PHOTOGRAPH: NED AND AYA FOR G-STAR RAWCharles Clover is a writer and executive chairman of Blue
Marine Foundation. He lives a mile from salt water in Essex and
is a fly fisherman, catching things that migrate to and from the sea.
The biggest threat to the oceans in one word? Greed
What can we do to help?
Make the law of the sea more like the law of the land
Favourite sustainable fish? Mackerel and herring
Dive caught or line caught? Net for herring, line for mackerel
The ocean saving project closest to your heart?
A marine reserve round Ascension
Your ocean hero? Michael Graham. He wrote The Fish
Gate, the story of crash before each world war and
recovery afterwards. He also hired Beverton
and Holt, who perfected single stock analysis
The endangered species you’d most like
to save? Bluefin tuna, and I think we
actually did. The film of The End of the
Line [Charles’s book] was used in the 2010
campaign to place bluefin on CITES.
It made Europe back more rigorous,
science-based regulation of fish stocksHarry Cory Wright is a landscape photographer who has shot
for Harper’s Bazaar. He lives by the salt marshes of Norfolk.
The biggest threat to the oceans in one word? Ignorance
What can we do to help? Learn
Favourite sustainable fish? I collect shellfish
Dive caught or line caught? I fish with a rod and never dive
The ocean saving project closest to your heart? I’m interested
in the sustainability programmes in the Atlantic and North Sea
to ensure future cod stocks and a secure fishing industry
Your ocean hero? Ernest Shackleton. It goes way back
The endangered species you’d most like to save and why?
Tuna. The fish and the industry have iconic global status,
so it’s crucial that we find a sustainable programme
BrianO’Sullivanisawind
farm entrepreneur and a
Vancouver boy who loves the
oceans – and crossing them.
The biggest threat to the oceans?
Plastic and oil contamination are what
I’ve seen do the most damage
What can we do to help? Just be sensible
and thoughtful. The ocean is not the
“world ’s largest garbage can”
Favourite sustainable fish?
Chilean sea bass
Dive caught or line caught? Line
The ocean saving project closest to your
heart? SeaKeepers Society
Your ocean hero? I grew up watching
Jacques Cousteau. More recently,
I believe Sylvia Earle is doing the
best job engaging the world in
understanding the ocean
The endangered species you’d most
like to save and why?
They all need to be saved!Claire Wrathall is editor ofArt Quarterly, writes for the
Financial Times among other publications and has loved
boats for years. When she was a teenager, she spent an
Easter holiday polishing brass and applying varnish on
a converted Second World War minesweeper as it sailed
from Corfu to Piraeus. In this issue she has written the
Ocean Awards interviews, featuring Pharrell Williams.
The biggest threat to the oceans in one word? Plastics
What can we do to help?
Stop throwing so much away and so carelessly
Favourite sustainable fish? Anchovies. There is almost
nothing savoury they don’t improve
Dive caught or line caught? It depends. I fear trawling
is the only way to catch anchovies
The ocean saving project closest to your heart?
The creation of marine parks has got to be a good thing
Your ocean hero?
I’m not sure I have one
The endangered species you’d
most like to save and why? Polar
bears: there is no more noble nor
beautiful beast, and they depend
on fish and other marine lifeCONTRIBUTORS
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