Something is rotten with H.R. 4742, the bill drafted by Representative Hastings, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
H.R. 4742 reeks of unfounded fears of too much government meddling, despite much hard work by fishing industries with state and federal governments on the fisheries councils.
H.R. 4742 would allow fishery management councils to exempt many seafood species from the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s requirements to set science-based fishing limits and to rebuild depleted fish populations, the provisions that are most responsible for our success in restoring fish populations and ending overfishing.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act is the primary law governing conservation of U.S. ocean fisheries. Since 2000, 34 depleted fish populations have been rebuilt. Since 2000, the number of fish stocks subjected to overfishing (the problem of fish populations in specific ocean areas being fished faster than they can reproduce) has decreased from 72 fish stocks to 28. It should be only a matter of time, money and work before America has sustainable fisheries across the board.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act provides funding to count cod in the Gulf of Maine every three years. Yet, no funding is provided to count cod in the adjacent Georges Bank water a bit further offshore. As a result of a lack in federal funding the fishery council is blind-sided in the setting of cod catch allotments.
More funding for Magnuson-Steven Act implementation is needed. With federal funding haddock were researched when encountering a trawl net. Haddock swim with flounder and cod. As the net set about them, the cod and flounder swam down towards the bottom. Haddock swam to one side or the other, to evade the net, unsuccessfully. By modifying their gear and their practices fishermen are now sustainably fishing haddock without flounder and cod bycatch. Fisheries management succeeds with government money well spent.
We should build on the success of the law in restoring individual fish populations and incorporate a more comprehensive approach that protects ocean habitats, reduces wasteful bycatch, strengthens the management of forage fish (herring & menhaden) by accounting for the important role they play in ocean ecosystems, and requires ecosystem planning. These actions strengthen ocean ecosystems, support fish populations and support coastal communities all being assaulted by global warming, shifting currents and increasing ocean acidity.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Please think about sustainability when making policy.
Please protect the fish first
We need more fish protections, not less, in this age of rampant toxification and destruction of habitats, and over-fishing.
Please don’t weaken the fisheries bill. If anything we need to do more to protect our fisheries and habitats.
We need to protect and not destroy.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill and will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please keep this law intact. It is based on science and will help us preserve our resources.
No fish. No food!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Stop trying to destroy conservation laws that protect our oceans.
Please oppose HR 4742. It is a bad bill that will harm our fisheries and coastal communities. More and more fish are getting in peril. If we don’t start being smart about these situations, we won’t have any fish left.
Conservation of nature is a national imperative.
Don’t weaken it.
H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
The Oceans are in serious trouble and rolling back protections is irresponsible.
Keep it sustainable!!!
Please oppose Rep. Hastings’s bill HR 4742. This representative seems to be intent on destroying a lot of people’s hard work and the world we live in.
We are overfishing our oceans and destroying non food fish and animals. We must follow science in protecting future food sources.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Clean water is importat.
Please care about the environment and all health.
You inherit the suffering that your actions cause. It’s your inevitable karma.
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is working just fine as it is. If anything it could use additional funding to better manage ecologically sounds catching. The H.R. 4742 proposal only serves to weaken a sound, well run approach to commercial fishing. Please oppose H.R. 4742.
With ever-growing human populations, it is important that all threatened nature needs to be protected.
We need long-term, not short-term goals, for fish and the ocean.
Please oppose HR 4742! It will harm our fisheries and greatly reduce sustainability of ocean and river life and ultimately harm our ecological niche, Mother Earth. Please oppose HR 4742!
We are growing our resources and protecting them with our current program. Do not undermine this.
Please keep key conservation provisions!
For Cod’s sake, vote No!
This will harm our fisheries.
We should build on the success of the law in restoring individual fish populations and incorporate a more comprehensive approach that protects ocean habitats, reduces wasteful bycatch, strengthens the management of forage fish (herring & menhaden) by accounting for the important role they play in ocean ecosystems, and requires ecosystem planning. These actions strengthen ocean ecosystems, support fish populations and support coastal communities all being assaulted by global warming, shifting currents and increasing ocean acidity.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities. Why do we constantly have to keep struggling to move forward instead of backwards? It just should not be so difficult.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Do the right thing
Our fishing resources need to be conserved!!
Someone is being either very short-sided or greedy. I’m sure that money has crossed palms somewhere. We cannot afford to irresponsibly fish and then have nothing for the future.
We need better fisheries legislation. Thanks!
Please oppose H.R. 4742, would would greatly weaken the Magnuson-Steven Act, which is the primary law governing conservation of U.S. ocean fisheries. This law needs additional funding for implementation, not budgetary cuts.
It is important to look at environmental issues for the long term, not merely short term. It is crucial that our fisheries be sustainable, a matter which is becoming more problematic as the oceans warm and acidify.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Kent Wilson
1711-F Wildberry Dr.
Glenview, IL 60025
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
Please don’t destroy the fisheries
Please make sure that sufficient funding is in place to protect our cod populations. This important fish population needs to be kept at a sustainable level.
Reject hr 4742. Our fish deserve so much better. And so do we.
As someone who represents thousands of sport and commercial fishermen, you need to oppose these changes.
There are limits we need to recognize to exist in harmony with the ecosystem. To ignore that is to court extinction.
Stop meddling
Please think this over. Thank you.
Please oppose H.R. 4742
As always, the god almighty dollar legislation is trying to trump the people! Please stop this, and stop it right NOW!
Fisheries need management, good management, not meddling.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a terrible bill that would harm our nation’s fish, fisheries and coastal communities.
Thank you,
Dick Evans
This is a bad bill
We must keep our fisheries vital and heathy. Overfishing will harm us all.
We must save our fisheries, no matter what the cost.
We must protect our fishing industry for ourselves as well as for future generations and also so fishermen/women will be able to sustain viable businesses. We must make and keep them sustainable.
H.R. 4742 harms our nation’s fish, fisheries and coastal communities. Please do NOT support this dangerous bill.
Don’t let this happen.
Save civilized humanity; maintain our food-chain!
People Of Congress,
Please Protect Our Fish And Fishing Communities By Opposing
HR4742.
And I Thank You All Very Much, In Advance, For Helping With This Very Important, And Very Worthwhile Issue.
Sincerely/Respectfully,
Prove you’re conservative: conserve something.
Almost every living thing on our planet needs an environment which is characterized by sustainability. We cannot focus on one or several species because all are interrelated. We are currently over-fishing because we do not allow for replenishment of those which are harvested. Let’s do what is necessary for the future, not expedient for the present.
Please do what’s right for the planet!!!!!!!!
How many ways can you kill a planet and all life on it?
I oppose quick profits for a few while destroying a fishery – disgusting
profits over sustainability. Stop HR 4742!
Please do not allow our precious American fisheries to become overfished and underprotected again. It is only through good management that we can continue to keep healthy stocks and prevent the waste that is so prevalent in the fishing industry. The survival of the industry, a healthy ocean, and our future food source is at risk.
