{"id":4994,"date":"2013-02-11T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/02\/11\/greenpeace-nffo-forced-into-embarrassing-climb-down\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T12:48:00","slug":"greenpeace-nffo-forced-into-embarrassing-climb-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/greenpeace-nffo-forced-into-embarrassing-climb-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace: NFFO forced into \u2018embarrassing climb-down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The report into the <\/strong>National Federation of Fishermen\u2019s Organisations (NFFO) stated that the organisation is not what it claims to be – and the NFFO soon came back with 10 flaws<\/a> in the Greenpeace report.<\/p>\n

Greenpeace has since said that the NFFO has been forced into an embarrassing climb-down over the size of its membership following the investigation.<\/p>\n

In the report, Greenpeace revealed that the NFFO claimed to represent a number of fishing associations which turned out to be either defunct or not members. After acknowledging that it had published ‘incorrect information’, as of last week, the NFFO\u2019s website was only showing three of the original 20 fishermen\u2019s associations listed as members.<\/p>\n

Greenpeace has described the move as the \u2018first major dent\u2019 in the federation\u2019s carefully nurtured image as the all-embracing representative of the fishing industry, and is urging the NFFO to finally set the record straight by publishing a full list of its member vessels.<\/p>\n

Greenpeace has also published a list of the findings which it says that the federation has failed to address and the questions it left unanswered:<\/p>\n

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  1. The 8% fig leaf:<\/b> The NFFO hides behind a fig leaf when it insists that only 8% of their member vessels are foreign-controlled \u2013 a figure which Greenpeace says actually validates its findings. It says that the NFFO is keeping quiet about is that the 42 vessels making up this 8% are some of the largest boats in the UK fleet and control over half (57%) of the fishing capacity represented by the NFFO. Greenpeace has asked why the federation is so reluctant to accept this figure – is it because it suggests that foreign-controlled boats account for a large chunk of the fishing quota held by the NFFO fleet, as well as for a big slice of the federation\u2019s revenues from membership fees?<\/li>\n
  2. Out of date:<\/b> The NFFO claims that some fishermen\u2019s associations were wrongly listed as members simply because of a failure to keep their website up to date. But Greenpeace is suggesting that this may have been more than an oversight and is asking if the revisions will be permanent.<\/li>\n
  3. Hogging the stage:<\/b> On the issue of representation for the under-10s, the NFFO maintains that it is ‘against a separate advisory council for small scale fleets’, but Greenpeace claims that in its letter to the European Commission, the federation\u2019s chief also opposed proposals to allow other organisations representing the UK small-scale sector onto existing Regional Advisory Councils, suggesting that the Commission should instead help the NFFO recruit more members among the under-10s. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Greenpeace\u2019s recent report \u2018Wolf in Shrimp\u2019s Clothing\u2019 has caused quite a stir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}