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Don't Let Fisheries Harm Our Oceans
Protect Oceans from Deregulated Fisheries!
U.S. environmental law currently requires fisheries to undergo environmental review from scientists and get guidance from the public before making decisions that impact ocean life. This law has helped save endangered sea turtles, rebuild depleted fish populations and more. The bad news is that now the Bush Administration is trying to exempt fisheries from this requirement of strong environmental review. The Bush Administration wants to untie fisheries from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), saying some of its rules are creating "redundancy." But this proposed rule would hand over too much authority to fishery management councils that have a long history of poor management, and could undo the progress achieved under NEPA for our oceans. Currently NEPA enables saving endangered species, preserving food sources for coastal communities, saving deep sea coral reefs and more. If changes are made to NEPA, they should improve protections for our oceans, not damage them by turning over more control to fishery councils with their history of poor management. Anything less than NEPA is unacceptable for our oceans. Please tell the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to withdraw this flawed proposal, and continue to watch fisheries' environmental impact. Please sign the petition to preserve essential protection of the oceans. Let the National Marine Fisheries Service know that NEPA should still apply to fisheries at http://go.care2.com/e/6R_X/vptn/AlVvl
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Contributor's Note
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The quality of life of human beings, and the existence of human life, are interdependent with the ocean ecosystems. The health of marine ecosystems directly affect our health. Oceanic dynamics are affected by global warming, and these dynamics affect human civilization profoundly -- as seen through the phenomena such as the Tsunami in Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina, and wild fires in California, and floods throughout the midwest of the U.S. The optimum health of ocean ecosystems must be our pursuit. Monitoring the factors of oceanic ecosystem health should be implemented for as many factors as possible -- fisheries being among those which are monitorable. Including fisheries in the current law should be continued -- towards ensuring ocean ecosystem protection.
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Contributed by health on July 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM UTC.
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