Contact SRI

 

609-921-3522

info@sharks.org

SRI will be presenting at Beneath the Sea this weekend and have a booth #221 at the Meadowlands Center in Seacaucus New York.  SRI will have several expert speakers at BTS.  A schedule is listed below at the end of this email.

 

The Shark Fin Bills in NY and NJ are very important and we will have information at our booth. We will be collecting letters to state officials reguarding the recent bills in NJ and NY regarding Shark Fin Trade. Captain Steve Nagiewicz, Chairman, SRI Board will be presenting a legislative Update:  Banning the Trade in Shark Fins. Details below.

 

To all members and friends who live in New York or New Jersey - Please write a short letter to your state senator and an assembly member supporting the sharkfin bill in your state.

 

 If you will be attending Beneath The Sea at the Meadowlands this weekend, you can hand your letter to SRI at Booth 221 or (write your letter in our booth) and we will mail it for you.

 

If you live in New Jersey:

The number of the sharkfin bill in the Senate is S.1764 and A.2719 is an identical bill in the Assembly. Click here to look up the bills: 

 

And to identify the legislators that represent you go to:

http://humanesociety.org/stateleglookup

 

If you live in New York:

The number of the sharkfin bill is A7707.a.   Read it here:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A07707&term=2011

 

And to identify the legislators that represent you go to:

http://humanesociety.org/stateleglookup

 

If you will be attending Beneath The Sea at the Meadowlands this weekend, you can hand your letter to SRI at Booth 221 or (write your letter in our booth) and we will mail it for you. 

 

 SHARK Seminars AT BTS 

 

Saturday

12:30        Michael Aw, SRI Advisory Board

          Meadowlands Expo Center, Ocean Pals Theater

Ocean Wonders

                       

12:30        John Ares & Dr. Anita George Ares, SRI members

  Holiday Inn, Essex

              Eye to Eye - The Great White Sharks of Guadalupe Island

 

3:30          Tom Burns and Joe Romeiro,

SRI Director of Film  Productions

Holiday Inn, Essex

Sharks of New England

 

Sunday

10 am              Captain Steve Nagiewicz, Chairman, SRI Board

                       Meadowlands Expo Center, A & B

                       Legislative Update  Banning the Trade in Shark Fins

 

12 noon             Nancy McGee, SRI member

                             Holiday Inn, Essex
                          A Sea that Time Forgot

 

1 pm                Jonathan Bird, SRI member

                              Holiday Inn, Essex

The Galapagos

 

3 pm                Annie Crawley

Holiday Inn, Sussex

          The Palau Shark Sanctuary

 

Workshops

 

Saturday

1 to 4 pm     Dean Fessler, SRI Director of Education

Meadowlands 2, Marriott Hotel, Bergen Room

Sharks and Shark Diving: A Global Perspective

 

Sunday          

1 to 4 pm     Dean Fessler, SRI Director of Education

Meadowlands 2, Marriott Hotel, Bergen Room

Sharks and Shark Diving: A Global Perspective