Agenda Item I.4.c Supplemental Public Comment 2

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Agenda Item I.4.c
Supplemental Public Comment 2 (Full Version Electronic Only)
November 2014
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PFMC Comments - NOAA Service Account <[email protected]>
Protect Marlin From Drift Nets - Agenda Item I.4.
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Barbara Burghart <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:08 AM
The Council office received 33 of these same petition letters by
the Supplemental Public Comment Deadline. Below is the text
of that petition:
Ms. Dorothy Lowman, Chair
Pacific Fishery Management Council
70 NE Ambassador Place, Suite 101
Portland, OR 97220
Re: Agenda Item I.4. - Drift Gillnet Hard Caps
Dear Chair Lowman and Council Members:
I am a fisherman. I support the Council’s decision to phase-out drift nets. As an interim step, the Council should, in
addition to setting hard caps for turtles and other protected species, develop a bycatch threshold for vulnerable
species of finfish including billfish and Pacific bluefin tuna.
Billfish are an important recreational fishery in southern California. Fishermen trawl the blue water for a chance to
catch and release a striped marlin. Since the mid-1980s, anglers concerned about the fate of these big game fish
have voluntarily reduced the number they bring to the dock by more than 90 percent. But, over the past thirteen
fishing seasons, the drift net fishery has caught an average of 47 billfish a year.
Congress passed the Billfish Conservation Act of 2012 to prohibit the possession or sale of billfish, including striped
marlin, in the mainland U.S. Congress specifically recognized the decline in billfish populations worldwide and acted
to protect the significant economic benefit recreational marlin fishing brings to the U.S. economy.
The Pacific bluefin tuna stock is at an all time low and the U.S. recreational fishery is facing deep cuts in allowable
catch. Yet, the drift net fishery catches one bluefin tuna for every two swordfish. And, once the U.S. reaches the
commercial limit for bluefin tuna, the drift net boats discard any bluefin caught overboard. A cap on Pacific bluefin
tuna can end this wasteful bycatch.
I want the Council to preserve fishing opportunities for the future. As part of a plan to transition away from drift nets,
I support an annual bycatch cap on billfish, bluefin tuna and other vulnerable finfish.
Thank you,
Barbara Burghart
39 emerald st.
bridgeport, CT 06610
PFMC Comments - NOAA Service Account <[email protected]>
Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:54 AM
To: Kit Dahl - NOAA Affiliate <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Tracy - NOAA Affiliate <[email protected]>, Sandra Krause - NOAA Affiliate
<[email protected]>
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1444 9th Street
ph 310 451 1550
[email protected]
Santa Monica CA 90401
fax 310 496 1902
www.healthebay.org
October 30, 2014
Dorothy Lowman, Chair
7700 NE Ambassador Place, #101
Portland, OR 97220
RE: Agenda Item 1.4, Drift Gillnet Hard Caps and Other Priorities
Dear Chair Lowman and Council Members,
On behalf of Heal the Bay, a non-profit environmental organization with over 15,000 members and almost 30
years dedicated to making Santa Monica Bay and Southern California coastal waters and watersheds safe,
healthy, and clean, we write to support the Council’s stated intention to minimize the bycatch caught by drift
gillnets targeting swordfish and thresher sharks off the California coast through strict management measures.
Given the indiscriminate nature of this type of fishing gear, we believe that over time this fishery should
transition to alternative types of gear that are actively tended and minimize interaction with the myriad
species of fish and wildlife that characterize California’s diverse and vibrant marine ecosystem. We recognize
that this transition will not occur overnight; therefore, we support the Council in establishing firm limits and
100% observer coverage to reduce the unintentional death of non-targeted species of ocean life caught by
drift gillnets targeting swordfish and thresher sharks. However, even though we support these short-term
measures to reduce bycatch, these actions should not be misconstrued to justify allowing drift gillnets to
continue operating indefinitely.
A healthy marine ecosystem is critical, both environmentally and economically in southern California, with
swordfish and thresher sharks representing an important role in our coastal ecosystem and economy. A
growing concern for our marine ecosystem is the non-targeted species of fish and wildlife that are caught and
killed along our coast as bycatch. If we are to enjoy abundant and healthy marine wildlife populations in the
region, including swordfish, we encourage the Council to advance a transition to more sustainable gear in this
fishery. The drift gillnet fishery already has undergone several efforts to reduce bycatch over the years,
including gear modifications as well as a seasonal closure to protect migrating Pacific leatherback sea turtles.
Yet the very nature of this gear means that it will continue to entangle and kill non-targeted wildlife,
including protected species of sea turtles and whales, sharks, other cetaceans, and finfish.
Harpoons were the dominant method of fishing for swordfish for most of the 20th century, until California
approved the use of drift gillnets in the early 1980s. Leaving mile-long nets to drift in the current for hours at
a time – especially in the biologically diverse and rich California Current -- results in chronic problems with
bycatch. The Council’s instinct was correct when you decided in March of this year to develop a
comprehensive plan to transition this fishery to more environmentally sustainable alternatives. Those
1444 9th Street
ph 310 451 1550
[email protected]
Santa Monica CA 90401
fax 310 496 1902
www.healthebay.org
alternatives are already available. For example, new research suggests promising results for active fishing
methods, such as the use of deep-set buoy gear that minimizes the risk of encountering species other than
swordfish.
Thank you for your consideration of our comments and for taking action earlier this year to transition to
more responsible gear, a solid step forward in the transition to an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries
management. These actions have put the Council in an important position to maintain a healthy Pacific
Ocean ecosystem while managing sustainable, economically strong Pacific fisheries. We urge the Council to
remain steadfast and follow through on its commitment to shift this fishery to a more sustainable future.
Sincerely,
Sarah Abramson Sikich, MESM
Science & Policy Director
Dana Roeber Murray, MESM
Marine & Coastal Scientist
111 SW Columbia Street, Suite 200
Portland, Oregon 97201
pewtrusts.org
October 31, 2014
RE: Agenda Item I.4.c Public Comment on Drift Gillnet Hard Caps and Other Priorities
We write in regard to the management of the drift gillnet (DGN) fishery targeting swordfish and thresher
shark off the coast of California. In November, the Highly Migratory Species Management Team
(HMSMT) will report back to Council with their evaluation of bycatch performance scenarios. The
Council will have the opportunity to further guide the HMSMT’s analysis on management priorities for
the DGN fishery and reaffirm its commitment to transition the DGN fishery to more environmentally
sustainable gear types. The nature of DGN fishing gear is such that continued operation of the fishery,
under any management regime, is likely to have unintended interactions with protected, rare, and
vulnerable species as well as recreationally important fish. In light of this, we support the Council’s goal
of phasing out the use of DGN gear.1
Specifically, we ask the Council to:
1. Develop a comprehensive plan to transition the DGN fishery to more selective and actively
tended fishing gear including firm deadlines for Council action; and
2. Implement interim measures to reduce bycatch and require accountability in the DGN fishery
until a transition to more sustainable gear occurs.
Despite efforts over the last decade to reduce bycatch in the DGN fishery, it remains at unacceptably
high levels. The Council has the opportunity at its upcoming meeting in Costa Mesa to limit the impact of
the DGN fishery while it begins the process of transitioning the fishery to alternative gears.
Develop a comprehensive plan to transition the DGN fishery to more selective and actively tended
fishing gear
We support the Council’s stated goal in March to develop a comprehensive plan to transition the DGN
fishery to more environmentally sustainable fishing gear2 and tasking the HMSMT to begin work on an
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PFMC Decision Summary Document, March 2014, p.4.
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initial transition plan.3 Research is underway to test alternative gears for targeting swordfish and other
HMS species in the Southern California Bight4 and we encourage the Council to shift the DGN fishery to
alternative gears as quickly as possible.
In March, the Council sent a signal for how it wants this fishery to be managed. At the upcoming
meeting, we recommend the Council direct the HMSMT to analyze options for phasing out DGN gear
with expected target deadlines for approval of exempted fishing permits, research and development of
alternative gears, and fishery management plan amendments.
We understand that a transition cannot happen overnight. However, developing a plan and imposing
firm deadlines on Council action will push innovation and place new emphasis on research and funding
of more environmentally sustainable and selective gear. It will also give certainty to fishermen,
researchers, and other stakeholders.
Implement interim measures to reduce bycatch and increase accountability in the DGN fishery until a
transition to more sustainable gear occurs
We support the Council’s effort to implement management measures to reduce bycatch and increase
accountability in the DGN fishery until a transition takes place. These measures should not be
considered an end point, but as a means to hold the fleet accountable until a transition to more
selective and actively tended fishing gear occurs. Pew supports many elements of the Council’s
Preliminary Preferred Alternative (PPA), including hard caps on protected species, bycatch performance
objectives, and 100 percent monitoring. However, the PPA and associated analysis can be improved in
several ways. In further developing a range of alternatives, we encourage the Council to:
1. Analyze an alternative that requires 100 percent observer coverage for the 2015-2016 fishing
season;
2. Adopt a 1 animal hard cap on endangered sperm whales;
3. Base performance objectives on a reduction from average bycatch levels; and
4. Clarify the management response to the fishery reaching a performance objective.
First, in order to hold the fleet accountable and ensure bycatch limits are enforced, the Council should
require observers on every fishing trip and remove the unobservable vessel exemption starting next
fishing season. Observer coverage is a necessary component for assessing compliance with bycatch
management measures and for collection of scientific data. As acknowledged by the HMSMT:
The feasibility of a hard cap management system depends on monitoring fishing in real time.
Protected species takes in the DGN fishery are rare events, so reliably estimating takes with an
acceptable level of accuracy and precision is difficult without a high level of monitoring.5
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Agenda Item K.5.b, Development and Trials of Deep-set Buoy Gear in the Southern California Bight, March 2014.
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Agenda Item G.4.b, HMSMT Report 3, Sept. 2014, p.1.
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Any level of observer coverage under 100 percent requires fishery managers to extrapolate observed
interactions to account for assumed interactions that were not observed. This extrapolative method
may not reflect actual take in the fishery and can result in an unintended management response. By
requiring all DGN trips be observed, the Council will have an exact accounting of all catch in the fishery.
At the November meeting, we recommend the Council task the HMSMT with analyzing an alternative
that requires 100 percent observer coverage in the DGN fishery. While we support the use of electronic
monitoring (EM), the technology is not available and needs time to be developed and implemented. In
the meantime, 100 percent observer coverage ensures bycatch will be properly accounted. By requiring
all fishing trips be observed, the Council and members of the public will better understand the impact
the DGN fishery has on the ecosystem.
Second, the hard cap on sperm whales should be set at 1 animal. Hard caps on protected species should
be set at conservative levels allowing for a precautionary buffer between biological limits and
permissible mortalities. Using the new methodology in the updated stock assessment report currently
under review, the Potential Biological Removal (PBR) for sperm whales is 2.7 animals.6 This number
takes into account all human caused mortality and serious injury, not only mortalities resulting from
DGN fishing activities.7 The DGN fishery has taken 2 sperm whales in a single set.8 Keeping in mind other
sources of human caused mortality that apply to PBR in addition to take in the DGN fishery, the Council
should choose a precautionary limit and set the hard cap on sperm whales at 1 animal.
Third, bycatch performance objectives in the DGN fishery should be based on a reduction from average
bycatch levels, not a 10-year maximum. The Council’s intent in implementing hard caps and other
performance measures is to reduce bycatch in the DGN fishery.9 Further, the Magnuson-Stevens Act
requires that fishery management plans minimize bycatch of fish to the extent practicable.10 By taking
the highest bycatch rate over the last 10 years and using it as a performance objective, the Council does
not require the fleet to reduce bycatch. Therefore, the Council should request the HMSMT analyze the
average annual bycatch over the last decade in the DGN fishery and set performance objectives below
that average.
The ability of the fleet to reduce bycatch should be assessed annually and compared to the performance
of alternative gear. This will allow the Council to hold members of the fleet accountable and encourage
fishery participants to take steps to reduce bycatch and invest in alternative gears.
6
Taking of Threatened or Endangered Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations; Modification
of Permit, 79 FR 50626, Monday, August 25, 2014.
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16 U.S.C. § 1362 (20)(“The term “potential biological removal level” means the maximum number of animals, not
including natural mortalities, that may be removed from a marine mammal stock while allowing that stock to reach
or maintain its optimum sustainable population.”).
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NMFS California/Oregon Drift Gillnet Observer Program, Observed Catch – 2010/2011 Fishing Season, May 1,
2010, through January 31, 2011.
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Council Decision Document, June 2014, p.3.
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National Standard 9, 16 U.S.C. §1851(a)(9)(“Conservation and management measures shall, to the extent
practicable, (A) minimize bycatch and (B) to the extent bycatch cannot be avoided, minimize the mortality of such
bycatch.”).
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Finally, the Council needs to clarify the management response should the fishery reach or exceed
performance objectives. Any prescribed management response should involve a meaningful analysis of
the impacts on the ocean ecosystem and include the ability for the Council to take action.
Under National Standard Guideline 9, the Council must consider the negative impact on affected
stocks,11 the existence value of bycatch species, and impacts on other marine organisms.12 In essence,
the Council should take a holistic, ecosystem-based approach to managing bycatch. The Council has the
authority to make policy decisions regarding bycatch in the fisheries it manages and impose additional
management measures on the DGN fishery to reduce bycatch. As long as the DGN fishery operates off
the West Coast, these additional measures are necessary to adequately monitor the fishery, ensure
accountability, and enforce bycatch reduction measures.
Conclusion
We support the Council’s stated goal of transitioning the DGN fishery to more environmentally
sustainable gears. In order to accomplish this goal, the Council should outline a process and develop a
plan for phasing out the use of DGN gear. Rather than focusing management attention and resources on
prolonging the DGN fishery, the Council should focus efforts on developing alternative gears that are
more selective and actively tended.
We appreciate the Council’s attention to the above issues and we look forward to working with the
Council and other stakeholders throughout this process.
Sincerely,
Paul Shively
Manager, U.S. Oceans, Pacific
The Pew Charitable Trusts
[email protected]
Tara Brock
Senior Associate, U.S. Oceans, Pacific
[email protected]
11
In the 2013-2014 fishing season, the DGN fishery caught nearly 4,000 common mola. Although common mola
are often released alive, there is no current stock assessment nor has a comprehensive study of post-release
mortality been completed.
12
National Standard Guidelines, 50 C.F.R. § 600.350(d) (2009).
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November 3, 2014
Ms. Dorothy M. Lowman, Chair Pacific Fishery Management Council 7700 NE Ambassador Place, Suite 101 Portland, Oregon 97220-‐1384 RE: Agenda Item I.4 Drift Gillnet Hard Caps and Other Priorities Dear Chair Lowman and Council Members, The Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC) would like to thank the Pacific Fishery Management Council for its commitment at the March meeting to develop a comprehensive plan to transition the drift gillnet fishery to one that employs alternative, more sustainable types of gear. EAC was grateful to hear that steps were being taken to limit the kill of non-‐target species by the drift gillnet fishery. For over 40 years, EAC has advocated for the protection of the wildlife, wilderness, wild lands, watersheds, and rural characters of West Marin, including a healthy, productive Pacific Ocean. At the Costa Mesa meeting, we respectfully request that you take action to meet your goal to develop a plan for transitioning the drift gillnet fishery. We understand that this will take some time, so it is imperative that in the interim, management measures are implemented to reduce the significant by-‐catch caused by this fishery. We suggest that the Council set hard caps for protected species to ensure that the fishery shuts down should the kill limits be reached. In order for these hard caps to be adhered to and enforced, fairness dictates a 100% observer coverage standard on the entire drift gillnet fleet. We must hold the drift gillnet fleet accountable for as long as the fishery exists. We remain hopeful the Council will move expeditiously to transition the drift gillnet fishery to a more environmentally sustainable one and take appropriate measures in the interim. Thank you for continued commitment to maintain a healthy Pacific Ocean! Sincerely yours,
Amy Trainer, Executive Director
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
PO Box 609 Point Reyes, California 94956
www.eacmarin.org 415.663.9312
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This letter was received from 22
individuals whose signatures are
appended to this copy.
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Agenda Item I.4.d
Supplemental Public Comment (Full Version Electronic Only)
November 2014
pewtrusts.org/PacificFish
November 4, 2014
7700 N.E. Ambassador Place, Suite 101
Portland, OR 97220-1384
RE: Agenda Item H.1 – Unmanaged Forage Fish Initiative
Dear Chair Lowman,
The Pew Charitable Trusts has collected 11,303 comments to the Council in support of a transition to
cleaner, more sustainable alternatives to drift gillnets. Please include the attached petition as an
electronic submission on the web site for the supplemental briefing book.
The petition itself is included along with the names and cities of individual signers that were gathered as
of November 3. The Council may continue to receive additional comments in the days ahead.
Thank you,
Tara Brock
Senior Associate
U.S. Oceans, Pacific
The Pew Charitable Trusts submits this document representing 11,303 public comments to the Pacific
Fishery Management Council in support of cleaner, more sustainable alternatives to drift gill nets.
Dorothy M. Lowman, Chair
This year, the council agreed that it was time to transition commercial fishing for Pacific swordfish away
from drift gill nets toward more environmentally sustainable types of fishing gear. Please follow through
on that commitment.
Given the indiscriminate nature of drift gill nets, the council should continue to move toward this goal
and outline its vision for transitioning the fishery to less wasteful gear types.
Species unintentionally caught in drift gill nets are an important part of the ocean ecosystem. Marine
animals are of great national significance, providing aesthetic, recreational, and economic value to
coastal communities through whale watching tours, dive trips, and other tourism activities. The council
should protect these species by ensuring fishing practices are conducted in the least harmful way.
Despite various measures adopted in recent years to minimize harm caused by drift gill nets, the
fundamental nature of this gear means that it will continue to cause unacceptable levels of bycatch.
Every year spent attempting to make incremental improvements will delay the necessary transition to
cleaner and more sustainable alternatives.
Sincerely,
First Name
Virginia
Maria
Last Name
Krutilek
Holguin
City
Alameda
Alhambra
State
CA
CA
Harold
Kinchen
Atwater
CA
betty
maria
Pascal
Ometh
Nelly
Rocio
Tatiana
Behnoosh
jude
Tom
Christine
Antony
Karl M.
Cara
Martin
julie
Patricia
Linda
Amanda
buchanan
almeida
Kouromenos
Layton
Lopez
Salazar
Torres
Armani
lotz
Pitman
Angeles
Chapman
Levin
Barnhill
Diedrich
brown
Nickles
Straussburg
Lee
Bakersfield
Berkeley
Berkeley
Bogota
Bogota
Bogota
Bogota
Brea
Burbank
Burbank
Burlingame
Camarillo
Canoga Park
Coarsegold
Costa Mesa
durham
El Segundo
El Segundo
Encinitas
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
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Lisa
Steve
Vivian
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Butterfield
Polydoros
Scibilia
Escondido
Eureka
Garden Grove
Gilroy
CA
CA
CA
CA
Joyce
Suzan
Heather
Jane
Virginia
Beth
Teiko
Noel
karen
Sortland
Newman
Isaac
Goldman
Lee
Shafer
Ayers
Oates
toyohara
Grass Valley
Green Valley
Guadalupe
Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay
Huntington Beach
Kensington
La Jolla
La Mesa
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
Public Comment
It is time to stop the abuse of these ocean
animals they are very important in our lives.
Stop the waste and figure a way to catch
what you need and not kill or destroy what
you don't need.
Lets save what life we have left in the sea.
Thank you
With the knowledge of the planet and
technology we have today, there's no reason
for this cruelty and waste. Please put an end
to it. Thank you.
Your livelihood and the future of our
endangered turtles and whales and other
sealife is at risk. It's all Mother Earth and we
all have to LOVE HER.
IT IS FAR, FAR PAST TIME TO END THE
USE OF THESE DESTRUCTIVE AND
INSIDIOUS GILL NETS THAT KILL TOTALLY UNNECESSARILY - SO MUCH
OF OUR FAST-DWINDLING AND
PRECIOUS SEA LIFE !!! PUT AN END TO
GILL NETTING ONCE AND FOR ALL !!!
sally
kurz
Laguna Niguel
CA
This is indiscriminate fishing that literally kills
everything in it path. Stop allowing our
oceans to be rapped and stocks to be
depleted.
Let's protect our marine life from these
horrible and unnecessary deaths. Marine life
faces so many challenges already with the
pollution from oil and fracking, urban runoff,
plastics in our oceans along with sonic
testing which also kills so many. PLEASE
only allow sustainable types of fishing!!!
Brenda
Lee
Lakewood
CA
MIKE
Ken
Bill
Ela
Martha
CLIPKA
Hedges
Britton
Gotkowska
Muller
Lathrop
Lemon Grove
Livermore
LODZ
Long Beach
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
Catherine
Denise
Benamou
Wright
Long Beach
Los Angeles
CA
CA
this is heartbreaking; please help
Outlaw gill nets NOW too many other
valuable species get caught and die in them.
This is inhumane and must end immediately.
Scarlet
Sobranie
Los Angeles
CA
REMOVE this unnecessary and
unproductive gill nets. It's high time
fishermen stop killing millions of animals with
their nets.
Abigail
Ann
Sherrell
Nancy
Mha Atma S
W
Richard
Chris
James
James
amir
Kathryn
Querido
don
Stephen
Virginia
Charles Skip
Ellen
Sandip
Susan
Jessica
sue
Bates
Bein
Cuneo
Goldberg
Khalsa
Lynch
Rosenthal
Spanos
Walker
Mapes
niknam
Carroll
Galdo
green
Weitz
Stewart Carton
Wilkins
Segal
Dasgupta
Porter
Beaudry
davies
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
McKinleyville
Napa
Northridge
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Orinda
Pacific Grove
Palm Springs
Pasadena
Pasadena
Petaluma
Philo
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
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CA
That kind of wanton disregard for the life of
marine life is what keeps many, like me,
away from seafood. I really hope you will do
the right thing. Those animals that are killed
by the drift gill nets belong to all human
beings, it is not for you to decide to kill them.
Nancy
Slanger
Piedmont
CA
Mike
Rolbeck
Placerville
CA
Kathy
Faith
Mark
Arlene
Meteraud-ortiz
Strailey
Cappetta
Zimmer
Poway
CA
Quincy
CA
Rancho Mirage
CA
Rancho Palos VerdesCA
Charles
Randi
William
Curtis
Julie
Alexander
Nielsen
Wallin
Keedy
Ostoich
Rialto
Richmond
Richmond
Riverside
Sacramento
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
Cynthia
Rohana
Elizabeth
Luis
Darcy
Bonnie Margay
Gina
Teresa
Bonnie
Michael
Pec
Myrna
Julian
Jennifer
Russell
Ana
Shirley
Yves
Susan
Paul P.
Andy
Marjanne
Norman
Joyce
Pounds
McLaughlin
Dill
Fuentes
Bergh
Burke
Freitas
Durling
Steiger
Zagaris
Indman
Cohen
Chazin
Toth
Weisz
Menjivar
Wallack
Decargouet
Alcott Jardine
Soucek
Philpot
Vangenechten
Toback
Jeckell
Sacramento
San Anselmo
San Bruno
San Diego
San Diego
San Diego
San Diego
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Jose
San Jose
San Pablo
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Sebastopol
Sherman Oaks
Sherman Oaks
Solvang
Stad
Studio City
Sunnyvale
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
Charles
R.
Jeannette
Candace
Paul
Wolfe
Weiss
Welling
Hollis-Franklyn
Hirokawa
Sylmar
Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks
Tiburon
Torrance
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
Please! We need to move away from drift
gill nets that catch up and kill sea life
unnecessarily.
The care of the earth is our most sacred and
our most worthy and, after all, our most
pleasing responsibility. To cherish what
remains of it and to foster its renewal is our
only legitimate hope.--- Wendell Berry
This is a death trap!
Protect these valued creatures! This is their
ocean, not ours!
It’s time to end this outdated and wasteful
fishing practice. Drift gill nets continue to kill
numerous species of marine life every year,
including whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions,
sea turtles, and several species of fish.
That’s unacceptable when better, more
selective alternatives exist.
We need to ban drift nets!
Please protect our ocean family!
we're better than that
It is criminal to allow this practice with
indiscriminate killing of marine life!
erin
Andrew
Nazlee
JOHN
Doug
rosaire
Calderella
Ghannadi
PASQUA
Lenier
Torrance
Valencia
Valencia
Valley Center
Valley Glen
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
Jessie
D
Barbara
MARTIN
Long
Harold
Osborne
Shreves
Greenwood
ANSELL
Pham
Wakefield
Vista
Vista
Walnut Creek
West Hollywood
Westminster
Woodland Hills
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA
Natalie
McMahon
Woodside
CA
Myphon
leanne
Kathleen
David
josh
r.w.