I oppose H.R. 4742. Since 2000, the number of fish stocks subjected to overfishing has decreased from 72 fish stocks to 28! Please oppose HR 4742! Thank you, Valerie Gilbert
What we shouldn’t do is roll back existing protections. Take another look before you accept this bill.
Managing our fisheries is one of the few things we do right. Please
don’t undermine the Magnuson-Stevens Act!
Science-based fishing limits and rebuilding depleted fish populations are anathema to science-hating, irresponsible Republicans. That is why I oppose the rotten H.R. 4742, drafted by Republican Representative Hastings, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world. Hastings’ bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
Please oppose H. R. 4742. It will harm our nation’s fisheries and coastal communities!
Our oceans and the life they contain deserve protection and NOT exploitation!
Please follow the recommendations of scientists in establishing limits for various species. In general, because ocean life is under so much stress from pollution, warmer and more acidic waters, fishing needs to be cut back, or we will lose many species.
Science-based fishing limits and rebuilding depleted fish populations are anathema to science-hating, irresponsible Republicans. That is why I oppose the rotten H.R. 4742, drafted by Republican Representative Hastings, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world. Hastings’ bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
We need to protect our fisheries.
Please don’t roll back key conservation principles that make us a model for the world.
Protect our fish.
We need to do everything we can to help rebuild fish stocks everywhere. If it means fisheries have to cut back, then so be it. The alternative is unacceptable.
This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
We are destroying our planet and its life at an alarming rate. This must STOP if we are to survive. Our oceans are NOT a garbage dump or something to plunder. Wake up!
Do not allow the destruction of the progress already made!
As a species, we cannot afford to put short-term financial interests ahead of long-term food security.
We need to help fish and the fishing communities.
We need to do everything possible to replenish fish stocks everywhere. If that means fisheries have to cut back, so be it. The alternative is unacceptable.
Stop over fishing!!!
We must protect our fish and our fishing. Please vote to protect this industry.
Please revise this bill.
I live on the West coast and fishing & fisheries are part of our culture. We take it very seriously.
Please oppose H.R.4742. This is a harmful bill that will roll back key conservation provisions that made the American fisheries management an unsurpassed science based model for the world. This bill will harm our nations fish, fisheries and coastal communities.
We need to make sure our fishing industry is sustainable and done right!
It would be nice to enjoy our seafood guilt free…
Please help make this a better world.
Thank you-Mrs. Greer
Make sure we have fish for future generations.
We must keep fishing sustainable.
We use up what is available way too fast. This is something that we can not ignore.
This is a valuable resource that needs more help, not less.
We destroyed the Cod industry and destroyed the most prolific fish population in the world. It is time to restore not destroy. We are charged by God to take care of our world not destroy it. Do the right thing and vote against HR 4742 and provide more money to help restore fish stocks. If you can subsidize the big oil, gas and coal companies surely you can help the fish recover. I vote.
Please protect our fish.
I eat seafood either when I go out for dinner or at home. Please don’t overfish and keep the oceans and lakes clean.
Fix this problem please!
Please oppose this very harmful bill.
I like seafood and we need a future for it.
Both the fish and the fishing communities are essential to preserve life as we want it to be on our beleaguered planet!
The balance of earth is tipping. It must be stopped.
We need increased federal funding to ensure the sustainability of our fisheries.
Another special interest ideological tea party attempt to undermine a program that has helped limit overfishing ocean stocks. If your are in any way aware, you would know our seafood stocks in many areas are at risk. To further jeopardize these stocks is plain stupid.
All our ocean life deserves respecting & protecting & to be here as much as we do & we need to do more on behalf of all our ocean life especially since we have the power to do so & before it’s too late & sadly extinction is forever & we don’t want that to happen thank you?!!!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
It is imperative that we save our earth’s fish assets and not bow down to corporations that have one goal to make money regardless of the their harmful consequences.
Please vote against H.R. 4742. This bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill attempts to gut ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
HR 4742 is a bad bill that will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries and coastal communities. Please oppose it.
Please save our oceans and our fish.
Please protect fragile populations while there is time.
We need to protect our oceans and sit an example for the rest of the world.
It amazes me that incompetent people like Rep. Hastings get elected to Congress. Says something about his constituents. However, acting in his capacity on “belief” or ideology alone without any foundation in evidence or facts is extremely dangerous. That’s what terrorists do. Get rid of this atrocious bill and from this point on ignore Hastings and render him irrelevant.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.e
Why do “conservatives” keep ignoring the first two syllables of their alleged idiology–“CONSERV(e)!??”
Our oceans and their life are crucial to the entire planet. Too much wrong already being done. Magnuson Steven Act should be strengthened, not diluted. Please oppose HR 4742
Do whatever is necessary to Save The Food of the Sea!
We need to restore our fish populations and protect our vulnerable environment!
All species of marine life needs to be protected….this is so basic and obvious; sustainable fisheries worldwide is necessary…do the right thing.
Stop tearing down protections.
Fund the fisheries.
Save our fish from legislation
Everything the GOP attempts or does acts to destroy the middle-class economy. Having an extra few hundred fisheries jobs right now at the cost of losing ALL fisheries jobs in the near future is stupid beyond measure. Everything that was a “rough fish” when I was young is now a “delicacy,” as we’ve decimated populations one after another. By all informed accounts, ocean fisheries are collapsed or on the verge of collapse everywhere. When is Washington going to run out of crooked fingers to stuff into the holes of this massive, failing dam?
We need to protect our fish.
PLEASE STOP HASTINGS’S GREEDY AND IGNORANT ATTACK ON OUR FISHERIES. THANK YOU!
The ocean can not sustain the supply of fish. We need sustainable fisheries.
Please oppose this bill
Please do the right thing. Don’t automatically side with Doc, just because he’s from our state.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act must be left the way it is or strengthened. It is vital in order to conserve fish populations for fishermen, consumers and the American people.
Oppose HR 4742.
Stop watering down laws that protect the fish and wildlife!
Why change a good existing law with one that offers fewer protections for sea life?
We need to preserve natures legacies for the future.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We need politicians that are protecting the earth and not voting for the interests of huge corporations .WE will vote anyone out that isn’t concerned about 99% of Americans and the earth!
Don’t roll back conservation!!
We need to be good stewards of this planet and its resources, and ensure we fish sustainably, ensuring future generations of both people and the fish we consume.
Save our fish and fishing communities!!
Stop the Insanity! Do NOT Pass this Bill (HR 4742)
If something is working, make it better or leave it alone.
Please vote against bill # HR4742 to preserve fish.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change. We need to protect our fisheries rather than destroy them. This is important for long term protection of fish and actually the fishing industry as well.
H.R. 4742, the bill drafted by Representative Hastings, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
Please defeat this bill!
Humans are fast depleting the oceans resources. Most of it by waste, pollution and now global climate change. We must allow the fish to regroup, to charge to supplies back ip and be more judicious in our style of fishing. Heck, we feed fish to fish in fish farming?! How stupid is that?
Fish are too important an ecological factor to squander. Please stand against HR 4742 and spare the fish!
