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Stop Fish Bombing is a project under the fiscal sponsorship of Earth Island Institute in Berkeley, California that provides 501(c)(3). Not For Profit status Tax ID: 94-2889684.

Earth Island Institute’s mission consists of supporting groundbreaking activist projects, mentoring a new generation of environmental leaders, and engaging the public and private sectors with innovative ways of protecting the well-being of our planet. In line with its mission, Earth Island serves as an incubator for environmental initiatives and provides long-term support for established projects through its fiscal sponsorship program.

Stop Fish Bombing Malaysia is the operational partner with SFB USA in addressing the need in protecting the well-being of our planet, and specifically the stopping of Fish bombing as an Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) destructive form of fishing.

SFB and SFB Malaysia were originally affiliates of the international organization Stop Fish Bombing! (SFB International), which was under fiscal sponsorship of the Hong Kong-based NGO Teng Hoi (Listen to the Sea) until December of 2020. A special meeting of the SFB Board was called in December to consider the proposal by Dr. George Woodman to disestablish Stop Fish Bombing International, to dissolve the Board of Directors and shift SFB responsibilities to Executive Director Terence Lim, SFB Malaysia. The members of the Board agreed with this proposal. Terence continues his operational duties working directly with SFB to Stop Fish Bombing worldwide. Click here for full minutes of the board meeting.

The SFB Executive Director is (Capt. ret.) Dieter Rudolph and SFB Malaysia’s Managing Director is Mr. Terence Lim.

Project Partners:

Stop Fish Bombing! (SFB International) was a dedicated non-profit charitable entity under the umbrella of Teng Hoi’s charity status (charity number: 91/7402 ). It was founded as a collaborative endeavor by three organizations that have the expertise, track record and networks to make it work: Scubazoo, SST, and Teng Hoi.

A special meeting of the SFB Board was called in December to consider the proposal by Dr. George Woodman to disestablish Stop Fish Bombing International, to dissolve the Board of Directors and shift SFB responsibilities to Executive Director Terence Lim, SFB Malaysia.

Click here for details.

Semporna Islands Project (SIP), a Sabah based NGO established in 1984 with a mission to protect the outstanding marine biodiversity in the Semporna area and ensuring a better future for the islands and reefs and the people who depend on them. The project director of SIP is Dr. Elizabeth Grimwade.

Scubazoo (SZ) is a Malaysian registered and FINAS-licensed company incorporated in 1997. Based in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, SZ is both production company and turnkey filming services provider for broadcast programming, specializing in marine and jungle locations in South East Asia.

Over the past 18 years, SZ has managed locations for more than 145 hours of program production in South East Asia for international broadcast and its cameramen have filmed for more than 150 programs from Natural History blockbusters such as BBC’s celebrated Life Story & Human Planet – Oceans, to hit reality shows like Survivor, The Amazing Race and Man vs Wild. Recognized by production companies around the world as the go-to provider of first class underwater filming services in South East Asia, SZ has also published several high quality coffee table books; selling over 500,000 copies internationally.

DHI Water and Environment (M) Sdn. Bhd. (Company No. 535484-V) is a Malaysian incorporated company formed in 2001, with the share capital held by DHI’s head office in Denmark. DHI Malaysia is based in Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu, following on from DHI’s branch office established after the completion of the West Coast of Sabah Shoreline Management Plan study executed for the Sabah State Government over the period 1997 to 1998.

The field components of this our initial project are in the Malaysian State of Sabah in Northern Borneo, and will require the support of the Governments of Malaysia and Sabah as represented by Sabah Parks Board of Trusties in the first instance. SFB Malaysia and SIP will coordinate appropriate government cooperation, to include interdiction of bombers by responding to our underwater BlastSpotter alerts.

SFB People:

Dr. Robert Showen - Director of SoundThinking™ Labs

Dr. Showen is SoundThinking’s (formerly ShotSpotter) founder and patent holder on the technology. With over three decades of acoustic and geophysics research experience, it was Dr. Showen’s initial vision of helping police curb gunfire and urban crime that caused him first to conceive of SoundThinking™.

Engineer, scientist, and teacher, Dr. Robert L. Showen attended San Jose State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Rice University. He obtained degrees in electrical engineering and space physics and won a fellowship to the Max Planck Institute. He has taught astronomy and physics at the University of Puerto Rico, performed experiments to heat the ionosphere at the world’s largest RADAR, participated in the development of over-the-horizon RADAR at SRI International, and studied the effects of lightning on the ionosphere.

Presently he is writing patents for SoundThinking™, pursuing technical developments especially involving acoustics, and working on “Stop Fish Bombing!” This is a collation seeking to end this destruction practice which is destroying the world’s tropical reefs. The technical effort will substitute the SoundThinking™ sensor microphones with hydrophones and allow location of the underwater blasts enabling marine police to suppress this all-too-common activity.