Samuel
darci
Elizabeth
Hunt
abbott
Seeley
Pinzon
willis
cory
Durkin
andresen
Cunningham
Yuba City
Yucca Valley
Yucca Valley
CA
CA
CA
California
California
California
California
California
California
Rebekah
Rudy
Barbara
cathy
maria
Eugene
Alan
Allan
Jim
Pamela
Julie
Robert
Misty
Holly
Marjorie
rochelle
Elaine
Stacy
Rosiris
Laros
Stefenel
Britton
crum
perales
Bunch
Carlton
Chen
Clapp
Gaskill
Gengo
Jones
McIntyre
Rose
Streeter
palermo
Benjamin
Thompson
Paniagua
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Alameda
California
Alameda
California
Alameda
California
Alameda
California
Alameda
California
Alameda
California
Alameda
California
Alameda
California
Alameda
California
alhambra
California
Alpine
California
Alta Loma
California
Altadena
California
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BAN ALL CRUEL GILLNETS NOW.
Long-line fishing techniques have
contributed mightily to the rape of our
oceans. Put an end to this reckless
destruction of our ocean eco-systems
NOW!!
It isn't really necessary to kill everything in
your PATH.
Please put a stop to the Drift Gill Nets. They
are death for all the sea creatures that get
stuck in them.
This is a very important step in ocean
conservation efforts. I have witnessed the
damage these nets have caused and it is
stunning, and startling that we have not
acted to stop this sooner.
Take action on this matter!
Eliminating these nets would stop the
suffering of so many wildlife creatures that
live in their oceans.
willy
aenlle
altadena
California
Lori
Paul
Altadena
California
Norm
Andrea
Vic
Rosemary
jeri
Nancy
Rob
Bartold
Bonnett
Bostock
Byrne
p
Stewart
Myers
Altadena
Altadena
Altadena
Altadena
Altadena
Altadena
Anaheim
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
William
MacCorkell
Anaheim
California
Sergio
erika
Bonnie
Luis
Karen
Tim
Kelly
Belinda
Donna
david
Maris
Nicole
Steve
Michael
Kristina
Marta
Arroyo
barraza
Brandon
Garcia
Malley
Maurer
McVey
Smith
Crane
ruiz
Bennett
Bickel
Crase
Williams
Rau
Carbajosa
Anaheim
Anaheim
Anaheim
Anaheim
Anaheim
Anaheim
Anaheim
Anaheim
Anderson
Antelope
Antioch
Antioch
Antioch
Antioch
Anytown
Apple Valley
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
wandis
wilcox
aptos
California
kim
Carol
Gail
Sean
Robin
Teresa
Judith
Rudy
Nancy
Joe
Alexandra
chavez
Felton
McCredie
Ring
Rush
Lee
Little
Ramp
Walker
Harvey
Creech
aptos
Aptos
Aptos
Aptos
Aptos
Arcadia
Arcata
Arcata
Arcata
Arnold
Arroyo grande
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Frank
Tracy
Shayna
Nancy
Matt
Michele
Gardner
Ewing
Bailey
Cohn
Tritt
Katz
Arroyo Grande
Artesia
Atascadero
Atascadero
Atascadero
Atascedero
California
California
California
California
California
California
It's time we stop this indiscriminate practice
with today's technology - it the equivalent to
fishing with grenades!
Though this is a form letter, it expresses my
personal views exactly. The tragedy of drift
net fishing needs to stop NOW.
Please consider this worthwhile action for
sea creatures future.
We need to really stop the non targeted
fishery
PLEASE HELP PUT ANS END TO DRIFT
GILL NETS
Gill nets are a shameful form of profit
making.
This is a shameful practice! How can we let
this go on?? Our oceans are dying!
Elizabeth
Janz
Atherton
California
Alan
Ea
Carole
Diane
Gordon
Ray
Felena
Etta
Jered
Kyri
Patti
Breese
Morrissey
Shelton
Carson-Huff
Cook
Morris
Puentes
Robin
Cargman
Freeman
Shea
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Azusa
Bakersfield
Bakersfield
Bakersfield
Bakersfield
Banning
Barstow
Bay Point
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Lionel
Cristian
dave
susan
Ortiz
Contreras
alexander
witham
Bayside
Bell
bellflower
belmont
California
California
California
California
Robert
Gary
Clare
Ed
stephen
Joni
Bausch
Carpenter
Hooson
Elliott
thompson
Grisham
Belmont
Belmont
Belmont
Ben Lomond
ben lomond
Benicia
California
California
California
California
California
California
William
Dannys
Stephanie
Lisa
David
Cody
Cody
Linam
Nelson
Dresser
Benicia
Benicia
Benicia
Benicia
Berkeley
California
California
California
California
California
Andrea
Deb
Szeto
Castellana
Berkeley
Berkeley
California
California
Sara
MacKusick
Berkeley
California
Kris
Muller
Berkeley
California
Rory
Dave
Mark
George-Ann
Janice
Alden
Anderson
Beckwith
Bowers
Boyce
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
California
California
California
California
California
Apex predators such as sharks and whales
are vital to ocean and atmospheric health.
please do not let these animals go extinct.
PLEASE END DRIFT GILL NETS
NOW!!!!!!!!
Drift nets are a disaster to the oceans and
our future existence. It is your job to take gill
nets out of our oceans.
As an Environmental Science teacher, I
have been fighting for this for a long, long
time. Please don't let us down.
Drift gill nets are mass killing devices. The
should not exist in an open ocean. A few
target species may be caught, but thousands
of other species are horrendously killed.
I thought these were banned long ago!
It's time again for California to lead the way
and take a stand against unsustainable
fishing practices.
Stop by-killing sealife just so you can make a
few more dollars!
Wasted by-catch depletes our ocean habitat,
with consequences to our food supply and to
the functioning of the oceans to help protect
the planet's climate.
Henry
josephine
Mitch
Victoria
Robert
Carol
Caryn
steven
Dan
Isabella
julie
Lindsay
Wendy
Steve
Richard
Mark
Phoenix
Elizabeth
Kenneth
Donna
Brian
Dori
Maria
Canan
Anita
jana
Boyle
coatsworth
Cohen
De Goff and family
De Goff and family
Fusco
Graves
konopacki
Kuklo
La Rocca
mascarenhas
Mugglestone
Oser
Robey
Sherman and family
Van Valkenburgh
Vie
Waldron
Weidner
Flade
Florian
Kenneally
Nunes
Tzelil
Youabian
lafleur
berkeley
berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Berkeley
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills
big bear city
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Nancy
Freedland
Big Bear City
California
Please protect our oceans wildlife! Pull up
the nets!
Debra
Lessard
Big Oak Flat
California
Jaimie
Ann
Phyllis
Joan
Antonia & Andrew
Flippin
Hoffman
Mottola
Walker
Chianis
Bishop
Bishop
Bishop
Bishop
Blue Jay
California
California
California
California
California
Karl
Pat
Rich
Cea
Silvana
Virginia
Margaret
Pat
Koessel
Rothchild
Panter
higgins
Garcia
Skelton
Fish
Smith
Blue Lake
Bodega Baay
Bodega Bay
bodega bay
Bogota
Bonsall
Boonville
BOULDER CREEK
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Janet
Cathleen
Kathryn
Chereale
Mariyn
Henry
Bagby
O'Connell
Santana
Cormack
Livote
Schlinger
boulder creek
Boulder Creek
Bradbury
Bristol
Buena Park
Burbank
California
California
California
California
California
California
Please stop! Fishermen need to come up
with a different way to fish. They are killing
our Oceans for Nothing. Whales are the
Doctors of our Oceans. Dolphins too. The
Sharks are the garbage men and CDC of the
Ocean. I don't understand why men believe
their lives are more important then these
Sea Animals. The Turtles live over 150 years
old some ofthem. What do you think they
have seen happen to their home in the last
150 years. Can you pmagine how these
animals feel? That they are being murdered
by humans and our plastic ,oil, and
pesticides. I grew up on the Pacific Ocean.
On the Coast. To see what has been done to
the wonder of what our Oceans once were.
Now they are dumps for everything. Oil spills
are excepted. I can not believe what kind of
lives these fools are leaving for future
generations. Stay and fish if that is your job.
Don't just let these nets drift and kill
everything. The wasted lives of mammals
and turtles sharks all of them that aren't
wanted are thrown away as if they never
meany any thing. They were alive. They
have a place in the Oceans. Unlike the men
that have always murdered them for sport or
profit. A form of slavery. These are animals
that are needed to keep our planet alive.
Pollution for profit is not to be tolerated.
These men know exactly the harm hey are
doing. They just don't give a damn. Please
save our Oceans. Be a steward of our
This is so uncalled for. Start thinking
humanely.
PLEASE END DRIFT GILL NETS!
These should have been outlawed years
ago. Please make sure they do not continue
to be passive agents of death in our seas
and oceans.
PLEASE
Act now please!
liane
rudberg
Burbank
California
David
JosefineAnne
Joyce
Laura
Rhea
Camp
Gobreville
Johnson
Overmann
Damon
Burbank
Burbank
Burbank
Burlingame
Calabasas
California
California
California
California
California
Sheila
Kalivas
Calabasas
California
Lena
Mary Ellen
Charles
William
Edward
Joseph
Amanda
Barbara
Johanne
Lynne
Jensen
Strote
Almack
Lawson
Grace
Razo
Smith
Tacker
Zell
Harkins
Calabasas
Calabasas
Calexico
Calimesa
Camarillo
Camarillo
Camarillo
Camarillo
Camarillo
Cambria
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
John
B Lynn
NORMA
Flitcraft
Jorgensen
CAMPBELL
Cambria
Cameron Park
CAMPBELL
California
California
California
Sondra
Sharron
Larry
Chris
Boes
Helmholz
Lima
Jeske
Campbell
Campbell
Campbell
Canoga Park
California
California
California
California
mike
Lisa
Lee
panza
Rembold
Jenkinson
canoga park
Canoga Park
Canyon country
California
California
California
Jenn
Tessa
Celia
Tim
Susan
Marco
Mercedes
Marina
Sharon
Clare
Erin
James
Merrilee
Betsy
Scott
Jensen
Williamson
Kutcher
Ryan
Swan
Aguilera
Benet
Capella
Hecht
Kelemen
Lindquist
Miller
Morgan
Shapiro
Sporrer
Canyon Country
Canyon Country
Capistrano Beach
capistrano beach
Carlsbad
Carlsbad
Carlsbad
Carlsbad
Carlsbad
Carlsbad
carlsbad
Carlsbad
Carlsbad
Carlsbad
Carlsbad
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Why are humans onver there so dumb you
cannot SEA what you are doing to the
ENTIRE PLANET! Some just think they're
doing their job, but you are NUMB to the
truth. Wake up time
Driftnets are lethal to all that happen upon
them. These archaic nets have no place in
the sea. They should have been abandoned
long ago.
It's heartbreaking what we do to our beloved
friends in the sea. It has to stop.
Quite frankly, I find the continued use of
these nets to be an appalling
this is the glue trap of the ocean. They shuld
be banned totally.
There are better, less destructive ways to
fish. Indiscriminate methods like this are
wasteful and short-sighted.
Please do not kill that which you do not eat.
I am counting on your leadership.
Andrea
Hodges
Carmel
California
frances
Alan
Teresa
David
s
A
KJ
martin
Cunningham
Edmonds
Moorer
Schachter
Young
Linarez
carmel
Carmel Valley
Carmel Valley
Carmel Valley
Carmel Valley
Carmel Valley
Carmichael
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Elizabeth
Dionna
Gwen
Adan
Campbell
Romani
Carmichael
Carmichael
Castaic
California
California
California
Pat
joel
Gina
Inna
Katherine
Susan
Greg
Beverly
Erika
John
Kathleen
Blackwell-Marchant
despas
Gatto
Habelski
Leahy
Paulson
Rosas
Suminski
Vargas
Wiesner
Lawrence
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Castro Valley
Cathedral City
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Phillip
George F.
Ivan
Jon
James
Vetza
Linda
Cripps
Klipfel II, CLS
Lacore
Anderholm
Costello
Trussell
Miilu
Cathedral City
Cathedral City
cayucos
Cazadero
Ceres
Cherry valley
Chico
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Thomas
Masterson
Chico
California
James
Connie
Katie
Richard
Marsha
Trevolyn
jose
Anita
Suzie
Libby
Mark
dennis
Janet
relf
Danny
Kirks
Pratt
Zukoski
Duran
Malone
Haines
luis
Martel
Stoltz
Martinez
Rudningen
b
Pielke
star
Castori
Chico
Chico
Chico
Chino
Chino
Chino Hills
chula vista
Chula Vista
chula vista
Citrus Heights
Citrus Heights
city
Claremont
Claremont
Clayton
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Please do the right thing and hold yoyr
committment
We need to push sustainable fishing
practices and this is not one of them. Gill
nets are terrible.
Its about time we STOP Destroying all Life in
our oceans!
We are in the 21st Century surely there is a
more modern way to fish!
How many drift gill nets are used by foreign
fishing trawlers, trawling either in our waters,
or so close the international water thing is
negligible.
Please be a wise steward of our ocean's
resources Ms. Lowman.
Jason
Chinn
Cloverdale
California
emmylou
Alexander
diane
Connie
gutierrez
Yeung
hestich
Kirkham
clovis
Clovis
colton
Concord
California
California
California
California
Sarbi
Rebecca
Greg
Sheri
em
michael
Lynette
Julie
michael
Jennifer
Deborah
Karin
Anand
Cole
Goodman
Kuticka
levitt
levitt
Ridder
Sasaoka
schultz
Sellers
Walker
Hoad
Concord
Concord
Concord
Concord
concord
Concord
Concord
Concord
concord
Concord
Concord
Coronado
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Debra
Shannon
Sean
rickie
Floyd
Player
O'Day
moore
coronado
Coronado
Corte Madera
Costa Mesa
California
California
California
California
Lori
Pellizzari
Costa Mesa
California
Graham
Pavel
Russell
DAVID
Gragg
Jedlicka
Symonds
CARPENTER
Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa
COSTA MESA,
California
California
California
California
Laurie
Ken
Susan
Douglas
Wendy
Geraldine
Kristina
Hillary
Randy
Mary
Eisler
Elie
DiLauro
McCormick
Monterrosa
May
Fukuda-Schmid
Melin
Mills
Riblett
Cotati
Cotati
Coto de Caza
Coto de Caza
Covina
Creston
Culver City
Culver City
Culver City
Culver City
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
We need to do our utmost to protect all
animals and preserve our ecosystem.
This is an urgent issue that needs to be
addressed right away. We can't keep using
these Drift Gill Nets if our endangered
marine life keeps getting caught up in them!
Save our whales, turtles, sharks, etc. from
this dangerous practice!
So many non target species are caught and
discarded. If we do not start protecting our
food source we will have nothing to eat.
Outlaw gill nets.
Let's leave a good ocean for the generations
to come. Thank you for caring.
Stop the killing. This is a completely
irresponsible practice when it knowingly kills
so many unintended species. Drift gill nets
must be eliminated!
LETS TAKE A POSITIVE STEP TO
PROTECT MARINE LIFE FROM DRIFT
NETS, THESE TYPE OF NETS NOT ONLY
ENTRAP THE TARGET SPECIES, BUT
ALSO ANY SIMILAR SIZED FISH.
Russell
Suzanne
Katherine
Robert
Blaze
Alex
Rebecca
Blalack
a'Becket
Nolan
Walsh
Bhence
Munguia
Shirley
Cupertino
Cupertino
Cupertino
Cupertino
Cypress
Daly City
Daly City
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
lee
rudin
daly city
California
Alana
Sherrill
Mook
Futrell
Davenport
Davis
California
California
Scott
Lori
Leanne
Amanda
Jack
Alice
Clements
Conrad
Friedman
Holland
Milton
Brown
Davis
Davis
Davis
Davis
Davis
Del Mar
California
California
California
California
California
California
Michael
Marjorie
Pam
Sarah
janique
Benita
James
JoAnne
Junko
Judith
Mike
Heather
Nancy
Jason
Anne
nancy
Tim
Kathy
Diane
Hogan
Moss
Slater-Price
Hernandez
Mednis
Cohen
Cray
Hattum
Takeya
Richey
Laban
Meyer
Nilssen
Scanlon
Clark
ellestad
Hayes
Wallington
Rooney
Del Mar
Del Mar
Del Mar
Del Rey
Del-Mar
Desert Hot Springs
Desert Hot Springs
Diablo
Diamond Bar
Discovery Bay
Duarte
Dublin
Dublin
DUBLIN
El Cajon
el cajon
El Cajon
El Cajon
El Cerrito
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Ronald
Joan
Ken
Catherine
Gale
Ray
Bogin
Borame
Hoag
Johnston
Lederer
Saturno
El Cerrito
El Cerrito
El Cerrito
El Cerrito
El Cerrito
El Cerrito
California
California
California
California
California
California
I like fishing, but not with these nets.
Do not sacrifice all marine life
Drift gill nets is blatant disregard for living
beings for the sake of greed. Please
support the move away from drift gill nets.
Even with stricter limits in place, fishery
managers expect that drift gill nets will
continue to kill numerous species of marine
life every year, including whales, dolphins,
seals, sea lions, sea turtles, and several
species of fish. That’s unacceptable when
better, more selective alternatives exist.
I dive and have seen these things. What on
earth are you waiting for?
We are at a pivotal point in our fisheries and
it is time for action, please move away from
long drift gill nets. Alice Brown
Have Fisherman account for there
Drift gill nets kill indiscriminately and keep on
killing. Such a waste of life! Please put an
end to them.
s
Sabrina
Claudia
Joseph
Jay
Paul
john
Gale
Mark
Michael
Anthony
Benjamin
Eugene
peril
Thompson
Afonso
Gallegos
Atkinson
Meyer
mora
Mead
Crane
Stewart
Stratton
Sawicki
tssui
el dorado hills
El Dorado Hills
El Macero
El Portal
El Sobrante
El Sobrante
El Sobrante
El Verano
Elk Grove
Elk Grove
Elk Grove
Emeryville
Emeryville
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Kathryne
Patrick
Garth
Cassis
Lewis
Murphy
Emeryville
Emeryville
Encinitas
California
California
California
Scott
Weldon
Encinitas
California
Catherine
Lanzl
Encinitas
California
Calahan
Tulsi
John
iam
Elizabeth
Shelley
Felicia
Victoria
Jane
Christine
Linda
Miller
Milliken
Pham
polcyn
Taylor
Billik
Chase
Miller
Nichol
Stewart
Branson
Encinitas
Encinitas
Encinitas
encinitas
Encinitas
Encino
Encino
Encino
Encino
Escondido
Etna
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Karen
Parlette
Eureka
California
Glenn
Ross
Eureka
California
End drift gill net use!
The needless destruction of marine life is a
personal afront to me. Our intention should
be to stop the fishing industry all-together.
Do not consume fish.
Drift gill nets are extremely counterproductive re ocean maximum sustainable
biomass and abundance, indiscriminately
removing the oldest, largest, fittest, most
fecund individuals of every species from the
breeding stock. this system of fishing goes
against every management rule in the
fisheries management for abundance book.
It should be banned outright and strict
enforcement based on gear, whether in the
ocean or in port.
Fish populations are plummeting worldwide.
Indiscriminate fishing with gill nets
contributes to unnecessary fish deaths and
wasted catch. It should end.
Please put an end to this needless
slaughter.
How long do you suppose it will take before
the ocean is a desert? Will my
grandchildren know what a beautiful place
the ocean. . We are not thinking about future
generations. .. it's time to Change .
And don't undervalue the emotional love and
spiritual reverence that human beings feel
for these fellow creatures.
Just do it
Brian
Gustafson
Eureka
California
Cary
Karynn
Jane
Jason
Junko
Geraldine
Jeff
Peter
Sheilagh
Laurie
Gemma
Judith
Frank
Katherine
alecia
Frazee
Merkel
Merkel
Norris
Card
Card-Derr
Reading
Burchard
Creighton
Garrett
Geluz
Kahle
Seewester
Pecore
morgan
Eureka
Eureka
Eureka
Eureka
Exeter
Exeter
Fair Oaks
Fairfax
Fairfax
Fairfax
Fairfield
Fairfield
Fairfield
Fallbrook
felton
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Kathy
Mendes
Felton
California
Karen
Shawn
Burman
McAlistet
Felton
Folsom
California
California
Colleen
carol
Bill
Debi
Charles
Susan
Ruth
Auernig
cotton
Weaver
Bergsma
Warner
McLaughlin
Dyke
Folsom
folsom
Folsom
Fontana
Fontana
Foothill Ranch
Foresthill
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Raymond
Gilia
ernest
Kimberly
Dale
Joan
Kim
Kyle
Marshall
Humrich
medeiros
Thatcher
Le Fevre
Kingman
Chamberlain
McBurnie
Foresthill
FORESTVILLE
Forestville
forestville
Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg
Fortuna
Foster City
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Amanda
Carlos
Leah
Heather
Robert
Petel
Townsend
Ankers
Berk
Burton
Foster city
Fountain Valley
Fountain Valley
Fountain Valley
Fowler
California
California
California
California
California
Mass murder is not how to sustain our
fishing stock.
Please stop this destructive practice!
Needless killing for the profit of a very few
and enjoyment of even fewer must be
stopped. Greed is immoral.
Please rid the ocean of drift nets and end
incidental catch of whales, turtles, sharks
and more.
I would like to see this bill passed as a way
of preserving our fisheries for our future. As
a consumer of swordfish I am more than
willing to pay higher prices for the fish in
order too ensure the sustainability of ocean
life.
We do not need to destroy the environment
that gives us our food. Drift gill nets kills life
necessary to maintain g the ocean. It is
pointless, inhuman killing.
Save other species from annihilation.
PLEASE move away from drift gillnets! As
an ocean lover it breaks my heart.
People over profit :)
lyn
ward
frazier park
California
Michael
Patricia
Darling
Matejcek
Frazier Park
Freedom
California
California
Lois
Jeanne
Bacon
Crabb
Freedom
Fremont
California
California
Jenny
Mich
Mark
Michael
Sharon
C. Wayne
Kelly
Boris
Chen
Jones
Mitsuda
Rodrigues
Brown
Brannigan
FREMONT
Fremont
Fremont
Fremont
Fremont
Fresno
Fresno
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Glenda
Anthony
Kathryn
Karen
Dr. George B.
Mark
les
Haidie
David
Ann
Julie
Ray
Alice
Kitty
noel
Kris
Cierna
Cathy
Rob
Kendrick
Arcure
Barile
Bien
Kauffman
Mazhnyy
roberts
Simonet
Vosseler
Rennacker
Brickell
Bustos
Simpson
Lynch
watson
Head
Ritts
Hardymon
Allen
Fresno
Fresno
Fresno
Fresno
Fresno
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fresno
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Fresno
Ft Bragg
Fullerton
Fullerton
Fulton
Garberville
garberville
Garden Grove
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Gardena
California
California
California
California
California
California
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California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
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Daniel
Dale
Cooper
Blum
Reynolds
Gardena
Gilroy
Glendale
California
California
California
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Meredith
Jan
Ronald
Cammi
Rowena
cecelia
Lisa
Anne
Asimow
Gold
Leath
Warren
Pierre
Vogel
faigin
Hammermeister
Wallace
Glendale
Glendale
Glendale
Glendale
Glendora
Granada Hills
granada hills
Granada Hills
Grass Valley
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
STOP THE UNNECESSARY KILLING OF
OUR OCEANS SEA CREATURES !!!!!!
Minimizing the impacts isn't working. We
need faster progress toward ending the use
of gill nets.
Need to move away from these Drift Gill
Nets. They can find oa better way to catch
swordfish. Shouldn't be killing the
endangered whales & sea turtles.
Act kindly.
Please stop this preventable cruelty to these
helpless creatures!!!
please stop this,it is not a good practice!
No Drift Gill Nets!
Nets are cruel, pure and simple. Need I say
more?
It's short-sighted to take the young and the
few along with the many; not much future left
when we take the next generation. Stupid, in
fact.
NO NETS!!
Let's take a stand for all life on earth.
