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Fish Fight Europe (In Development)
Summary
In January 2011, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall fronted a highly successful TV and online campaign, which exposed the madness of discards - a policy which sees hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish wasted every year. In 6 months, 750,000 people have signed up to the petition asking the EU Parliament to stop discards.
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Filmmaking Team
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Will Anderson
Director
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Jo Haslam
Producer
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Jacky Sloane
Producer
About the Film
In order to roll the Fish Fight campaign out through Europe and help change European fishing policy for the better, we need to make TV programmes in France, Germany, Poland and Spain. We will simultaneously launch digital campaigns (websites, Facebook and Twitter) to coincide with the transmission dates. Our aim is to have 2 million signatures for our petition and keep the pressure up on all policy makers across Europe as the Common Fisheries Policy reform process takes place.
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION CURRENT STATUS:
GERMANY: Waiting to confirm 1hr commission on Germany's fishing industry presented by Tim Maeltzer for NDR.
POLAND: Celebrity food critic and journalist Robert Maklowicz has confirmed involvement.
FRANCE: Awaiting commitment from Fish Fight France 'champion'.
SPAIN: Awaiting commitment from Fish Fight Spain 'champion'.
- 2011 Phillips British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA) Winner
- 2011 Broadcast Digital Awards Winner
- "We need effective campaigns like Hugh’s Fish Fight to wake up people to support change."EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki - Feb 3rd 2011
- "I'm right behind Hugh's Fish Fight. It's mad that we're wasting thousands of tons of prime fish."Richard Branson
- "The Fish Fight is important. It is so fantastically easy for us to make a difference by doing a small something and so appallingly easy for us to be complicit in a complete disaster by doing a big nothing. "Stephen Fry
- "You can't conserve fish stocks by throwing dead fish back into the sea. Simple as that. If we all get behind this campaign the policy makers in Europe can't ignore it. "Jamie Oliver
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