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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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No-one needs to eat fish so there is no justification for the damage to the ocean and the creatures that live in it.
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JUST TAKE WHAT YOU WANT AND THROW BACK THE DEAD AND DYING,,,NO BIG DEAL HUH? ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW,,,SHAMEFUL AND DISGUSTING! THE WASTE OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET JUST MAKES ME WANT TO CRY.
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Are you really that stupid you need a housewife from FL to tell you why it's wrong?
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It's insulting to our intelligence, and pointless killing. What a complete lack of competence.
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So to catch certain fish, we destroy all the other fish that are trapped in the process? Does this really make any sense? Haven't we already destroyed enough living creatures? What's next with this line of thinking??? Throwing explosives into a body of water to get one certain type of fish for food, and destroy the entire population of the ocean? Each and every fish was put in the ocean by God to fulfill a certain purpose. When we destroy all fish, we will eventually destroy our oceans altogether.
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because we need fish more than we need congress
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"Dirty Fishing" needs to end for the sake of the marine animals that are being needlessly destroyed as well as for the preservation of the marine ecosystem that is being destroyed by this strip-mining sort of "fishing". Even those who are NON-vegetarian/vegan, and would normally eat seafood, will be boycotting seafood if this "dirty fishing" continues.
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The earths population and the need for food puts a strain on supplies. We must guard how we gather to supply our needs. We must start treating what we have with respect. Before we lose it all.
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i am a vegetarian for six years-killing animals or fish is unnecessary-it is a primitive instinct of a predatory nature that man should overcome.lets evolve
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I understand the necessity of commercial fishing, however, bottom trawling is not needed. To discard fish and mammals caught in these nets as garbage is inhumane. We need to have regulations. The government need to monitor these commercial fisherman just like the "weekend fisherman".