Happy, Safe, Sustainable Christmas!
What a year!
Thank you for all that you did to help protect and conserve Tasmania’s unique marine life and our beautiful, wild oceans.
If you want to enjoy a sustainable seafood Christmas this silly season, please check out the AMCS Sustainable Seafood Guide online here or download the free iPhone app here. If throwing a line in yourself, please only take what you need for a feed and remind others if they overstep their limits or the boundaries of a Marine Reserve, that we want fish for the future!
If you’re lazing around the east coast of Tassie, please DO NOT catch your own crayfish this summer! The recreational and commercial rock lobster fishery have been closed due to an algal bloom causing excessive levels of Paralytic Shellfish Toxin. For more information on this issue.
Have a safe, sustainable and happy Christmas. We hope you find your own little piece of paradise this summer.
Inspiring Oceans – Monday at the Movies
The grand finale of the Blue on Tour Festival is a screening of Minds in the Water from 10am to 1pm on Monday December 3rd
Join us for a daytime screening of the inspirational film “Minds in the Water”, a documentary that travels with professional surfer Dave Rastovich on his journey from apathy to activism, followed by a panel conversation about how we can contribute to marine conservation in Tasmania.
The panelists include the filmmaker of Plastic Shoreline and Media Producer from Bookend Trust, Ninna Millikin, Coastal Coordinator from NRM South Jill Pearson, and Marine Coordinator from Environment Tasmania and Coordinator of Ocean Planet Tasmania, Bec Hubbard.
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International Blue Oceans Film Festival Premieres in Tasmania
MEDIA RELEASE – 27 November
Tasmania’s first-ever ocean film festival will open this Friday, 30 November in Hobart with screenings of a selection of the world’s best ocean films from across the globe and Tasmania together with panel discussions featuring marine scientists, conservationists and fishers.
Blue on Tour began in California and has now become a travelling film festival and conservation event, taking place in countries around the world from Mexico, to Sydney to Beijing. Blue on Tour seeks to use the power of film to inform audiences about the issues facing our oceans and inspire people to act as marine stewards.
Tasmania’s Blue on Tour Oceans Film Festival coincides with Coastcare Week – a week aimed at celebrating our coasts, raising awareness of their importance, and to thank the hundreds of volunteers from across Australia who help protect and regenerate our coasts every year.
“Screen Tasmania is delighted to be supporting the inaugural Blue on Tour Ocean film festival in Tasmania as part of our festival and events funding program. It is particularly timely with a spotlight on the Antarctic region and the Southern Oceans forming a key element of the recently launched Tasmanian Southern Regional Economic Development plan. Tasmania is the gateway to a rich marine environment and cinema provides a window into this exotic world that can impact on audiences, cultivating ideas and inspiring change,” said the Director of Screen Tasmania, Karena Slaninka.
“I am particularly pleased that the work of Tasmanian film-makers will be showcased as part of the screening program of films from around the world, helping to raise awareness of the talent that exists within our local industry”.
“We still know more about the surface of the moon than we do about our oceans. The Blue on Tour Oceans film festival opens up a whole new world for those of us that don’t get to see it firsthand – to experience the spectacular marine life and dramatic underwater landscapes, and to understand some of the threats to this environment and what each of us can do to help sustain it into the future,” said Rebecca Hubbard, Marine Coordinator with Environment Tasmania.
“We are excited to announce that, along with the world’s best ocean films, the Blue on Tour Oceans film festival will be presenting internationally renowned fisheries scientist Dr. Daniel Pauly as guest speaker on opening night,” concluded Ms Hubbard.
Blue on Tour panelists include fishers, scientists and conservationists
Oceans Film Festival panelists confirmed for Sunday night shenanigans!
Sunday night shenanigans on the Blue on Tour Film Festival will feature Dr Nic Bax of CSIRO, Jon Bryan of the Tasmanian Conservation Trust, and Martin Exel of Austral Fisheries as our panelists. These three individuals have played leading roles in their respective marine areas and will provide their views and experience on the issue of marine conservation and fisheries management challenges and opportunities, following feature film Sushi – the Global Catch and other provocative short films.
