Take Action for the Menhaden Fishery: Tell the ASMFC Not to Hurt Working Families Before the Facts are In! - so begins a plea to help save the Atlantic Menhaden Fisheries
The ASMFC is considering harvest restrictions that could threaten the future of the menhaden fishery and thousands of families who depend on it. Please let the ASMFC know that you care by sharing your concerns below. We've done the leg work for you by drafting up a form letter, so please take a moment to sign the attached letter and show the ASMFC that you stand with the menhaden fishery.
According to Nils Stolpe, the Pew people, with the help of recreational fishermen and their
billions of dollars, are campaigning to short circuit the Atlantic
States Marine Fisheries Commission's menhaden management program, and
they're using their usual distortions to do it.
This isn't just about menhaden, as important as that fishery is. It's
about Pew's willingness to go outside the management system and to use
political pressure that they've created when they can't get their way
with the Councils, NMFS or the Commissions, and if they prevail it's
going to have negative repercussions for all of us.
The Maine Lobstermen's Association, among others, is urging their
members to sign the petition by the industry group Saving Menhaden
Fisheries.
The petition is at http://letter.savingmenhaden.org/
If you
want to take a significant step in insuring that our management system
in based on solid science, not foundation induced hysteria, take the two
minutes to go to the petition site and sign on, but do it before 5:00
tomorrow, which is when the comment period closes.
And please forward this message to as many people as you can.
Thanks,
Nils