My GOD! The majority of chairmen are Republicans. Who do control and take all management to Rich fish industries. They do not care! They care for big business interest’s, not what is in the bill to protect fishing and fisheries for cod, haddock, and flounder. I pray that that bill H.R.4742 does not fall apart or they do not take it apart. These men are there to protect the conservation Natural Resources and Natural Heritage. The Hastings Bill will destroy everything we as U.S. citizens have protected. TEA PARTY republicans are terrible Men.
Stop using harmful chemicals.
Please reject H.R. 4742. It is irresponsible and will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Protection of our important resources should focus on their long term well being.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Save the fish.
We need strong laws supporting our fisheries.
Please don’t weaken them.
Please, stop using harmful chemical products in our water
Protect our resources – don’t make them extinct.
I think you’ve got it backwards… We FIX things that are BROKEN, not the other way around. Leave the fisheries alone, they’re doing just fine without your “help.”
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Thinking intelligently beyond the short-term is the only way we’ll make positive impacts for the world we live in and leave for future generations. Think smart: oppose HR4742.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please, we need to protect these natural resources now.
Thank you.
Oppose HR 4742
We can’t let the idiots ruin things!
NO to HR4742
Do not pass bill H.R. 4742. It’s wrong!
Hang with the Magnuson-Stevens Act. That bill H.R. 4742 will hurt our nation’s fish, fisheries and the coastal communities. Thank You.
We need to protect the environment and those living creatures that provide food for millions
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Why would anyone make legislation that would harm the fishing industry?
Please oppose H.R. 4742.
We need to be protecting our oceans instead of raping them into oblivion.
Use the science, we NEED fish for our future as well as today.
Protect fishing and their communities!
Stop this bill, HR4742 It would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage.
Try to make the bounty of the oceans last a little longer.
Don’t be shortsighted. Pass a clean bill.
THIS GOVERNMENT IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED AND CERTAINLY NOT OUR CONGRESS AND NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS REALLY SAFE UNLESS YOU GIVE UP MEAT AND FISH AND ONLY EAT FROM OUR GARDEN FRESH AND ORGANIC VEGETABLES . AMERICA IS NOT WHAT IT USE TO BE , ALL FOR THE 1& AND POISON FOR THE 99%, I DO NOT EAT MEAT OR FISH AND IT IS GOOD FOR MOTHER EARTH . HUMANS HAVE ABUSED AND POLLUTED THIS PLANET FOR SO LONG BUT WE ONLY HAVE ONE PLANET , WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO GO WHEN ALL COLLAPSE
We must follow the standard requirement for fishing and not take everything, which is what the bill is doing.
Our decendants will need the oceans bounty too. Please don’t do this for short term selfish gain.
H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
H.R. 4742 will cause untold harm to our nation’s fisheries. Keep sustainable fisheries afloat!
All of our food sources, and other goods must be sustainable in order for ecosystems to survive. Without ecosystems, humans won’t survive. This is important.
Our fish should be free from politics.
Fish will be important to our grandchildren too.
We do not want oceans without fish.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996.
H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
I want to enjoy seafood guilt-free and want to have our fisheries be the most sustainable in the world. Why not? Please help to make that the reality.
Our fisheries need all the help they can get to fully recover from the over-fishing that was done in the past.
Save the community fishing industry
Resources are finite. The web of life intricate. Each strand affects the rest. Short-sighted greed is the path to reckless, needless and unconscionable planetary destruction. No one owns the oceans.
Protection of our environment and protection from over fishing is our paramount responsibility for our future generations. Any effort to gut our laws is unpatriotic!
Do not amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This new legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world. Many oceanic species are teetering on the brink of extinction already, the ocean ecosystems and species need much more protection, not less. Do not let special interests whose goals are only profits destroy what is left of life in the oceans.
Our laws should be guided be sound scientific and environmental studies. Any other reason is shortsighted and selfish. We are to be good stewards of all resources, so that future generations can enjoy the abundance we may enjoy today.
Find the balance.
Please help enact strict regulations on fishing to keep our oceans and rivers healthy and productive.
Please!!!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Our fisheries must be maintained in a sustainable manner! Please Help by not passing H.R. 4742. Thank you.
H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Keep the fish we eat healthy and the oceans will provide!
This legislation stinks. Please get it right before passing anything on this.
Let the best science direct fisheries legislation not the short term interests of corporations
Please make our fisheries sustainable.
Oppose HR 4742!
Please actively oppose H.R. 4742. It will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Our oceans and wildlife in it are dying, and we’ll go with them! We MUST do something NOW, because the money used to bribe you won’t save us.
Make sure our fisheries are the best to be had. Provide the necessary funding.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Keep our food safe,
Please do the right thing. Thank you!
We need to keep out fisheries at healthy levels, turning back the clock on legislation is just not the way to accomplish that! Please keep the Magnuson-Stevens Management Act in place, whole! We cannot over fish and not hurt the Oceans, the fishing communities and the Fishing Industry permanently! Don’t change what is working!
Please oppose Bill 4742. The Bill will harm our Nation’s Fish, Fisheries and Coastal Communities.
Thank you,
Ann Marshall
We need to restore and maintain our fish populations.
Rep Hastings never has protected our environment. SDD
I oppose H.R 4742.
Restore fish populations!
Please oppose house bill 4742.
please oppose H. R. 4742
Something is rotten with H.R. 4742, the bill drafted by Representative Hastings, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
We must protect these fishing communities as living beings that add immusurably to our eco-system. We cannot survive without them.
H.R.4742 is put forth by persons who care nothing about conservation unless the conservation is the profits of their political donors.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. This bill will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996, and will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Let us not go backwards!
We need to be proactive in keeping fish populations going.
Please do not weaken laws designed to protect our fisheries for future generations. Thank you.
WE need to put the health of our planet above short-term gains for a few.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act works well. Please do not ruin it by passing this proposed legislation.
Please do not let this bill pass!
Surely we can better manage this issue.
Stop treating this world as if we are the only species that need to survive!
The Magnuson-Stevens Act works well as intended. Please do not ruin it by passing this proposed H.R. 4742. Properly fund Magnuson-Stevens so that it my continue to function.
Don’t amend the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
Our oceans are in dire straights.
American fisheries are making a comeback in areas where they were once devastated. We are currently managing many species much better than in the past, assuring fishermen and the population of a steady supply.
Vote no on H.R. 4742. DO NOT role back sensible management to past inadequacies. There are too many fishing factories on the waters, too much demand on fish populations not to husband this resource responsibly.
Please protect our fisheries and add increased funding for building sustainable fisheries.
Protect all our fish – big, small and everything in between, including dolphins and whales and even sharks.
Please do not mess up our current ways of managing fish supplies. These policies have been working.
I urge you to protect our nations’ fisheries and the communities that depend on a strong, sustainable fisheries industry.
oppose hr 4742
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
H.R. 4742, the bill drafted by Representative Hastings to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world. NO NOOOOOO
SAVE THE FISH !
