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Tell the Fisheries Service to stop overfishing


With mammoth ships towing fishing nets as tall as a football field or setting lines tens of miles long, industrial fishing fleets are destroying the delicate balance of our oceans, scraping the ocean floor clean as if they were strip mining or sweeping the water of everything living in their path. Whether it’s herring or cod in New England, snapper or grouper in the Gulf of Mexico, or rockfish in the Pacific, our fish stocks are in serious trouble.

Help us stop this destruction by asking the National Marine Fisheries Service to enforce strong overfishing regulations.

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