Dear John,
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Take action to protect iconic marine wildlife like dolphins and seabirds.
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Dolphins and seabirds across the US are in danger! Take action to save them.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is fast-tracking permitting to place industrial ocean fish farms across the US. These floating factory farms will pollute our waters with pesticides and chemicals -- threatening dolphins and sea birds.
We need your help, John, to stop industrial fish farming to protect our ocean ecosystem, public health, and local economies.
Tell NOAA to protect dolphins and sea birds from floating factory farms!
Our ocean ecosystem is fragile. Industrial fish farms that contain hundreds of thousands of farmed fish pose a serious threat of spills that pollute the water. These facilities contaminate our oceans with:
- Untreated fish waste
- Excess feed
- Agricultural drugs and pesticides
- Heavy metals and chemicals.
But instead of cracking down on this harmful industry, the federal government haspoured resources into it. Now, NOAA is placing a number of “Aquaculture Opportunity Areas” in our oceans to rush development of these floating feedlots.
We need your help to hold officials accountable for protecting our waters -- not handing them over to mega-corporations and factory farms. Will you take a stand for our oceans and marine life?
Take action now: Tell NOAA to put the health of our oceans and marine life before corporate profits!
Our ocean ecosystem is interconnected and fragile. It takes careful planning and serious policies to ensure that our marine environments are protected from dangerous industrializing.
Building this dirty, polluting industry in our waters would backtrack decades of progress. And it would only benefit factory farm mega-corporations -- at the expense of our wild creatures, our environment, and public health.
Dolphins and sea birds need oceans free from industrial fish farms. But as we’ve seen, public officials will only do the right thing if they feel immense grassroots pressure from folks like you and me. Can we count on your support?
Tell NOAA to keep floating factory farms out of our public waters!
Standing with you,
Hallie Templeton,
Senior Oceans Campaigner,
Friends of the Earth