Jean
Turley-Sinclair
Grass Valley
California
Forester
Sinclair
Grass Valley
California
joyce
Sally
Robert
Michael
Juliet
Clover
MICHAEL
Reverend Jane
roz
Bill
DANIEL
Kate
Philip
Andrea
Melissa
banzhaf
Berman
Krueger
Logue
Pearson
Seely
TOOBERT
Eagle
goldstein
Lindner
OLIVEREZ
Sky
Bouwsma
Kaufman
Bryan
Grass Valley
Grass Valley
Grass Valley
Grass Valley
Grass valley
Grass Valley
Grass Valley
GRATON
greenbrae
Greenbrae
GRIDLEY
Gualala
Guerneville
Guerneville
Half Moon Bay
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
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Claire
Hayden
Jones
Half Moon Bay
Hanford
California
California
stephanie
Morgan
Evette
Heather
Eric
Ken
Michele
Marilyn
Mathias
christine
susanna
maria
Gabriela
Gary
vidal
Ben
garcia
Kanae
Garcia
cisneros
Bratcher
Burke
Martinez
Silva
van Thiel
raffetto
sorin
peteinaraki
Velasquez
Hileman
salas
Malka
hanford
Hanford
Hawaiian Gardens
Hayward
Hayward
Hayward
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Hayward
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helendale
heraklion city creta
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Hesperia
Highland
Hillsborough
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
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Kohn
Hillsborough
California
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Rene
Marina
Deidre
Christina
Michael
William
Elaine
Sylvia
Gee
Pineda
Munoz
Brookman
Chang
Henderson
Kenney
Kluever
Cardella
Hollyeood
Hollywood
Hollywood
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Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach
Huntington BEACH
Huntington Beach
Hydesville
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
These nets are barbaric and a more humane
way needs to be implemented.
We need to expedite the process of
implementing the sustainable alternatives.
Finally these dreadful, destructive machines
getting attention. Human greed will lead to
the end of our species.
Please make this stop.
They were here long before us and deserve
to at least survive our poor stewardship of
the sea!
Stop the nets! Save our Ocean life
Please ban these nets. They are a very poor
choice and are killing innocent animals for
no reason.
These nets are senseless and cruel. It is
time to stop destroying our oceans.
STOP ENDANGERING SPECIES !!!
Trish
Tuley
Idyllwild
California
Arthur
JEFFREY
Christine
Brent
Jenna
carol
Jennifer
Jaina
Natalie
Albert
Cindy
Elena
Erika
Alexandra
Cody
Carol
Connor
STEWART
Hutchinson
Riggs
Peterson
whitnah
H
Ko
Kovacs
Miller
Psareas
Rozin
Whitton
Campbell
Dolnick
Patton
Idyllwild
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Inglewood
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Irvine
Irvine
Irvine
Irvine
Irvine
Irvine
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Joshua Tree
Kensington
California
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California
California
California
California
California
California
California
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California
California
California
California
California
California
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Bob
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Linda
susanna
Gary
O'Connor
Rosenberg
salas
Knight
napierala
Thornbrugh
Kensington
kentfield
kentfield
Kenwood
kenwood
Kernville
California
California
California
California
California
California
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THomas
Precit
Pick
Kings Beach
L.A.
California
California
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tim
Hong
tarbell
L.A.
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California
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ELLIS
LA
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Herlovskiy
LA
California
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Bostic
LA
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divenere
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Krupinski
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California
California
California
Whales, turtles, and other untargeted catch
cannot wait in the net.
Please move away from drift gill nets. They
trap ocean creatures such as endangered
sea turtles, sharks, and whales and turn
them into bycatch which are thrown back
into the ocean, dead, injured or alive. We
can't afford to keep damaging or killing these
creatures needlessly. Put an end to drift gill
nets.
This is as simple a problem to understand.
Stop the waste of marine life. This is a
crime against God's creation.
Please.
Fishing with these nets is an outdated
method which time to end has come.
Drift nets--weapons of indiscriminate mass
murder.
Just stop it before there is nothing left in our
oceans!
Shame on you. Why in the world would I
have to write this? Do the right thing end this
barbaric practice NOW.
This confounded nets claim millions of
innocent lives every year. Many of these
species are endangered or threatened. What
does it take to get the message across to
get rid of these nets?
L.
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evan
marc
Monica
Jill
Jo
barbara
Perea
r
shamoon
silverman
Wood
Blaisdell
Kenney
poland
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California
California
California
California
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victor
Winke
anita
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Marian
Thomas
Gretta
Chris
Gee
Afanasiev
Self
simons
Crum
lascala
Tarbox
Gillespie
Pierret
Anderson
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California
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Good
Lafayette
California
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Sandra
NIck
Sharon
Kasey
Carol
Kevin
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Lynne
Robert
Barbara
Paula
Maureen
Chyrl A.
Denise
Riebel
Nealon
Gaetano
Haywood
Konkel
Normandin
O'Brien
Thornton
Hongo-whiting
Jeffries
Kurz
Taps
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Mehler
Russell
Bowland
Lafayette
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Eric
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Flores
Flores
Reed
Vollaro
Rehnke
Lake Elsinore
Lake Elsinore
Lake Elsinore
Lake Elsinore
Lake Elsinore
Lake Forest
California
California
California
California
California
California
Brad
Rae
Lake Forest
California
Another death to life issue that everyone is
too callous to correct.
Please stop drift gill netting and transition to
more sustainable fishing practices.
This fishing technique is slaughtering our
beautiful sea life! My family would rather eat
no fish than know our meals are so
destructive. -Karen Good
PLEASE STOP using Drift Gill Nets!!!
Drift gill nets are killers of too many
unwanted, unnecessary deaths of our ocean
creatures and should be banned in the
fishing industry!!!! With all of the climate
changes, we have to stop unnecessary
killing of all of our species, ocean and
land!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
Please put an end to this unsavory practice.
Dana L.
Stewart
Lakeside
California
Patrick
kx
Don
Bruce
Richard
Frances
Loren
Susan
Tina
Julita
Cherie
Kruse
bx
Schwartz
Scotton
Benson
Onesti
Madsen
McMullen
Overland
Jones
Altevers
LaMesa
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Lawndale
Lawndale
Laytonville
Lemon Grove
Leucadia
Lfaguna Beach
Lincoln
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Handy
Ketcherside
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Lincoln
Lincoln
Lincoln
Livermore
California
California
California
California
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Edith
Caroline
Lawrence
Rev. Jeffrey
Jaynee
Allen
Bauer
Ko
Thompson
Womble
Harpe
Livermore
Livermore
Livermore
Livermore
Lodi
Lomita
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California
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Mal
MICHAEL
Alexis
Lorelei
Sherry
KURT
Lee
alan
Robert
Chad
bev
Diana
Cindy
Lori
Timothy
Dan
Tran
Marisa
Meghan
Steve
Joy
William
Katie
kathy
Harpe
Gaffney
TAAFFE
Erlbaum
Horry
Cragg
CRUGER
Eames
gonzales
Hicks
Johnson
kelly
kliche
Koch
Korioth
Lawnicki
Miner
Nham
Strange
Tracy
Yaffee
Zadaca
Castle
Cather
beckwith
Lomita
Lompoc
LOMPOC
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Long Beach
Long Beach
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Long Beach
Long Beach
Long Beach
long beach
long beach
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Long Beach
Long Beach
long beach
Long Beach
Long Beach
Long Beach
Long Beach
Long Beach
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California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
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California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
We are already over-fishing our seas! This is
one of the most wasteful ways to fish.
Please see our Oceans Harvest tech at
www,abccgreentechs.com. Gill nets are
unnecessary and hazardous. Thank you!
Drift gill nets look like BAD NEWS to me!
Drift gill nets kill so many unnecessary
animals and fish. It's torture and cruel so
many animals die a slow death..
I thought these types of nets were already
outlawed. They should be!
Drift gill nets are horrible. Please ban their
use. Thank you.
No drift gill nets
PLEASE HELP STOP THIS
Carita
James
mandi
Dong
A`
Benjamin
O'Connor
Patton
T
Zheng
Deleon
Schlau
Los Alamitos
Los Altos
Los Altos
Los Altos
los anfeles
Los Angeles
California
California
California
California
California
California
Donita
David
CLAUDE
Sparks
Arnson
RUSH
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES
California
California
California
Steve
Hanlon
Los Angeles
California
Dan
Silver
Los Angeles
California
James
Thelman
Los Angeles
California
Patricia
Quimby
Los Angeles
California
maral
kalinian
los angeles
California
Sharon
Bushman
Los Angeles
California
Sandra
Jason
Walker
Brock
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
California
California
danielle
portnoy
los angeles
California
David
Scharf
Los Angeles
California
Elaine
Livesey-Fassel
Los Angeles
California
EVA
Judy
Nancy
ADAMYAN
Alter
Amodeo
LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
California
California
California
Act now before what's left of our fisheries
goes the way of Atlantic cod. Sure overfishing is the strongest driver of fish
population declines, but populations are
more resilient when they have a healthy
foodweb.
Do Something!!!
Drift gill nets kill EVERYTHING
ENOUGH ALREADY! For a change, do the
right thing...
For the sake of whales, sharks and turtles,
please ban drift gill nets.
Gill nets are unconscionable. Use
alternatives.
I'm appalled that this kind of fishing is
allowed at all. What you don't understand is
this: without the oceans and it's precious life
within, we will become extinct. STOP
fishing, STOP polluting, and be a force for
good on this planet, or we'll be without it!
The drift gill nets are cruel for so many
unintended victims . They should have been
banned long, long ago.
The fact that a proportion of fish caught in
gill nets will fall from the net before being
hauled on board, and a further proportion will
escape from the net injured, has also lead to
the charge from competing fisheries that
driftnet fisheries are wasteful of fishery
resources.
THIS IS JUST AWFUL, WHAT ELSE CAN I
SAY.
Thoughtless, irresponsible cruelty!
To allow the use of Drift Gill Nets would be
completely irresponsible. These nets kill
indiscriminately! Please ban them now!!
We know better and it's our responsibility to
do better. Thank you for taking action.
We must protect and conserve what is left.
This is of utmost importance.
We need these magnificent ocean creatures
in the HEALTHY WEB of our LIVES - Help
them LIVE!!! DONT SLAUGHTER THEM in
these lethal GILL NETS!!
Raul
Kyle
carol
Nancy
Candace
Dirk
ROLLIN
Renee
Kyle
Eveline
James
Brandon
J
Amy
Harald
Nicolle
Mark
Chip
Thomas
Denise
Tammy
Lenore
Mauro
Robert
Joe
Hector
ANGELICA
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Steve
Rick
Rebecca
Rosalind
A.L.
Michael
Lucy
James
kenneth
Brooke
fred
Anna
Laura
Alison
Janet
Eugenie
Saran
Janet
Judi
Bogdana
O
janet
Patricia
Casee
Julie
Paul
Holly
Anorve
Ashby
banever
Barcellona
Batten
Beving
BLANTON
Boteilho
Bracken
Bravo
Brown
Chavez
Chen
Colla
Conradi
Cornute-Sutton
Crane
Croft
Dannecker
Dardarian
Davis
Dowling
Ferrero
Frcek
Gallagher
Garcia
GOMEZ
Gonzalez
Graff
Guidotti
Harper
Helfand
Hern
Hoover
Horwitz
Hubbard
hughes
Johnson
johnson
K
Kaiser
Kelly
Kennington
Kim
Kirschbaum
Kusnick
Laing
Leto
Lewis
maker
Marlatt
Maxfield
May
McDermott
McDuffie
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McNaughton
Carole
Miller
HUGO
MIRA
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Moezzi
Sasha
Moreno
britt
morrissey
Donna
Murray
Sarah
Natalini
Cipra
Nemeth
Kelly
O'Donnell
Andrew
Olsen
Polly
O'Malley
Frank
Ortiz
Grace
Padelford
Robert
Pann
Louis
Phillips
James
Provenzano
Mark
Reback
Andrew
Reich
Richard
Rhodes
miguel
rivera
Carolyn and Richard Rosenstei
Alicia
Salazar
Donna
Sanders
Dena
Schwimmer
LeAnna
Sharp
Nancy
Shrodes
Stacey
Sklute
Dorina
Solymar
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Sosa
Neal
Steiner
Catherine
Sturgeon
Joseph
Szabo
Robert
Thornhill
Amber
Tidwell
Maureen
Toth
Inge
Wagner
Lynnie
Weiske
Ken
Windrum
Amanda
Withrow
Madeline
Wright
Ina
Zec
evan
hurd
Scott
Coahran
Kim
Forrest
Stanley
Peterson
Laura
Iwanaga
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marsha
los gatos
California
armstrong
It is urgent that we immediately implement
all possible methods to preserve our oceans
and the life within them. Wasteful and
destructive methods of fishing should be first
on the list.
The waste of lives is shortsighted, as
industrial fishers are depleting stocks and
destroying the ecosystem for the next
generations.Stop them before it is toolate.
Tanya
Babette
Sherri
Dana
Terrence
Pat
cat
Tatjana
Alice
Baldwin
Bruton
Gillespie
Mantle
Mantle
Pfeiffer
allen
Patitz
Welchert
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California
California
California
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California
California
California
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California
Bonnie
Thompson
Los Osos
California
George
Jennifer
Julie
leslie
Lori
Beverly
Carolyn
Peggy
Steve
Lewis
O'Leary
Smith
spoon
Caudill
Poncia
Nolan
Loe
Sugarman
Los Osos
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Los Osos,
Lower Lake
Madera
Magalia
Malibu
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Jason
LaBerge
Malibu
California
Suzy
Rob
Kathryn
Patricia
jacklyn
Davis Mantee
Seltzer
Hughes
Savage
loughbom
Malibu
Malibu
Malmesbury
Mammoth Lakes
manhattan beach
California
California
California
California
California
susan
rudnicki
manhattan beach
California
richard
Susan
Debbie
Shanna
william
Phillip
Jennifer
Regina
robinson
Palmer
Sturt
Brandow
mittig
Hansen
Brennan
DeFalco Lippert
Manhattan Beach
Manteca
Marina
Marina Del Rey
mariposa
Markleeville
Martinez
Martinez
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Death by drowning in gill nets for thousands
of marine mammals and fish is
unacceptable. Please keep your promise.
Please help the fish before it's too late.
Thank you.
Drift gillnets should be outlawed completely.
This is a terrible way to fish, it kills anything
in its path. Gill nets need to banned
Please ban drift nets before its too late
Please please help end this cruel practice
that can be changed.
The use of gill nets on severely beleaguered
marine life must be stopped. Using these
indiscriminate wall of death to take a
particular species as the target, is like
spreading napalm on my garden to get rid of
the weeds---the unintended, overall
destructive result is not justified or moral or
ethical. This fishing method is Medieval.
So much of ocean going life is struggling
with the side effects of human caused
activity---we are undermining the very
support of all life for a nanosecond of profit
gain.
Gill nets are murder, plain and simple.
These nets mean DEATH for thousands of
sharks, turtles, and marine mammals like
whales and dolphins! BAN them now!
sue
Denise
Robin
Goose
Carol
Adele
FELIPE
Jeffery
Thomas
Jeanette
Gayle
harrington
Comiskey
Fellner
Saver
Whitehurst
Myers
OLARTE
Garcia
Turney
Stone
Spencer
martinez
California
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California
Meadow valley
California
MEDELLIN--COLOMBIA
California
Mendocino
California
Mendocino
California
Menifee
California
Menlo Park
California
Erin
Scott
Menlo Park
California
Carol
Taggart
Menlo Park
California
Ram
Rebecca
Julie
Kay
Lee
Barbara
Gabriel
Darcy
Duriseti
McDonough
Spickler
Von Tress
Greenawalt
Root
Sheets
Skarada
Menlo Park
Menlo Park
Menlo Park
Menlo Park
Merced
Merced
Merced
Middletown
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Iris
Miyuki
Tristan
Chynoweth
Powell
Celayeta
Midpines
Midway City
Mill Valley
California
California
California
maria
muldaur
mill valley
California
Roberta E.
Mark
Jill
Newman
Tarpey-Schwed
Pell
Mill Valley
Mill valley
Millbare
California
California
California
Lacey
Michael
Cynthia
Kammerer
Rotcher
Smith
Milpitas
Mission Viejo
Mission Viejo
California
California
California
Indiscriminate killing is bad for the ocean
plus being unethical.
It's critical that corporations, companies and
people end all that is doing harm. This is a
no-brainer. However, it takes knowing limits,
acknowledging what is not right for the
whole, and the maturity to enact the
appropriate changes. Profit is one piece of
the whole so if that driving the decisions for
everything, we have imbalance. Simple.
It's hard to believe that gill nets are still being
used despite the knowledge of knowing how
devastating they are to marine life. Please
rid the oceans of them now!
Environmental leadership is Long-range
leadership!
Greed must give way to reality. Science
shows the future and theft from the future is
too stupid.
This is such a sad thing and has been for too
long. These animals are so innocent and
beautiful and we humans torture them and
disgard them as though they were garbage.
What a legacy for our children!! Shame on
anyone who takes part in this. You catch or
kill something, you eat it or you are a bad
person in my opinion.
Isn't this sad. We must do something to
protect them.
thomas
Lance
matthew
Laura
Wendy
Rudholm
Cain
Davila
Jensen
Raymond
MODESTO
Modesto
Modesto
Modesto
Monrovia
California
California
California
California
California
Sabrina
Hogan
Monrovia
California
Julie
Miyasaki
Montague
California
Donna
Meri
Alleyne-Chin
Bautch
Montara
Monterey
California
California
Aireen
John
lisa
Richard
Elizabeth
Carol
Edward
brien
Kathryn
stephen
Larry
Agbayani
Etter
hoivik
Kuntze
M Darovic
Maehr
Goral
hindman
Spence
pitt
Cheong
Monterey
Monterey
monterey
Monterey
monterey
Monterey
Montrose
montrose
Moraga
moreno valley
Morgan Hill
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Yvette
John
Jennifer
betty
Erika
Jim
Julie
Doublet-Weislak
Edman
Will
winholtz
Vadopalas
Curland
Amato
Morgan Hill
Morgan Hill
Morgan Hill
morro bay
Moss Beach
Moss Landing
Mountain View
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Jana
Lalanne
Mountain View
California
Cyril
Kermit
Randy
JOY
Reuben
Susan
Claire
Catherine
john
Bouteille
Cuff
Schwartz
SWEENY
Veek
Alpern
Chambers
McCoy
contos
Mountain View
Mountain View
mountain view
Mountain View
Mountain View
murrieta
Murrieta
Murrieta
n/a
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Please stop using gill nets!!!
Drift gill nets should have strict limitations re
deployment, as they are indiscriminate as to
species trapped. And everything caught
should be required to be brought in to port no discards, ever.
I thought we ended these with dolphin safe
tuna?!!!
This unnecessary slaughter of wildlife really
is unacceptable. Please consider the far
reaching affects of this and put an end to it.
VERY NICE ART!! NO MORE DRIFT
GILL NETS-PLEASE FIND SOMETHING
SAFER SOON!
We need to get rid of gill nets and start to
manage our fisheries in a more responsible
manner.
PLEASE, move away from the destructive
GILL NETS...They are SO hurting our
marine life in so many ways....please find a
more sustainable type of fishing gear...You
can do it! Thank you..
Remember the future belongs to our children
and grandchildren!
Pamela
Libonati
Napa
California
Elen
G
napa
California
Jan
Gates
Napa
California
Dorothy
Shelley
Napa
California
Catherine
Jon
Sidney
Ellen
Chris
Kim
mika
Cynthia
Cynthia
Kathryn
Megaen
George
Heiken
Robles
Sabine
Mills
King
stickford
Brockett
Crittenton
Mcroden
Kelly
Napa
Napa
Napa
Napa
NEEDLES
Nevada City
nevada city
Newbury Park
Newbury Park
Newbury Park
Newcastle
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
walker
hibben
newport beach
California
roxanna
Alexandra
Linda
susanne
Jen
Mary
lyle
Karlinski
Mellen
mortensen
McMillan
Didier
newport beach
Newport Beach
Newport Beach
newport beach
North fork
North Highlands
California
California
California
California
California
California
Linda
Frank
Tabb
Hill
North Hills
North Hollywood
California
California
Cathy
ted
paula
Robert
Cousins
porter
pruner
Chirpin
North Hollywood
north hollywood
north hollywood
Northridge
California
California
California
California
Victoria
will
Janette
Robert
Richard
Jay
Diane
Kathy
alison
Joshua
William
Brandon
gorenfeld
Mejia
Ortiz
Puaoi
Rice
Bolman
Brigger
merkel
Krasnoff
Cusick
Northridge
California
novato
California
Novato
California
Novato
California
Novato
California
Novato
California
Novato, CA 94949 California
Nuevo
California
oak park
California
Oak View
California
Oakhurst
California
Do unto others, as you would have them do
unto you.
STOP THE INSANITY!! Selfish, greedy
humans are overfishing and polluting the
oceans! What do you think we're all going to
eat after it's all GONE?!
The degree of desecration of our oceans is
alarming. Please help by stopping this
practice!
These nets are barbaric and should have
been banned years ago when the amount of
sea animals killed was first brought to light.
Please do the right thing and end this animalkilling practice.
I'm astounded that CA is the LAST state to
ban these underwater torture chambers!
Please Stop ;)
This net is inhuman to all life and a danger to
let loose in the ocean..
STOP DRIFT GILL NET FISHING!!!!!!
Stop destroying all forms of life in the name
of money.
IT'S TIME TO EVOLVE AND SHOW
GREATER CONSIDERATION FOR THE
CREATURES OF THE SEA!
Richard
Tina
Jacobel
Arnold
Oakhurst
Oakland
California
California
Lisa
Robles
Oakland
California
leslie
Elizabeth
Uly
smith
ward
Silkey
oakland
oakland
Oakland
California
California
California
Laurel
Przybylski
Oakland
California
Robert
Ellis
Oakland
California
kristy
Kris
Robert
Cecilia
Eleanor
Lew
Ayesha
Chris
Janice
John
Heather
Mark
GA
Sarah
Judy
Carol
Gabriel
Shaina
maxine
Eileen
Rachel
William
carrie
maggie
Eligio
Brian
Brian
Richard
Nadya
Pamela
pablo
carol
Joan
Molly
Walter
Hortari
andres
Berglund
Brixner
Brown
Cohen
Douglas
Gill
Gillis
Gloe
Grote
Hanly
Hansen
Hemingway-Proia
Kaplan
Klein
Kuelper
Lautaro
Lerner
lewis
Massey
Medanic
Mitchell
ousley
pappageorge
Ruiz
Smalley
Smith
Steiger
Tichman
Turner
voitzuk
wild
Zawaski
Mendez
Ramsey
Berg
oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
oakland
oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
Oakland
oakland
oakland
Oakland
oakley
Oakley
Occidental
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Drift gill nets must be banned! Please do
whatever you can to make this happen.
Our oceans are in serious jeopardy. Please
phase out drift gill nets as they cause so
much unintended harm to sea life. The
oceans' ecosystem cannot afford to suffer
unnecessary hazards to it.
please help end the suffering
please help save marine life
So not necessary to kill these amazing
animals as byproduct. Please find a great
solution helping them all
We have known of the dangers of drift gill
nets for a long time. WHY are they still
allowed? Ban their use now, please.
We must work together to save what is left
of our ocean home.
Gil
Chasin
Oceanside
California
Charlene
Kerchevall
Oceanside
California
GRETCHEN M
Bill
Richard
Roger
Earl
jeff
Jessie
Gloria
Sheryl
Monique
Lily
Ron
Kathy
GAMBLE
Herman
Hill
Kenchel
Kuon
nadler
Root
Towers
Greenhouse
McKennon
Mejia
Price
Clements
Oceanside
Oceanside
Oceanside
Oceanside
Oceanside
oceanside
Oceanside
Oceanside
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Orange
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Jeannie
Richard
Persephone
Rollin
Yuriko
Pascuzzi
Marchick
Maywald
Odell
Hazlett
Orange
Orinda
Orinda
Orinda
Oxnard
California
California
California
California
California
Jeannie
Palma
Buckland
Jeanne
Scott
Pollak
Rice
Sawyer
Walker
Laxier
Oxnard
Oxnard
Oxnard
Oxnard
Pacific Grove
California
California
California
California
California
Dave
Sarah
Dylan
victor
vanessa
Ana
Jeremy
Robert
Richard
Whipple
Murdoch
Oldenburg
carmichael
hemlock
Herold
Spencer
Saenz
DeSantis
Pacific Grove
pacific palisades
Pacific Palisades
Pacifica
Pacifica
Pacifica
Pacifica
Pal Springs
Palm Desert
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
William
Swatos
Palm Desert
California
Deborah
Earl
Michelle
George
Robert
Dave
Hirsch
Nelson
Palladine
Raymond
Fromer
Wilson
Palm Springs
Palm Springs
Palm Springs
Palm Springs
Palmdale
Palmdale
California
California
California
California
California
California
Please urge the President to protect all our
sea
The Use Of Drift Gill Nets Has Proven
Catastrophic For All Species. Please Help
Put An End To Drift Gill Nets.
