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Hi John,
Killer whales can grow up to 27 feet long and weigh 13,000 pounds.
But even these powerful whales can't escape industrial trawl nets big enough to snare a 747 jet. A record six orcas were killed in Bering Sea trawl nets last summer. One baby whale was caught and released severely injured, likely not surviving.
With another summer season approaching, the Center for Biological Diversity is doing all we can to protect these whales.
You can help with a gift today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. All gifts will be matched, but only through May 31.
Bottom trawling is one of the most destructive fishing practices on Earth. Massive trawl nets scrape the seafloor and catch everything in their wake — including whales and seals, who get entangled and drown.
That's why we're campaigning to urge NOAA Fisheries to stop ignoring bans on the use of bottom-trawl gear in the northern Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. The feds must do more to save humpback whales, fin whales, bearded seals, ringed seals, Steller's sea lions, northern fur seals and Pacific walruses.
The Bering Sea groundfish trawl fishery is the largest fishery in the United States, and the largest food fishery in the world. The industry admits that even when it uses trawl nets that aren't supposed to be on the bottom, the nets reach the ocean floor — destroying marine ecosystems — up to 90% of the time.
Whales, seals and other marine mammals cover vast distances and still can't escape the danger of trawl nets that injure and drown them. It's wrong, and we can't let it continue.
Saving life on Earth requires exposing how big business plunders ecosystems — then pushing the federal agencies responsible for protecting wildlife to do their jobs.
We'll never stop doing what's right to save whales, seals and all species we cherish. We fight as if their lives depend on it, because they do.
Please make a matched donation to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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