Scapêche fishing company30. The aim of the campaign is to demonstrate that the fishery is unprofitable and only maintained by public subsidies. The association has 5 members according to its European declaration of interest published recently31. Membership fees amount to 13 965 € in 2011, compared with 131 601 € from other sources of gifted funds, for a total budget of 186 601€. Bloom, in an offer of internship 15 January 2013 32, writes that it is a “deliberately small structure for more efficiency”. In an older internship offer from 27 April 2010 reference 29344 posted on the emploi-environnement blog33, it added “Bloom is an NGO supported by large international Foundations”. “- Structure délibérément petite pour plus d’efficacité, BLOOM est une ONG soutenue par de grosses fondations internationales.”
Who are these “large international foundations” funding Bloom who are not listed in its European transparency declaration? Support was visibly acknowledged at the “Abysses” (The Deep) exhibition34: prestigious supporters include the French National Museum of Natural History, as well as the TOTAL foundation and the MBARI foundation– Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. On its internet site, Bloom mentions that its passion for deep oceans was triggered by a visit of the
30 http://www.bloomassociation.org/fr/intermarche-sous-perfusion 31 http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=824008510430-67 32 http://www.planetemploi.net/stage-action-educative-conservation-marine-bloom/ 33 http://www.emploi-environnement.com/fr/gestion_offre/visu_offre.php4?reference_offre=29344 34 http://www2.mnhn.fr/abysses/data/pdf/abysses_dp.pdf
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