Please eliminate the use of the drift gill nets.
They destroy far too many unintended
victims.
I wonder how the owners of those gill nets
would feel if they or their family members
were caught in them while swimming in the
ocean...
Greed and deceit are ruining the natural
world. Please do your part to reduce
human's impact.
If we are to maintain a healthy ecosystem,
we must protect the ability of ALL species to
thrive.
It's time to protect our ocean ecosystems for
future generations. End gill net fishing now!
Matt
Lisa
k
Jordan
Sheila
Bill
Jennifer
Alicia
Michael
Janet
sharon
Kathleen
Gerald
Bango
Coffman
fields
Hashemi-Briskin
Kothari
Leikam
Murphy
Kern
Kast
McCalister
porter
Rogers
Orcholski
Palo Alto
California
Palo Alto
California
palo alto
California
Palo Alto
California
Palo Alto
California
Palo Alto
California
Palos Verdes Est
California
Palos Verdes Peninsula
California
Panorama City
California
Paradise
California
Paradise
California
Paramount,
California
Pasadena
California
Grace
Tiessen
Pasadena
California
David
HANNAH
Ellyn
Sandy
Paul
Elizabeth
Gabriella
Richard M
terry
Richard
Ron
Louise
bernard
J. Holley
Elsie
adam
Rick
jamila
Samara
Kathryn
james
Annette
Patricia
M
Leah
MaryKay
Ford
FREED
Kearney
Levine
McNeely
Saveri
Turek
Vartanian
badger
Harvey
Stock
Zimmer
hochendoner
Taylor
Main
beebe
Burns
garrecht
Hanson velloo
Hardy
page
Raible
Re
Sanders
Sudran
Rodarte
Pasadena
Pasadena
Pasadena
Pasadena
Pasadena
Pasadena
Pasadena
Pasadena
paso robles
Paso robles
Paso Robles
Paso Robles
patterson
Penn Valley
Perris
petaluma
Petaluma
petaluma
Petaluma
Petaluma
petaluma
Petaluma
Petaluma
Petaluma
Petaluma
Phelan
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Susan
Michael
Marsha
Elena
Anthony
Susan
Marijeanne
Cynthia
Frank
Hathaway
Misquez
Jarvis
Knox
Martin
Kurcz-Easom
Sarraille
Lujan
Wegscheider
Pico Rivera
Pico Rivera
Pinole
Pioneer
Pismo Beach
Pittsburg
Pittsburg
Placentia
Placentia
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
There are too many sharks and turtles and
dolphins and whales being caught and killed
in these terrible nets.
WE MUST CONSERVE OUR FISHERIES.
FISH IS GETTING SCARCE AND VERY
HIGH PRICED
Fishing should not be done in this wasteful
manner.
Jamie
Jones
Placerville
California
Jason
Chris
susanne
Linda
Kirsten
Deborah
Bowman
Dawson
madden
Schultz
Miller
Santone
Placerville
Playa Del Rey
playa del rey
Playa del Rey
Playa Vista
Pleasant Hill
California
California
California
California
California
California
melissa
miller
pleasant hill
California
Mark
Holly
Gotvald
Drouillard
Pleasant Hill
Pleasanton
California
California
Claire
Jayna
Lola
Joaquin
Williams
Lynch
Pollock Pines
Pomona`
Port Hueneme
California
California
California
Malc
Jon
Linda
Valerie
Michael
Christine
Michele
Carolyn
Mia
Holly
Elizabeth
Rosy
Nicole
Gene
Sandra
Kalina
Kit
Debra
Moore
Silver
Whetstine
Romero
Spadoni
Headworth
Coakley
Boor
Dravis
Yokoyama
Cross
Morales
Macaluso
Golden
Walker
Yuschick
Harvey
Atlas
Portola
California
Portola Valley
California
Poway
California
Quincy,
California
Rail Road Flat
California
Ramona
California
RANCHO CORDOVACalifornia
Rancho Cucamonga California
Rancho Mirage
California
Rancho Palos VerdesCalifornia
Rancho Santa Fe California
Rancho Santa Margarita
California
California
California
Redding
California
Redding
California
john
Lanier
Tami
Wayne
Pete
Paul
Carol
dillon
Hines
Phelps
Steffes
Aniello
Bechtel
Blaney
redding
Redding
Redding
Redding
Redlands
Redlands
Redlands
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
We are a blue planet and we often don't
think of the consequences of our actions.
The out-of-site-out-of mind problem is now a
major problem for humans and sea life. IT
MUST STOP!
Please, now is the time to move away from
these drift nets that kill so much of our
wildlife!
the ocean cannot protect itself from nets,we
have to. no more gill nets!
Drift gill nets and long lines need to be
outlawed on our coast. California needs to
set the example and be proactive with
sustainable fishing. Please protect our
oceans and ban drift gill nets and long lines.
These nets are an abomination.
Please don't let this harmful practice
continue.
Mass kill for filthy lucre
Stop killing innocent victims.
Whales, dolphins, sharks and turtles are
unwittingly being killed with the use of gill
nets. This is devastating these populations,
pushing some of them to the brink.
Wendy
Phil
Bradford
Rev Gregory
Bruce
Kathleen
Karen
Susan
Jeff
Miranda
Joy
John
Gretchen
Rachel
Derbort
Dockery
Martin
Yaroslow
Hudson
Jacecko
Niles
Roby
Salvaryn
Todd
Turlo
Stewart
Kenney
sorensen
Redlands
Redlands
Redlands
Redlands
Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach
Redondo beach
Redondo Beach
Redway
Redwood City
redwood city
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Kate
Ashley
Redwood City
California
Phyllis
Nada
Vera
caitlin
Elena
Gloria Linda
Robert
Margaret
Mirella
Candace
j
Carlos
jeanine
Annett
Ballator
Brown
chock
Ennouri
Maldonado
Parker Stellato
Rogers
Stefan
Wilhelm
angell
Nunez
marquis
Redwood City
Redwood City
Redwood City
Redwood city
Redwood City
Redwood City
Redwood City
Redwood City
Redwood City
Redwood City
rescue
Reseda
rialto
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Danielle
oly
Judith
Elsa
David
Sandy
Phyllis
susan
Wally
sherryann
Barbara
Wendy
Rick
T
Mary
kyle
myrna
George
Elizabeth
Richardson
bravo
Hansell
Ramos
Romain
Stuhaan
Gifford
worden
Longshore
pardee
Purvis
Dapore
Luttmann
Nash
Tullock
young
brown
Hummel
OHara
Rialto
rialtp
Richmond
Richmond
Richmond
Ridgecrest
Rio Linda
rio vista
Riverside
riverside
Riverside
Rocklin
Rohnert Park
Rohnert Park
Rohnert Park
rosamond
rosemead
Rosemead
Roseville
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Patricia
Anderson
Roseville
California
Now is the time to do it!
Save the oceans and marine life. They
aren't the world's dumpster!
This is a sickening and destructive practice.
If you do not learn to work with the
environment, in the long run it will work
against you.
Another way is possible. We all share this
planet as one.
The oceans are in desperate need of long
term strategies for viability. Please help
now!
Martin
Dee
Lorna
Dale
Christopherson
Warenycia
Farnum
Frink
Roseville
Roseville
Rossmoor
RSM
California
California
California
California
Dona
Alisa
Mitch
Diane
Longacre
Risso
Dalition
Carney
RSM
RSM
Sa
Sacramento
California
California
California
California
Carolin
Radcliff
Sacramento
California
Gill nets are one of the most wasteful ways
of fishing. It kills indiscriminately anything in
its path that cannot escape through the
holes. Endangered sea life suffers awful
deaths and mutilations. When will this end,
already! We must become better stewards
of this planet, if we are to survive and thrive!
Sandy
Commons
Sacramento
California
L.M.
Ashley
Sacramento
California
The collateral damage by-catch is
unacceptable.
We must end out reckless disregard for the
survival of other species.
Jeff
Candy
Tamara
John Allen
Robert
charlotte
Joanne
Victor
Margaret
Barbara
Michael
Naomi
chris
Pamela
Curtis
Susan
Cathy
pam
Jennifer
Lorraine
Denise
Vincent
James
Melva
Ball
Bowman
Cain
Cann
Cassinelli
cook
Crandall-Bear
de Vlaming
DeMott
Frazer
Garden
Gilmore
hagen
Hamilton
Haugeborg
Heggstad
Holden
johnson
Johnson
Lowry
Markuson
Messineo
Mickle
Mills
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
SACRAMENTO
Sacramento
sacramento
sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Environmentally sustainable fishing helps
preserve fish stocks for future generations
as well. Decisions now have ramifications
decades down the road. Your office has the
same duty to the people who will inherit this
ocean one day as it does to those who rely
on it now.
As a marine biologist and college professor,
I am acutely aware of the continuing
devastation that drift nets and ghost nets
have on our marine life. It is time to move
away from these harmful fishing methods.
Sharon
Kathey
Francis
Jana
Gail
kaethe
Michael
Scott
Cynthia
Steve
Angela
David M.
Lauren
Elizabeth
J Bonsal
Nicodemus
Norton
Palmer
Perinchief
Rains
sullivan
Whicker
Wong
Lott
Eklund
Grattan
Hagler
Keenan
oliver
Weiner
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento
Salinas
Salinas
Salinas
Salinas
Salinas
san diego
San Anselmo
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
larry
lapuyade
San Anselmo
California
KATHRYN
Ellen
Catherine
Marita
elizabeth
arleen
Brian
Robert C
lori
Arlene
Hal
GALLAGHER
Greenwood
Loudis
Mayer
shore
whitmore
Kelly
Brown
Field
Wiltberger
Forsen
San Anselmo
San Anselmo
San Anselmo
San anselmo
san anselmo
san anselmo
San Bruno
San Carlos
San Carlos
San Carlos
San Clemente
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Debbie
Verdugo
San Clemente
California
Georgette
Korsen
San Clemente
California
Connie
Chadwick
San Clemente
California
Margaret
Jeff
Vicki
James
Laurel
Buck
Pantukhoff
Wiker
Sams
Scott
San Clemente
San Clemente
San Clemente
San Dieg0
San Diego
California
California
California
California
California
do it now
Horrible lack of care for our planet's health is
shown by folks using gill nets.
We Must protect our sea life and catch
ONLY that which we need to eat and protect
all the rest!!
As a lifelong waterman I hope for a complete
ban on gill nets in my lifetime.
Enough I, me mine greed.....it's time to
honor and cherish all of God's precious
creatures!!!!
This issue has been looming since I was in
college in the 70's. It's still an issue,
apparently killing untold numbers of sea life,
including some of the most precious of all.
IT IS TIME TO STOP THIS PRACTICE, to
ensure that future generations have a life
that even resembles the one we've been
blessed to enjoy.
We need to get rid of the gill nets, they are
just too harmful to all ocean life!!
Doing away with drift gill nets will promote a
healthier marine ecosystem, without which
fisheries will suffer.
Kurt
Gross
San diego
California
Gill nets are deadly, non-descriminating, and
like Isis, kill everything in their reach and
path. They should be outlawed entirely.
Dulce
Chris
eric
Eleni
Twist
Catterton
faibish
Psyllos
San Diego
San diego
san diego
San Diego
California
California
California
California
Make by catch illegal.
Please discontinue gill netting!
Please do what is Right.
Please help these magestic creatures thrive
Sharon
Sprouse
San Diego
California
Bruce
McGraw
San Diego
California
Steven
Acedo
San Diego
California
Tom
Falvey
San Diego
California
Mala
Wingerd
San Diego
California
Paul
Cofrancesco
San Diego
California
Please stop killing animals in your drift nets.
There has to be another way to safely catch
the fish you need.
Please stop this inhumane practice
especially when other alternatives are
available.
Pretty please with sugar on top! Stop killing
off all this marine life!
These 'walls of death' do incalculable
damage to our already stressed marine
environment.
These were supposed to be banned 40
years ago!
This is awful. By catch must be restricted.
barbara
graham
san diego
California
Darcy
Gloriamarie
Karen
DonnaMarie
Steven
Damion
Jim
Abot
Melanie
Elaine
James
Emilia
Clare
Neil
Paul
Diane
Yvonne
Robert
Mary
Richard
jeremy
Georges
Linda
Alvin
Todd
Brian
Annick
Abrahams
Amalfitano
Aquila
Ayala
Bal
Barton
Bell
Bensussen
Betlach
Bierman
Bigger
Bland
Block
Brydon
Couillard
Davenport
Davis
Davis
Davis
DiMatteo
duimstra
Erhard
Espino
Fearn
Fisk
Flores
gentet
San Diego
San Diego
San Diego
San Diego
San Diego
San Diego
San Diego
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San Diego
San Diego
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California
California
California
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California
California
California
California
California
California
California
We as a planet can no longer afford to
negligently destroy the ocean's wildlife.
Maybe once it seemed infinite. Not any
more.
marge
Ruth
Mark
Paula
Lin
Bridgett
Maryelen
Roseanne
Robert
lance
Anne
Peter
Colleen
Martin
Laurie
Dianne
Kazuko
Dana
James
Elizabeth
Phillip
Mary F
Raymond
Joshua
Robin
Jessica
Nina
Beatrix
Nancy
Mike
Kimberly
paula
Gabriela
Justin
LIESBETH
Ed
LuAnn
VICTORIA
Rob
c
Ellis
Barbara
Gianelli
Goldschmidt
Hansen
Hawkins
Heidt
Heinly
Horeftis
Hovey
Husbands
jordan
Kobayashi
Kuhn
Lobel
Marcus
McLaughlin
Miller
Mitose
Monroe
Noordyk
Oliver
Palmejar
Platter-Rieger
Pratl
Ransom
Reinhart
Robie
Sagheb
Schramm
Smith
Souza
Thomas
thompson
Till
Toledo
VANDENBOSCH
Wainio
Wherry
WIERIG
Wilkerson
g
Heyer
Viken
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San Diego
San Diego
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San Eafael
San Francisco
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A
van der Hoogt
San Francisco
California
Mr. Sidney J.P.
Hollister
San Francisco
California
Peter
Lee
San Francisco
California
It's essential to stop wantonly destroying
everything in sight. We don't have anywhere
else to go if this planet becomes totally
uninhabitable. I don't want to see the world
go the way of Easter Island. Do you?
It's imperative we take responsibility for the
damage drift gill nets as currently used
endanger our coastal eco-systems. Please
review this petition & assist us in finding
healing management for situations.
Only 60 mile long lines are worse. Like
using a hacksaw instead of a needle.
Out dated and viscious!
Elizabeth
Foree
San Francisco
California
There are more humane ways to catch fish.
wendy
nora
bauer
roman
san francisco
San Francisco
California
California
Jackie
Wildstar
San Francisco
California
Bruce
Keegan
San Francisco
California
Jed
Holtzman
San Francisco
California
These nets should be illegal
Want a future? Take actions like these and
there might be one...
We ALL know that drift gill nets cause
unsurmountable damage to marine life of all
kinds. STOP THE PRACTICE NOW.
We are stripping out the oceans of the world.
Please move to stop this horror.
We have to stop sweeping the oceans clean.
As oceans become warmer and more acidic
from climate change, species populations
will need to be as large as possible to have
the best chance to weather the changes. It's
time to radically change our fishing practices
now, and you have the power to do that.
Ron
Marcia
Schmidt
Dale-LeWinter
San Francisco
San Francisco
California
California
Kelley
judy
anastasia
Bryce
Jill
patricia
Beth
Janelle
katrina
Patricia
Fran
Peter
Alfred
Dorothy
William
Jonathan
Jim
Ernest
Chelsea
Douglas
Janet
Rita
Mark J.
Balfour
Lauren
Margery
Deeci
Erica
J. Barry
John M
James
Blanche
elaine
Akin
allen
ashman
Beal
Bittner
callahan
Cataldo
Chase
child
Cole
Collier
Corkey
Cross
Davies
De Goff
Dirrenberger
Domenico
Ely
Eng
Estes
Eyre
Fahrner
Fiore
Gerber
Goldman
Gray
Gray-Schlink
Griffin
Gurdin
Haines
Hampson
Hartman
huff
San Francisco
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California
Why is there even a question about this?
Without sustainability what we love and
value will disappear forever. There is really
no choice!
Allison
Michael
Denise
Francis
Ana
Julie
Margo
vicki
Gilly
Emily
Tere
mickey
Joel
Pat
Mary Etta
Maeve
Elizabeth
maureen
Jackie
francesca
Misti
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cynthia
Roberto
Carol
david
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Joseph
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Jewels
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Michael
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Richard
lorraine
Lilllian
Thomas
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Ginger
Jones
Keough
King
Kintz
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Kramer
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leidner
Lloyd
Lubahn
Lyndon
mccarthy
Meza
Mimeau
Moose
Murphy
Neville
oshea
Pomies
Prada
Reif
Roberts
romer
Romo
Savary
schendel
Shearer
Steinberger
Steponaitis
stratton
Sullivan
Thomas
Tomczyszyn
Weinberger
Whitaker
Yee
Yee
Gourley
Rice
Warfield
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco
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San Francisco
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san francisco
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san francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO
San Francsico
San Gabriel
San Jose
California
California
California
California
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California
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California
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California
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California
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California
California
California
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Ravneet
Kaur
San Jose
California
JANIE
ANDERSON
San Jose
California
emily
Tim
Annie
Diane
Lisa
Erin
Vickie
Patricia
Ewen
anderson
Barrington
Belt
Brazil
Breslauer
Buchanan
Chandler
Cross
Denney
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California
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California
Please do the right thing; you are better than
this.
There must be a better, more efficient and
specific way to continue fishing in the area.
there needs to b a better way, one that will
not kill so many
Frances
Ted
Ted
Deisha
Bert
brigette
Dennis
Randy
Ron
Cassie
rebecca
ron
Joel
Mark
Jim
Mary
Allen
Anne
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alice
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Jorge
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Nona
Faye
Arthur
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Fishman
Fishman
Garcia
Greenbeg
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Herz
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Kifer
koo
kutch
Masser
Mulder
Petkiewicz
Prubant
Royer
Rücker
Scheinberg
T.M. Petkiewicz
Taylor
theriault
Trivisonno
Velez
Warshawsky
Weiner
Mills
Gribben
San Jose
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Roberta
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Linda
Arleen
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Elaine
Maria
Maria
Joseph
Pierce
andy
Aline
GARY
Chris
Michael
Leslee
Gustavo
Herschel
Mo
Diane
eugene
Frank B.
Craig Keith
Lori
kendal
Kline
LaFrance
Sauer
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Weiss
reyes
Holder
Jackson
Postnikova
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Flynn
tomsky
Zonta
JONES
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McPherson
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Weimer
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daub
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Antrim
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savelli
San Leandro
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No excuse for this dumb if expedient
procedure in the 21st century.
stop the madness!
Stop killing our Earth.
Please end drift gill nets ?
Please do this! It's the right thing!!!!
Susan
Berlin
San Rafael
California
Dava
Nancy
N Edward
William
Clay
Susie
Scott
Stanley
Robin
Joe
Anore
Kat
Beatriz
Lisa Ann
Kessner
Boyce
Boyce
Callahan
Howard
Shapira
Sinclair
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Van Tassell
Buhowsky
Shaw
H.
Pallanes
Kelly
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Sanger
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chris
seaton
Santa Barbara
California
Jaclyn
Mandoske
Santa Barbara
California
Edith
Ogella
Santa Barbara
California
Jessica
Victoria
Ronit
Steve
Frank
katy
Lauren
Kimberly
Richard
Patrice
Tenaya
Henry
Sara
Bickham
Cole
Corry
Downing
Eichenberg
hall
Murdock
Ray
Salas
Summers
Tabler
Weinberg
Fogan
Santa Barbara
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Santa Barbara
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Santa Clarita
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
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California
California
Anna
Kaye
Carolyn
DOUG
Cottle
Kirkwood
Pettis
ROSS
Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita
SANTA CRUZ
California
California
California
California
Allen
Adolfo
Rozelle
Santa Cruz
Camacho HumphreySanta Cruz
California
California
The drift gill nets cause undue suffering for
sea creatures and are totally out of place for
the ones that aren't even meant to be
caught. Please do the right thing and put an
end to these drift nets.
we must protect the
I am dead set against any method of
targeting animals which becomes a killing
field rife with incidental kills.
Too much unintended consequences with
these nets resulting in the loss of marine life
of all kinds that are necessary to the health
of the oceans.
We can no longer act so negligently toward
how we treat the ocean. We must be
smarter and more efficient about what we
take and how catch it! Thank you!
we live on the west coast, and see daily the
consequences of gill nets. They should be
banned.
I do not support the wholesale massacre of
marine animals in these cruel nets!
NMFS has been planning to reduce bycatch
for a long time. Its time to make good on the
promise.
Seems reasonable.
This is past due indeed! Please act now
before it is too late!
rachel
Larry
myrna
Martha
Ted
max
Jodi
Lisa
Pat
lindsey
Michael
Dale
Shoshanah
Michelle
michael
Ralph
Jose
Carol
Bret
Rachel
Carrie
Angela
Pela
JoAnn
adney
Blood
britton
Carrington
Cheeseman
davis
Frediani
Jensen
Kittle
loperena
Marchessault
Matlock
McKnight
Miranda
rifkind
Sanchez
Sanchez
Sawyers
Smith
Sonnenblick
Staton
Stone
Tomasello
Gerfen
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
santa cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Santa Maria
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Nancy
Heck
Santa Maria
California
Nancy
Chris
Sylvie
Miller
Scott
Makara
Santa Maria
Santa Maria
Santa Monica
California
California
California
Art
St. Clair
Santa Monica
California
Randi
Hutchinson
Santa Monica
California
Steve
Lisa
Timolin
Purvis
Kamins
Burke
Santa Monica
Santa Monica
Santa Monica
California
California
California
Joseph
Hardin
Santa Monica
California
Gill nets should be completely outlawed
because of the harm they do to ocean
bycatch----This is a finite resource and must
be protected now. Keep your word and do
not let these gill nets do such harm! Thank
You!
Please help stop the suffering and death of
these wonderful marine animals.
Gill nets are a dangerous, archaic and
indiscriminate mode of fishing. Bi-catch is
wasteful and harmful to our delicate ocean
ecosystem-our seas are already over-taxed!
Please stop this wasteful practice.
I grew up in coastal California, in high school
I even had a job working on a sport fishing
boat...and I have given up recreational
fishing because the native sea live is in such
dire straits.
If you were going to clean a room would you
sweep up everything that wasn't nailed to the
floor and then throw it in a dumpster? Well,
gill nets make about the same amount of
sense.
Please help save whales.
PLEASE STOP HARMING WILDLIFE
We must abandon reckless patterns of
behavior.
We need to do better....
mary
rojeski
santa monica
California
Ellen
Brennan
Santa Monica
California
Angie
Jolianne
vicki
Janet
Ken
Stephen
Jasmine
patricia
Pamala
Maxine
LOUISE
Bahris
Baum
berkofsky
G Heinle
Greenwald
Kubick
Lord
neate
Thomas
Williams-Gboizo
RANGEL
Santa Monica
SANTA MONICA
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santa Monica
Santa Monica
Santa Monica
Santa Monica
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Santa Monica
Santa Monica
santa paula
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Syn
Wong
Santa Rosa
California
Sarah
Lecus
Santa Rosa
California
Bo
Svensson
Santa Rosa
California
gail
Lisa
David
Mark
cris
Molly
Greg
Kelley
Mark
Bob
E
Gail
Karen
Karen
Steve
margaret c.
Susan
virginia
Vladimir
alford
Annecone
Comfort
Feldman
fraser
Huddleston
Korelich
Lamke
Lichtenberger
Miller
Moore
Outlaw
Ratzlaff
Reid
Roth
rowe
Ryan
sharkey
Strugatsky
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Santa Rosa
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SANTA ROSA
Santa Rosa
California
California
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California
California
We should never of had these nets in the 1st
place! Over the years how many creatures
have these killed?? Please don't let them kill
anymore!
With all speed, please expedite your plan to
eliminate gill nets.
Please assist in protecting our wildlife! We
are losing it at an alarming rate.
Given how devastating gillnets have on the
population of a myriad of untargeted
species, please encourage innovation to
catch seafood that is responsible and
sustainable? Innovation comes when there
is a demand for it. Be the driving force to
better this planet instead of sticking with the
status quo.
I am a marine biologist and have worked on
commercial fishing boats. These nets are
wrecking havoc on our environment and
wildlife. Please stop allowing these harmful
nets in our waters.
