Fraud who can! The ecological and educational cartoon that puts electric fishing out of action

When we hear about it ecologyit’s often about 8-minute private jet rides, disaster garment factories, or vegetarianism, (and this is Much better).

But some subjects just like essential give the impression of being less accessible: this is the case with electric fishing.

What is Electric Fishing?

Luckily BLOOM dedicated a comic strip full of them pedagogyfrom rigor is one generous dose of humour. Enough for understand ecological, political and social issues around this deadly fishing technique for the environment.

Behind the book is the BLOOM association, a small NGO that fights against the destruction of oceans and fishermen protecting them from electric fishing. This method, sometimes called Sin impulse tow (formula dear to marketing lobbyists as it avoids the violence of the word electric) sends an electric current of 10 volts through the meshes of a net. When a fishing boat scrapes the bottom of the sea, paralyzes living beings and recover them more easily.

An educational comic…

Despite the total investment of its members (a subject like the exhaustion of activists is very aptly evoked in the comic), the fight waged by BLOOM is titanic. I have to say the adversary is powerful enough to bend European lawswhy yes: electric fishing really is a prohibited practice.

Yet the large industrial groups The Dutch manage to get around them thanks to an army of lobbyists equipped with many financial, political and human resources. Speaking of which deductions and pressure on political, national and European institutions, these lobbyists ensure the dissemination of this extremely profitable but particular violent and destructive to underwater fauna and flora.

Activist, fun and entertaining!

All this, the comic tells it with precision. On all pages, bad faith arguments, marketing strategies and fraudulent methods industrialists are highlighted by so that it’s as convenient as it is fun.

What to disassemble everything The ideas received on a method sometimes presented as environmentally friendly, when it’s quite the opposite!

Among the most catastrophic aspects of this intensive fishing method are animal suffering. One of the studies mentioned in the comic tells us so 39% to 70% large cod to have fractured spine and internal bleeding from electric shock.

Richly illustrated, plentiful and fun, Fraud who can! it is also a beautiful tribute to all the activists involved in the struggle for harmony between the Earth and living beings.