Extinction Rebellion is teaming up with other environmental groups to stage a ‘Bycatch Parade of Dead Sea Life’ through central Dublin tomorrow (Monday 11 October) to demand better protection for our oceans.
Members of Extinction Rebellion Ireland, the Irish Wildlife Trust, marine conservation group Sea Change and others will march with a mock fishing trawler dragging behind it a large net filled with skeletons of fish and marine life.
Characters dressed as fishermen and dead fish in skeletal masks and costumes will pull the boat while enacting the practice of discarding dead bycatch from bottom trawling in Irish waters.
The effect will be of a funeral procession for dead sea life, Extinction Rebellion says.
The protest begins at the Garden of Remembrance at 11.45am with the groups proceeding to the gates of Leinster House, arriving at 12.45pm.
Extinction Rebellion Ireland will also hold its national general meeting online this Thursday 14 October. Details are available on the event Facebook page.