{"id":75,"date":"2009-06-08T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/06\/08\/edf-celebrates-world-oceans-day\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T03:02:51","slug":"edf-celebrates-world-oceans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/06\/08\/edf-celebrates-world-oceans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"EDF Celebrates World Oceans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2009\/06\/tom-edfish.thumbnail.JPG\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Tom Lalley\" \/>A lot of people are thinking about the oceans today thanks to an official designation by the United Nations of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/depts\/los\/reference_files\/worldoceansday.htm\">World Oceans Day<\/a>, so it\u2019s a good time to step back and ponder why the oceans are so important.\u00a0 They cover 70 percent of the planet.\u00a0 One out of six people in the world depend on seafood for their protein and 200 million people rely on fishing alone for their income.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course much of what we hear about the oceans these day is bad. They\u2019re being emptied of seafood, 90% of large fish like tuna and swordfish have been removed and fishing is fundamentally altering ocean ecosystems.\u00a0But thankfully, there is some really good news too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, EDF chose to focus its Oceans program on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=69\" title=\"Catch Shares\">catch shares<\/a>, a proven, innovative management system for fisheries that is proving itself around the world.\u00a0 A raft of new catch share initiatives are moving across the country and the prospects for broad change are growing.\u00a0 That\u2019s certainly something to celebrate\u00a0\u2013 for fishermen, consumers and the oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people are thinking about the oceans today thanks to an official designation by the United Nations of World Oceans Day, so it\u2019s a good time to step back and ponder why the oceans are so important.\u00a0 They cover 70 percent of the planet.\u00a0 One out of six people in the world depend &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"coauthors":[5150],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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