Our No Fish Partners

We are not the only people in the world out to save fish. Below are links to our excellent partners from around the world, who've been kind enough to provide links back to this site in return. Together, we're going to succeed in saving the world one fish at a time. Want to join this page? Please tell Darci.

John Gray Recyclers aims to protect the world's environment and help people preserve their heritage at the same time.

Member Katherine Whitehead wrote an article called The Demise of Coral Reefs, from which this excerpt is taken:

Due to advances in technology, fishing has become very efficient, over one hundred million tons of fish are caught each year. Sadly this has led to the downfall of many species of fish causing disruptions to the ocean's food web. As the numbers of larger fish decline, smaller fish are caught to continue to meet demand. The declining numbers of smaller fish allow accelerated algal growth which starves the corals of sunlight preventing Zooxanthellae from photosynthesising and slows growth. This reduced growth makes corals vulnerable to boring animals, such as sponges, polychaete worms and molluscs, which weaken the corals' structure and cause them to collapse.
We appreciate the link to our site from the John Gray Recyclers home page. To learn more about the organization, please visit their site.

MEER is a German group dedicated to the conservation of whales and dolphins and their natural habitat. Their name stands for "Mammals, Encounters, Education, Research."

From their site:

With our work we want to contribute to the public awareness about the needs of the oceans and the seas, as well as to stimulate conscientious behaviors for how we humans can deal with nature.
To learn more about the organization, please visit their English site.

Ocean Magazine is a celebration of our earth's water -- its beauty, resources, wildlife -- where treasures of the sea exist bountifully but not infinitely.

The ocean, despite its vast power, is fragile. Ocean Magazine is also about protection of the earth's water -- its environment, ecology, health, and conservation. Oceanic resources are intrinsically linked to our continued existence.

Ocean Magazine publishes articles, stories, essays, poems, and photography about and of the ocean -- observations, experiences, scientific and environmental discussions -- written with fact and feeling.

Visit Ocean Magazine's endorsement of No Fish In My Dish here. To learn more about Ocean Magazine, please visit their site.

Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization focused 100% on protecting the world's oceans. Industrial fishing vessels are scooping too many fish out of our oceans while industries on land are putting too many pollutants into our oceans. In just five years, Oceana has already had tremendous ocean victories, and with the help of nearly 300,000 supporters worldwide, they hope to turn the tide on ocean destruction.

We are looking at various ways to work with Oceana, and hope that together we can raise awareness about overfishing. One idea is that we might distribute the MiniGuide to Ocean Friendly Seafood developed by the Blue Ocean Institute in partnership with Oceana. Even before contacting Oceana about working together, we referred to their excellent brief on the disastrous 2007 fishing quotas on our Overfishing News page. Oceana is an effective organization, and makes a perfect partner for No Fish In My Dish.

To learn more about Oceana, please visit their site.

Oceanic Dreams is the site where Wolfgang Leander shows off his outstanding freediving photos. You'd never guess these shots are the work of a self-described "elderly, greying banker from high in the Andes mountains." For a beautiful tour of the ocean world, visit his site.

Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to preserving and protecting living coral reef ecosystems through local, regional and global efforts.

See their link to us here and visit their site at www.reefrelief.org.

Established in 1997, the Shark Trust is a UK registered marine conservation charity dedicated to promoting the study, management, and conservation of sharks, skates and rays (elasmobranchs) in the UK and internationally. The Shark Trust is led by a Board of Trustees, who oversee a small but dedicated Conservation and administration team, a voluntary Scientific Committee and a growing number of committed supporters.

Their website is cool, with excellent photos, tons of information, games, and an innovative Adopt a Shark program. Visit the home page at www.sharktrust.org. See their link to us here.

WiLDCOAST protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the Californias and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas.

It was founded in 2000 in order to protect some of the most ecologically important coastal wildlands, islands and marine areas that remain in California and Baja California. They are home to a variety of endangered marine animals, such as the Eastern Pacific green and loggerhead sea turtles and the last undeveloped gray whale calving site on earth.

WiLDCOAST conservation activities have historically focused on four sites: Bahía de los Angeles, Laguna San Ignacio, Bahía Concepción and the U.S.-Mexico Border coast. Each of these sites contains globally significant coastal and marine ecosystems (e.g. salt marsh wetlands, seagrass beds, coastal dunes, reefs, and mangroves), as well as internationally migrating and threatened marine species (e.g. five species of sea turtles, whale sharks, sea birds and marine mammals).

Since its inception, WiLDCOAST has successfully protected more than one million acres of coastal wildlands and halted the development plans of illegal mega-resorts throughout the Baja California Peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. Through its innovative conservation campaigns, Wildcoast has brought critical attention to pressing environmental issues in the Californias.

Take a moment to read more about their programs. Visit the home page at www.wildcoast.net. See their blog entry about us here.