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World Fisheries Expert Dr Pauly comes to Tasmania!
Ocean Planet and Environment Tasmania are delighted to announce that Dr Daniel Pauly will not only be opening the BLUE Oceans Film Festival on Friday 30 November at the Stanley Burbury Theatre, UTAS in Sandy Bay, but he will be giving a lecture in Launceston!
SATURDAY DECEMBER 1ST, 6PM-8PM
THEATRE NORTH, 57 BRISBANE ST, LAUNCESTON
$10 ON THE DOOR
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The opportunity to see Dr Pauly is not to be missed!
The author of several books and more than 500 scientific papers, Pauly is a prolific writer and communicator. He developed the concept of shifting baselines in 1995 and authored the seminal paper, Fishing down marine food webs, in 1998. For working to protect the environment, he earned a place in the “Scientific American 50″ in 2003, the same year the New York Times labeled him an “iconoclast”. Pauly won the International Cosmos Prize in 2005, the Volvo Environment Prize in 2006, the Excellence in Ecology Prize and Ted Danson Ocean Hero Award in 2007, the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences in 2008, and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2012. He frequently expresses opinions about public policy, specifically, he argues that governments should abolish subsidies to fishing fleets and establish marine reserves. He is a member of the Board of Oceana. In a 2009 article written for The New Republic, Pauly compares today’s fisheries to a global Ponzi scheme. Pauly featured in the The End of the Line, the first major documentary about global overfishing, which premiered at Sundance in 2009.
Blue On Tour Coming to Hobart!
Environment Tasmania and Ocean Planet are stoked to announce BLUE On Tour coming to Hobart! This international film festival and conservation conversation uses the power of film to educate and inspire audiences on ocean issues.
Come along to the Stanley Burbury Theatre at the UTAS Sandy Bay Campus to watch some great films and listen to some wonderful speakers. Tickets for the Friday and Sunday night events are $15 for adults and $10 for concession, $5 for the Monday session. Tickets are available from Environment Tasmania (email lani.evans@et.org.au to pre-book) or buy on the door.
Opening night: Friday November 30th 6pm-10pm
Join us for some drinks and nibbles, followed by a screening of the stunning feature length documentary “Planet Ocean” and a talk by internationally renowned Canadian fisheries expert Dr Daniel Pauly. Dr Pauly will be discussing the opportunities and challenges of our marine environment – the threat of overfishing and the potential to turn things around.
An evening of fish: Sunday December 2nd 6pm-9:30pm
Fisheries are hugely important part of Tassie life – for recreation, for industry and for the environment. Come along to the Stanley Burbury Theatre for a screening of the award winning film “Sushi: the Global Catch” and a panel discussion between scientists, conservationists and fishers about the future of our fisheries.
Minds in the Water: Monday December 3rd 10am-1pm
Join us for a daytime screening of the inspirational film “Minds in the Water”, a documentary that travels with professional surfer Dave Rastovich on his journey from apathy to activism, followed by a conversation about how we can contribute to marine conservation in Tasmania.
Contact lani.evans@et.org.au for more information, or if you’re keen to volunteer for the opening night festivities!
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Stop the Super Trawler
Late last year thousands of Australians came together to oppose the Super Trawler and we were successful. The ban, however was only temporary and now with the upcoming federal election could be reversed within 3 days of the election.
We have created an email you can send to your MP by simply inputting your post code. To date, Australia has sent out over 5,400 emails. Click below to send yours.
No Where Else on Earth Dinner
Celebrity chef, Kylie Kwong, with three of our finest local chefs, prepared a four course dinner, incorporating local, sustainably caught seafood. An auction included artworks from Tasmanian artists Madeleine Goodwolf and Stuart Williams, and food experiences from Gourmet Farmer Mathew Evans and Chado Tea House’s Varuni Kulasekera and Brian Ritchie.
Visit the No Where Else on Earth Info Page here.
