Model press release

​​Here is a model press release for WoDEF. It is essential that the media talk about this World Day as much as possible, to raise awareness on the issues around fishing and fish farming: so do not hesitate to contact journalists!

The World Day for the End of Fishing and Fish Farming (WoDEF), March 29th 2025

March 29th is the World Day for the End of Fishing and Fish Farming (WoDEF), which calls for the interests of aquatic animals (fish, crustaceans, octopuses...) to be taken into account. They are sentient and intelligent beings: salmons, for example, can remember a route of several thousand kilometers even though they have only traveled it once, and crustaceans actively avoid pain beyond the mere reflex.

Every year around the world, fishing boats and fish farms kill more than three billion fish and twenty-five thousand billion shrimp. Their agony, which can last up to four hours on fishing boats when they are not eviscerated alive, causes considerable suffering, while aquaculture harms tend to impose terrible living conditions on them, due to frequent problems such as lack of oxygen, parasitism, excessive density, but also to certain painful and stressful practices such as the vaccination of fish or the removal of shrimp’s eyestalks.

It is because aquatic animals are aware of what is happening to them that we must take into account their interest in not suffering. The scientific consensus is clear: we have no need to eat them and therefore no need to farm or kill them.

Since 2017, all over the world, animal rights organizations have been mobilizing to demand the end of aquaculture farms and the end of fishing, an unjust and unnecessary practice. This year, the 190 organizations that support the WoDEF are setting up street or online actions to raise awareness of the suffering inflicted on aquatic animals.

Learn more about the campaign on the World Day's website: end-of-fising.org/en

Press contacts :
Joseph Ancion  : +33 (0)7 69 70 41 54
Yves Bonnardel : +33 (0)6 95 40 85 95