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People should be encouraged to understand that there is a problem with the ocean and that their daily efforts and attitudes can ultimately prevent a global disaster. The problem the international populace faces now not only concerns fish, or even the ocean, but is all about the way we have been ruining Mother Nature by recklessly overexploiting it. The most efficient methods to reach out to people are, but is not limited to: movies, news corporation advertisements, books and school programs teaching children the value of the environment. It's also about convincing people how the earth's resources are not absolute and will end up one day - in fact very soon if we don't change our habits. And we are convinced that, in fact, only day-to-day actions by every one of us are the key to the solutions. Replacing fish one week by tofu, not buying sushi just for the glamour of it, switching off the lights is what is going to save the world. And people need to understand that the future of the planet is in their hands, as much as how it is easy for them to save it.
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People love to support the causes of their favorite celebrities, and nowadays, the famous are using their influence as public role models to support various causes, from aids awareness to St. Jude's ResearchHospital. By recruiting a few well known celebrities to support our proposal, then public awareness of the situation will increase
Approving grassroots organizations that a further our mission
Putting it in the school and college curriculum
Advertisement on fisheries and oceans on the TV, radio and Newspapers
Documentaries
Documentaries are also an effective way of alerting the public to the current situation.
Implementation:
- In countries:
1. Formation of an international body responsible for gathering scientific data and routing it to the different governments
Implementation:
Individual Countries:
1. Encouraging developed countries to aid less developed countries in adapting to 2. Encouraging rich countries to help poor countries on how to adapt to non-fish economies e.g through preferential trade rates for goods and services other than fish.
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1. Encouraging the government to provide subsidies to companies who want to fish more sustainably or who want to diversify to other fields.
2. Provide training and job opportunities to for fishermen so that the transition out of the fish business to other jobs from fishing is smoother: . Training the fishermen in alternative business such as aquaculture, data collection about the seas and observers on the fishing boats, would help the fishermen to smoothly shift out of the fishing and yet having jobs in their areas of interest.
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