Keep our fishery healthy! Oppose H.R.4742
Please preserve the gains we made for Sustainable Fisheries
Oppose H.R. 4742
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Please pay attention to what the Ocean River Institute is saying.
I beg you to be mindful of these concerns – for everyone in this country.
Gut the Hasting Bill and do it right this time
We shouldn’t roll back conservation provisions, we should strengthen them!
H.R. 4742 would allow fishery management councils to exempt many seafood species from the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s requirements to set science-based fishing limits and to rebuild depleted fish populations, the provisions that are most responsible for our success in restoring fish populations and ending overfishing. I think H.R. 4742 is a bad idea.
We are dependent on a healthy ocean ecosystem that can provide sustainable marine resources for the future. The short-term economic interests of a single interest should never out weigh the long-term interests of the world community.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
I smell a rat!
Hr. 4742 is a bad bill that will harm our fisheries. Please oppose.
You would have to be a friggin idiot to want to eliminate an act that has been so successful in restoring fisheries and making them sustainable.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please protect our waterways and ocean waters.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
GO FORWARD, NOT BACKWARDS.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please oppose H.R. 4742.
I AM SO SICK OF CROOKED POLITICANS WHO ARE WILLING TO SELL THEIR SOULS FOR A LITTLE MONEY AND A EVEN LITTLER AMOUNT OF POWER!!!! DO THEY EVEN HAVE A CLUE WHAT THIS WILL DO TO OUR OCEANS AND THE CREATURES THAT LIVE IN THEM AND THE HUMANS WHO DEPEND ON THE FISH??????? MAY THE GOP GO TO HADES WHERE THEY BELONG!!!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
PROTECT RIVERS AND FISH. DO NOT MAKE BAD DECISIONS.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Healthy oceans & fish are necessary.
Regulation of fishing practices is not government over reach. It is necessary to keep the fish available for the fishing industry. In any industry some individuals or companies will look to their own immediate profits and ignore long term harm. This is unfair to those who operate in a responsible manner and unfair to everyone who comes after the damage is done. In this case after the fish are gone. We need to keep the regulations that have been working, not weaken them so some can make faster profits, and ruin the ecosystems permanently.
Save the fish for our children.
Please do the right thing and protect the health of our environment; it is what makes everything possible and deserves our protection and respect.
H. R. 4742 would weaken protections on fish populations. We need stronger protection, NOT weaker protection. Please vote NO on H. R. 4742.
Our oceans, rivers and lakes, as in the Great Lakes, are troubled. We don’t need set backs at this point, we need more protection and forward thinking.
It seems to me that when someone in Congress writes a bill to undo a previous bill that has much needed regulations, for any natural resource, the amendment is probably solely based on monetary gain for some special interest group who cares nothing about long term sustainability of our natural resources.
Please do not vote for this bill.
Thank You for listening
Mary Cuellar
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Stop harming fisheries!
We need to protect the health of our fisheries.
Please oppose H. R. 4742.
H.R. 4742, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world. It would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill attempts to gut ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change. H.R. 4742 reeks of unfounded fears of too much government meddling, despite much hard work by fishing industries with state and federal governments on the fisheries councils. Since 2000, the number of fish stocks subjected to overfishing has decreased from 72 fish stocks to 28. Please protect fish and fishing communities by opposing H.R. 4742. Thank you.
Why don’t we just leave things alone. I don’t think we should turn back the clock. If anything we should pass more laws to protect our fisheries.
Wake up and smell the fish!!!
Everyone needs a healthy fishing industry. This bill undermines every commonsense effort to maintain appropriate fish stocks.
Please protect our fragile ocean ecosystem.
Please do what is right!
Please protect. Do not destroy.
Please use common sense!
Please oppose this bill. Thank you!
Our current law has allowed fish populations to recover and fishing communities to thrive. Please reject this bill that would cause such harm to our fish populations and ultimately the fishermen and the entire world.
It’s imperative to protect and sustain our fish and fisheries. The oceans are the source of life and necessary to sustain all life. We’re poisoning them and ourselves and cutting off all of our food supplies.
I oppose H.R. 4742.
The health of the ocean is the health of the planet. Protect these resources!
Be wary of Representative Hastings
I don’t eat fish and haven’t for thirty years, but what’s right is right.
The health of the ocean is the health of the planet. Protect this resource!
Dear Legislator,
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We should build on the success of the law in restoring individual fish populations and incorporate a more comprehensive approach that protects ocean habitats, reduces wasteful bycatch, strengthens the management of forage fish (herring & menhaden) by accounting for the important role they play in ocean ecosystems, and requires ecosystem planning. These actions strengthen ocean ecosystems, support fish populations and support coastal communities all being assaulted by global warming, shifting currents and increasing ocean acidity.
We want to enjoy seafood and protect it for future generations. We are borrowing the planet from them.
Rise in opposition to this bill.
Please don’t pass this bill.
Please help us gain the funding to make our fisheries the most
sustainable in the world and set an example for conservation
worldwide. Thank YOU.
This bill would harm ocean ecosystems.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. We must continue to protect our ocean ecosystems and fisheries and support our coastal communities.
Enough! Oppose HR 4742 now!
Sustainable waters – both freshwater and saltwater – are a necessity, not a luxury. They are also a public responsibility to either manage or restore.
As a professional commercial fisherman I consider the proposed bill as a outstanding step towards a destruction of a rather balanced and effective system that allows a sustainable use of marine resources in the U.S. People who proposed the new bill should be better kept far away from regulating natural resources if we want a brighter future for our country and our children.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Despicable!
How awful!
WE NEED MORE CONSERVATION, NOT LESS. WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE WANT TO DO.. GO BACK A HUNDRED YEARS?
Please oppose H.R. 4742.
Please support us in not harming the fisheries
Sustainable fish indurstry is very important to all of us. This bill would be harmful and undermine the success we have achieved.
H.R. 4742 is the wrong direction to take in light of our severely depleted fisheries. We need more smarter protections, not less.
Hastings is not very bright or he is being duplicitous. His legislation relies on biased opinion- typical conservative “science.”
Please seafood industry, enough destruction and outsourcing of our marine infrastructure.
Please oppose HR 4742. Protect our fisheries for the long term ! Save the fish !
Please protect the ocean and prevent over fishing. We must act NOW to ensure that our descendants are left with a beautiful planet that is thriving; we do not want to leave a planet that has been trashed by big corporations and government who put MONEY before NATURE!!
Doesn’t any government agency understand the words
ethical, truth, honesty and working together for the betterment
of the community?
Something is rotten with H.R. 4742, the bill drafted by Representative Hastings, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
Please do your best to keep America’s fisheries sustainable. It would be a nice thing to do for us, The People.
Please oppose H.R. 4742.
To : Congress
It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains , the assistance for funding the Magnuson-Steven Act implementation is needed . Increased federal funding law for restoring individual fish populations to incorporate a more comprehensive approach that protects ocean habitats, reduces wasteful bycatch, strengthens the management of forage fish (herring & menhaden) by accounting for the important role they play in ocean ecosystems, and requires ecosystem planning. These actions strengthen ocean ecosystems, support fish populations and support coastal communities all being assaulted by global warming, shifting currents and increasing ocean acidity.
