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Pam Lyons Gromen
Executive Director, National Coalition for Marine Conservation
The Marine Fish Conservation Network launched an online petition to facilitate comments in
support of monitoring and reducing bycatch of river herring and shad in the Mid-Atlantic
Council's small-mesh fisheries for squid and mackerel.
To date, we have around 2,100 signatures. That's a great start, but we really want to hit 4,000
before the petition deadline of July 7th. Why 4,000? That's the same number of people who
wrote to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to demand action on river
herring bycatch - before the ASMFC asked the federal councils to address the problem.
We want to show the ASMFC and Councils that concern over this issue is growing - not
waning.
Please help by:
1. Posting the link to the petition on your organization's web site, newsletter, blog and/or
Facebook page:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/406/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3048
2. Sharing the information with other conservation/fishing sites and blogs.
3. Sending out an email action alert to your members encouraging them to sign the petition.
(If you would like an example, I'll be happy to send you the text for the email action alert that
NCMC distributed)
After July 7th, the Marine Fish Conservation Network will remove the petition from its web site
in order to package it for the Mid-Atlantic Council by the official Amendment 14 comment
deadline of July 9th.
Thanks for your help and support! Please call me with any questions!
-Pam
Pam Lyons Gromen
Executive Director
National Coalition for Marine Conservation
4 Royal Street SE, Leesburg, VA 20175
Direct Ph. (703) 777-1961 Fax (703) 777-1107
E-mail: pgromen@mindspring.com
Web: www.savethefish.org
Executive Director, National Coalition for Marine Conservation
The Marine Fish Conservation Network launched an online petition to facilitate comments in
support of monitoring and reducing bycatch of river herring and shad in the Mid-Atlantic
Council's small-mesh fisheries for squid and mackerel.
To date, we have around 2,100 signatures. That's a great start, but we really want to hit 4,000
before the petition deadline of July 7th. Why 4,000? That's the same number of people who
wrote to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to demand action on river
herring bycatch - before the ASMFC asked the federal councils to address the problem.
We want to show the ASMFC and Councils that concern over this issue is growing - not
waning.
Please help by:
1. Posting the link to the petition on your organization's web site, newsletter, blog and/or
Facebook page:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/406/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3048
2. Sharing the information with other conservation/fishing sites and blogs.
3. Sending out an email action alert to your members encouraging them to sign the petition.
(If you would like an example, I'll be happy to send you the text for the email action alert that
NCMC distributed)
After July 7th, the Marine Fish Conservation Network will remove the petition from its web site
in order to package it for the Mid-Atlantic Council by the official Amendment 14 comment
deadline of July 9th.
Thanks for your help and support! Please call me with any questions!
-Pam
Pam Lyons Gromen
Executive Director
National Coalition for Marine Conservation
4 Royal Street SE, Leesburg, VA 20175
Direct Ph. (703) 777-1961 Fax (703) 777-1107
E-mail: pgromen@mindspring.com
Web: www.savethefish.org