What are you going to tell your children and
grandchildren about what you did in 2014 to
help them to inherit a world from YOU that's
both viable and sustainable?????
Laura
Leifer
Santa Ynez
California
Paul
Rob
Kristine
Mija
laura
Lynn
Marcia
Hunrichs
Roberto
Andarmani
Gentes
gleeson
Wolf
Salmond
Santee
Santee
Saratoga
Saratoga
saratoga
Saugus
Sausalito
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Nancy
c
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s
Scotts Valley
sdiego
California
California
Renee
enrico
STACIE
Thea
katharine
sharon
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Eliz
anne
JASON
Dennis
Carol
Mark
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tanya
Adriana
Melissa
joie
sheila
Daniel
jamie
Julia
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Alpay
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tami
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Penelope
stefanie
mark
Heidi
Joe
Sharon
GINA
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verga
CHARLEBOIS
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kehr
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veraldi
THOMAS
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Hartman
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Seal Beach
California
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SHASTA LAKE
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Stacey
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Otte
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Solvang
Somerset
California
California
You shouldn't be catching sword fish
anyway!
Now is a very good time to make the
switch....please help to restore the bounty of
our Oceans
PLEASE BAN THESE INDISCRIMINATE
METHODS OF ANNIHILATION NOW!!
THANK YOU.
Let'figure out a betterwaynow!
Please right this wrong.
when are humans going to stop killing
wildlife for selfish gain and profit at the
expense of our earth?
robert
teister
Sonoma
California
eleanor
carol
Michael
Susan
Deanna
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Watson
Maletsky
Seagraves
Sonoma
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Sonoma
Sonora
Soquel
California
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Gamze
Donald
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Fran
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carol
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Keefe
Kircalioglu
Mackay
Wong
Watson
kolasa
Steele
Milliken
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Walker
Sutton
South Pasadena
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Spring Valley
springville
Springville
St. Helena
Stanford
Stanton
Stinson Beach
California
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Roberta Lee
Holt
Stockton
California
M
Lee
Stockton
California
Kristine
Michael
Cheryl
arturo
leana
michael
Jillana
Avila
Ballot
Chase
giraldez
hall
sarabia
Laufer
Stockton
Stockton
Stockton
stockton
stockton
stockton
Studio City
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Tami
Kim
Charlotte
Katherine
Cindy
Gerald
Kitt
Armitage
Hansen
Martinez
Wagner
MacDonald
Shaia
Troncone
studio City
Studio City
Studio City
Studio City
Suisun City
Sun Valley
Sunland
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Monique
Richard
Lukens
Burnett
Sunland
Sunnyvale
California
California
Edwin
Richard
Aiken
Burnett
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale
California
California
drift nets are a disaster. endless suffering &
endless killing. time to make a moral choice.
capitalism isn't the answer.
I'd prefer to pay more for my swordfish in the
short run and end up with a healthier ocean.
All this sort of sweeping method does is kill
off the entire ecosystem over time so that
eventually there's nothing left to catch. As a
life-long resident of a beach community, the
last thing I ever want to see is a dead ocean.
Are you not aware that, in addition to
destroying the oceans, you are destroying
your professions? Please cease killing.
Drift gill nets are a danger for endangered
sea creatures. Please stop.
The time to stop this senseless killing of
innocent species is now
Please put an end to this cruel,
indiscriminate killer.... these nets have to go!
This needs to be stopped. Many beings are
being destroyed for no reason.
Dirty industry, dirty tricks; in a time of
vanishing resources, drift netting is just plain
wrong
Max
Larry
AM
M,
Alan
Subrata
Joelle
Lil
Edy G
e
Reva
Alison Dayne
Rene
Gail
Holly
Kaehn
Lewis
Miller
Olson
Schenck
Sircar
Porter
Judd
Soto
p
Biers
Frankel
Alvarez
Roberts
Hall
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale
sunnyvale
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale
Susanville
Sylmar
Sylmar
talmage
Tarzana
Tarzana
Tecate
Tecate
Temecula
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Janice
Joseph
jena
Shirley
Tina
Sylvia
Austin
Nowak
reid
DeRuchie
Minero
Lewis Gunning
Temecula
Temecula
temecula
Templeton
Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks
California
California
California
California
California
California
Ofelia
Aisle
m.
rex
nancy
Emma
Ronald
Rick
amanda
Torres
Ullman
canter
franklyn
riggleman
Ausman
Calvisi
Sparks
foulger
Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks
Tiburon
tiburon
tollhouse
Toluca Lake
Toluca Lake
Toluca Lake
Topanga
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Patrice
Curedale
Topanga
California
Honestly, I can't believe drift gill nets are still
in use after decades of science documenting
how wasteful and damaging they are.
Joel
Joe
Graves
Futterer
Topanga
Topanga
California
California
Kathy
Wyer
Topanga
California
No more drift nets!
Oh, toss nets in the ocean and leave them
there.... No biggie. BUT toss a net /
problem in my way like a traffic jam or
having to help someone out.... Well I can't
have that. I'm too #%@&#% important.
We need to protect all mother earths wildlife,
and find ways to fish and feed ourselves that
do not cause harm. Please put an end to
drift fill nets today.
Joan
Malcolm
Tim
Andersson
Groome
Swanson
Topanga
Topanga
Torrance
California
California
California
Pollyana
Harmon
Torrance
California
Stop using the dangerous drift gill nets!
These are killing too many other endangered
animals! They are outdated! STOP NOW!
Stop this please
We've been asking to eliminate the gil nets
for years! Please, do so before anymore fish
are unnecessarily killed.
Do the right thing now, not when it's too late.
The pursuit of profit is not worth wiping out
valuable species.
V and B
Rich
Erin
susan
Marilyn
juliet
nanette
Neal
Chris
Sharie
Jones
Perez
Suyehara
magana
Shepherd
bradley
cronk
Mock
Worcester
Foster
Torrance
Torrance
Torrance
tracy
Trinidad
Truckee
truckee
Truckee
Truckee
Tujunga
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Susan
Ani
Madge
Mika
Stephen
Wayne
Apgar
Aslanian
Miller
Stonehawk
Bohac
Heckman
Tujunga
Tujunga
tustin
Tustin
Twain Harte
Ukiah
California
California
California
California
California
California
Jorge
Rebecca
miriam
Cynthia
Larry
Ben
Ernie
Erin
Vincent
Rikje Maria
Joseph
Susan
SANDRA
De Cecco
Frey
gruver
Hernandez
Mayfield
Cachola
Walters
Buckanis
Young
Ruiter
Rhoades
White
VITO
Ukiah
Ukiah
ukiah
Ukiah
Ukiah
Union City
Union City
upland
Upland
Utrecht
Vacaville
Vacaville
valencia
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Kristen
Anita
Renton
Wisch
Valencia
Valencia
California
California
By-catch (indiscriminate, unintentional fish
kill) must stop!
There is more economic gain to saving
whale which helps our tourist businesses
than the fish caught in this manner.
Especially considering there are safer catch
methods.
dejen de poner redes kilometricas en el mar
atrapando a otras especies ,que no son el
pez espada con una muerte agonica!! hay
otros medios de pesca mucho mas humana
y benevolente con las especies como los
delfines,focas,ballenas etc que muchas de
ellas estan en peligro de extingncion ! por
favor dejen esta practica brutal e inhumana!!
gracias
Nikki
Nafziger
Vallejo
California
Mariateresa
Alicia
Philip
Sandra
George
Canosa
Jackson
welanko
Zelasko
Leddy
Vallejo
Vallejo
vallejo
Valley Center
Valley Glen
California
California
California
California
California
Dudley and CandaceCampbell
STUART
BAUMBLATT
darynne
jessler
Leslie
LeClere
Marc
Woersching
Terrell
Rodefer
Valley Glen
VALLEY VILLAGE
valley village
Valley Village
Valley Village
Van Nuys
California
California
California
California
California
California
Amy
Veloz
Van Nuys
California
Charles
e
Eden
Donna
Elaine
Beals
berman
Kennan
Lewis
Brandt
Van Nuys
Van Nuys
Van Nuys
Van Nuys
Venice
California
California
California
California
California
Andree
Linda
frederique
Barbara
Robert
HOWARD
Armand
Eberle
joly
Mastej
Smith
MILLER
Venice
Venice
venice
Venice
Venice
VENTURA
California
California
California
California
California
California
You have already agreed that it is time to
transition commercial fishing for swordfish
away from drift gil nets. THEY NEED TO BE
COMPLETELY BANNED! LET MORE
SUSTAINABLE WAYS OF FISHING FOR
SWORDFISH HAPPEN OR ELSE NO
SWORDFISH SHOULD BE FISHED. IT IS
MORE IMPORTANT TO PROTECT
WHALES AND TURTLES - INNOCENT
VICTIMS- THAN TO CONTINUE TO
DEPLETE THE OCEANS FISH. WE NEED
TO PROTECT WHO IS THERE AND
TRANSITION FISHERMEN TO FOLKS
WHO PURIFY THE WATER - TAKE THE
POLLUTANTS OUT.
Driftnets of all types are actually mining
operations. They rake the ocean for
everything.
If you're not concerned about this, have
someone hold you underwater till you have
to inhale water. That'll change your mind.
These horrible Walls Of Death must be
banned. It is beyond evil that these milelong Drift Gill Nets are allowed to exist.
What we are doing is a crime against nature.
This must be ended now!
Take responsibility for all sea life while
making your living off of them.
DRIFT GILL NETS ARE MORALLY AND
ETHICALLY WRONG !!! STOP THEIR USE
!!!!
Jan
Kaufman
Ventura
California
Heather
Clough
Jamie
Green
Barbara
Messer
anthony
montapert
joe and mary
volpe
Barbara
whyman
Carol
Wiley
George
Latta
Di
Shreves
irene
sriboonwong
Frank
Ackerman
Constantine
Bogios
CT
Bross
Alice J.
Felix
Colin
Lindsly
Ed
Loosli
Mary
Izett
Marie
Ellis
Robert
Long
Sabrina
Luis
James
McCluskey
Michael C. Ford and Richard B. Marks
Eric
Horstman
Ventura
Ventura
Ventura
ventura
ventura
Ventura
Victorville
Visalia
Vista
walnut
Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek
WalnutCreek
Watsonville
watsonville
Watsonville
Watsonville
Watsonville
Weaverville
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Glen
rebecca
Karli
Williams
Bell
Thomas
Weed
Weimar
Wellington
California
California
California
Jeanne
Vincent
Schuster
Vandenbosch
West Covina
West Hills
California
California
Michael
Amie
samuel
Julie
Nicholas
Henson
Barber
popailo
Slater-Giglioli
Frangakis
West Hills
California
West Hollywood
California
west hollywood
California
West Hollywood
California
West Hollywood, CA California
90069
Tracey
Archer
West Sacramento
California
eric
Terry
duggan
Banister
West Sacramento
Westlake Village
California
California
My jaw is slack. I thought this practice was
outlawed years ago! We live on a planet with
limited resources. There is a fine balance
between predators and prey. Nature knows
how to right itself if given a chance. A
chance without human intervention!
Stop sing drift gill nets!!! PLEASE!
Kill the nets. NOT the mammals.
Drift nets are the bane of the sea and must
be banned now before more threatened and
endangered sea life is needlessly killed.
These are basically driftnets. A.k.a. wall of
death fishing. There's no excuse for still
using them in this day and age.
As a international Pilot I see from above the
enormous moving cities of fishing fleets
disgusting mass destruction! STOP NOW
The right think to do is end the drift gill nets.
Thank you.
End Gill nets Now! Please keep your policies
in line with the populace's WILL! We love
our Seas and the life contained therein!
Erin
JO
Greg
King
VELVICK
Amour
Westlake Village
WESTMINSTER
Whittier
California
California
California
Brandy
gloria
Christine
Paul
Clifford
garcia
Trela
Jacobson
Whittier
Whittier
Whittier
Willits
California
California
California
California
David
Regina
chris
bita
ian
Frances
Hammond
Phillips
ducey
edwards
edwards
Luevano
Willits
winnetka
woodacre
woodacre
woodacre
Woodland
California
California
California
California
California
California
Jeanne
Diana
Joan
Lionel
Kim
lilly
Bob
Phillip
renee
Johnson
Aylward
Easley
Friedberg
Gentes
ghomeshy
Miller
Randall
milburn
woodland
Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills
Woodland hills
Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills
wrightwood
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Shana
Rebecca
Jess
Earth
Barbara
Martha
Dr. D.W.
Mokuau
Ozeran
Graffell
Thunder
Chaffin
Foster
Johnson
Yreka
Yuba City
Yucaipa
Boise
Mackay
Potlatch
American Falls
California
California
California
ID
ID
ID
Idaho
kitty
Jody
Vincent
Mahnken
Blackfoot
boise
Idaho
Idaho
rich
Grace
Cathy
GROVE
Susan
Mike
Jim
Gloria
Barb
Penny
Joy
fernand
Himmelberger
Hudson
KOGER
Mann
Mathis
May
D.
Crumpacker
Gedeon
Cassidy
Boise
Boise
Boise
BOISE
Boise
Boise
Boise
Cataldo
Coeur D Alene
Coeur d Alene
Coeur d' Alene
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
We need to protect wholesale killing of
whles, dolphins, sea turtles, etc in these
drifting nets.
It is pointless to make minor and incremental
improvements to a method of fishing that is
fundamentally indiscriminate. It kills far more
then it takes. UNACCEPTABLE!
How can we keep raping the ocean. who is
going to replenish it besides this is cruel
I hate gill nets and what they do to whales
and fish.
It is long past time
Continued resource damage should be
eliminated without incremental delays.
Abandon the use of these nets and find a
more humane way!
Lori
Walker
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Sandra
Linda
Walters
Kennedy
Driggs
Eagle
Idaho
Idaho
Thomas
tom
Rogers
kovalicky
Eagle
Grangeville
Idaho
Idaho
Stephen
Gloria
Katherine
Anne
Sharon
Scott
Ronda
Kenneth
Daniel
RoseMarie
Bob
Janeth
M
gustaf
Joan
Joann
Hackney
Carlton
Noble
Donnolo
Mueller
Ploger
Reynolds
Fisher
Hawley
Di Giovanni-Norton
Wagenknecht
Mallory
Mclean
sarkkinen
Hobbs
Shults
Grangeville
Hailey
Hailey
Hayden
Idaho Falls
Idaho Falls
Idaho Falls
Kellogg
Ketchum
Kuna
Leadore
Lewiston
Moscow
moscow
Mountain Home
Nampa
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Valerie
HEATHER
Rick
Joan
Carmen
Jill
marci
Ronald
Donna
Diane
Heather
SHARON
Michael
Casey Jo
Natalie
Marilee
Randy
Nicole
A.
Cheryl
Donald
Susan
Stone
VAN KOMEN
Priebe
Moricca
Chacon
Hirschi
Robinson
Johnson
Trueblood
Blanchard
Morijah
LEE
Tribble
Remy
Van Leekwijck
Urban
Harrison
Lawless
Todd
Fisher
Dimock
Boyce
Norfolk
PARMA
Pinehurst
Pinole
Pocatello
Pocatello
pocatello
Post Falls
Post Falls
Silverton
Albany
Bend
Coos Bay
Days Creek
Deurne
Elgin
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Milwaukie
Monmouth
Myrtle Creek
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
Too much damage has been done already stop anymore unnecessary torture to our
marine life NOW
It is obvious that drift gill nets will capture
many other species of ocean life than just
the intended type. They should be
discontinued. Also, since swordfish are
endangered, shouldn't stricter limits be
enforced on their capture as well?
We can and must do better This Planet is
shrinking lot a hot snow bank in August
I cant even believe this type of fishing is still
legal! I thought those nets went out in the
seventies! GREED! GREED! GREED!
They used these on the Columbia River and
it made a very negative impact on sport
fishing.
Gabriel
Sheridan
Portland
OR
Irene
James
Mills
Tyree II
Portland
Portland
OR
OR
Fred
Ingram
Portland
OR
Patricia L
Heather
Blythe
lorraine
Sandra
Serena
Chad
Charles
Diane
Marty
Philip
Carlson
Chapin
Clark-McKitrick
foster
Siegner
Wittkopp
Halsey
Looney
Randgaard
Clancy
Ratcliff
Portland
Portland
Portland
Portland
Portland
Portland
Salem
Scappoose
Terrebonne
Tigard
Osalyn
Houser
Albany
Oregon
Lars
Dean
Jefferson
Sigler
Albany
Aloha
Oregon
Oregon
D.
Franklin
p
wayne
Linda
kelly
Prairie
Janet
Deloff
Kapustka
Switzer-Tatum
kelly
Stickle
stone
Moser
Rogers
Aloha
Aloha
ALOHA
Ashland
Ashland
Ashland
Bandon
Bandon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Lise
Jane
Bob
Hull
Ujhazi
Rees
Bandon
Bandon
Bay City
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Claudia
Hall
Beaverton
Oregon
Maria
kristen
White
poppert
Beaverton
beaverton
Oregon
Oregon
Roger
Jamie
Fran
Hugh
Combs
Fillmore
KLabunde
Peach
Beaverton
Beaverton
Beaverton
Beaverton
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
97302 Oregon
Everything is interconnected. Stop this
destructive practice.
Gill nets are the height of cruelty!
Protect sea creatures from needles suffering
and death
We humans need to act from a higher
consciousness than that of merely taking,
taking, taking from the natural world. It's well
past time for us to be using sustainable
methods in the fishing industry.
These drift gill nets probably catch more
unintended bycatch than intended catch.
Please act now to end this indiscriminate
and unnecessary killing of marine life!
Waste not, want not. It's still true, and we
need to face our responsibilities for looking
after the wild creatures out there.
Stop killing these beautiful animals.
WE MUST have BETTER STEWARDSHIP
of our oceans !!!
This is an out-dated and unsustainable way
of harvesting seafood. It's time to put an end
to this practice!
“THE GREATNESS OF A NATION & ITS
MORAL PROGRESS CAN BE JUDGED BY
THE WAY ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED.”
MAHATMA GANDHI
No more gill nets!
Please end the use of drift gill nets!! It is an
archaic form of fishing that hurts the entire
oceanic ecosystem.
Ann
Ken
Lindsay
Nancy
Tiedeman
Wheeler
Hope Kern
Dunlap
Beaverton
Beaverton
Belfast
Bend
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Michele
McKay
Bend
Oregon
Please follow through on your commitment
for environmentally sustainable fishing gear!
Drift net are an abomination!!
Linda
Hendrix
Bend
Oregon
Emilie
Marlinghaus
Bend
Oregon
Please pay attention, these things cannot go
on wiping out the delicate balance of the
oceans.
The status of the oceans' fisheries long ago
passed the point where the extraordinarily
destructive and wasteful practice of drift gill
nets made in ethical or moral sense. If we
are to maintain any form of sustainability in
the once vast and seemingly endless bounty
of the oceans we must end this practice - as
well as others equally as destructive - now!
Thank you for considering my comments on
this crucially important issue.
Randall
geoff
Valerie
John
Basey
Robert
M.
Esperas
gluckman
Guinan
Jordan
Klopp
Walker
W.
Bend
Bend
Bend
Bend
Bend
Brightwood
Brookings
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
susan
patricia
Linda
William
N. Jean
CHERIE
Fauna June
shampo
brookings
misner
cannon beach
Schwartz
Cannon Beach
Rizer
Carlton
Pautsch-Bishop
Central Point
REEVES-RUTLEDGE
CENTRAL POINT
Fauth
Cloverdale
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Betty
Catherine
Kennedy
Dishion
Oregon
Oregon
COOS BAY
Corbett
ENOUGH! This practice must STOP NOW!
I'm vegan - no seafood, no nets! - At the
very least no drift gill nets (small progress).
It's a known fact that drift gill nets kill many
other species and drown mammals as fisher
people kill the fish they wish to catch. There
is no reason why so many creatures need to
suffer and die so that fisher people can
receive pay, garner tax subsidies, and be
glorified by the public for their heroism.
Using drift gill nets is not heroic, patriotic, or
justified in today's world. In fact, it's just the
opposite: it's cruel and unnecessary! End
the use of these killer gill nets. People
should either eliminate eating fish or cut
back to save other creatures and fish.
Why would we accept the killing of non
targeted whales, dolphins and turtles.
Anthony
Albert
Corvallis
Oregon
Barbara
Arlen
Corvallis
Oregon
Sara
Joy
Lucas
Mamoyac
Corvallis
Corvallis
Oregon
Oregon
Stephen
Dave
susan
david
Susan
Carla
Lilli
Stockton
Norman
Nannette
Tasha
Oder
Plaehn
rose
taylor
Wechsler
Williams
Ohse
Garver
Sams
Taylor
Carpenter
Corvallis
Corvallis
Corvallis
Corvallis
Corvallis
Cottage Grove
Crescent
Dallas
Dallas
Damascus
deer island
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Laura
Yvonne
Monica
Jay
Jill
Fleming
Hall
Gilman
Humphrey
Goatcher
Eagle Point
Elmira
Estacada
Estacada
Eugene
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
William Lee
Alan
Kohler
Eliason
Eugene
Eugene
Oregon
Oregon
Lenwood
Joan
Beyer
Hamilton
Eugene
Eugene
Oregon
Oregon
Harriet
Emlyn
Alexandra
Steve
Harris
Adams
Bruns
Bwye
Campbell
Dubin
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Drift gill nets are turning our oceans into
lifeless deserts.
Please stop the killing of endangered
whales and sea turtles with the use of drift
gill nets. Don't forget your commitment to
move away from this type of fishing. Please.
The cost is too high!
These gill nets are death traps. You must do
your due diligence to eliminate them and
ENFORCE it!
In the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of
California, mile-long drift gill nets are left
hanging in the water for hours at a time in
hope of catching swordfish. Not surprisingly,
these nets also catch anything that swims in
their path, including endangered whales and
sea turtles. It’s time to end this
this needs to stop
Drift gill nets are an irresponsible and
destructive fishery practice and should be
banned off the coast of California. I urge the
Pacific Fishery Management Council to
uphold their promise of balancing
sustainable practices with the fishery
industry.
End the so called bycatch deaths.
Gill nets destroy all species, weather wanted
or not.
Stop using drift gill nets
These nets are the reason the oceans are in
trouble. Not only do they cause the over
fishing of the large bait fish, but they kill
many other types of sea life that are very
important to the ecology of the oceans..
Matt
Michael
Kathleen
Vickie
Wendy
Christopher
Paul
Dr. Steven J.
Dean
Linda Fay
Debbie
Craig
Lawrence
Laura
Marguery Lee
William
Freedman
Gotmer
Halberg
McAlister
McGowan
Michaels
Naylor
Prince
Pryer
Sampson
Schlenoff
Speck
Yox
Zimmerman
Zucker
Burgess
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
Eugene
EUGENE
Eugene
Fairview
Oregon
Oregon
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Institutions such as the Pacific Fishery
Management Council must work to promote
sustainable fishing practices for the health of
large fish/marine life species, healthy
ecosystems, and for future generations.
Drift nets are and have been significantly
chewing up our food chain, and negatively
affect humans. Look at
www.nutritionfacts.org for how to help you
help yourself.
Need better fishing methods.
Our oceans can no longer stand this shotgun
approach to fishing.
A
Claire
R. David
Berklee
terry
Ron
Ellen
Stanger
Cohen
Poehner
Robins
whitlatch
Hahn
Saunders
Lake Oswego
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Madras
Manning
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bauer
medford
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Matthews
Medford
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Jim
Pat
Robert
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Del Signore
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Scheelen
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Hopkins
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Helen
Diana
Lauren
Gwen
TAYLOR
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Thompson
Jameson
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Melanei
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Feder
culver
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portland
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Philip C.
Kreitner
Portland
Oregon
We are killing the oceans ...
As a native Oregonian I hate to see the
sustainability and eco system of our fishing
industry destroyed by the gill nets.
About a 18 months ago I was on Maui in
Hawaii on a sub and they had to go a long
distance to see any fish at all!
Gill nets are cruel and horrible. Please help
put an end to suffering of creatures who are
unfortunate enough to get caught in their
path!!!
The oceans are a precious resource that
must not be wasted. Gill netting wastes
resources.
Please stay true to your original decision and
stop the use of these deadly nets. This is a
matter of extreme importance and needs
immediate action. Thank you!
If a fishing method is doing more harm then
good it should be eliminated for a more
species targeted method.
I personally know of the damage gill netting
and ghost nets adrift do to the marine life.
They are indiscriminate, mindless
destroyers of whatever life forms become
entangled in them. How long will this
continue???
an appalling practice i'd thought had been
corrected decades ago
Gill-netting is the marine equivalent of
scorched-earth military action !
