It's not every day that a Gifted Typist encounters a piece of human coral on the side of a busy city street, but this is exactly what occurred today as I idled in traffic waiting for a red light to go green.The roadside coral-clad woman was holding up a sign for all to see. It said: deepseas.blogspot.com.
Being a Gifted Typist of curious temperament, I shouted through my downturned window: "Hey Lady, what's this?" And Coral Clad replied that it's a campaign to raise awareness around the destruction wrought by high-seas bottom trawling.
The fisheries practice of high-seas bottom trawling or dragging is, I gather, destroying fish populations, damaging marine habitats and threatening marine biodiversity in international waters.
So concerned is Coral Clad and her deepseas.blogspot.com friends that they are trying to get everyone to support a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling.
In November the United Nations General Assembly will consider a resolution asking for an interim prohibition on bottom trawling. Canada's Minister of Fisheries Loyola Hearn has not yet decided whether Canada will support the proposed moratorium, but other countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil and Chili have come out in support.
I asked Coral Clad if there was anything a Gifted Typist could do to support this campaign and she said, yes, you can type.
And so I type in support of the moratorium on high-seas bottom trawling. The typists at deepseas.blogspot.com kindly gave me permission to use Coral Clad's picture which I found posted on their website.
