Protecting the Future of Fish

Depleted fish populations and coastal communities that depend on healthy fisheries need your help. During the past three years, more than 50,000 activists like you have helped us end and prevent overfishing of such iconic fish as red snapper and gag grouper. Now similar species that form large groups to reproduce need protections for prime habitat and spawning grounds to ensure their long-term sustainability.
It’s like getting good prenatal care: We take extra care of new moms to ensure a healthy start for the next generation.

Federal managers in the Southeast need to hear your support for sustainable fisheries. Please urge them to establish new protections for important spawning sites and critical habitats.

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Sincerely,
Holly Binns
Director, Southeast Fish Conservation Campaign
Pew Environment Group


Protecting the Future of Fish

Many iconic snapper and grouper species in the Southeast U.S. are slow-growing, late-maturing, long-lived fish that can take decades to recover once depleted. Some form predictable, localized, seasonal spawning groups that are especially vulnerable to overfishing. With the help of more than 50,000 people like you, our Southeast Fish Conservation Campaign has helped end and prevent overfishing of hundreds of species from Texas to Florida to North Carolina and off the coasts of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Now we need your help to ensure their long-term sustainability by protecting critical habitat and spawning grounds.

Please sign the petition below, urging fishery managers in the U.S. South Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico to establish new protections for spawning grounds and critical habitat for these species.



Amendment 14 to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan

http://www.safmc.net/MPAInformationPage/tabid/469/Default.aspx