Dianne
Ensign
Portland
Oregon
Jan and Larry
Slobin
Portland
Oregon
Diane
Darvel
Luck
Lloyd
Portland
Portland
Oregon
Oregon
Gregory
Monahan
Portland
Oregon
Scott
J
Fernandez
Estep
Portland
Portland
Oregon
Oregon
D. Wiese
Jones
Portland
Oregon
Nadine
Zimmer
Portland
Oregon
Jody
Turner
Portland
Oregon
Edward
Erin
Mainwaring
Marshall
PORTLAND
Portland
Oregon
Oregon
denine
STEVEN
skylaar
Sherry
Susanna
Mary Faye
Robert
Bonnie
Rob
Patty
Carol
Courtney
Kathy
Amy
Eileigh
Tabitha
Dave
donna
Tara
Marceline
JACQUI
heinemann
portland
ADCOCK
PORTLAND
amann
portland
Amen
Portland
Askins
Portland
Bennett
Portland
Bernstein
Portland
Bingler
Portland
Bodner
Portland
Bonneeyeeeeeeeeeeee
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Bosworth
Portland
Brooks
Portland
Casson
Portland
Danielson
Portland
Doineau
Portland
Donaghue
Portland
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Portland
endicott
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I care about protecting the world's oceans
and the diversity of life they support.
Catching endangered whales and turtles and
thousands of other creatures is
unconscionable and wasteful.
I just read the book, War on Whales, and
was appalled at what the Navy has done to
these iconic mammals. What is wrong with
this country that we have to destroy
everything?
I urge you to ban drift gill nets!
It is abhorrent to me that your still allowing
drift gill nets along the Pacific coast. You
must stop this practice immediately!
It is past time to move to sustainable fishing
practices and to abandon wasteful unethical
practices such as drift gill nets.
no more gill nets
Please consider banning drift nets for the
sake of sustainable fisheries.
Please move away the drift gill nets - they're
harming endangered sea turtles and whales,
it's their home - we have no right to do to this
to them.
This is so obviously wrong! There should
not have to be controversy. These nets
should not exist!
This is the solution that would solve so many
of our issues...
This is vitally important!
THIS OLD KILL EVERYTHING PRACTICE
MUST BE PERMANENTLY STOPPED
TODAY!
This should have been stopped long ago.
Richard
Bruce
Kathleen
Nancy
Justin
Taggart
Hindi
Brenda
Sandra
Walter
Ruba
Avery
Alicia
Tamara
Anthony
Gilly
Rich
Virginia
Lauren
Mauria
Teresa
Robert
Pete
Zachary
Rachael
Maureen
debra
Cheri
Peter
Ian
Debra
Delek
Clifford
D
Star
Imogen
Debora
satya
Thomas
Sarah
patricia
Gorringe
Hellemn
Henley
Hiser
Holt
Howland
Iserhott
Jacobs
Joos
Lee
Leech
Leinova
Liang
Lischka
Lyon
Lyons
Mackin
Macrae
Magnee
McClay
Mcgrath
Miller
Munyon
Nelms
Ole
ONeal
poscharscky
Riznyk
Sergienko
Shelley
Slater
Smythe
Spencer
Stirpe
Studonivic
Taylor
Tramposh
vayu
Wicks
Wiebenson
carcasses
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Gerard
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Kelly
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Please stop gill netting--they are
indiscriminately killing all life in the oceans..
it is not right!
Gill nets are a disaster to marine life.
THINK OF YOUR CHILDREN.
Horror for the innocents.
This is as real as is gets.
This wasteful practice must stop!!
c. a.
H
Evelyn
Diana
Stuart R.
Linda
mcGowan
Millard
Pietrowski-Ciullo
Saxon
Shaw
Jackson
salem
Salem
Salem
Salem
Salem
Seal Rock
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
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Jeanie
Kathie
Nancy
BOB
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Hinely
Taylor
Dorney
Dudley
hammond
Casillas
Sheridan
Sheridan
Silverton
Sisters
Sisters
Springfield
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Oregon
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Rita
Karen
Dianna
Audrey
Thomas
Rebecca
Anita
Rick
Jennifer
Laurie
kayce
Mary Lynn
LINDSAY
Castillo
DeBraal
Love
Shepard
Osborn
Kimsey
Parish
Ross
Kirkpatrick
Fisher
Gorham
Parodi
KINKE
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Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
Stanfield
Sublimity
Sweet Home
Sweet Home
Terrebonne
Tigard
Tigard
Tigard
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I live near Newport Oregon, a major fishing
center as well as West Coast research. I
and most that we know, even among
commercial fishermen, abhor gill netting. It
is a frequent subject of conversation. I 'm
sorry, no one needs to catch these animals
this way. It is more cruel than South
American prisons. Maybe one of those
wanting to keep gill nets should go diving
and get caught in one and see what it feels
like to drown there. Then maybe they'd
remember. Or their only son. Act Now and
Get Rid Of Gill Netting now. Help those who
have invested in this industry to change
fishing methods in such a way that those
fishermen and women can keep their
livlihood for their families without using this
methods. Part of the problem is we don't
provide our humans with another way to
earn a living that is compatible with them,
like another fishing way. Most cannot afford
to change on their own. It's back to take
care of our own as well as the earth. Those
values the Republicans abhor. They'd like
the gill nets since they are profitable.
This is tragic considering we are causing the
extinction of whales and dolphins, as well as
other endangered sea life, all because they
are too lazy and uncaring to do this the right
way.
This action is LONG overdue.
l
Alma
Eleanor
osborn
Leon
Wynn
w. linn
Waldport
West Linn
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
John
Margaret
Valerie
Rose
Keene
Lovejoy
West Linn
White City
Williams
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
judi
Dana
Barbara
Warner
Bleckinger
Griffith
wilsonville
Yachats
Auburn
Oregon
Oregon
WA
Elizabeth
Pamela
Judy
Hickman
Bendix
Mason
Auburn
Bainbridge Island
Bellevue
WA
WA
WA
Nicole
Greg
Hal
Margaret
James
James
Tina
Joanne
Deborah
Robert
Ronlyn
Darlene
Gill
Robert
Barb
Earl
Reuben
June
Susan
mariposa
Scott
P
Westre
Zupansic
Glidden
Hashmi
Mulcare
Reeder
Loop
Luongo
Dinzes
Jensen
Schwartz
O'Grady
Fahrenwald
Gabriel
Scavezze
Wajdyk
Yancey
MacArthur
Wrench
monarch
Marckx
St. John
Bellevue
Bellevue
Bellingham
Bellingham
Clarkston
Edmonds
Everett
Kettle Falls
Kirkland
Lacey
Langley
Monroe
Olympia
Olympia
Olympia
Olympia
Olympia
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Port Orchard
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Let's not hasten the needless destruction of
life on earth or add to the suffering of
animals.
If it harms the environment in any way, it
should be eliminated, end of story, please do
what is right by the creatures that God has
put on this planet, you have no right to
destroy or hurt them like this!!!
With some of these nets being strung out for
miles whales, sharks , turtles along with
hundreds of fish of all species are drowned
when they swim into these ghost nets.
There is no reason for the continuation of
using something that causes do much
damage to the ocean ecosystem. Our
oceans are in trouble anyway without the use
of this type of fishing gear.
For heaven's sake, stop already. Heaven is
full of dead swordfish and triple that number
twice of all the other innocent unwanted
victims.
Eliminate the use of drift gill nets!
overfishing a dead ocean. lets just stop
Donna
Hanson
Pullman
WA
Patricia
Eleanor
Raamot
Israel
Pullman
Rainier
WA
WA
joanna
Timothy
fowler
Coleman
Redmond
Republic
WA
WA
Marjorie
Ando
Seattle
WA
Sigrid
Sandra
Brookie
Tatiana
Nadine
Julie
Stephen
Joanne
Allen
Dominique
Asmus
Ciske
Judge
Korry
LaVonne
Lawell
Matera
Pflepsen
Bauer
Mason
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Shoreline
Tacoma
WA
WA
WA
WA
WA
WA
WA
WA
WA
WA
Dale
Stephen
Ken
Cami
ruth
judith
Harriett
dan
Lorena
Tina
Vanessa
Greg
Richard
Judith
Linda
James
Paul
Holly
joyce
Birdsell
Eichelberger
Woolard
Cameron
riordan
cohen
Quintana
stabel
Havens
Brown
Jamison
Weber
Emerson
Laik
Rossi
Seibert
Parker
Delphinidae
kantoff
Tacoma
Tacoma
University Place
Vancouver
Walla Walla
98112
Aberdeen
aberdeen
Acme
Anacortes
Arlington
Arlington
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Avella
Bainbridge Island
Bainbridge Island
WA
WA
WA
WA
WA
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Carolyn
Nancy
Stephen
Eden
Jacques
Ekholm
Bainbridge Island
Bainbridge Island
Bainbridge Island,
Washington
Washington
Washington
Earlier this year your group made a
commitment to stop using drift nets. Now
you are planning to renege on that
commitment. I urge you to reverse course
and follow your original commitment to stop
using drift nets.
This is so sad - all for profit. We have to
stop these cruel nets and save the poor
creatures that die in them.
I'm writing to ask the Pacific Fisheries
Management Council to end the use of gill
nets.
It only makes sense to protect the whales
and sea turtles that can get caught up with
or without the swordfish that are the target
catch.
For ALL the RIGHT reasons!!!!
Please do this for ALL sea life. We owe it to
them.
End this immoral loss of life'
please stop killing marine mammaThis is so
unneccesary
Nancy
Jacobs
Bellevue
Washington
Tom
Martin
Bellevue
Washington
Josh
Del E.
sally
sherri
Shane
Victoria
Meryle A.
Davis
Domke
eastey
fraser
Liston
Trimble-Lowe
Korn
Bellevue
Bellevue
bellevue
Bellevue
Bellevue
Bellevue
Bellingham
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Ramona
Menish
Bellingham
Washington
Janelle
Witter
Bellingham
Washington
Larry
Jean
Green
Waight
Bellingham
Bellingham
Washington
Washington
Becky
John
Lynn
Cynthia
Elaine
Burton
JON
Jonathan
Peggy
Rick
John
Dave
Diann
Nancy
David
Kathleen
Jenny
Brandie
Tina
Alexandra
Marcia
Marianne
Anderson
Bremer
Colson
Fox
Green
Jay
NOGGLE
Raney
Ranson
Romito
Tuxill
Werntz
MacRae
Kerein
Arntson
Beavin
Clark
Deal
Mulcahy
Tufnell
clarke
Hoffman
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
BELLINGHAM
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bothell
Bothell
Bothell
Bothell
Bothell
Bothell
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Bothell
Bothell, WA
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The cost of allowing these drift gill nets is
simply too high for far too many marine
animals caught unintentionally. That is
unacceptable. Please move ASAP
We know drifting gill nets are wrong, and we
want them eliminated!!!
Drift nets are the equivalent of weapons of
mass destruction at sea. They need to be
banned.
It is a terrible travesty and destroys the
ecosystem.
These are terrible things and need to be
done away with.
This has to stop!
We all need to step up and go the extra mile
for our oceans and future fisheries. Not
saying it's easy, but it's so important that we
act now to steward sea life much better. I'm
trying to do my part to slow climate change
and maintain food for the future, in a
hundred different ways, and I'll look for you
to do yours, too. We're all connected!
Drift gill nets should go . . .forever!!
This needs to end!,,
Jack
Whitney
Brush Prairie
Washington
Leslie
Barbara
Kentor
DelGiudice
BUCKLEY
Burien
Washington
Washington
Ethel
Baker
Maria
Pamela
sunday
Paula
Perkins
Smith
Magana
Larsen
KRAUSHAAR
Mackrow
burien
Burien
Burlington
Camano Island
Camas
Carlton
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Kristine
Jennifer
Kibbee
Ternan
Castle Rock
Chehalis
Washington
Washington
mollie
Lynne
Fay
smith
Treat
Payton
chehalis
Chehalis
College Place
Washington
Washington
Washington
Michael
Carol
Bill
Douglas
Debi
john
Barbara
Kate
Penny
Teresa
Alli
Kathleen
Mary Ann
Lyman
Rolf
McMillan
Risedorf
Aldrich
wilson
Rosenkotter
Anderson
Derleth
Allen
Larkin
Wolfe
Sircely
COLVILLE
Colville
Concrete
Concrete
Covington
darrington
Deer Harbor
Deer Park
Deer Park
Deming
Des Moines
Des Moines
Eastsound
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Sandra
Roberta
Michael
Denee
James
Carr
McBride
Hill
Scribner
Wayrynen
Edmonds
Edmonds
Elbe
Ellensburg
Entiat
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
As a sports fisherman I have to be very
selective on what I keep as far as species,
size and whether is is a native fish. It is
unthinkable to allow any fishery to function
where selectivity isn't part of the process.
Drift nets do not allow any selectivity and
should be ban now.
Please save our whales, sea turtles and
other wildlife.
My familys livelihood in commercial fishing
depends on healthy marine ecosystems.
We must not waste those resources in killing
nets.
How can you justify such a damaging and
wasteful practice. Allowing by catch of
multiple sensitive and endangered species is
reprehensible. Line and troll fishing is the
only sustainable method.
Bycatch is environmentally unsound. You
have a responsibility to move forward with
regulations to decrease, and/or eliminate
drift gill net fishing which kills huge numbers
of important sea life. These animals are part
of a bigger picture - an entire ecosystem is
being put at risk here.
It's time to shift the drift gill-net fleet to more
environmentally sustainable types of fishing
gear. Or stop fishing for swordfish!
Jerry
Chilson
Enumclaw
Washington
Scott
Cecile
Everett
Washington
Allison
Doug
Donald
Lynn
Karen Hedwig
Tim
trina
Shelby
Jean
Robert
Barr
Gemmell
Munn
Offutt
Backman
Burns
cooper
Evans
Thornsbury
Brown
Everett
Everett
Everett
Everett
Fedal Way
Federal Way
federal way
Federal Way
Federal Way
Fircrest
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Marie
Mary
Shelley
Ann
Weis
Guard
Shelton-Wilson
Stockdale
Fox Island
Friday Harbor
Friday Harbor
Gig Harbor
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Haven
Marcia
Joan
Lynn
Todd
John
Peter
Edward
Ito
Julie
Damon
Mr.Shelley
Larry
Lisa
Teri
Thomas
Doane
Huey
Peter
Stevenson
McKenney
Wagenkencht
Brazitis
Davis
Chang
Leavenworth
Bishop
Dahlgren, PhD
Franks
Thomas
Travis
Adams
Gig Harbor
Gig Harbor
GIG HARBOR
Gig Harbor
GrapeView
Grapeview
Hansville
Hansville
Hong Kong
Indianola
Issaquah
Issaquah
Issaquah
Issaquah
kenmore
Kennewick
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Linda
Patrick
Woodall
Conn
Kennewick
Kent
Washington
Washington
Joyce
Don
Katherine
Matthew
Susan
Grajczyk
Johnson
Nelson
Nelson
Wilson
Kent
Kent
Kent
Kent
kent
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
There are other less lethal metods of
catching food fish. Please use them.
These nets have been indiscriminately killing
marine life for far too long...it is long past
time for them to be banned!!!
Why are these still being used? We know
the harm they cause.
When we act inhumainly to animals and
living things, we dull our beautiful souls and
in the end ,we hasten the fall of humanity.
Stop the carnage. Drift Gill Nets represent
indiscriminate killing.
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL DRIFT NETS
ARE AN ENVIRONMENTALLY AND
INDUSTRY DESTRUCTIVE FISHING
METHOD SO LEAD YOUR INDUSTRY OUT
OF THE DARK AGES AND BACK TO
HEALTH BY IMMEDIATELY BANNING ALL
DRIFT NET FISHING AND EMPLOY NOW
AVAILABLE MORE SELECTIVE METHODS
Tracy
Hendershott
Kirkland
Washington
Have you ever run into a net while swimming
in the ocean? What an awful way for a
creature to die, and so many die who weren't
targeted by the gill nets. These slow death
nets are forming road blocks for swimming
marine life and ruining our oceans. We
need to stop even one more from being
used and retrieve the abandoned nets that
indiscriminately kill.
Robin
Sanders
kirkland
Washington
Progressive thinking is now required to care
for our oceans!
Earlene
rebecca
Deborah
Jana
Chasity
Patricia
John
debbie
Nancy
Houston
Sally
Benefield`
ferrell
Gandolfo
Hobbs
Hungerford
Rodgers
Saul
thorn
Wiley
Wong
Vogel
Kirkland
kirkland
Kirkland
Kirkland
Kirkland
Kirkland
Kirkland
kirkland
Kirkland
Kirkland
Lacey
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Jon
Bennett
Lacey
Washington
Glen
Anderson
Lacey
Washington
Ashley
Korrine
john
Brian
Kalanit
Barbara
Sullivan
Fraser
seeburger
Sullivan
Barson
Laudan
Lacey
Lake Forest Park
lakewood
Lakewood
Langley
Lynden
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Nick
Amy
Charlene
Gene
Carol
Russell
William
ron and marya
Barcott
Hodges
Lauzon
Lawson
Stevens
Anthes
Howald
santi
Lynnwood
Lynnwood
Lynnwood
Lynnwood
Lynnwood
Malo
Marysville
medina
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Stella
Renee
Lee
Paulette
Brandon
Bill
Sun
Milkie
Buffington
Doulatshahi
Juhl
Laestadius
Medina
mercer island
mercer Island
Mercer Island
Mercer Island
mercer island
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Please, the oceans are being depleted of
many of their life forms. Do away with drift
nets. They kill too many unintended
creatures.
Save the whales and other sea life in
danger. Thank you!
The whole world needs SUSTAINABLE
fisheries, not exploitation.
This is the most cruel and wasteful kind of
fishing. Do not contribute to the demise of
all kinds of life in the oceans. Life is a web
and the loss of one affects all life.
Just do the right thing by all of God's
creatures regardless of those who recklessly
serve only themselves.
Please work toward an end to this horror
Eleanor
Jessica
Merryl
Jan
Barbara
Darlene
Sarah
Dowson
Tucker
Woodard
Przybylski
Curry
St. Martin
Richards
Mill Creek
Mill Creek
Mill Creek
Moses Lake
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon
Mukilteo
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
David
Nancy
Jane
Jackson
Hansen
Jaehning
Mukilteo
Newcastle
Oak Harbor
Washington
Washington
Washington
Glenn
Lisa
Sarah
David
David
stephan
ellen
Eklund
Hammer
Sloane
Daniels-Lee
Linn
derout
dorfman
Oak Harbor
Oak Harbor
Ocean Park
Ocean Shores
Ocean Shores
Olalla
olympia
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
David
Smith
Olympia
Washington
Amanda
Rudisill
Olympia
Washington
Harriet
Scott
Raul
Kristin
Kate
LISA
Hugh
Michelle
Lisa
John
preston
Robin
Mary
k
g
annie
Tim
Jo
Margery
James
Diana
Barbara
Randall
Tom
Allen
Bishop
de la Rosa
Holt
Huber
KELSEY
Lentz
Rossee
Taylor
Vinson
wheaton
Hirsch
Masters
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ashes
Holt
Harvey
Barlow
Roberts
Steenhuis
Parks
Parks
Wilson
olympia
Olympia
Olympia
Olympia
Olympia
OLYMPIA
Olympia
Olympia
Olympia
Olympia
olympia
Orcas
Orcas
orting
orting
p.a.
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Pacific
Packwood
Palouse
Papendrecht
Pasco
Pasco
Pasco
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Once again, please follow through with your
commitment to move away from allowing the
use of drift gill nets in the Pacific Ocean off
the coast of California. The longer you wait
the more damage is done.
We cannot afford to be irresponsibly allowing
endangered sea life to be indiscriminately
captured in drift gill nets.
it kills too much by catch horrid must stop
this immediately
Seriously, It's 2014. Time to leave this
harmful technique behind.
These nets are killers and are destroying so
much sea life, not just the target fish. They
must be banned for the health of our
oceans.
Bryan
Gail E
Elizabeth
Bell
Dawson
Vreedenburgh
Port Angeles
Port Hadlock
Port Orchard
Washington
Washington
Washington
Ron
grace
Robert
Bob
MacArthur
mecham
Stevenson
Triggs
Port Orchard
port orchard
Port Townsend
Port Townsend
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
melanie
buerkle
port townsend
Washington
Carole
Alex
betsy
John
PATRICK
Tania
Nancy
Dr. James L.
Roy
Huelsberg
Overton
pendergast
Sailer
ALLEN
Morris
Nydegger
Rowland, Ed.D.
Conner
Port Townsend
Port Townsend
Port Townsend
Port Townsend
Poulsbo
Poulsbo
Pullman
Pullman
Puyallup
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Suzanne
Billings
PUYALLUP
Washington
Sharon
Sybille
Thomas
Ai
Екатерина
Robyn
Carolyn
Jill
David
Sisanna
Tim
Gwenna
Gregory
Margaret
David
Julia
Fetter
Vital
Swoffer
McCarthy
Ионина
Affleck
Hall
Heishman
Peha
Tam
Durnell
Carlson
Knox
Remington
Nelson
McLaughlin
Puyallup
Rainier
Ravensdale
Redmond
Redmont
Renton
Renton
Renton
Renton
Renton
Rice
Richland
Richland
Richland
Ritzville
Rochester
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
K.
Youmans
Roslyn
Washington
Stop the use of drift gill nets as they are
killing many species of sea life that are not
part of the harvest. They also are often left
behind as garbage contributing to the
already enormous problem of pollution in our
oceans and waterways.
Drift gill nets are lousy stewardship.
I have seen this with my own eyes. These
nets must be stopped!
These majestic creatures have enough to
worry about without more threats from
humans. Stop the drift nets!
Stop killing these creatures with junk from
human thoughtlessness NOW
This is so heartbreaking to know these
beautiful creatures are dying in such a long
painful death in these nets. They must be
terrified that they are trapped. Please use
your authority to help those who can not ask
for help themselves.
This is WAY overdue. This action should
have come from the fishing industry years
and years ago. This is just common sense.
And not taking this action to stop using these
nets is cruel and should be criminal.
Patricia
Layden
SeaTac
Washington
We need to be responsible to all life on the
planet. We are part of a system; we are not
the only species here.
Alice
greg
Tobias
simmons
Seatle
Seattle
Washington
Washington
Tamara A.
Jerry
Turner
Liebermann
Seattle
Seattle
Washington
Washington
Christine
Lamb
Seattle
Washington
Gayle
Janzen
Seattle
Washington
Randall
Collins
Seattle
Washington
Randy
Kilmer
Seattle
Washington
P.
PERRON
Seattle
Washington
Leonard
Larson
Seattle
Washington
Chad
Evans
Seattle
Washington
sherry
rogers
seattle
Washington
Aldora
Perez
Seattle
Washington
Coastal fisheries are at risk this is a good
way to slow the harvest and protect marine
life
Come on, do it! Think of the future!
Drift gill nets are just to dangerous to too
many species!
Drift Gill Nets has decimated marine wildlife
for years. We have the knowledge and
science to practice environmentally
sustainable fishing. It's time to do the right
thing here and keep our marine wildlife
healthy for future generations.
Gill nets kill indiscriminately and if they are
phased out, they will continue to kill highly
endangered animals like sea turtles and
whales. This is unacceptable! If we know
what's killing endangered animals, then we
have to take the appropriate actions to
prevent their needless death. I urge you to
start phasing out the gill nets as soon as
possible while switching to sustainable
fishing methods. The sea turtles, whales and
dolphins are counting on you to protect
them.
Humanity and a responsibility to preserve
these great ocean creatures for our children
compels the banning of driftnets.
I have worked on fishing boats and have
seen the damage nets can do. Very
unselective on bycatch. bycatch. Better
methods are needed.
It's time. It's a new age - new ways of doing
things that have been done traditionally for
ages. Our world is preparing for happiness
FOR ALL!
Our edible fish supply is being depleted
daily. we do not need Hugh drift gill nets
from greedy fishing trawlers .
Please end this outdated and incredibly
harmful method of fishing!
Please help to stop the use of these killing
nets. It is so destructive to the fish and our
oceans and so unnecessary.
PLEASE STOP KILLING OUR WILDLIFE!!!
lance
bonamy
seattle
Washington
stop killing the oceans.
Linnard
Hobler
Seattle
Washington
The nightmare of drift gill nets must be
eradicated from our oceans. This diabolical,
short-sighted fishing method has proven its
inefficiency and fishery managers have
already agreed to undertake alternative
methods. It's time for them to follow through
both for the sake of economic efficacy and to
save non-commercial marine species.
Thank you.
