{"id":9,"date":"2007-08-21T23:13:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T21:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-08-21T23:13:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T21:13:35","slug":"fishing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/fishing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just emailed my trade minister about the fishing crisis. I hope you will, too. In a few weeks, the World Trade Organization will come forward with new rules to govern global fishing &#8211;and if enough of us raise our voice, we can help end the unfair and unsustainable fishing system, in which rich countries subsidize corporate fleets to overfish the oceans. It&#8217;s unfair to fishers in poor countries. And if it keeps going, global fish populations will collapse. (Already, 90% of big fish like tuna and marlin have disappeared.)<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below to sending a message to the trade minister&#8211;and help defend our oceans and our future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/make_fishing_fair\/tf.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/make_fishing_fair\/tf.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/baslife.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/21\/fishing-crisis\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/baslife.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/icon_su.gif\" alt=\"StumbleUpon Toolbar\" border=\"0\" \/> Stumble It!<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/activism\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">activism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just emailed my trade minister about the fishing crisis. I hope you will, too. In a few weeks, the World Trade Organization will come forward with new rules to govern global fishing &#8211;and if enough of us raise our voice, we can help end the unfair and unsustainable fishing system, in which rich countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}