Thank you.
Maria Celia Hernandez 7-12-2014
We must conserve our natural resources — any move to do otherwise is not in our nation’s best interest. Fishing and the
coastal waters must be preserved. Please consider carefully
how new legislation will affect our future.
H.R. 4742 reeks of unfounded fears of too much government meddling, despite much hard work by fishing industries with state and federal governments on the fisheries councils. Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities. We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world.
Please!!! Oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please don’t pass H.R. 4742 as it would undermine our oceans.
I need for the fish that I eat to be clean.
Do not pass H.R. 4742
Please oppose H.R. 4742.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Thank you-
Elizabeth Stewart
Please don’t undo fifteen years of conservation work, but instead honor and adopt these hard-earned lessons into daily life to keep our oceans and fisheries healthy for the next century to come.
Please have the courage to do the right thing.
Our oceans and fisheries are under great stress and need to be protected, not exploited to the point of collapse.
We need to limit the harvesting of several fish and other sea life, otherwise it will be gone and there will be no way to bring it back.
If we don’t start caring for this planet, the only home we have, then what is it all for?
The money?
Stop this bill.
Please don’t undo ocean ecosystems, which are in great need of protection. Do not destroy what is left.
Please stop the decimation of the world’s fisheries.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Thank you for protecting our fish.
Please, work with nature for the benefit of everybody. If we do not protect nature it is a lost battle.
Please oppose H.R. 4742
We need to live on earth sustainably, for the sake of our children.
Don’t destroy something that works so well.
Please continue to use science-based management of our last and greatest resource – the oceans.
H.R. 4742, the bill drafted by Representative Hastings to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is designed to roll back the key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
The effect, intended or otherwise, would be to ransack the oceans to the point of collapse and “kill the golden goose” on which all life depends.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Stop it! Stop wasting the world’s resources. You do not own everything just because you can take it. I pay top dollar for fresh caught local fish, I just eat less of it and put food my priority over less important “things” in this life. I think if you educate people to eat healthy and put healthy food first they will learn to pay more for it and appreciate sustainable companies. Just do it! If I can do it anybody can.
Protect the world’s fisheries. We’re overfishing as it is. We need to limit the fishing before we kill off all the fish.
Don’t go backwards
We need to better manage all of our ecosystems, especially the oceans.
We need to better manage our ecosystems, beginning with the oceans, if we wish to survive.
i want for us to do the right thing with regard to fishing and we need federal funding to make that happen.
protect fishing
SAVE THE fishing industry.
At this rate of disappearance, our oceans will be contaminated and devoid of fish by the half way mark of this century.
Why would you want to make changes to a program that’s working well when the changes aren’t long-sighted? Sounds like busy work to me.
“Seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world”: <——— THIS!
Please stop this bill.
Do the right thing, not the bureaucratic hush money paid thing.
We should build on the success of the law in restoring individual fish populations and incorporate a more comprehensive approach that protects ocean habitats, reduces wasteful bycatch, strengthens the management of forage fish (herring & menhaden) by accounting for the important role they play in ocean ecosystems, and requires ecosystem planning. These actions strengthen ocean ecosystems, support fish populations and support coastal communities all being assaulted by global warming, shifting currents and increasing ocean acidity.
We MUST conserve NOW! Overfishing will eventually lead to EXTINCTION!
When all the fish are gone via over-fishing, there will be a world
hunger that will be unprecedented in history, and the migrations from Asia, Africa and Latin America will destabilize Western societies, namely North America and Western Europe.
Please enact common sense legislation that will help our environment and help our fisheries to be sustainable. If we roll back the conservation efforts, then over fishing will be a problem and eventually there will be no fish.
Sincerely,
Catherine Marcoux
Please oppose HR 4742!
Please keep conservation guidelines strong to protect our fish and the communities that depend on fishing.
Foolish laws will soon lead to famine. Overfishing, wastefulness, and pollution are areas which need REGULATION!
On a planet with 6 billion plus people, why would Any Intelligent person come to the conclusion that rules and regulations are anything bit Requirements for sensible
governance. A free for all plan Does Not Work.
Limit human population and Protect our environment through sensible regulation or step down.
Protect our fisheries.
We need a sustainable fish industry and the de-regulation in this bill is not the answer.
Keep the fishing industry sustainable
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please do the right thing; be sensible.
Doc Hastings is a fear monger touting too much government oversight into our fisheries when we need more oversight because all fishermen cannot be trusted to police themselves or catch fish responsibly. When one breaks the rules, they all break the rules to avoid being left behind, and that leaves fish stocks ruined and potentially extinct. Humans are selfish, and they will not do the right thing when others do not play by the rules….hence the need for strong rules and strong enforcement. HR 4742 does not further progress, it undoes it and therefore should be opposed.
I have to be honest – rather than trying to follow the current news about harmful/safe seafood, I have elected not to eat any.
Why is it the our government can spend trillions on foreign wars, but can’t spend money on conservation and other necessities for those of us who actually pay the taxes in this country?
Please oppose HR 4742.
We know there are Corporations and People who don’t care about the future of anything they just want now, now, now. It’s either for profit or they don’t like the government telling them what to do.
They are selfish hypocrites who are destroying our Nation.
Let’s not ruin what we have already accomplished.
Stop destroying the viability of the earth’s food supplies.
Planet before profit.
I oppose H.R. 4742 and support the Magnuson-Stevens Act with more funding therefor.
Oppose H.R. 4742.
Not that any of you care about the general welfare, only your own corporate campaign contributions. But there is a God in Heaven— remember that God you profess to believe in? — who made the heavens and the earth, and the seas and everything in them, and who is not pleased with what you are doing to his creation. You will have some hard questions to answer when you stand before him…
I oppose HR 4742
If it’s not broken don’t try to fix it
Keep CONSERVATION as a PRIORITY in our fisheries!
Please protect our water and our wildlife. We depend on them.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please do not amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Please understand the urgency with which action is needed in stopping the rapid collapse of marine species. Every little bit helps and there really can’t be enough done soon enough in my opinion. What is happening right now in our oceans is truthfully my greatest worry for our immediate future.
Sincerely:
Clark C. Stringer
Please oppose HR 4742. As drafted this bill will destroy key conservation provisions for the management of American fisheries.
Please oppose HR4742. As drafted this bill will destroy key
conservation provisions for the management of
American fisheries.
Please oppose H.R.4742 and continue to protect our fisheries !
Living on an island off of the coast of Maine where fishing is what sustains many of my friends and neighbors way of life, it’s of paramount importance that we continue to do all we can to build sustainable fish stocks that will allow these fishermen to support their families for years to come.
