Our legal challenge will be heard in November
A destructive deep-sea fishery that catches century-old fish and rips up ancient corals is about to be certified as ‘sustainable’.
The Australian orange roughy fishery profits off of our threatened species. Now they’ve applied for the Marine Stewardship Council’s blue tick of sustainability.
We need to urgently raise $10,000 in just 26 days to fight the greenwashing of our orange roughy.
Can you make an urgent donation to help cover the legal costs?
Way down deep in our cool southern seas lies a chain of ancient sea mounts—deep-sea mountains home to ancient, fragile corals and slow-growing fish. Ancient endangered orange roughy fish live here. These fish were born as far back as 1870 when Ned Kelly was a boy. It should be a safe haven for orange roughy, which are still recovering from being almost wiped out by overfishing!
But their recovery is under threat.
Deep sea trawlers are scooping up ancient orange roughy for foreign fish markets, even though they’re not predicted to recover to truly sustainable levels until after 2070!
Most Australians would be appalled at the thought of eating an endangered animal, yet there’s a glaring loophole in Australia’s broken environmental laws that allows fishers to still catch and sell some endangered species.
Sound sustainable? Hardly.
Yet according to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), this fishery is set for their ‘blue tick’ of approval but we are going to mount a legal challenge against the greenwashing of this destructive fishery.
With your help, we can fight this destructive fishery.
With your support, we can win this case.
When we oppose this destructive fishery and make our case, we will be fighting on behalf of all the caring ocean lovers who want the next generations to inherit healthy, full-of-life oceans.
Donate to mount a challenge against the greenwashing of destructive fisheries.
We need to raise $10,000 – can you make an urgent donation to help?
All donations over $2 are 100% tax-deductible. Our important campaigns are not funded by Government grants, we are totally reliant on generous people like you to protect Australia’s oceans and the animals that call them home. The project represents a proposed action of AMCS’ work. In the event the project is over-funded or postponed your gift will go to work to be the voice for Australia’s oceans, funding a similar project or working on conservation advocacy for threatened species.