Sonja
Richter
Seattle
Washington
Scott
Species
Seattle
Washington
There will be nothing left in our oceans,
NOTHING! Stop now!
They cause too much damage and are a
hazard to un-targeted fish and other sea life.
They probably are violating the ESA as well.
J
Romeo
Seattle
Washington
Janne
Carol
Tim
Brian
Lynne
Albert
Keira
Laurie
Anna
Bobbi
Juliette
Tony
eve
klouise
Conor
Ian
Norman
r
Heather
Sarah
Yael
Glenn
Nathaniel
Marian
Nancy
Alexis
Luke
Jesse
Randall
Robin
Delphi
Saab
Gregry
Linda
Jane
Kristina
Abullarade
Affleck
Allen
Baltin
Bannerman
Bechtel
Berges
Black
Blake
Boyd
Brush-Hoover
Buch
chen
cook
Corkrum
Cox
Crouter
Darden
Davidson
Doherty
Dragwyla
Fain
Harrison
Hayes
Hines
Kane
Kelly
Kocher
Kuhns
Lindsey
Locey
Lofton
Loomis
Massey
Metcalfe
Miller
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
seattle
seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
You have already agreed this is a shameful,
wasteful practice. Now keep your promises
and end it.
Joe
Pam
Kathyryn
Jean
Melissa
Phil
Gordon
Mark
Elena
Taen
Jessica
martha
Sandra
Devin
Sylvia
Jeff
Paul
Elizabeth
Steve
Marilyn
Mark
Anita
Nancy
George
Jack
Pat
Kathleen
Paula
Renee
Neumann
Obst
Oliver
Olson
Parks
Pennock
Raphael
Redmond
Rumiantseva
Scherer
Schiffman
shade
Smith
Smith
South
Steenbergen
Talbert
Taylor
Uyenishi
Webb
Wirth
Woodruff
Y.
Yocum
Zektzer
Ellison
Francis
Shafransky
Vincent
Seattle
seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Seaview
Sedro Woolley
Sedro Woolley
Sequim
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Susanne
Norman
madelaine
Barbara
bruce
Danny
Clayton
Patricia
Gloria
tonya
Hiroko
Scott
Scott
Baker
moir
Keyt
miller
Dwinell
Jones
Panitz
Skouge
stiffler
Patterson
Widdas
Sequim
Sequim
sequim
Shelton
Shelton
Shoreline
Shoreline
Shoreline
Shoreline
Shorline
Silverdale
Silverdale
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
If humanity was as intelligent and as superior
as we like to boast, then we would also be
smart enough to take responsibility of our
actions. We would NEVER callously think we
could just discard our unwanted shit in the
Ocean. This includes Drift Gill Nets! I swear,
humans have got to be the most STUPID
and Ignorant species on the Planet. Hard to
have an ounce of respect for a species that
can not be bothered to have any respect for
others species and lives. GET RID OF
DRIFT GILL NETS!!!!!
No to gill nets!
The gillnets have got to go!
Rand
Guthrie
Snohomish
Washington
Angela
Kimberly
Julie
Linda
diane
Mark
Laura
Angela
kathy
Zandra
Don
Dr. Darlene
Nancy
Adina
Jack
Stephen
James L. (Jim)
JC
Joe
Barbara
Robyn
Diana
marilyn
kun
Kathleen
BARBARA
Eugene
Carol
mary
Kerry
Emily
Anderson
Crane
Holtzman
Swan
crummett
Kidd
Ackerman
Kerr
kestell
Saez
Thomsen
Townsend
White
Parsley
Stansfield
Friedrick
Whittier
Bower
Piecuch
Bonfield
Cleaves
Covington
evenson
kang
Malley
TEMPLE-Thurston
Thorne
Whitehurst
cheek
Moore
Willoughby
Snohomish
Snohomish
Snohomish
Snohomish
soap lake
South Bend
Spokane
Spokane
Spokane
Spokane
Spokane
Spokane
Spokane Valley
Stanwood
Stanwood
Steilacoom
Steilacoom
Sumner
Suquamish
Tacoma
Tacoma
Tacoma
Tacoma
tacoma
Tacoma
Tacoma
Tacoma
Tacoma
tenino
Toledo
Tukwila
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Lisa
Connie Rena
Ayala
Childs
Tumwater
University Place
Washington
Washington
Therese
Gerry
danielle
Susan
Dowd
Martin
Marceaux
Morse
University place
University Place
USA
Vancouver
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Mike
Michael
anne
Gary
Jamie
Roger
Jim
beth
Leslie
Acker
Akstull
baker
Carone
Caya
Darden
Gayden
jensen
Johnson
Vancouver
Vancouver
vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver
vancouver
Vancouver
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Drift nets kill huge numbers endangered
species such as sea turtles and dolphins.
Drift nets are an incredibly wasteful and
destructive method for catching fish and
need to stop being used immediately.
We need a safer way to catch the product
species.
We cannot ruin all the earth and its
resources with careless greed.
These nets are nets of destruction and
death. Our oceans are in peril and this
indiscriminate killing is wrong.
Marianne
BARBARA
jerry
mary
Karen
Karen
Larkins-Strawn
MCKEE
miller
n
Wible
Rogers
Vancouver
VANCOUVER
vancouver
vancouver
Vancouver
Vashon
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Robert
Beth
Norm
Gianna
Barb
Jan
Bamford
Call
Osterman
Vaccaro
s
Weisel
WA
Walla Walla
Walla Walla
Washougal
wdnvlle
Woodinville
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
John
Ballard
Woodinville
Washington
sophie
Elena
kim
eugene o.
Joan
deruiter
Crawford
williams
swartz sr.
Dawson
Yelm
Colchester
Opelika
Silverhill
Birmingham
Washington
AL
AL
AL
Alabama
Elizabeth
Kelsey
terri
William
Mike
kenneth
gio
Alp
Allycia
Harry
Carol
Ginger
William
Pat and Gary
Anita
Estefania
Dennis
Uta
Downs
Graham
holland
Hutchings
Lesley
walters
mussini
Arslan
Godbee
Dill
Abreu
Carter
Shirey
Gover
Taylor
Valencia
Miller
Cortimilia
Birmingham
Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham
Birmingham
birmingham
bo
çanakkale
Cecil
Cottondale
Decatur
Decatur
Decatur
Fairhope
Fairhope
Fairhope
Falkville
Fort Payne
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Sonja
Ellis
Gadsden
Alabama
Chantal
Lori
Deborah
Elizabeth
Christina
Buslot
Birnham
Moss
Peterson
Viljoen
Hasselt
Hollypond
Horton
Huntsville
Irondale
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
It's time to end this horrific practice, another
in the long list of actions that place short
term profits above sustainable life.
Stop the senseless killing of non-targeted
fish and marine mammals by banning the
use of drift gill nets.
What a horrible way to die, drowning while
caught in the net of some factory trawler so
rich people can sell Bluefin Tuna for
$10,000/lb. after it's extinct and the ocean is
a barren wasteland.
What horrible suffering. What wasted life.
There is no justification for drift gill nets.
Drift Gill Nets are highly dangerous for much
ocean life. Please stop using them. Thank
you.
Keep your commitment, on not using gill
nets.
Karen
Neil
Steve
Randall
Sherrie
Denise
Spradlin
Ankers
Lee
Paul
Villamil
Griffin
Jacksonville
Liverpool
London
Madison
Madison
Mobile
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
A.J.
Tom
Tara
Karina
Pete
Edwin
Robert
Marilyn
Jerry
Lisa
marion
Robert
Cindy
Debi
Deb
sharron
Edward
Meghan
Kathryn
Brown
Gwin
Brantley
Brantley
Sandifer
Quigley
McVeigh
Fox
Freeman
Roskam
mcninch
Hastings
Grant
Lawson
Kilgore
reynolds
Struthers
Christy
Dalenberg
Mobile
Mobile
Montevallo
Montevallo
Montgomery
Muscle Shoals
Newtownards
Northport
Odenville
Ozark
pelham
Prattville
Rainbow City
Sterrett
Sylvan Springs
theodore
Theodore
Tuscaloosa
Valley Head
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Goran
Iwona
Ginger
April
Abramić
Mas
Neimo
Warwick
Valpovo
Vuarrens
Adelaide
Anchorage
Alabama
Alabama
Alaska
Alaska
Claire
CARLA
Zara
barbara
Ivan
Deborah
Annie
Jos
kurt
Becky
Kara
Baker
DUMMERAUF
Ivanova
reilly
Stoyanov
Voves
Dlima
Bakker
amsler
Breeding
Johnson
Anchorage
Anchorage
Anchorage
anchorage
Anchorage
Anchorage
APO
auke bay
bandol
Chugiak
Cordova
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Larry
Casey
Eagle River
Alaska
Jayson
Minio
Eagle River
Alaska
BY SAVING OUR WILDLIFE AND OUR
MARINE ANIMALS, YOU WILL BE SAVING
OUR PLANET.
Just be responsible! Your NOT!
The oceans are being depleted by
irresponsible fishing. Unless serious
changes are made by the commercial fishing
industry, it will be too late and no fish will be
in the ocean.
Stop sending our marine life into extinction
with your stupid nets.
Drift gillnets are an ineffective method of
harvesting bounty from the ocean. With a
high bycatch rate, their use is unsustainable
in our ocean, especially given the increased
pressures from an acidifying ocean.
Please do not pander. Put some teeth and
enforcement into action. Thank You.
deirdre
Michele
John
downey
Cornelius
Dodge
Fairbanks
Haines
Homer
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Donald
Jeff
Egli-STeinegger
AMOURI
Lynnda
Deirdre
Edith
Greenberg
Juneau
Sloss
Juneau
Veronika und Andreas
Oberschan
Marie-Christine
Petit-Croix
Strong
Siyka
Coval
Soldotna
Crowe
Wasilla
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Rudy
Wittshirk
Willow
Alaska
Ornela
G
gabriella
Marvyl
Mebelli
M
carrelli
Stephenson
tirana
A
Bragg Creek
Calgary
Albania
Alberta
Alberta
Alberta
Vivian
Christine
grant
Sherry
Danielle
Lindsay
Brien
Chesson
koop
Shen
Tran
Sparrow
Calgary
Calgary
calgary
Calgary
Calgary
Edmonton
Alberta
Alberta
Alberta
Alberta
Alberta
Alberta
Tanya
Veronica
Tammy
mireille
VIVIANE
r dean
Carol Joan
Gary
Jean
Keith
Wm & Marianne
Jennifer
cristina
monica
aurel
Marissa
Atallah
Goidanich
Parnell
poli
CORBET
james
Patterson
Huxel
Langford
Runion
Sherman
Highfill
nagy
picon
watson
Calderon
Edmonton
Fort McMurray
Medicine Hat
Beausoleil
Antwerp
Conway
Eureka Springs
Farmington
Little Rock
Little Rock
Mountain Home
Paragould
mar del sur
merlo
85138
85210
Alberta
Alberta
Alberta
alpes maritimes
Antwerp
AR
AR
AR
AR
AR
AR
AR
argentina
argentina
Arizona
Arizona
It is incumbent upon us not to waste
animals. It is uneconomical, not ecologically
sound, not moral. That diminishes the
ecosystem of which we are a part, not apart!
Die Gier des Menschen ist tötlich!!!!
Please do not kill animals that are innocent
bystanders!
It's not a whale or turtle fishery...so stop
catching whales and turtles.
STOP MAKING DIRTY MONEY!!!
Isn't it time to pay attention to our oceans
and the life it sustains? By killing the oceans
we're literally killing ourselves.
Stop trying to control the ocean. Everybody
dies eventually, stop drowning other sea
creatures for the sake of human life... there
is already too many of us anyway!
Because sea life is much more than food.
Let the ocean, our source, replemish itself
Melissa
Warfield
Apache Junction
Arizona
wes
M.
Lynda
rock
Browning
Barondes
arivaca
Benson
Bisbee
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Jane
Mireya
Chischilly
Landin-Erdei
Bisbee
Bullhead City
Arizona
Arizona
Dale
Laura
Kelly
Mattes
LeRoy
Godlonton
Bullhead City
cada grande
Calgary
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
jonnie
Carole
allert
Dyer
camp verde
Casa Grande
Arizona
Arizona
Elizabeth
Susan
SANDRA
Cheryl
David
Collard
Shaw
TUCKER
Vana
Lapinski
Casa Grande
Casa Grande
CASA GRANDE
Casa Grande
Cave Creek
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Donna
Chris
Carmen
Dalyn
Hunter
Sybil
Langlois
Carlon
Nichols
Ortega
Williams
Malinowski Melody
Cave Creek
Chandler
Chandler
Chandler
Chandler
Clarkdale
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Dieter
Annie
Howard
Georgia
Paul
Gerald
Bartels
McMahon
Frederick
Braithwaite
Rosenfeld
Brothen
Clarkdale
Clarkdale
Cortaro
Cottonwood
Cpttpnwood
Elgin
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Here is a quote from Chief Seattle: What is
man without the beasts? if all the beasts
were gone, man would die from a great
loneliness of the Spirit. For whatever
happens to the beasts, soon happens to
man. All things are connected. - Chief
Seattle (1780 - 1866) - Duwamish Chief.
Unquote. I would like to have Chair Lowman
and the Council Members take heed. Please
do away with the drift gill nets. Pretty soon
we will not have any sea life at all. Where will
we be??
Our fish are more important alive and are
more important than food for humans.
This is an outrage, irresponsible and
inhumane. This practice must be banned. if
we cannot catch swordfish, so be it! Period.
we are killing our oceans .. END THIS NOW
!
Please, please.....can't we ever think about
the earth and what destruction we are
causing? This diagram of drowning turtles,
whales and sharks is so terribly sad,
especially since it doesn't have to be like
this.
25% of the worlds wildlife disappeared in the
last 40 years (New York Times article, last
week.) Do what you agreed to do. Our
oceans need to be protected.
It is both stupid and cruel to use tools that
trap & kill all these sea creatures.
To not move away from using drift gill net is
to admit that profit is more important than
self respect.
David
Richard
Laurel
Kelly
Linda
Julia
Loras
Deborah
Laura
Bettina
Claudia
Heidi
Liana
James
Joyce
Sharon
Elizabeth
Garry
Wimberly
Causer
Hieb
Hurlbut
Mooney
Rouvier
Rauch
White
Orozco
Bickel
DiCosola
Krouskup
Moran
Moran
Carter
Maxson
Nichols
Rogers
Elgin
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Flagstaff
Flagstaff
Flagstaff
Flagstaff
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Ft Mohave
Gilbert
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Glendale
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Glendale
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Wilkin
Kingman
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janae
Allan
matthew
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Roger
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Linda
michael
E.
collette
JILL
Cindy
Kristin
Heather
Gary
Carol
Craig
Liz
bailie
Gleason
hornick
Howard
McCleary
Stark
Waltasti
Cardillo
Dankert
Kane
maggied
Mothershead
novak
SMITH
Webb
Lein
Philip
Meyers
Valint
Warren
Hourican
kingman
Kingman
kingman
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Maricopa
Maricopa
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Mesa
Mesa
mesa
Mesa
mesa
Mesa
Mesa
New River
New River
Oro Valley
Peoria
Peoria,
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Janet
Witzeman
Phoenix
Arizona
Brenda
Mason
Phoenix
Arizona
It is past time to act to protect wildlife, not
continue its demise.
We need to insure that all of our sea life are
protected fro,m extinction now!
Help put an end immediately to the drift net
gill problem!! thank you for taking positive
action.
Please discontinue using these whale-killing
gill nets and shift to more selective fishing
gear. Thank you
Please end this dangerous practice.
Annemarie
Avanti
Phoenix
Arizona
Corinna
Fritsch
Phoenix
Arizona
Nishant
Richard
Bridget
John
Chris
Marcy
Carrie
Mikaela
Robin
Julia
Susan
Jaime
Claudia
Chris
Suzanne
Brad
Maxann
Richelle
Michelle
Cindee
Joseph
Dana
Jillian
yvonne
John
William
Denise
Rich
Vickie
John
Carolyn
Kathy
Terry
Wendy
Agrawal
Arthur IV
Bell
Benschoter
Bihler
Crane
Darling
Eriksson
Flack
Fleeman
Garcia
Grimwood
Hansen
Hennessey
Hunter
Jarvis
Kasdan
Kogan
Linker
McMahon
Ott
Pierson
Plante
points
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Resseguie
Romesburg
Royer
Rudd
Rycraft
Sol
Sweany
Tedesco-Kerrick
Morris
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Gary
Jessie
Mark
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Morris
Boivin
Bourke
Dorsten
Jacobs
Verrill
Phx
Prescott
Prescott
Prescott
Prescott
Prescott
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Please stop the indiscriminate death of
marine mammals caught in Drift Gill Nets.
Please eliminate the use of this outmoded
method of fishing and mandate more
selective alternatives be utilized by
fishermen. Its time to end this wasteful
method of fishing for specific fish while
trapping and allowing to die numerous other
species of marine mammals!
The killing must end...is not swordfish high in
mercury anyway due to poisoned oceans?
Why not put swordfish on do not eat list?
shame on you are you stupid or just don't
give a crap about all the other Mammals
caught in those nets and left to die!
Tom
Rev. Jacqueline
Carina
John
Wenzel
Ziegler
Acuna
Hallin Jr.
Prescott
Prescott
Sahuarita
San Luis
Arizona
Arizona
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John
Dara
maja
K
Boswell
Rider
Berlin
Brush
San Tan Valley
San Tan Valley
scottsdale
Scottsdale
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Bobbie
Howard
Scottsdale
Arizona
Bill
Michael
Lyn
SUE E.
Elisa
Lesley
Leticia
Drena
Sandra
Sherri
Jacomina
John
Debbie
lynn
Dennis
Kate
Beck
Bond
Burns
DEAN
Donnadieu
Federgreen
Garcia
LaPointe
Mooney
Moore
Newman-Osmon
Nowlin
Reichow
spoden
Yee
Buttles
Scottsdale
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SCOTTSDALE
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Sarah
Shell
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Chase
McLean
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Bower
Sedona
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Sonoita
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I recently visited a beach in Trinidad where
sea turtles struggle to make it out to sea.
They have a one in a thousand chance of
making it. There are plenty of natural
predators for them if they make it. But now,
humans have added yet another one. Please
remove this needless destructive process.
There are more humane methods of fishing,
and it's about time we required them. I will
not be ordering swordfish again until drift gill
nets have been banned.
Thank you for your consideration.
The use of long-line drift gill nets to catch
fish is such a lazy, not to mention stupid,
way of catching fish. Bycatch consists of
many species critical to the health of our
oceans. Overfishing has ruined not only the
oceans but the communities that used to
make their livelihoods in the trade. We know
too much in a 21st century world to allow this
to continue.
These nets do horrible damage to the
creatures in the ocean. They're completely
irresponsible.
Why has this been permitted to exist for so
long? It is unconsciencenable.
Time to end this outdated, destructive fishing
method and transition a better way to catch
to swordfish: no more endangered whale,
dolphin and sea turtle by catch!
Lynda
Nesbitt
Stanfield
Arizona
Roxann
James
Carmean
Rideout
Strawberry
Sun City
Arizona
Arizona
Mary
Beattie
Sun City
Arizona
mary
Cheryl
Noel
Dennis
Nan
Ted
martin
Blasko
Crim
Nolan
Reading
Sebastian
sun city
Sun City West
Sun City West
Sun City West
Suprise
Surprise
Arizona
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Arizona
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jack
Howard
stockslager
Lanus
t
Tempe
Arizona
Arizona
Karen
melissa
george
Mike
Melinda
Dona
Bond
harlan
rosnick
Smith
Weisser-Lee
LaSchiava
Tempe
Tempe
Tempe
Tempe
Thatcher
Tucson
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Please end the use of these nets-wholesale
harvesting is not necessary. Thank you.
save the fish No fish should be allowed to
die in a gill net. We must stop uncontrolled
fishing before we wipe out many species
The gill nets are killing species that are close
to extinction. turtles, whales and sharks,
etc.,
I'm moving back to the coast. I am a military
certified Underwater Search and Rescue
diver since the 80's and I've seen the
(remarkable) changes to the west coast and
the ocean in the last thirty years and it's sad.
I've assisted with whale rescues from dirt
nets and had the whales look me straight in
the eye while I was slicing away at the net
they were entangled in. Seen thousands of
dead creatures left behind. Seen the
beaches change from being covered in
shells and the wildlife in tide pools
disappear. People that use this system of
fishing have no respect for the ocean or
peoples lives that depend on it. None. And
they should slowly and painfully be removed
from the human gene pool. Don't want those
losers to reproduce.
The use of drift nets is ultimately a tragic
waste of life as it fails to discriminate
between its intended prey and the creatures
unlucky enough to encounter them. The use
of drift nets to catch food is similar to using
machine guns on a crowd to stop a handful
of criminals. Stop this waste while there are
still creatures left to save.
GET RESPONSIBLE!!! STOP CAVING TO
SHORT SIGHTED THINKING AND
ACTION!!! Sustainable fishing practices are
the only way to save our oceans from
IRREPARABLE DECIMATION!!!!
Patricia
Grames
Tucson
Arizona
Our oceans have many problems and
wasteful fishing just exacerbates them. The
bycatch from gill nets means there are fewer
fish in the food chain, which will cause
overall harm to the availalbility of the human
food fish, This is a terrible practice that
should not be allowed to go on,.
ELISA
VALDENEGRO
TUCSON
Arizona
Please make is safer for the sea life to swim
free without nets.
Amalia
Linda
Ruth
Duncan
Michael
Kathy
nancy
jeanine
Helen
Judith
Marina
Hugh
Annabelle
james
R
Dayna
Pat
Linda
Saralaine
Carol
Robin
Bonnie
Joan
gregory
Edie
fritzi
Roland
Elizabeth
Bob
Richard
Sandra
Tobey
Toni
judith
Peggie Jo
Kendra
Pamela
D.E.
Thomas
Betty
Kendrick
elinor
Benson Bodkin
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Hampton
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Millet
Mitchell
Motzer
Oliver
Patch
penniston
Rappaport
redgrave
Romo
Schauer
Segal
Skinner
Stock
Thatcher
Thomas
tuck
Vincent
Waddell
Wallace
Whitcomb
Wiewandt
Wilde
Wilson
zlotnik
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todd
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Taylor
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bash
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Redd
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Wiley
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delia
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Paterson
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mcbride
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Joseph
PoaAhontas
Reyno
royal
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Springdale
Springdale
Arkansas
Arkansas
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Arkansas
Drift gill nets are a poor way of fishing as it
kills everything that comes into contact with
it. Please stop the gill nets and keep your
commitment to the other and often at risk
species in the ocean. A gill net is not a good
tool for fishing in our oceans...Find another
way.
So much slow death for one swordfish
Fishing that involves bycatch should be
eliminated.
Please find better way to catch fish and
more inhumane treatment to these beautiful
Swordfish are getting rarer and rarer. They
should not be caught that will prevent
dolphins and whales from getting killed as
well.
If you have a heart this will mean something
to you and you will do something to try to
prevent this very very sad thing from
happening. If you have no heart... you will do
nothing. Which one applies to you?
Please utilize the powers of your position to
the fullest extent possible in Stewardship of
the Ocean.
Your children/grandchildren will thank you.
THIS NEEDS TO STOP, NOW !!!!!
Anna
Anita
Bianca
Cassandra
arlene
Thierry
Michele
Chetan
Katherine
Karen & Robert
Ralston
Papassarandis
Sodfried
Okun
dreste
Favre
Mercer
Kumar
Hinson
Cizek
Springdale
Athens
Purbach
Vienna
Ajo
Allinges
Casa Grande
Chandler
Gilbert
Glendale
Arkansas
Athens
Austria
Austria
AZ
AZ
AZ
AZ
AZ
AZ
Phillip
Sydney
Dave
chris
Robert
Claudia
Schaffer
McDermott
Hawkins
martin
Racine
Salmoni
Kingman
Marana
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Oro Valley
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Steve
Rose
Phoenix
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Laurel
Williams
Phoenix
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Judy
Carla
Selina
hernan
Carolyn
Patricia
Schmierer
Whitehouse
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Harris
alzuro
Vaughan
Orlinski
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Carolin
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Nina
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Melanie
sue
Yee Ping
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Schutt
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Williams
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Meyer
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schuemmer
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Please, act now!
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Please do the right thing to save the
environment
The overall cost from the use of gill nets far
outweighs any benefits now and in the
future.
If everyone knew how important whales are
to man's survival on earth, they would all be
welcomed and honored as friends, brothers
and sisters and allowed to be free of all nets
dangers, allowed to flourish.
There are better ways to fish. By taking
these out of everyones choice we can create
a level playing field for everyone.
