John, I’d like to introduce you to Ernesto Gastelum.
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Like his father, uncles and brothers, he's always made his living by catching bivalve mollusks - like the one he’s showing off in the photo below - and other fish in the waters near his home in Rocky Point, Sonora, Mexico.
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30 years ago, the family business was booming. But in recent years, their catch has declined by 60%, making it harder to make ends meet.
Your Membership Month contribution will be doubled in value to help rebuild the world’s collapsing fisheries and improve the lives of people like Ernesto and his family.
Did you know that the world’s oceans trap as much as 93% of the heat caused by global warming?
Warming oceans are disrupting wild fisheries, jeopardizing the health and prosperity of 3 billion people who rely on fish as a key protein source, and hundreds of millions who make their living on the seas.
Once-vital communities are struggling. Once-plentiful seafood is becoming harder and harder to find.
Will you make a Membership Month contribution to help bring economic and food security to more than 1 billion people worldwide who depend on healthy fisheries to survive and thrive?
Ernesto is at the forefront of a global fishing revolution, doing what he can to ensure a sustainable future for his son. He knows that he can’t do it all, but he must do his part:
"It sounds difficult, but it’s not impossible. This is a global problem. [It] affects all of us. It’s a message that has to reach all fishermen, so we can each add our grain of sand.
"Every step we take, we need to think of our children, our nephews, our grandkids. What kind of Mexico, what kind of world, what kind of seas and oceans are we leaving them? The present and the future of fishing is in our hands.”
- Ernesto Gastelum
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