So often we celebrate photographs of poachers being arrested. Some chuckle safely in their warm homes at night over stories of poachers who lost their lives in the frigid Atlantic at night. These images should break our hearts. Nobody wants that life. ...
Michael Brown is an MSc candidate at the University of the Western Cape specialising in marine biology.
For me, these aren’t the faces of career criminals. Nobody seems proud of defying the law. Nobody even wants to look at the camera. These are men from impoverished communities who have struggled to put bread on the table and now find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Forced there by a system that values equity over equality.
We seem to forget that the ones so often facing the wrath of prosecution are those who were forced into these choices out of necessity. These people are generally the ones who held sustainable fishing lives for decades. They were stripped of fishing rights, ocean access and forced into poverty by a government they didn’t vote for. These are the people now who struggle for permits, who battle to break even on legal fishing.
We need to reignite and promote a sense of love and wonder for the land or ocean that people rely on. We care for what we love. By taking these rights away, we risk generations of people who do not know anything about areas they would have relied upon and cared for in the past; and . When I first met Shamier he was instrumental in both of #SeaTheBiggerPicture’s main programmes — the initiative runs beach clean-ups and a youth programme called Defenders of the Blue. These are programmes which give people a love for the ocean and a sense of pride in and respect for it.
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