{"id":5001,"date":"2013-02-12T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/02\/12\/nffo-greenpeace-should-focus-on-the-fishermen\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:36:00","slug":"nffo-greenpeace-should-focus-on-the-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/nffo-greenpeace-should-focus-on-the-fishermen\/","title":{"rendered":"NFFO: Greenpeace should focus on the fishermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two organisations have been at loggerheads following the publication of Greenpeace\u2019s <i>Wolf in Shrimp\u2019s Clothing<\/i> report, which the NFFO said contained \u201cflawed research\u201d. The NFFO says that Greenpeace\u2019s course of action is \u201cdivisive and destructive\u201d to the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Ned Clark, inshore fisherman and Chair of the North East Committee of the NFFO said, \u201cWe would like to meet with them [Greenpeace] not only to be transparent in how we work, but to offer the opportunity for Greenpeace to be involved in the range of real initiatives we have underway that are focused on improving both the sustainability and livelihoods of the small boat fisherman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the NFFO has publically addressed many of the inaccuracies in the Greenpeace report, but says that Greenpeace \u201cstill seems set on continuing a public spat\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>For previous articles on this story, please click the links below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Federation of Fisherman\u2019s Organisations (NFFO) has offered to meet with Greenpeace to identify more \u2018real and tangible ways\u2019 the organisation can contribute to the sustainable and commercial goals of the UK fishing industry.<\/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-5001","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\/5001","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=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}