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Stop "Dirty Fishing" from Recklessly Killing Ocean Life!

Target: National Marine Fisheries Service
Sponsored by: Care2
Each year, commercial fishing wastes more than 16 billion pounds of fish and kills hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, marine mammals and seabirds. These ocean creatures are needlessly caught and discarded, usually dead or dying, by fishing operations around the world. Under existing laws, the federal government is required to reduce dirty fishing. Yet, nearly a decade after Congress enacted laws addressing dirty fishing, the steps taken have been grossly inadequate. Tell the National Marine Fisheries Service to improve their fragmented and unfocused efforts to reduce dirty fishing, and implement practical strategies that produce real results.
deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 8,000
 

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Dear National Marine Fisheries Service,

Under existing laws, the federal government is required to reduce dirty fishing.

There are practical ways to do this. Over the past several decades, managers, scientists, and the fishing industry have identified strategies to avoid and reduce dirty-fishing. These strategies include gear improvements, changes to fishing practices, and time/area closures. However, the Fisheries Service's fragmented and unfocused implementation of these measures has produced few results.

[Your comment]

I would like to urge you to implement practical strategies addressing dirty fishing that produce real results. Ocean life depends on it.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]
We signed the “Stop "Dirty Fishing" from Recklessly Killing Ocean Life!” petition!
# 289:
2:03 am PDT, May 15, Julie Sankey, United Kingdom
# 288:
12:52 am PDT, May 15, Don. Tortoise First Forum, United Kingdom
# 287:
8:31 pm PDT, May 11, Jillyanne Michelle Cape, Missouri
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4:35 pm PDT, May 10, Stela Vasques, Portugal
# 285:
2:42 am PDT, May 10, Lisa Rees, Australia
These practices must be changed because its devastating our endangered marine life.
# 284:
3:20 pm PDT, May 9, Mike Cohn, Michigan
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9:14 pm PDT, May 8, Name not displayed, New York
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6:59 pm PDT, May 6, Beth O'Hara, Maine
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3:27 pm PDT, May 6, Lisa Durnell, Florida
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11:30 am PDT, May 6, Lori Epler Hout, Missouri
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3:49 am PDT, May 6, Kim Kaye, New York
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4:45 pm PDT, May 5, Leeann Schaffer, Pennsylvania
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2:50 pm PDT, May 5, Name not displayed, Colorado
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8:54 am PDT, May 5, Rebecca Graham, Massachusetts
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5:45 pm PDT, May 4, Oksana Herrmann, Florida
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11:21 am PDT, May 4, Jenni Smith, Ohio
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10:25 am PDT, May 4, Kimberly Tilley, Idaho
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8:27 am PDT, May 4, Cher Isbell, Texas
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6:46 am PDT, May 4, Gary Lampman, Tennessee
# 270:
5:21 am PDT, May 4, Celine Bahlinger, France
# 269:
10:05 pm PDT, May 3, XOtzin Ome, Colorado
what's your reason for doing this in the first place and please spare me the for my family and my income speech...
# 268:
4:14 pm PDT, May 3, Ana D. Cruz, New York
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2:51 pm PDT, May 3, ROBIN MCKAY, Kentucky
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1:51 pm PDT, May 3, Ingrid Peeters, Spain
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1:21 pm PDT, May 3, John H. Pieper, Minnesota
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1:08 pm PDT, May 3, Dessislava Tzenova, Italy
# 263:
12:20 pm PDT, May 3, Ben Margolis, North Carolina
# 262:
12:11 pm PDT, May 3, Tanya Payne, Massachusetts
PleAse do put an End to this WASTE....especially today, when theRe is, in faCt a food shortage in our world, even the usa.....Please also haVe respect for life.............................. consider mY groUps petition, as well: "Stop Killing'OUR' Wolves in Alaska and the USA"........ sponsored bY: Tan's Alt. Movement .....here on Care2 and on Myspace/tanyaisa@gmail.com
# 261:
11:15 am PDT, May 3, Michael Quinn, California
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9:44 am PDT, May 3, Steve Crick, Ohio
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5:06 am PDT, May 3, Natalie Van Leekwijck, Belgium
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4:26 am PDT, May 3, Nikoleta Tzenova, Italy
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4:14 am PDT, May 3, Berengere Desprez, France
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2:24 am PDT, May 3, Ben Hillyer, United Kingdom
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11:46 pm PDT, May 2, Russell Houle, Montana
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5:01 pm PDT, May 2, Manuela Ramirez, Germany
# 252:
3:57 pm PDT, May 2, Terrie Williams, Texas
Once the fisheries are depleted--there is no getting back what was abused. When they are gone, they're gone forever.
# 251:
3:03 pm PDT, May 2, Darren Tortoise Protection, United Kingdom
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