Dear John,
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Help keep our oceans safe. Tell NOAA to overhaul the Seafood Task Force.
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During the height of the pandemic, Trump signed an Executive Order that would put the environment and coastal communities at risk.
This order included a series of mandates -- including creating a seafood task force -- designed to speed up permits for industrial ocean fish farms. It also slashed critical fishery regulations that protect wild fish and their habitats.
This move only benefits large corporations and their profits, not coastal communities and local fisherfolk. John, we need your help to stop it. Will you push the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to change the mandate of the task force to protect our oceans instead of Big Polluters?
Demand NOAA fix the Seafood Task Force -- protect our oceans from reckless cuts to fishing regulations!
Industrial ocean farms pack thousands of fish into floating net pens and cages. These fish farms produce water discharge full of chemicals and heavy metals, agricultural drugs and pesticides, untreated fish waste, and excess feed. These “floating factory farms” expose native fish to pests and disease and force them to compete for food and mates in the event of routine massive farmed fish spills.
The Seafood Task Force would lead to even more bad news for our oceans and communities, given the Trump Administration’s pattern of putting polluters before people and the planet. Moreover, the appointed head of this new task force, former Maine Governor Paul LePage, has an established history of racist and controversial remarks and policies.
We cannot allow our leaders to keep deregulating the aquaculture industry to benefit corporations. And we cannot allow NOAA to put a crucial task force in the hands of a racist, anti-environment, anti-people official.
The Seafood Task Force must put our oceans and coastal communities ahead of corporate profits. Tell NOAA that it must do better!
Big Seafood has huge profits at stake with this new task force. It wants to grow as much seafood as possible on every available acre of ocean that it can get its hands on. And it’s been lobbying hard for years to slash every possible regulation.
We need to tell NOAA that our oceans, marine life, and coastal communities are more important than corporate profits.
It’s up to you to show public officials that someone is watching. Will you stand up for our oceans and marine life before it’s too late?
Use Your Voice: Tell NOAA that the Seafood Task Force must be changed from the top down!
Standing With You,
Hallie Templeton
Senior Oceans Campaigner
Friends of the Earth
