To: The Alaska State House, The Alaska State Senate, and Governor Mike Dunleavy
Stop The Profit In By-Catch.
Below is a copy of a petition to end the by-catch killing of marine life by removing the profit resulting from it. This is why I created a petition to The Alaska State House, The Alaska State Senate, Governor Sean Parnell, The Alaska Board of Fisheries and the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council. Please sign this petition? http://signon.org/sign/stop-the-profit-in-by?source=c.em.cp&r_by=4973638
We desire that our representatives move immediately to reduce the by-catch of all accidentally killed marine life within our commercial fisheries. Our Alaska Department of Fish & Game can only point to a snowstorm of data and grafts, which leaves the viewer even more confused about our fisheries by-catch problems. We believe that we must reduce commercial fisheries from profiting when killing non-targeted marine life as by-catch. We believe that commercial fisheries should be held accountable for the marine damage they cause while conducting a business within the salt water. We ask that these commercial fisheries be required to retain and process all by-catch and then donate it to a charity or food bank. This means that if you "by-catch kill" a beluga whale calf or a seal; you are forced to retain, process and donate it to a charity or food bank. If you "by-catch kill" a king salmon: you must retain, process and donate it to a charity or food bank. We believe this change alone; over time would eventually resolve most of Alaska's current fisheries by-catch problems. We believe that this change would eventually force commercial fisheries to at least begin thinking about avoiding non-targeted marine life by-catch. We believe that our king salmon by-catch issue is 100% about money and that if you can make by-catch non-profitable, commercial fisheries will eventually find a way to prevent the financial drain. We believe that doing nothing about the by-catch issue will result in us permanently losing many marine specie and fisheries in the very near future. We believe that as long as commercial fisheries are allowed to profit from by-catch, the issue will never go away and therefore all our Alaskan natural resources and fisheries will go on suffering forever. We request that the new commercial fisheries reality be that by-catch is going to cost you. We believe this to be a very reasonable change to pursue in resolving this very unreasonable by-catch waste of our common natural resource heritage.
We desire that our representatives move immediately to reduce the by-catch of all accidentally killed marine life within our commercial fisheries. Our Alaska Department of Fish & Game can only point to a snowstorm of data and grafts, which leaves the viewer even more confused about our fisheries by-catch problems. We believe that we must reduce commercial fisheries from profiting when killing non-targeted marine life as by-catch. We believe that commercial fisheries should be held accountable for the marine damage they cause while conducting a business within the salt water. We ask that these commercial fisheries be required to retain and process all by-catch and then donate it to a charity or food bank. This means that if you "by-catch kill" a beluga whale calf or a seal; you are forced to retain, process and donate it to a charity or food bank. If you "by-catch kill" a king salmon: you must retain, process and donate it to a charity or food bank. We believe this change alone; over time would eventually resolve most of Alaska's current fisheries by-catch problems. We believe that this change would eventually force commercial fisheries to at least begin thinking about avoiding non-targeted marine life by-catch. We believe that our king salmon by-catch issue is 100% about money and that if you can make by-catch non-profitable, commercial fisheries will eventually find a way to prevent the financial drain. We believe that doing nothing about the by-catch issue will result in us permanently losing many marine specie and fisheries in the very near future. We believe that as long as commercial fisheries are allowed to profit from by-catch, the issue will never go away and therefore all our Alaskan natural resources and fisheries will go on suffering forever. We request that the new commercial fisheries reality be that by-catch is going to cost you. We believe this to be a very reasonable change to pursue in resolving this very unreasonable by-catch waste of our common natural resource heritage.
Why is this important?
Petition to end the accident killing of marine species which are not targeted by removing the profit from the resulting by-catch