Tell Your Legislators to Protect Coastal Communities and Save Fish

Once again oceans are being put at risk by anti-government dogma. Rep. Bill Flores has put forward an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act that would prohibit the Army Corps of Engineers from coordinating with coastal states. States could not coordinate with the Army Corp on any ocean project if the Flores amendment remains in the Act.  And, the bill would require the Army Corps to submit funding proposals for each project to the House for approval.

Thanks to 12,906 of you who signed ORI's letter.  We delivered it to key House and Senate members.

The US Army has responded with their letter strongly opposing the Flores Rider. The House-Senate Compromise Committee met to hash out the differences behind closed doors to no avail.

Now is a good time to call your Senators and Representatives, staffers are standing by. Request that the harmful Flores rider be rejected and support the full implementation of the National Endowment for the Oceans (NEO).

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What is happening for cod is not happening for other fish to the same degree if at all.  The good news for fishermen is that the cod catch was reduced instead of closed. Fishermen only caught about two thirds of the allotted catch during the last three seasons.  Whether fishermen will manage to catch the new allotted amount of cod, reach the reduced limit, remains to be seen.  Fortunately, most other fish in the sea and on our dinner plates are being sustainably managed. 

The government manages 446 stocks of fish of which 230 are commercially valuable.  Twenty-six fish stocks are classified as overfished.  Since 2000 thirty-four fish stocks have been so well managed that they have gone from "Overfished" to "Rebuilt."

Rebuilt fish stocks include sea scallops in 2001, silver hake in 2002, winter flounder in 2003, blacktip shark in 2003, lingcod on the Pacific Coast in 2005, red grouper in the Gulf of Mexico in 2007, monkfish (goosefish) in 2008, bluefish in 2008, scup in 2009, haddock and pollock in 2010, summer flounder in 2011, Acadian redfish in 2012 and black sea bass in 2013.  

Work of the fisheries councils is clearly trending in the right direction. With more federal funding all fish stocks should be sustainably managed.

Help save fish and fishing communities by calling for better funding of the Magnuson Stevens Fisheries Management Act. Sign our petition and please take a moment to say why you care.

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