The Ocean Starts Here - Talk

Join us in our exhibition space for a talk by Roc Sandford on the devastaing impacts of Salmon Farming, and by wildlife conservationist Alex Hofford, who will talk about overfishing and the harmful fishing methods used by a neo-colonial, out-of-control, tuna industry.

Roc Sandford

Roc has been campaigning against Salmon Farming for over 10 years.

Roc has worked on perceptual bias at Bristol, Penn State, and UCL. They have engaged at senior level with UN, finance and government, have presented at WEF Davos and in academia and have taken part in symposia at Bellagio and Nato Advanced Studies Institute, and in academia. They deliver an uncompromising message of emergency and of the technical inadequacy of current policy response and timescale, proposing sector-specific technical asks to deliver rapid climate and biodiversity repair.
They have been part of Extinction Rebellion, Writers Rebel, the XR Catalyser program of disruptive dialogue with people in places of power, and the artists’ collective Ocean Rebellion since each began.
They serve as a trustee of Mathematical Sciences UK & Gerry’s Pompeii. They are a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Alex Hofford

Alex is a highly experienced environmental campaigner with an impressive track record in organising and leading important and successful campaigns for change in some of the most challenging parts of the world. Based in Hong Kong for over 20 years, Alex led a high-profile movement to ban the city’s rampant shark fin trade, convinced major hotels and restaurants to stop serving the dish and scores of airlines and shipping lines to stop carrying this egregious product. Alex also spearheaded a successful campaign to ban the Hong Kong ivory trade. He is an accomplished and persuasive communicator and resourceful, strategic and innovative organiser with a global network of top-level contacts in the environmental sphere. In Asia Alex also worked as a professional photojournalist, his photos have been widely published by leading international newspapers and magazines. Alex returned to the UK in 2019 and has been working first as a consultant for WildAid, and subsequently as a marine wildlife campaigner for the Shark Guardian charity and a convenor of the Coalition for Transparent Tuna Fisheries.

To allow our workshops to be accessible to all we are able to offer our workshops for a nominal fee and we have a limited number of free places for each session.

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A crowd gathers outside the Blue Food Innovation Conference to photograph an Ocean Rebellion living sculpture (the Tuna Can will be a part of the exhibition).

Host or Publisher Ocean Rebellion