America’s oceans are in peril. Overfishing,
bycatch, habitat destruction, and mismanagement have depleted once bountiful
fish populations and jeopardized the oceans’ capacity for sustaining
life.
We call on our nation’s leaders, therefore, to advance the following
principles and objectives for restoring the health of our oceans —
- Establish conservation of ocean ecosystems as the primary responsibility
of fisheries management
- Require ecologically sustainable fishing practices to stop overfishing
and rebuild depleted populations of fish
- Reform the institutions responsible for managing fisheries to ensure
that their decisions reflect the needs of the entire ecosystem.
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