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Stop Deadly "Dirty Fishing"
Target: Your Congressional Representative, House of RepresentativesSponsored by: Care 2
"Dirty fishing" kills an estimated 300,000 marine mammals each year, including whales, dolphins and porpoises, in addition to millions of fish, turtles, and sea birds. The annual death toll across species is staggering, too large to count in individual lives. An estimated 16 BILLION pounds sea life is needlessly destroyed each year.
"Dirty fishing" refers to unsustainable commercial fishing practices such as bottom-trawling and indiscriminate netting. These unselective fishing practices bring up untargeted sea life, also know as bycatch, which is thrown back either dead or dying. For instance, shrimp trawling results in up to 10 pounds of bycatch for every pound of shrimp caught.
"Dirty fishing" is devastating the marine environment. Not only are millions of sea animals needlessly dying each year, but a significant amount of sea-floor habitat, such as deep sea corals and sponges, are destroyed, lessening the capacity of our seas to support life. This waste threatens the health of the entire ocean ecosystem and the coastal communities that depend on it.
This needless destruction can be mitigated. The United States Commission on Ocean Policy agreed that expansion of the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) observer programs can greatly reduce bycatch. Fishery observers are scientists who collect critical data about fishing practices and bycatch levels needed to make more informed fishery management decisions. Current funding is far too small to significantly reduce the huge amount of bycatch and adequately protect the marine environment.
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Sign this petition to urge Congress to increase funding for NMFS' Observer Programs and Reducing Bycatch Initiative for the 2006 federal budget.
"Dirty fishing" refers to unsustainable commercial fishing practices such as bottom-trawling and indiscriminate netting. These unselective fishing practices bring up untargeted sea life, also know as bycatch, which is thrown back either dead or dying. For instance, shrimp trawling results in up to 10 pounds of bycatch for every pound of shrimp caught.
"Dirty fishing" is devastating the marine environment. Not only are millions of sea animals needlessly dying each year, but a significant amount of sea-floor habitat, such as deep sea corals and sponges, are destroyed, lessening the capacity of our seas to support life. This waste threatens the health of the entire ocean ecosystem and the coastal communities that depend on it.
This needless destruction can be mitigated. The United States Commission on Ocean Policy agreed that expansion of the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) observer programs can greatly reduce bycatch. Fishery observers are scientists who collect critical data about fishing practices and bycatch levels needed to make more informed fishery management decisions. Current funding is far too small to significantly reduce the huge amount of bycatch and adequately protect the marine environment.
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Sign this petition to urge Congress to increase funding for NMFS' Observer Programs and Reducing Bycatch Initiative for the 2006 federal budget.
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It's horrible that this is allowed! If we kill the ocean we are killing ourselves. Anyone who has had a fishtank in there home, can tell you what happens if you have an unbalanced tank. All the fish will DIE! The ocean is a big fishtank with a delicate balance! It also supplies us with most of our oxygen through blue-green algae...so if we kill it not only are we killing it's beautiful creatures, but the whole planet! Duh! Get a clue and stop DIRTY FISHING NOW!!!
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how dare sum of these ppl do this these are marine animals that dont deserve to die.
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I'm sure many people would like an ocean full of sea life. I know I would, cos i want to go scuba-diving one day, so I would like to see something. Stop this 'dirty fishing' and save aquatic life.
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Dirty fishing - - - - The name alone implies that something is wrong. If we continue to empty out the oceans, streams etc., none of us will be enjoying seafood any longer, and the greedy will have their money, and the poor fishermen will have nothing in their nets when they fish and no income .(and neither will the we the consumers) But the greedy will have their money.
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I stopped eating tuna over this issue. Fix the problem and weirdoos like me will start eating tuna again. Whats more, there are a lot of weirdoos like me out there. Ocean mamals are absolutely wonderful and what a tragedy it is to think that they could become extinct, or suffer, or die at the hands of short sighted greedy people.
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It is the right thing to do, dirty fishing is inhumane. If you listen to fishing industry arguments about costs, and continue this unnecessary slaughter than you are inhumane as well.
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It's nauseating to think how much damage this practise causes. There are alternatives, use them!
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Keep our oceans clean and our underwater wildlife free from harm.
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This type of fishing hurts not only unexpected marine wildlife, but also local coastal economies, charter industies, and so much more! In WA state, you can't catch bigger fish like they used to because these commercial fisher factories go through and weed out the bigger fish... it hurts fish populations and the effects it is having on marine biology is so harmful... even though the US has some rules, other contrties like Canada don't follow suit... it hurts us all...