And the second book as a spot prize goes to Umbatata who sent several photos including this shark head.  Metiria says: ‘I am prone to the gruesome and this photo was very cool.’

Congrats to Dave and Umbatata.  Send us an email to frogblog at greens dot org dot nz with your postal address and we’ll get your books to you in the post.   Thanks to all the other entrants too.

Frog blog has this cool creative competition up to win a copy of “The Last Fish Tale – the fate of the Atlantic and our disappearing fisheriesâ€? by Mark Kurlansky.

I thought, ‘yeah I can draw a fish!’ but it turns out I’m quite crap at drawing. I am pretty good at designing cross stitch patterns though so I decided to do one of them instead. So my pattern looks like this:

And I decided that I’d use this pattern to raise funds. So I’m voiding myself from the competition but hopefully you’ll enter instead! (and lend it to me if you win )

I have the epattern up for sale in my Etsy store. It comes with all the colour codes to make this Rooster Fish come to life, and full instructions on how to cross stitch. But I’ll also give a free copy of this pattern and one other from my store to anyone who joins the Green Party and sends me a verification of this (which I will double check so don’t try fakin it).

Authorised by Michael Pringle, 2A Zanda Terrance, Wellington.

Cool. I’m looking forward to pictures of cross stitch fish coming this way in the next week.

Meanwhile, here’s some of the entries we have had so far:

Random House, the publishers, introduce the book this way:

Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed? Have the number of large fish in the ocean decreased by 90 per cent over the past 50 years, as has been asserted by a respected scientist? Are 60 per cent of the fish species studied by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation either fully exploited or depleted, as one of their reports attests? Fishing at sea, an ancient trade and a way of life that has defined coastal towns throughout history, may be coming to an end. The culture and traditions of coastal Britain and of seagoing nations everywhere are now threatened with extinction.

To win a copy all you need to do is leave a comment below with a link to either a drawing of something fishy you’ve drawn here on this Queeky drawing site or a link to an online photo you have taken of something fishy.  We’ll get Metiria, the Greens’ fishiest MP, to judge the results.  One prize to the most artistic fishy picture and one spot prize for entering.

We’ll keep the competition open for a three weeks, until Aug 14.