Doc Hastings continues his worn out bark about too much government regulation by attempting to weaken sound, proven and beneficial fishery policy that is currently in place by proposing H.R. 4742. We all know rules are needed, otherwise a few bad eggs will ruin the lot for everyone. This is no different when it comes to overfishing and fishery managment. Please vote for sustainable fisheries by opposing H.R. 4742. The only thing worn out is Doc Hastings and his archaic and misguided policy.
Please oppose H.R. 4742
Thank you.
As people, we are a blight on this planet. But we can try to correct our bad ways. Please do the right thing.
Without protective measures, our fisheries will be depleted at an alarming rate. Please vote for conservation measures.
It is time to stop drift-net fishing, and any other practice that harms the world’s marine life. This includes stopping the trash entering the storm drains that go to our waterways and oceans.
please save us from this.
Please oppose H.R. 4742 as it will undo hard earned gains from our nation’s fish.
If we do nothing to protect the fish populations around the world we will see one of most vital resources gone forever & we must make sure with new restrictions on over fishing that this doesn’t happen in our lifetime!
Please do not amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Fish need protection too!
Please oppose HR 4741 Thank you Jane Edsall
Please help!
Hasn’t enough damage been done already? Let’s do something positive.
Please oppose HR 4742 which will destroy the hard earned gains in sustainable and scientific based ocean management. Sustainability is the only key to preserving this national resource and HR 4742 is another run around against prudent management of the fishing industry and fishing grounds.
Preserve our fishing grounds for future generations and defeat HR 4742.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. This is very bad for the future of our fish and our oceans.
Oppose bill H.R. 4742.
Oppose bill H.R. 4742!!!!!!!!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We need to lead the world in developing a sustainable fishing industry that will last for generations.
I really want all of the Fish to be alive always!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
We want to eat fish for our lifetimes, not just another year or two.
please do something
I urge you to oppose HR 4742 and to maintain protection for our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Thank you
It is extremely important to maintain the protection of our fisheries from over fishing, pollution, and pirating by foreign nations. To maintain a healthy and producing fishery it is necessary to not only protect the habitat, but the foundation feeder fish population and breeding population for future generations.
r8dmarshall
Lets not lay our oceans to waste for a few gluttonous Fishing corporations! Start using that noggin Congressmen!
We need continued vigilance & modification incorporated into our fisheries legislation. The continued health and regeneration of this vital aspect of our ecosystem requires it. Research & amendment of current regulations is a continual requirement, not an impediment.
We must not be short sighted.
I oppose H.R. 4742.
Protect the oceans and fish!
I oppose H.R. 4742
For cod and country please oppose H.R.4742. It will harm our coastal communities and fisheries. It will roll back laws that help conserve our food supply.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
H.R. 4742 reeks of unfounded fears of too much government meddling, despite much hard work by fishing industries with state and federal governments on the fisheries councils.
H.R. 4742 would allow fishery management councils to exempt many seafood species from the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s requirements to set science-based fishing limits and to rebuild depleted fish populations, the provisions that are most responsible for our success in restoring fish populations and ending overfishing.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Shortsightedness and greed will spell disaster for our fisheries. We must act responsibly NOW. Only then will we ensure that there is enough fish to feed us all. Please DO THE RIGHT THING.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please OPPOSE H.R. 4742.
This bill will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm your nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
If left to it’s own devices, the fishing industry in this country would continue to overfish for short term profit despite knowing that, in the long run, there won’t be anything left for them to catch. That’s why an outside entity needs to set the rules and limits. Just like the banking industry needs a regulator, the SEC, so to does the fishing industry need to be regulated.
Don’t let the fishing industry destroy our fisheries.
I urge you strongly to oppose H.R. 4742, engineered by Hastings, the man who has managed to write and pass several environmentally destructive bills in the past six months.
H.R.4742 would substantially weaken ocean habitat, sustainable fishing practices, and environmental studies of our dwindling fish populations.
Say NO to Hastings. Say NO to H.R.4742!
Think about food for the future.
It would be a shame to roll back the provisions now, as they are at a “model” level.
More than ever now we must practice sustainable fishing. Our oceans and the creatures in them are in trouble and it is up to us to protect them.
Save the fisheries!!!!!
Show yourself to anyone (with few exceptions) under the age of 21 and the word conservation means more to them than it did to you at that age.
Please for everyone, mostly the young, do the right thing. Think and act on the word conservation.
Changing this law in this way could undue all the good of the original law! It is very short sighted, profits today at the expence of the future fish levels! Typical of some politicians, short term benefits out flank long term sustained growth!!!
Let’s avoid a “tragedy of the commons!”
Save our seas and the creatures in them.
Please do not pass this dangerous piece of legislation .
We need to strengthen the Magnuson-Stevens Act, not destroy it.
thank you for your consideration.
Please consider carefully this option and oppose HR 4742.
please protect our fish
please save our fish
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Legislation needs thoughtful foresight. Our fisheries need protection for the long run.
I believe we can have our fish and be good to them too.
Healthy fish population benefits all~vote right and oppose H.R. 4742!
Decades of overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and climate change must be addressed head-on before we lose the oceans’ ability to feed the world.
Please oppose H.R. 4742.
Passing this bill will put us on the fastback of fisheries deprivation.
Moderation in management will result in a sustainable industry.
Humanity needs regulations to prevent greed of all sorts to
overtake our conscience. Thank You for Reading.
The issue of exemptions can not be left to local councils.
Please do not support this biased legislation. IT IS CRUCIAL that we begin to create safe and sustainable laws and regulations that protect our precious oceans and all the marine life that she supports and therefore support us. It is a travesty that we are so short-sighted that we are now in a major world-wide crisis!! Please use your position as my representative to support our precious natural resources for ourselves and our future generations!!
thank you!
I like fish without poison in it.
The HR4742 will roll back key conservation legislation.
It fails to advance the ecosystem. It fails to address decades of overfishing and how to rebuild depleated fish species from 28 back up to at least the 72 that we did have. It fails to address the habitat destruction. It fails to address climate change.
PLEASE OPPOSE HR4742 for the sake of our fish species’ survival.
Please try at least to agree on this issue.
Please save our fish and keep our oceans viable.
Keep science-based conservation.
We need sustainable fisheries, not just for our oceanic wellbeing, but our economic wellbeing.
The effects of overfishing along with all other factors such as climate change, etc. is just commonsense. Nothing more needs to be said.
Please ensure that our fish are healthy, safe & happy. Please do not let this be another disaster story.
Thank you
Torah Alabidi
Because i care 🙂
I don’t know what to say. When is this foolishness going to stop? I want to impeach the Republicans and get the congress back to work doing something positive instead of negative.
This is a really unbelievable problem … changing a law and regulations that have effectively worked to protect marine life.
Thanks for doing this to help the overfishing.
DO THE RIGHT THING.
HR 4742 would be harmful to fish and fishing
Our oceans and waterways and all that call them home cannot be replaced. Stop legislation that continues to destroy our planet.
Please oppose HR4742. Let’s be intelligent about the ways we handle our fish and fisheries. Thank you.
Do no harm to our fish,fisheries and coastal communities.Please oppose H.R.4742.
