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KEEPING OUR SEAS ALIVE

Fishlove is the photographic campaign that gave overfishing a famous face. Since 2009, over 150 world-famous actors — Oscar-winners among them — have posed with fish to make overfishing headline news year after year. The European Commissioner for Fisheries called it the most effective campaign of its kind. Now Fishlove is going further — from raising awareness to actively restoring the seas.

Our portraits of celebrated people photographed with fish have been seen by millions of people across the globe, and they have helped our campaign partners notch up success after success: we have helped bring the Mediterranean bluefin tuna stocks back from the brink of extinction, helped make overfishing illegal in Europe, and helped create vast marine reserves on the high seas

We’ve had a lot of success, but there remains work to do. So much damage has been done to our seas, we need to do more than end overfishing. We now need to actively restore species that are on the verge of extinction

This is why, after consultation with experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (F.A.O.) we’re setting up Europe’s first restorative aquaculture project to restore sea urchins and other species along the Southern coast of Italy. It will be the first of many restorative projects that will, we hope, transform the way we use the sea for our food

The collapse of wild fish stocks through overfishing is irreversibly damaging our seas and has been shown to be one of the causes of climate change. After more than fifteen years at the forefront of the campaign to end overfishing, Fishlove is now embarking on an urgent mission to restore our seas by setting up a network of restorative aquaculture farms

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SINCE 2009, OVER 150 CELEBRATED INDIVIDUALS HAVE HELPED SAVE OUR SEAS FROM OVERFISHING BY HAVING THEIR FISHLOVE PORTRAIT TAKEN

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Fishlove and Restorative Aquaculture

AFTER MORE THAN FIFTEEN YEARS AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE CAMPAIGN TO END OVERFISHING, FISHLOVE IS NOW EMBARKING ON A MISSION TO ACTIVELY RESTORE OUR SEAS

The collapse of wild fish stocks through overfishing is irreversibly damaging our seas and has been shown to be one of the causes of climate change. After more than fifteen years at the forefront of the campaign to end overfishing, Fishlove is embarking on an urgent mission to restore our seas by setting up a network of restorative aquaculture farms.

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FISHLOVE HAS CONSISTENTLY MANAGED TO MAKE OVERFISHING HEADLINE NEWS.

We have featured on the front covers and pages of newspapers and magazines around the world. In 2013, our portraits were exhibited at the EU Commission in Brussels in acknowledgment of the role the images have played in saving our seas from overfishing. In June 2023, a major exhibition of the images was held outside the EU Parliament in Brussels.