Pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) live in many places of the world and have a mutualist relationship with sharks, helping to keep the shark healthy and operating at peak performance! Cleaner wrasse and remoras also support sharks, but seeing as we’re targeting airlines, we thought pilot fish were most fitting!
Like sharks cannot operate at their best without their co-pilots, neither can we. So please join us and the organizations below in tweeting, messaging and emailing airlines, asking them to stop facilitating the shark fin trade and to ban the carriage of shark fins on their flights.
Thank you!
Lead Organization
Shark Guardian focuses on shark and marine conservation, promoting elasmobranch protection and appreciation through educational programs, research projects and exciting diving expeditions. We organize conservation activities, public events, dive centre engagement and expeditions worldwide.
Pilot Fish Partners
AGA (Aktionsgemeinschaft Artenschutz) operates internationally to protect and preserve nature, to raise environmental awareness and to prevent the destruction of the livelihood of humans, animals, and plants.
The Brazilian Humpback Whale Institute (Instituto Baleia Jubarte) promotes research and conservation of cetaceans and their environment, plus supporting better public policies for marine biodiversity protections. Has three bases in the Brazilian Northeast and Southeast and promotes public awareness and education in Brazilian coastal communities.
Divers for Sharks (Brazil) is a global campaign to mobilize the dive industry, recreational and professional divers to support shark conservation. 150,000 followers in 85 countries, it promotes public education, supports local campaigns to strengthen shark protection, and participates in meetings.
Keiko Conservation is a group of international volunteers trying to create an easy and accessible platform for anyone to get involved in marine conservation efforts from anywhere in the world.
Mission Blue (USA) inspires action to explore and protect the ocean. Led by legendary oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue is uniting a global coalition to inspire an upwelling of public awareness, access and support for a worldwide network of marine protected areas
The Oceanic Preservation Society exposes complex, global environmental issues, inspires movements, and promotes advocacy using lm, social media, and collaboration.
Sea Shepherd is an international non-profit marine conservation movement using innovative tactics and direct action to defend, conserve and protect the world’s oceans and marine wildlife. Founded by Paul Watson in 1977, today Sea Shepherd is a worldwide movement, with independent national and regional entities in over 20 countries united by a common mission through Amsterdam-based Sea Shepherd Global.
Shark Allies is dedicated to the protection and conservation of sharks and rays. Focus on taking action, raising awareness and guiding initiatives to reduce destructive overfishing of sharks on a global scale.
Sharkproject is an international initiative for the conservation of sharks and the marine ecosystems. We provide education for children and adults, support research on shark conservation activities, and engage in national and international initiatives to reduce the loss of biodiversity in our Ocean.
WILDAID aims to reduce global consumption of wildlife products and increase local support for conservation efforts. Work with governments and partners to protect fragile marine reserves from illegal fishing and shark finning, to enhance public and political will for anti-poaching efforts, and to reduce climate change impacts. When the buying stops, the killing can too.
MarViva Foundation, created in 2002, with presence in Costa Rica, Colombia and Panama, contributes to Marine Spatial Planning, to the solution of the plastic pollution problem, to the promotion of responsible market dynamics for marine products and services and to the strengthening of institutional and local capacities to optimize the sustainable management of the sea.
Deutsche Stiftung Meeresschutz (DSM) fights against the inconceivable exploitation of the oceans and the destruction of marine animals. DSM advocates for a respectful treatment of marine animals, for the preservation and reconstruction of coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, corals and seagrass beds. DSM promotes and/or carries out projects and initiatives aimed at protecting endangered species and their habitats or marine cleanups (plastic issues) as well as educational and awareness-raising work for marine conservation.
Gallifrey identifies collaborative opportunities to tackle ocean conservation issues by identifying synergies that could be exploited and roadblocks that could be overcome by working together. Our model of engagement is to partner with other organizations. Ocean work currently focuses on overfishing, unsustainable practices, creative legal tangential actions, marine and chemical plastic pollution campaigning and education, and credible carbon.
Sciaena is a Portuguese NGO that aims to promote the improvement of the marine environment by encouraging the sustainability of fisheries and other forms of use and minimizing the impacts of pollution through knowledge, education, communication and political intervention.
WTF – Where is the Fish identify national laws per country and take civil action to sue to protect their natural resources for their citizens or nature. This cascade action positively ripples around the world; one case at a time. Our lawsuits cover overfishing, shark finning, bottom trawling, Illegal, unreported or unregulated (IUU fishing), Incursions into protected waters, human rights abuses.
The Sharks Educational Institute (SEI) is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to the education for the marine conservation, focus on the development of issues related to the marine environmental education and in the conservation of all sharks’ species in their natural habitats. The SEI promotes creative educational events for a better environmental marine awareness of everyone, through the cooperation with other organizations and their stakeholders and based on an active participation of all the parts involved.
The SEI Portugal Association is a non-profit marine environmental education association based on the general knowledge development of the marine biodiversity balance related with the protection of sharks. As the Portuguese branch of the Sharks Educational Institute (SEI) its mission is to create and promote educational events aimed at better understanding the balance of marine life supported by sharks. These actions are based on values shared with everyone in connection with the sea:
Respect – for all life and the planet
Collaboration – between science and civil society
Passion – for nature and the surroundings
Creativity – in communication and learning actions
Sharing – everyone’s knowledge and experiences
Hong Kong Shark Foundation (HKSF) is a registered Hong Kong charity dedicated exclusively to shark conservation. They aim to raise awareness about shark conservation, particularly the unsustainable practice of shark finning, and to reduce consumption of shark products in Hong Kong.