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Tell Congress to Protect Our Oceans
Target: U.S. CongressSponsored by: Marine Fish Conservation Network
Our oceans are in serious decline. Overfishing, marine habitat destruction, coastal development, and pollution are pushing our ocean systems to the brink of collapse.
Urge your Representative to support strong marine protections. Ocean fisheries have significant effects on ocean ecosystems and are integral to national and coastal economies. That's why these activities have to be carefully managed.
In recent years, two national commissions have recommended strengthening marine protections. However, no action has been taken by the Federal Government to address this growing problem. Rather than building on the strengths of the current law, Congress is considering weakening longstanding safeguards, which would increase serious environmental threats to ocean fish and marine ecosystems.
Congress needs to know that we care about the health of our oceans and want them to oppose efforts to weaken marine protections.
Urge your Representative to support strong marine protections. Ocean fisheries have significant effects on ocean ecosystems and are integral to national and coastal economies. That's why these activities have to be carefully managed.
In recent years, two national commissions have recommended strengthening marine protections. However, no action has been taken by the Federal Government to address this growing problem. Rather than building on the strengths of the current law, Congress is considering weakening longstanding safeguards, which would increase serious environmental threats to ocean fish and marine ecosystems.
Congress needs to know that we care about the health of our oceans and want them to oppose efforts to weaken marine protections.
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# 11,284:
2:46 pm PDT, Apr 23,
Desiree Diaz, Illinois
# 11,283:
2:37 pm PDT, Apr 20,
Cynthia Parker, Virginia
# 11,282:
12:15 pm PDT, Apr 20,
Angela Sinker, Kentucky
# 11,281:
9:50 pm PDT, Apr 19,
Frances Gloor, Washington
# 11,280:
9:15 pm PDT, Apr 19,
Jenny Vegan, United States Minor Outlying Islands
# 11,279:
9:49 pm PDT, Apr 15,
Crystal Kells, Canada
# 11,278:
8:30 am PDT, Apr 13,
Jenny Lu, California
I find our oceans to be one of the most lovliest wonders in the world, full of mysteries and creatures that challenge our very imagination. Please don't pry that from us.
I find our oceans to be one of the most lovliest wonders in the world, full of mysteries and creatures that challenge our very imagination. Please don't pry that from us.
# 11,277:
5:22 pm PDT, Apr 6,
Natalie Swaim, Iowa
# 11,276:
1:07 am PDT, Apr 6,
Can Atik, Turkey
# 11,275:
8:47 pm PDT, Apr 4,
Shawn Williamson, California
# 11,274:
3:41 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Silky Wyld, Wisconsin
# 11,273:
2:34 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Jessie Polk, Kansas
# 11,272:
1:14 pm PDT, Mar 26,
Esther Elizabeth Crompton, South Carolina
The ocean has a very delicate food chain and we our destroying it by the minute. All it takes is one species driven into extinction to create a dominos effect for all the rest. Still there is another problem here, the welfare of the people who depend on fishing for a living the government needs to step in and provide alterative jobs or a source of income for the low income areas that depend on fishing for a living.
The ocean has a very delicate food chain and we our destroying it by the minute. All it takes is one species driven into extinction to create a dominos effect for all the rest. Still there is another problem here, the welfare of the people who depend on fishing for a living the government needs to step in and provide alterative jobs or a source of income for the low income areas that depend on fishing for a living.
# 11,271:
6:33 pm PDT, Mar 24,
Jules Lauritsen, Colorado
# 11,270:
10:47 am PDT, Mar 23,
Suzie Gordon, New Hampshire
# 11,269:
8:10 pm PDT, Mar 22,
Shiu M. Hung, California
# 11,268:
7:40 pm PDT, Mar 22,
Maureen Primerano, California
# 11,267:
3:32 am PDT, Mar 22,
Art Deco, Maine
# 11,266:
10:28 am PDT, Mar 21,
Ginger Geronimo, Alabama
# 11,265:
12:27 pm PDT, Mar 18,
Shannon Sultan, Wisconsin
# 11,264:
5:35 pm PDT, Mar 16,
Madison Bingley, Canada
You don't know what you've got until it's gone. Humans certainly follow a trend where we let things go until they can't get worse. We need to stop this trend and save the oceans. After all, where would we be without water??
You don't know what you've got until it's gone. Humans certainly follow a trend where we let things go until they can't get worse. We need to stop this trend and save the oceans. After all, where would we be without water??
# 11,263:
3:22 pm PDT, Mar 15,
BiLL Fowlie, Maine
# 11,262:
5:43 pm PDT, Mar 14,
Name not displayed, New York
# 11,260:
1:11 pm PST, Feb 25,
Daniel Amon, South Carolina
# 11,259:
12:12 pm PST, Feb 22,
Mirna Markovic, Croatia
# 11,258:
6:03 pm PST, Feb 17,
Laura Zanoli, Italy
# 11,257:
8:09 am PST, Feb 17,
Sandy Mssmurfy, Florida
This archaic behavior MUST BE STOPPED! Who do people think they really are? What kind of mind-thought does people like this have within, because it certainly is NOT animalistic~ for they have totally NO REGARD for animal life!!! GREED & selfishness is a generating force for such archaic behavior...How about we turn thier tools of slaughter on to those who perform such horrendous acts~ Let the 'hunt' begin...flip the boats that once did float,reverse wave activity within the seas til a swirling vacuum sucks every hunting vessel deep into the bowels of the earth, THEN let the hunt on heartless self-serving greedy humans begin~ all creatures that have beem preyed upon by the human_race may now vengefully gain control again~
This archaic behavior MUST BE STOPPED! Who do people think they really are? What kind of mind-thought does people like this have within, because it certainly is NOT animalistic~ for they have totally NO REGARD for animal life!!! GREED & selfishness is a generating force for such archaic behavior...How about we turn thier tools of slaughter on to those who perform such horrendous acts~ Let the 'hunt' begin...flip the boats that once did float,reverse wave activity within the seas til a swirling vacuum sucks every hunting vessel deep into the bowels of the earth, THEN let the hunt on heartless self-serving greedy humans begin~ all creatures that have beem preyed upon by the human_race may now vengefully gain control again~
# 11,256:
1:57 am PST, Feb 11,
Alicia Guillen, California
# 11,255:
1:20 am PST, Feb 11,
Tina Halloran, Pennsylvania
Humans are endangering more than innocent animal lives by fishing, polluting, and ignoring our great oceans. If we don't start respecting our oceans, the earth will be changed forever, and not for the better. Now is the time to start the change to ensure healthy ocean waters, and preservation of the wildlife who inhabits it. We can not survive without our oceans. Take this seriously when making decisions that affect our waters!
Humans are endangering more than innocent animal lives by fishing, polluting, and ignoring our great oceans. If we don't start respecting our oceans, the earth will be changed forever, and not for the better. Now is the time to start the change to ensure healthy ocean waters, and preservation of the wildlife who inhabits it. We can not survive without our oceans. Take this seriously when making decisions that affect our waters!
# 11,254:
7:34 am PST, Feb 5,
Mary Peterson, Idaho
# 11,252:
5:18 pm PST, Jan 27,
RIVER FRANCE, Canada
# 11,251:
11:29 am PST, Jan 27,
Laura Raymann, Germany