Please oppose HR-4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act and will harm our fish, fisheries and coastal communities.
Please vote against H.R. 4742. The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
Stop the overfishing of our Oceans!
HR4742 would shatter sustainable fisheries, and appears to only support the same old greed that has depleted fisheries in the past. I strongly oppose HR4742.
As a former commercial fisherman, I would like more control and science be used to help refurbish our fisheries.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities. It is critical that we continue to support the revival of these threatened fish species and move towards building sustainable fisheries in the US. Please, please oppose this bill.
This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
Please oppose H.R. 4742 which will weaken the Magnuson-Stevens Act. We need to strengthen -not weaken legislation which regulates the harvesting of fish.
It is important to oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please stop H.R. 4742. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world. It would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage.
sustainability!
The country needs to continue the protections for American fisheries and not weaken the legislation!
please leave our fish & water fowl alone. Stop manipulating the fish & environment!
As a lifelong citizen of Massachusetts, I care about the ocean and the devastating effects we have caused by inappropriate overfishing. Please take action
Please oppose H.R. 4742. Thank you.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
H.R. 4742 reeks of unfounded fears of too much government meddling, despite much hard work by fishing industries with state and federal governments on the fisheries councils.
H.R. 4742 would allow fishery management councils to exempt many seafood species from the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s requirements to set science-based fishing limits and to rebuild depleted fish populations, the provisions that are most responsible for our success in restoring fish populations and ending overfishing.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
I want all people to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Once something is gone all the money in the world would not bring it back. Take care of our beautiful environment
Please put resources before MONEY!
Sustainable practices are the only way to go.
The compromising off any conservation bill cannot be allowed. Bills like theses should only be strengthened.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Keep your crony lobbyists out of our fishing grounds
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Let’s be smart and make our world better, not worse. It is the right thing to do, now and for future generations. Thank you, Cheryl
Please DO NOT support the H.R. 4742 bill. It is a bad bill that will only weaken and harm our fisheries.
Please oppose H.R. 4742
Keep the Magnuson-Steven Act intact. Don’t let exemptions undermine the effectiveness of the Act!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Protect our fisheries, oppose HR 4742
Giving fish adequate time to replenish their numbers is more important than constant fishing killing off too many!
There has to be a better way to save the Oceans than allowing Congress to mess things up, ignoring the common good in favor of vested interests.
We need to save fish for our children.
Properly protect our fisheries
Something’s really fishy here.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
We must continue to protect our natural resources. The fisheries and their environment as our National Resources, belong to every American, not just the oligarchs.
Over fishing and pollution are killing the Earth’s most vital asset, our oceans and seas.
Loss of fish means loss of fishing, and a serious loss for food availability.
The loss of fisheries is the loss of the fishing industry, and a big problem for global food supplies.
Please protect our fisheries.
Please continue to prevent overfishing and the destruction of our water ecosystems. We ALL ultimately depend on them.
save the fish, and the dolphins, and the turtles, and the sharks, and the rays, and the whales………
We should build on the success of the law in restoring individual fish populations and incorporate a more comprehensive approach that protects ocean habitats, reduces wasteful bycatch, strengthens the management of forage fish (herring & menhaden) by accounting for the important role they play in ocean ecosystems, and requires ecosystem planning. These actions strengthen ocean ecosystems, support fish populations and support coastal communities all being assaulted by global warming, shifting currents and increasing ocean acidity.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We must continuously move in the direction of sustainable fisheries. The ill-advised HR 4742, the bill drafted by Representative Hastings, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
We need to protect the waters that provide sustenance for all the people of the earth from encroachment, pollution and destruction of habitat for the profit of the few special interests who buy government.
Please oppose HB 4742 and protect our fisheries.
don`t fix that which doesn`t need to be fixed!
We, therefore you, need to take care of our oceans and environment!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Don’t let this pass
“Since 2000, the number of fish stocks subjected to overfishing (the problem of fish populations in specific ocean areas being fished faster than they can reproduce) has decreased from 72 fish stocks to 28.”
The facts speak for themselves. Pulling back on this landmark act will hasten the demise of our fisheries for short term gains. We need to be continuously vigilant when it come to managing this incredible resource not only for it value as a food source but also as an environmental barometer of the health of our oceans
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Sincerely;
Brian Goins
Bend Or, 97707
Save our fisheries!!!
Stop the cruelty. God is watching what you are doing.
Please fund the Magnuson-Stevens Act to help us achieve a sustainable fisheries and fisheries management. We have more work to do.
Please oppose H.R. 4742 that will negate all the great, positive work that has been done by the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
HR 4742 must not be allowed to pass. We are destroying our fish stocks as it is. It is important to preserve our supply of fish for the benefit of future generations.
Please oppose H.R. 4742, it’s harmful to fisheries.
There are already plenty of examples of overfishing going on. One species of Tuna are now endangered. We need to stop strip-mining the oceans.
I am a former commercial fisherman and have grave concerns about overfishing stocks to the point where the industry becomes unsustainable. Regarding H. R. 4742, we need to better fund agencies that regulate and study fish populations, behavior and our practices so that we can bring our industry back to a strong position where we have real capacity to plan on some level of predictable income for now and in the future.
Thank you.
Time to make sure our oceans and all the creatures therein have a chance to recover to sustainable levels.
..without regulation, fist will become extinct.
WE NEED TO HAVE HEALTHY FISH COMMUNITIES.
Do the right thing and don’t look the other way. No one benefits more than wildlife. We, humans and you, those in power should care. Thanks
Oppose H R 4772……The health of the ocean and its inhabitats depend on it !
Protect our fisheries!
Please support expert recommendations.
Please do the right thing and oppose this bill HR4742. Save our oceans and ecosystems!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.Thank you
Please oppose HR4742, a bill that would weaken protection for fish, fisheries and coastal communities by removing important conservation measures. There has been too much bycatch, overfishing and ocean pollution, so we need to strengthen protections.
Please keep the positive rules in place.
H.R. 4742 is a bad bill
oppose hr 4742
thanks
Good management of natural resources is good sense. Washington has proved over and over again they have none.
Replenish our oceans. Keep it healthy. Fishing it to death is pure ignorance and selectively exempting types of fish from healthy replenishment practices is utterly ignorant.
Keep good sense in it’s unaltered form. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is doing a fine job without amending it to serve fish to the lobby.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please oppose bill H.R.4742 – This bill will ruin all that has been accomplished since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
To allow the fish and fishing communities to over fish, it is short term gain, it has devastating consequences.
Under no conditions or circumstances should the proposal Hastings wants to push through should be allowed. What needs to be done instead is additional legislation to strengthen regulations of protection for fish and wildlife in the waters. Do not let big business influence environmental protection laws; instead make big business accountable for all the risky projects they engage in before they even begin. History has proved over and over that there is no question whether something will go wrong because it always has and does.
We must protect this precious resource and make sure we have sustainable taking of this bounty.
Please save our fisheries making them safe.
