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We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

GILL NETS EQUAL DEATH TRAPS FOR MARINE ANIMALS

Target: Victoria Kruk, Director, National Marine Fisheries Service
Sponsor: Michael Austin, Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue & Rehab
  • Signatures: 944
  • Goal: 5,000
  • Deadline: 12-31-2006
N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has applied for a permit for a gill net flounder fishery and to be allowed to KILL more than 100 sea turtles in this one fishery each year for SIX years!

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944 8:04 am PST, Dec 27 Mrs. Filomena Pereira  
943 8:49 pm PDT, Sep 4 Ms. Laurel Watson  
942 10:13 am PDT, Aug 1   greta malkotzoglou  
941 6:46 am PDT, Jun 22 Mr. Nicolas Jouault  
940 5:45 pm PDT, May 24 Ms. Cloe Virginia Talldeer  
939 4:42 pm PDT, May 16   Jenny Oestli  
938 3:18 pm PDT, Apr 28 Mr. Zack Newman  
937 9:17 am PDT, Apr 26 Ms. Kristine Spencer  
936 8:18 am PDT, Apr 22   Jennifer Elliott  
935 2:41 pm PDT, Apr 9   Natalie Swaim  
934 8:49 pm PDT, Apr 5   Christine Pearson  
933 8:24 am PDT, Apr 5 Mrs. sherry przybylski  
932 12:19 pm PDT, Apr 3 Mr. Philippe Ducreux  
931 10:32 am PDT, Apr 3 Ms. Ginger Geronimo  
930 3:16 am PDT, Apr 3 Mrs. Jocelyn Koopmann  
929 5:46 pm PDT, Apr 2 Mr. Mick Gill  
928 4:03 pm PDT, Apr 2   Lisa Reali  
927 2:40 pm PDT, Apr 2   Kim Szabo  
926 12:57 pm PDT, Apr 2   lucia izquierdo  
925 12:25 pm PDT, Apr 2 Ms. oana ichim  
924 11:19 am PDT, Apr 2   Hans Lak  
923 10:52 am PDT, Apr 2   ana maria carvalho  
922 10:19 am PDT, Apr 2   Pavel Movchanov  
921 7:54 am PDT, Apr 2   Marcy Morgan  
920 10:12 pm PDT, Mar 28 Mr. Mike Downs  
919 4:08 am PDT, Mar 27 Mrs. Shannon Sultan  
918 1:50 am PDT, Mar 22 Ms. Nicole Terry
917 11:32 am PDT, Mar 21 Mrs. Gillian Miller  
916 11:38 am PDT, Mar 18   Naomi Dutch  
915 1:25 pm PDT, Mar 13   Anonymous  
914 7:01 pm PDT, Mar 10   Richard T.
913 11:45 am PDT, Mar 10   Terry Lee  
912 5:32 pm PST, Mar 8   Sophia Dalle rubinstein  
911 12:39 pm PST, Mar 8 Mrs. UsdiGadu Sequichie-Kerchee  
910 7:31 pm PST, Mar 7   Anonymous  
909 5:45 pm PST, Mar 6   Karyn Keyes  
908 8:07 am PST, Mar 6   Fabiane Neubert  
907 6:16 am PST, Mar 6   avril kettle  
906 7:57 pm PST, Mar 5   Roxann Contrenchis  
905 2:02 pm PST, Mar 5   Kamila Baszczyn  
904 12:05 pm PST, Mar 5   William Harper  
903 7:00 pm PST, Mar 4   Laura Stringer  
902 4:35 pm PST, Mar 4   Pamela Mendoza  
901 4:31 pm PST, Mar 4   Lori Rohn  

GILL NETS EQUAL DEATH TRAPS FOR MARINE ANIMALS

BACKGROUND:  North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries has applied to the National Marine Fisheries Service for a permit for a gill net flounder fishery and to be allowed to KILL more than 100 sea turtles in this one fishery EACH year for SIX years!

OUR RESPONSE:
We, the undersigned, recognize that the ocean, sounds, and estuaries belong to all of us!  As citizens and stakeholders in our resources we REFUSE to let our waters become KILLING FIELDS for endangered and threatened sea turtles, for birds, fish, other aquatic turtles, and any other species that might encounter the gill net death traps.

Therefore, we strongly protest the proposed issuance by National Marine Fisheries Service of said permit to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries allowing the killing of more than 100 sea turtles each year for six years in the gill net flounder fishery.  To recoup this loss to the sea turtle populations would take many generations if it were possible to do so.

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