The port of Capodistria, Slovenia, is just hosting the Greenpeace ice-breaker Arctic Sunrise on her tour accross coastal seas of European union. She is sailing to support small-scale coastal fisheries and to point at damaging effects of the current Common Fisheries Policy that mainly supports unsustainable industrial fisheries with strong negative effect on fish stocks and marine ecosystems in general.

: The Greenpeace iconic icebreaker Arctic Sunrise on its way accross coastal seas of 9 European countries

Greenpeace Slovenia is inviting you to visit the ship who will stay in Capodistria from 17.-19. April. Several events will take place on the ship during her stay. More information is available at: http://www.greenpeace.org/slovenia/koper/ (in Slovenian).

You can support the Greenpeace campaign for implementation of sustainable fisheries in European union by signing a petition – send out a ship with your own message. Your ship will land in Brussels at the end of the Arctic Sunrise tour in June. Your message will be delivered to the European ministers together with messages of thousands of other Europeans.

At DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia we support the efforts of Greenpeace to introduce sustainable marine fisheries in European marine environment since overfishing is not problematic only for humans but it negatively affects entire marine ecosystem, including marine birds like Mediterranean Shag. Some nonselective fishing techniques supported by the current Common fisheries policy, have negative effect as well on those fish populations which are important food source for the Shag but are not important for human diet.

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