On the official
Radiohead website, Yorke backs a Greenpeace campaign calling on world leaders to enforce sustainable fishing, pointing to the enormous demand from western consumers for seafood as the biggest threat to the oceans: "Supermarket demand for fish (not that I eat fish or meat) has meant we are fishing to extinction..... What I find particularly offensive are the enormous nets they use that drag everything up."
Today is the final day of a UN negotiations on a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling, a highly destructive form of fishing using heavy nets weighted with steel doors and rollers are used to catch fish, destroying fragile and ancient deep-sea habitats containing slow-growing corals. Majority of the world's governments together with 1500 marine scientists are calling for a moratorium on this practice in the high seas. A handful of fishing nations are threatening to sink this move including Spain, Japan, Russia and Canada.
In language far more direct than that being currently used in the UN debate, Yorke demands: "Supermarkets should be made to source their fish responsibly and governments should act in the interest of our future to regulate for sustainable fishing - not this mass production/destruction sh*t.”
Greenpeace International Oceans campaigner Sari Tolvanen said "Yorke is right. It is high time we turn the tide on how we treat our oceans. The world's governments now have a unique opportunity to co-operate and protect 67 million square miles of ocean from this massively destructive industrial practice. The world is watching and, for the sake of our oceans and the future of the fishing industry, hoping that the UN delegates make the right decision."
