'E Tudo Mentira' - It's all a lie

Shrimp farming in Brazil is devastating the lives of coastal communities and wrecking the environment.

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EJF CAMPAIGNS TO:

1. Promote more environmentally sustainable and socially equitable shrimp production.

2. Raise consumer awareness of the negative social and environmental effects of unregulated shrimp fisheries and aquaculture and to encourage responsible and sustainable seafood consumption.

3. Foster commitment and co-operation from industry stakeholders nationally and internationally to ensure transparency and traceability through the entire shrimp supply chain.

4. Empower grassroots organizations in the developing world, providing film and advocacy training that enables them to document the issues and oppose unsustainable industrial shrimp farming that threatens local communities and the natural environment.

LATEST NEWS

10.10.2012

Check out the updated EJF Consumer Guide to Prawns!

Every time you are faced with purchasing prawns, consider how much you know about their production. Can you be sure it didn't cause environmental degradation or lead to human rights abuses? Use this guide in your supermarket, restaurant or fishmonger.

06.09.2012

A new EJF report and film are on their way documenting human rights violations and labour abuses in the global shrimp sector, with a special focus on Bangladesh.

20.08.2012

EJF interview with Juliet Savigear, regular contributor to one of the UK's top diving magazines, Tanked Up.

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Take action on shrimp

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