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RUBRIK HIER The real “World Bank” The Young Global Leaders’ “Restoring Ocean Health” initiative regards the protection of the world’s seas as an economic challenge. Kristin Rechberger, Enric Sala, Jayne Plunkett and Marco Fiorese lobby politicians and businesspeople to create marine protected areas – and Sala says keeping the oceans healthy is a good investment By Guido Walter Photos Björn Göttlicher, Enric Sala 46 The world‘s coral reefs are slowly dying. Here, the erosion process is just starting. THINK ACT SEPTEMBER 2011
ACT: YOUNG GLOBAL LEADERS The Young Global Leaders’ task forces THE FISHING BOAT GAVINA hovers perilously close to the shore of Meda Gran, one of the Medas, a group of seven uninhabited islands off the Catalan fishing port of L’Estartit. The size of the island is almost 47 acres. A ring of buoys marks the area where fishing is allowed; the Medas have been designated as a marine protected area (MPA) to help their flora and fauna to recover. Dr. Miquel Sacanell, 35, throttles the engine, and his boat glides silently towards the shore. “People just don’t realize what a treasure we have here,” he says. “If fish aren’t stressed, they grow in natural conditions. There are more fish, and each one is bigger.” Sacanell is a biologist and fisherman. He began his career as a professional diver, but in 2003 he began fishing, and kept a record of his catches. After two years, he realized that bream and red mullet populations were falling sharply, and no one was doing anything about it. “The administration gets its statistics from sales in the fish auction halls, but the figures are wrong because the fish are caught in lots of different areas.” Dr. Enric Sala is all too familiar with this problem. As a Catalan fisherman and biologist, he has spent many years researching species variety in the Mediterranean and diving near submarine cliffs and coral reefs. He studied with Sacanell at Barcelona University and, along with Kristin Rechberger, Jayne Plunkett and Marco Fiorese, Sala was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Together, they set up the Restoring Ocean Health task forces. “Our approach to restoring ocean health goes beyond environmental care,” Sala says. “The maintenance of the ecosystem is a good investment.” Miquel Sacanell knows that getting this message across to other fishermen is an uphill task. Another boat appears beside the Gavina, and the young man at the helm waves. “That’s Joan,” Sacanell says. “He’s just taken over the boat from his father, and as far as he’s concerned, a good fisherman is one who catches a lot of fish. For me, it’s someone who fishes sustainably.” The issue is regularly discussed by Cofradia, the local fishermen’s association, but when Sacanell presents them with his statistics he receives little sympathy. “They’ll only accept change if there’s something in it for them,” THINK ACT SEPTEMBER 2011 47
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