply no more than biodiversity defense.

One forced me to see, better, wait a minute, we can size what we should are trying to do when you look at the a medical metric which is the dining worth of a rebuilt water, the food resource away from reconstructed sea. Just how many delicacies you’ll we feed of an excellent remodeled water? We entitled Bloomberg support and i said, waiting a minute, i’ve a new suggestion. And let’s explore so it food, your food 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 bli omdirigerad hit 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 are sure that, our partners truth be told there the audience is today collecting landings studies within the a keen certified and you will credible ways and you may reporting one to right up. And they’re today event studies toward about forty% of your own total 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 .