***Do the right thing!!!
***Please help!!!
Please reject the new propositions to this law. They are bad for all parties involved.
keep fisheries sustainable
Our oceans, its fish, and our fishing communities need our devoted protection, and we must supply that protection.
H.R. 4742 would allow fishery management councils to exempt many seafood species from the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s requirements to set science-based fishing limits and to rebuild depleted fish populations, the provisions that are most responsible for our success in restoring fish populations and ending overfishing.
SAve our fish! Concentrate on forage fish.
keep the fish safe as well as our oceans.
Don’t make it easier to overfish the oceans.
I oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities. Please protect the US for our future!!!
The fishing industry and state and federal officials have worked hard to come up with a management plan. This bill would undermine this plan. Leave management to the experts, not a representative with other interests in mind.
we need more conservation legislation rather than giving in to greedy PACs who see nothing in the environment but dollar signs. some day you’ll regret the blood of innocent creatures on your hands.
For the future of our oceans, sustainable fishing is one step that we can take to ensure the next generation’s food source.
We should protect the seas and fish from harmful harvesting.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Please use reason and good science to make decisions that are sustainable. Denial and short-term greed is something that “We the People” choose not to renew. The question becomes, “Is America Even Run By It’s People Anymore, Or Have We Become Just Another Selfish, Irresponsible Plutocracy?”
We need to stop drift netting, block our storm drains to prevent trash going into the oceans, plant grasses to capture run off, and create Marine sancturaries all over the world.
This should be stopped and ecosystem should be cleaned up!
This is appalling.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act provides funding to count cod in the Gulf of Maine every three years. Yet, no funding is provided to count cod in the adjacent Georges Bank water a bit further offshore. As a result of a lack in federal funding the fishery council is blind-sided in the setting of cod catch allotments.
More funding for Magnuson-Steven Act implementation is needed. With federal funding haddock were researched when encountering a trawl net. Haddock swim with flounder and cod. As the net set about them, the cod and flounder swam down towards the bottom. Haddock swam to one side or the other, to evade the net, unsuccessfully. By modifying their gear and their practices fishermen are now sustainably fishing haddock without flounder and cod bycatch. Fisheries management succeeds with government money well spent.
Please conserve our natural resources.
please protect our fish and our oceans
We have already defiled the ecology of the oceans, to the point of its near collapse. We MUST reduce fishing levels to give fish a chance to avoid extinction. As the ecology of the ocean goes, so does society.
We need to protect our environment and not expect governments to do it for us.
For the long term survival of the human race it is essential that we protect our worldwide fish stocks.
We need to stop taking and taking and stop overfishing. There will be nothing left.
Please do not roll back fisheries regulations. Many fish species are currently being over-fished to the point they cannot reproduce themselves quickly enough for their own survival, let alone for the massive amounts that are being swept up indiscriminately in drift nets, gill nets and longlines.
We need STRONGER regulations in order to help some species recover, and we need to lead the way so that other seafaring countries can learn from us and also assist in preserving the sealife we all rely on.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
The Hastings bill does none of us any good.
We need to begin to conserve the oceans and all the life within them or we are doomed.
the decent thing to do.
We need to keep the law the way it is now with no new bill that waters it down!
We are already killing our oceans with pollution. As vast as they are they are not unlimited and hold a finite amount of seafood that grows smaller every year. At the rate we are decimating it’s population, the once bountiful sea could soon become another Sahara albeit a liquid one.
Protect our seas !
Please protect our streams and oceans !
The ocean is already so overexploited that some species are effectively extinct…
The fishing industry must be regulated and protected so that we continue to have fish to catch.
I oppose H.R. 4742 and support the Magnuson-Stevens Act .
I oppose H.R. 4742 and support the Magnuson-Steven Act.
Please stop big business from destroying our world
What really is going on (wrong) in Washington DC?? The ones who represent “us” and call themselves ‘Christians’ are the first to break the biblical rule, i.e. Gen 1 when we are instructed to subdue the earth and care for it because that is equal to being fruitful!! And those on the other side, They are easily distracted by such lunacy as gay marriage, and in the mean time, our world around us is quickly changing and deserves our attention if we truly care about the future generations!!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours
Keep Magnuson-Stevens intact. Fish are a limited resource.
Please save our fish!
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
We want to enjoy seafood guilt-free in the knowledge that our fisheries are the most sustainable in the world. We ask for your assistance in gaining increased federal funding to make that the reality. Thank you for attending to this great concern of ours.
Do the right thing.
We need to protect our oceans, not over fish them.
Food resources are our most vital resources. Once depleted, or eradicated the impact on eco-systems and humans is evident. Sustainability is the responsible action to take, always!
This is the time, there is none left.
YUCK!!!!!
The Fisheries must be managed responsibly
Please do not vote for HR 4742, and please do expand funding for the existing Magnuson-Stevens Act. All life arose from our magnificent oceans. We cannot sit idly by and watch them die.
Something is rotten with H.R. 4742, the bill drafted by Representative Hastings, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This legislation, as currently drafted, would roll back key conservation provisions that made American fisheries management an unsurpassed science-based model for the world.
The Hastings bill would undermine keystone federal laws that help conserve and manage our public resources and natural heritage. The bill fails to advance ecosystem-based management and sets back efforts to address emerging challenges coming from decades of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change.
Please oppose H.R. 4742. It is a bad bill that will undo hard-earned gains since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was first strengthened in 1996. H.R. 4742 will harm our nation’s fish, fisheries, and coastal communities.
Please protect our oceans and the fish that live in them. Keep science-based conservation methods for fisheries in place!
In the long run everyone benefits from proper management of fish populations.
Rob, I will contact our House Representative about fisheries management. Rob, people have to wake up and see what is being done to our country. They are destroying every thing they can to let the big money run things without regulations.
The Koch Brothers had our state stop reporting dangerous chemicals located in Texas. I have never seen such disregard for our lands, air and water. judith
Judith, Citizens are more awake and aware of what is being done to our land and waterways than you give them credit. Koch Brothers, BP, Peabody Coal, Standard Oil (100 years ago) have wrought harm and continue to destroy our lands, air and water. Turning the tide on their dastardly deeds takes time. Nature is remarkable for its resiliency when assaults are stopped. Be vigilant, keep tacking to windward.
Thank you for taking the time, finding the courage, to speak out against irresponsible behaviors. Bill by bill, action by action, we are progressing towards a healthier planet. Thanks to the unrelenting pressure by many to do right for all.
These are the voyages. Celebrate victories where you can find them, and enjoy “a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover.” Rob
Please protect them
Fish conservation is needed now more than ever. Please think and plan for the future rather think of only present profits. Thank you for considering my opinion, John Dunn
Sustainable practices and methods that don’t harm the fish habitats are necessary for future harvesting.
Stop it!!!
Please don’t pass this bill. We can’t overfish
As a registered voter I oppose H.R. 4742. By overfishing you are hurting the economy by putting fisherman out of work. You are hurting the global ocean ecosystem for the present and the future.
You kill the oceans if you kill off the fish! Please don’t weaken the laws.