Needless and reckless killing of species is
not a human action. Stop it.
Angelika
Doris
Lorenz
Richard
i.c.
Stephan
Maria
Dorothea
Simon
Linda
Steffi
chris
ana claudia
Paula
nica
John
tracy
tamarra
Jessica
Leah
Kendra
Kelly
Robin
Bassen
Gruehling
Steininger
Hieber
kovacs
Hoppe
Schneider
Stephan
Holledge
Staelens
Goldbach
ocean
almeida
Brugger
lupabella
Fry
michaloski
bolwell
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Meierhofer
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Winzer
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berlin
brasília
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delta
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Coral
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michael
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Best practice, not worst practice!
Go vegan and save the oceans!
This is just one thing you could decide to do
for these precious, irreplaceable animals.
Once they are gone, that's it. This is their
second chance and I think it's the least we
can do to protect them. They have enough
going against them.
Why is this even happening? Change is
desperately needed
More fish - less people!
No respect for life and cruel.
The ocean needs every fish, shark, whale or
ANYTHING! We have raped the ocean to
within an inch of its life. It is time to leave it
alone.
Billie
Gernot and Ava
christopher
Edward/Gail
Gutgsell
Heinrichsdorff
nall
Laurson
Boulder
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs
Denver
CO
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Mary
Athena
Andrea
R. William
Ragen
Michelle
Timothy
kim
Bruce
Judith
LIsa
Taylor
John
Kelly
John
Andromidas
Driscoll
Huff-Sandstrom
Kehoe
Schier
Serra
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Taylor
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What horrible suffering and death. Similar to
leg traps used in hunting.
Please stop the use of these nets.
What is happening to our world. Why allow
this? Is it for the bottom line of the
companies that conspire with the politicians
bottom lines? Isn't there something wrong
with that?
Drift gill nets are, by their very nature,
indiscriminate and have NO place in the
wise management of ocean reources.
Please no drift gill nets off California coast.
This practice must be banned internationally.
It is a tragic waste of nature's wonders.
Please, end the use of drift gill nets. Can you
imagine the suffering of marine life caught in
them?
Patricia
Emily
Lula Kay (Katie)
Joyce
Joanie
Liermann
Meyer
Ingham
Wood
Schneider
Avon
Avon
Basalt
Bayfield
Bellvue
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Jessica
alberto
Carter
Folger
mussini
Carter
Bellvue
bologna
Boulder
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Chuck
Chitwood
Boulder
Colorado
diana
wright
boulder
Colorado
William
John
paul
Jean
Sheri
Brian
Sue
Michael
Eloise
miriam
Joyce
susan
Mark
Ann
Virginia
David
George
Ed
Jamie
Mary
Annette
Tom
Carol
Shannon
Elaine
Debbie
Kathleen
Renee
D
Danny
Laura
Barrett
Cort
dopp
Gore
Harms
Hires
Holtz
Johan
Nelson
paisner
Rohr
sebanc
Sorlie
Tagawa
Wood
Zimmerman
Turner
Billeaud
Harris
Morse
Soucy
Gallagher
Klein
Meckley
Brown
Brush
Carr
Bailey
Huber
Watson
Altman
Boulder
Boulder
boulder
Boulder
Boulder
Boulder
Boulder
Boulder
Boulder
boulder
Boulder
boulder
Boulder
Boulder
Boulder
Boulder
Bouler
Breckenridge
Broomfield
Broomfield
Brush
Burlingame
Carbondale
Carbondale
Castle Rock
Castle Rock
Cedaredge
Centennial
Centennial
Cimarron
Clovis
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
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Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
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Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Emory
Ben
Julia
Aaron
Goodin
Michel
CO/Springs
Coaldale
Coaldale
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
PLEASE!. NO MORE DRIFT GILL NETS!
This is horrible, please use more sustainable
methods of fishing
Its up to us to be responsible caretakers of
the earth
Please don't let greed and ignorance take
these wonderful animals away!!!!
please let's move away from these drift gill
nets- the marine animals cannot protect
themselves - they depend on us- thank you!
Please.
We can and must do better!
So damn sad. And you have the power to
save so many innocent animals! Use your
power for good. There is just too much bad
in the whole world now.
c
Boisse
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Ginger
Hipszky
Colorado Springs
Colorado
KARI
MUELLER
COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado
Susan
Repp
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Nola
Chambers
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Jean
erin
Beth
Jane
Wilder
Liz
Deborah
Nicole
andy
Nicole
Margaret
Destine
Amanda
Bevsek
booth
Cole
Crick
Kingsley
Kochis
Rollings
Shaffer
skuntz
Fresquez
Lohr
Robertson
McNeill
Colorado Springs
colorado springs
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs
colorado Springs
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs
colorado springs
Commerce City
commerce city
Conifer
Cortez
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Robert
Lanelle
manny
Burnett
Lovelace
garcia
Crested Butte
Crestone
denver
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Jesa
Bygness
Denver
Colorado
Pat
Kym
Susan
Ander
Waugh
Knight
Denver
Denver
Denver
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Sally
Cumine
Denver
Colorado
Sheryl
Schmatjen
Denver
Colorado
Deborah
Mel
Devyn
Marilyn
Aguirre
Apodaca
Arbogast
Auer
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
It is horrible that there is so damage done to
the sea life from drift fishing. Now is the time
to ban gill nets, and save precious
endangered sea creatures!
Ms Lowman, please make this horrible and
very cruel practice stop. Think of the fish and
mammals that die in these nets.
PLEASE STOP THE SENSELESS AND
HORRIBLE SLOW DEATH KILLING OF
OUR SEA LIFE WITH THESE NETS!
Species need to be protected against this
useless type of fishing net..
We need to protect all of our wildlife, on land
and in the oceans!
Good grief, do we have to lose countless
species before the use of these nets is
outlawed? We know better so it's time to
grow some political courage and outlaw their
use now!
enough of this stupid shit! we know that we
are polluting our oceans globally! so lets
starts changing our selfish self centered
ways that we fish so moronically!
Make the right choice!! Stop killing ocean
creatures!
Must we murder all beings?
NO to nets
Please find a way to stop using these nets.
This is so horrible for the animal caught in
the net. How could people not care?
When people learn that something does
harm, it is only logical & sensible to STOP
doing the harmful thing. What does it take?
Killing everything, before you wake up??
Stop gill net fishing now!!
Erna
jeff
Judy
SUMMER
Bruce
Frances
jill
Lynne
Eldridge
Patrick
Robert
Stephanie
R
Tom
Carol
Bobbie
Janine
Eric
Wilbur
Tracey
Bjoern
Alexandra
Shannon
Marilyn
David
Melissa
Beverley
michele
Eric
Margaret
Kathryn
Jasmine
Stanley
Adam
Kerri
Betty
Carolina
Theresa
Alexander
Mary
Beerheide
boden
Cisney
CRABTREE
Cratty
Frainaguirre
garrett
Glaeske
Hardie
Harrington
Honish
Huntington
I
Jackson
Johnson
Knight
Kondreck
Lane
Little
MacDonald
Mannsfeld
Mark
Milhaupt
Mitchell
Mitchell
Munoz
Noia
page
Punkay
Redus
Rose
Sailing
Scheller
Sloan
Stroupe
Tagge
varga
Vaughn
Wilson
Kavendek
Denver
denver
Denver
DENVER
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Durango
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Eric
Susan
Kay
Wil
Burris
Cornwell
Wilson
Wellisch
Durango
Durango
Durango
Edgewater
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Jessica
Ingrid
Fishman
Rochester
Edwards
Elbert
Colorado
Colorado
It's important that these drift gill nets not be
used anymore. Please follow through to stop
the use of such wide-killing of species they
do not intend to catch.
Please use the modern and humane way of
fishing instead of the drift gill nets.
Robert
Cruder
Elizabeth
Colorado
No organization responsible for the resource
base can allow such an indiscriminate killer.
Those who use them are strip-mining the
ocean to the detriment of both commercial
and recreational fishermen as well as future
generations.
Erick
Roden
Erie
Colorado
This needs to stop. The oceans can recover
if we make the effort to change our habits
and understanding.
DIANE
Jenna
Julija
Jamie
Lisa
COTE
Harris
Merljak
Ashby
Evans
ESTES PARK
Evergreen
Fairplay
Fort Collins
Fort Collins
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Diane
Jude
Pam
Sharon
jody
Pat
Nancy
Tom
Karen
Christi
Starla
Melanie
Robert
Maya
Weslie
Birmingham
Friend
Jarvie
Lee
Linberg
Martin
Morgan
Tripp
Christiansen
Jackson
Sanchez
Gosling
levitt
Kurtz
Phillips
Fort Collins
Fort Collins
Fort Collins
Fort Collins
Fort Collins
Fort Collins
Fort Collins
Fort Collins
Fort Lupton
Fountain
Fountain
Fruita
Ft Collins
Glenwood Springs
Golden
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Dana
Rakesh
Holly
Janeene
Rosalyn
Debra
Cynthia
Elizabeth
Barela
Chandranatha
Kennedy
Porcher
Rohloff
Schein
Small
Fulton
Golden
Golden
Golden
Golden
Golden
Golden
Golden
Grand Junction
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Antonia
Kristina
Tamara
Susan
Dawn
Mona
Mindie
Salaz
Bain
Bauerle
Schneeberger
Vermillion
Fansher
Sivey
Grand Junction
Greeley
Greeley
Greeley
Guffey
Henderson
Highlands ranch
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Stacey
Larson
Highlands Ranch
Colorado
I believe you have a moral obligation to
reduce the unnecessary and wasteful take of
marine animals through drift gill netting.
When is this going to STOP??? Will you end
this before every last living creature in the
ocean is DEAD!!!
As much as I love seafood, I've almost
stopped serving it due to the over-fishing
and things like gill nets. It's time to do better.
This is insane! Are we living in the 18th
century?
Travis
Ray
Pamela
Jardon
Rowe
Hayes
Hotchkiss
Ignacio
Johnstown
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Sara
eve
John
Avery
oconnor
Eckler
Lafayette
lafayette
Lakewood
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Lyn
Miller
Lakewood
Colorado
Susan
Williams
Lakewood
Colorado
Kelly
Gordon
Jontonian
Dawn
Kristyn
Kathy
Nanci
Gina
Michael
Steven
Melissa
Carlson
ILLG
Battleaxe
Hendry
MacPhail
Martinez
Staskin
Writz
Johnson
Tempelman
Kallick
Lakewood
Lakewood
Limon
Littleton
Littleton
Littleton
Littleton
Littleton
Lone Tree
Lone Tree
Longmont
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
James
Thrailkill
Longmont
Colorado
sheryl
Sussbauer
Longmont
Colorado
Jeri
Carla
Ronald
Leroy
Lawrence
Lisa
Betti
Georgia
Richard
John
Ralf
Jene'
Carolyn
Robert
valerie
Altman
Behrens
Brown
Frankel
Germann
Hillesland
Jones
Mattingly
McKee
Pinezich
Schuetz
Starr
Tinus
Victoria
winters
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
Longmont
longmont
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Drift grill nets do not discriminate... they kill
the lowly and the majestic.
Please stop the use of these gill nets. They
kill indiscriminately. Thank You for taking
time to read my letter.
Using drift gill nets is a lazy and irresponsible
way of fishing, and too many other creatures
are killed and unused. We have the ability to
do better and be less destructive.
We are losing the animals on this planet.
Please act responsibly.
It is time to accept that we share this planet
with other living creatures, who have as
much right to exist as humans. We SHARE
this earth; we don't OWN it. Please get rid of
drift gill nets and the carnage they cause to
marine life.
Our humanity is measured by how we treat
all non-human species.
There is NOT unlimited fish in the sea. If
these gill nets kill everything they catch,
intentional or not, there will be nothing TO
catch. Our oceans are already seriously
depleted thanks to this deadly-for-everything
practice.
David
Teresa
Megan
Lawrence
Mary
Elliot
Pam
susan
char
Burns
Collins
Collins
Crowley
Kosnar
Mason
Sheeler
peirce
laughon
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Loveland
Loveland
lyons
montara
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Linda
Thompson
Montrose
Colorado
Anne
Jeff
Dana
Melanie
Kim
Ann
Guy
Sara
Donna
marnie
F
Jen
Brian
Chelo
Nathaniel
Dawn
Jane
linda
Lisha
Amanda
Renee
Natalie
David
Sandra
Paula
Andi
Deborah
Susan
Rich
Paula
Denise
John
Tamara
Andrew
Marlene
Dawid
Clifford
Sanchez
Pococke
Smith
Nowicki
Ross
Deleon
McFlynn
gaede
Meek
Wittlinger
Field
Ludden
Hammerli
Ayers
Dowton
burt
Doucet
Boldenow
Estelle
Jaime
Katz
Speicher
Hansen
Shotwell
Ahlers
Black
Ranieri
Bourgeois
Millet
Hazuka
Berdofe
Politzer
Tendler
Monument
nucla
Pine
Pueblo
Pueblo
Pueblo West
Ridgway
Rockvale
Snowmass
South Fork
Steamboat Springs
Stramboat
Thornton
Trinidad
Vail
Walsenburg
Walsenburg
Ward
Wellington
Westminster
Westminster
Westminster
Westminster
Weston
wheat Ridge
Wheat Ridge
Windsor
Windsor
wolcott
Woodland Park
Ansonia
Berlin
Bethel
Bethel
Bethel
Colorado
Colorado
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Colorado
Colorado
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
We must stop the total destruction of these
ocean habitats. As stated earlier last week,
the disappearing numbers of species are at
the critic tipping point and drift gill nets are
one of those examples. Please prevent the
use of drift gill nets.
We've learned a lot about sustainable fishing
since I was a child fishing with my dad on the
pier of Manhattan Beach. It's time to make
our laws and regulations consistent with our
current knowledge about sustainability.
Janice
Stephanie C.
Hope
Robin
Cashell
Fox
Maruzo
Tierney
Bethlehem
Bloomfield
Bozrah
Branford
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Lisa
shirley
Stephanie
Sharyn
Bethany
alessandro
Gene
Ruth
Sue
Elizabeth
Liz
diane
Al
Hesselgrave
mccarthy
Mastri
St Clair
Aiudi
ciccarelli
Coderre
Martin
Rosenbach
Lynch
DiLernia
lamb
Manfred
Branford
branford
Bridgeport
Bridgeport
Bristol
bristol
Bristol
Bristol
Bristol
Brookfield
Burlington
Burlington
Chandler
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Steven
Geoffrey
Jema
Matthew
Meghan
Sara
Michael
Alison
Rebecca
Radha
Michael
Trisha
Joseph
Marj
Anthony
Debbie
Maryellen
Karen
Emma
Peter
Debra
Joan
Robert
Tammy
Presley
Frattini
Kassie
McGuire
Wilson
Dodson
Wichman
Zyla
Smith
shenoy
Varichak
Sherman
Gulas
Waite
Graziosa
Kearns
Calchera
Baouche
Bragg
McKnight
Mahony
Mccoy
Culliton
Nogles
Chaplin
Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire
Chester
Clinton
Clinton
Coventry
cromwell
Danbuy
Danielson
Derby
E.H.
East Canaan
East Hartford
Eastford
Ellington
Enfield
Fairfield
Fairfield
Fairfield
Farifield
Farmington
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Mary
Noreen
Marilyn
Jean
O'Brien
Cullen
Kopf
Thorsen
Farmington
Glastonbury
Granby
Groton
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
As a concerned citizen, I am asking that you
work to transition from drift gill nets, as they
are killing endangered whales and sea
turtles..
why not just throw dynamite on the fish.
Goddamn gil nets catch and kill everything
These nets concern me.
There is a better, safer way to keep our
marine life out of harms way. Take the
appropriate action to protect our ecosystem.
Terrible and needless death traps.
What a waste. This practice should be
outlawed world-wide and the perpretators
punished!
Darelyn
Thomas
Haynes
Cleveland
Groton
Guilford
Connecticut
Connecticut
Frank
Patricia
Robert
Douglas
Sue
Kimberly
Ferro
Klindienst
Lang
Meyer
Kautz
Owens
Guilford
Guilford
Guilford
Guilford
Haddam
Hamden
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
bryan
Pat
joan
Elizabeth
Mary
lambert
Preziosi
stone
Werner
Pelletier
hamden
Hamden
hamden
Hamden
Hartford
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
maryann
mardi
Loren
Joann
Alicia
Margaret
Maria
denise
Antoinette
mcgovern
hanson
Lugg
Koch
Wayland
Dillon
Williams
woehrle
Ambrosio
Hartford
Higganum
Killingworth
Lebanon
Lebanon
Litchfield
Little Rock
lMiddlebury
Long Beach
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Bradley
Chris
Shawn
mike and miriam
Olivia
glynis
Marianne
Lani
Tatro
Sanders
Tays
kurland
Schlosser
simmons
Corona
Porter
Madison
Manchester
Manchester
Mansfield Center
Mansfield Center
Meriden
Middlefield
Middletown
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Cat
norma
Elise
suzanne
Chris
Tammy
Jeffrey
KENNETH
Tailer
fitzpatrick
Allen
besaw
Wrinn
DeSanchez
Semon
DEED
Middletown
miford
Milford
milford
Milford
Mission Viejo
MONROE
MYSTIC
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Mike
Carrie
Katherine
darlene
Civitello
Cammarano
Lee
banach
N. Franklin
New Canaan
New Canaan
new fairfield
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
We have to move to a modern,
discriminating way to harvest.
All sea creatures are precious and deserve
protection.
STOP THE ABUSE
Your leadership is needed. Long line drift
nets need to be outlawed internationally, with
funding for enforcement, ASPA.
This must stop, it's inhumane and
destructive to our planet.
Trapping whales, sea turtles and anything
else that swims by these nets is a crime.
They must not be left hanging.
Indiscriminate fishing gear is increasingly
destructive of marine life as fish stocks
continue to decline. We need to shift the
fishing industry over to species-specific
technologies and ban the non-specific gear.
IMMANUEL
WALLERSTEIN
NEW HAVEN
Connecticut
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Connecticut
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Wesley
Thomas
norman
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John
humphrey
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Goynes
Koda
Lindenbacher
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Shelton
Connecticut
Sheltonn
Connecticut
simsbury
Connecticut
South Windsor
Connecticut
Southbury
Connecticut
C
Francine
Jeremy
griffin
Ungaro
Frost
southbury
Southington
Southport
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Charles
Michelle
leona
Gabriela
Dunn
Ingels
klerer
Pareja
Southport
Southport
stamford
Stamford
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Lauren
Amy
Tiffany
Coale
Wiesner
Witmer
Stamford
Stamford
Stamford
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
YOU ARE INDULGING IN SENSELESS
AND ECOLOGICALLY HARMFUL
OVERKILL
It is far so inhumane to be allowed to kill so
many innocent lives in the oceans! Drift Gill
Nets are really not welcome. Not when they
are taking out so many innocent species.
These nets are a needless source of
suffering.
Just like everything else in this world we
must move towards sustainability. We can't
continue to destroy this world in the name of
profits.
Please - let's manage our catch by banning
drift gill nets!
Never use mile-long drift gill nets!!
Sounds like a no-brainer to me. Grill nets
bad for ocean wildlife. Stop using them.
Cynthia
Opderbeck
Storrs
Connecticut
Denise
Tratolatis
Stratford
Connecticut
christina
velgot
stratford
Connecticut
Jill
Heather
George
Alese
sharron
Kevin
C.A.
Badyrka
Files
Grafton
Tait
laplante MD
Malone
Rose
Stratford
Stratford
Stratford
Stratford
tolland
Trumbull
Trumbull
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Suzanne
Randall
Matthew
Ocean
Bores
Piazza
Lugauskas
Pellett
Trumbull
Trumbull
Waterbury
Waterford
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Corey
alex
Carl
Ellaine
francis
Chilton
James
Roseanne
Sharon L.
Pane
roman
Ferrigno
Lurie Janicki
mastri
Ryan
Eaton
Levy
Marquis
West Hartford
west hartford
West Haven
west Haven
west haven
Weston
Westport
Westport
Willington
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Ann
Geoffrey
J
Amy
Cheryl
Mark
gary
dennis
Nunes
Barans
Louis
Parent
Sutherland
Bastian
robertson
german
Wilton
Windsor
Windsor
Windsor
Windsor
helston
Clinton
Goshen
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Cornwall
CT
CT
I am hopeful you will heed this urgent
message for humane treatment as
alternative to the collateral damage from
gillnets!
These nets have been a problem for years,
why is there no penalty for those who
continue to use them. Boycott seafood from
countries that continue to use them,,,
boycotts work,
Too many of the wrong animals are being
caught in these nets. It has to be stopped!
Drift gill nets are dangerous to by-catch
There is no reason for these monstrosities
other than the greed and laziness of the fish
industry. Gill nets are the equivalent of antibiotic filled food animals because producers
are too lazy and greedy to practice proper
husbandry.
In my view drift nets are a crime and bycatch
is a terrible waste..
This is a horrible and inhumane practice.
Please do the right thing. Thank you.
Please do anything
WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE TAKE SOME
DEFINITIVE ACTION AND PUT A STOP TO
THESE NETS AT ONCE. TRANSITION?
JUST END IT AND END IT QUICKLY
BEFORE MORE FISH DIE NEEDLESSLY.
WHY DO POLITICIANS SEEM UNABLE TO
ACTUALLY ACHIEVE ANYTHING? DO
WHAT IS RIGHT FOR A CHANGE.
Parnel
Ide
Granby
CT
deborah
Doreen
Will
Susan P.
Kevin
Thomas
cady
LeBel
Santora
Vessicchio
Hughes
Jankovic
Manchester
Moodus
New Canaan
New Haven
Newtown
Norwalk
CT
CT
CT
CT
CT
CT
charlie
Jason
Mary
Petra
Mona
brandon
Felicia
Kathleen
Kristine
Jennifer
Elizabeth
Lucas
Joan
carol
J. Brian
Alexis
Sue
Doyle
Peter
Maxine
Diane
jude
Esther
Jay
Alice
Ramsay
Joan
Dorothy
David
Bruce
Christopher
Pamela
Thomas
Liz
Angela
Kevin
Rosemarie
Lisa
Paul
S.
burns
Wong
Guillet
Di Nicola
Grønbæk
fuller
Williams
Eaton
Cassar
Webert
Avino
Conner
Ward
collins
Graham
Nazario
Ochs
Worley
Pray
Stopfer
Faircloth
misurelli
Shelton
Hutchinson
Hendry
Kieffer
Rossignol
Dobbyn
Atkinson
Abbott
Calloway
Kempista
Renninger
Tymkiw
Yohn
Watkins
Raill
Elias
Johnson
Klahn
Norwalk
Rockfall
Winsted
Prague
Videbæk
washington
Washington
Middletown
Newark
CT
CT
CT
czech republic
Danmark
dc
DC
DE
DE
19975 Delaware
Bear
Delaware
Bridgeville
Delaware
Camden-Wyoming Delaware
dover
Delaware
Dover
Delaware
Dover
Delaware
Dover
Delaware
Dover
Delaware
Felton
Delaware
Felton
Delaware
Hartly
Delaware
hockessin
Delaware
Lewes
Delaware
Middletown
Delaware
Milford
Delaware
Milford
Delaware
Milford
Delaware
Millsboro
Delaware
Newark
Delaware
Newark
Delaware
Newark
Delaware
Newark
Delaware
Newark
Delaware
Newark
Delaware
Newark
Delaware
Rehoboth Beach
Delaware
Toronto
Delaware
Townsend
Delaware
Townsend
Delaware
Wilmington
Delaware
This is so cruel. People need to thing more
completely when using things. We have
enough problems on this earth without using
these nets.
All of what's said here, plus let's do a lot
more aquaculture, and less taking from
nature.
Please put an end to drift gill nets.
Stop death nets
Innocent, intelligent animals such as
dolphins, should not have to die painful
deaths because of man's greed.
sherry
jones
wilmington
Delaware
this should have been done YEARS AGO!!
ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE! =^,,^=
Brook
Jared
Amie
Deborah
Lisa
christine
Ruth
m
Merritt
Gail
Karen
José
Caillouette
Cornelia
Corrado-Babe
Costas
Faller
madden
Panella
s
Tlley
Yborra
Wieborg
Palazzo
Wilmington
Wilmington
Wilmington
Wilmington
Wilmington
Wilmington
Wilmington
wilmington
Wilmington
Wilmington
Haderslev
Canoas
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Denmark
District of Columbia Time to end this absurdity once and for all!
Donald
Liz
Gerri
Maxine
Caryn
Mary
E. Vaughan
Neetu
Sarah
Charles
David
Michael
Evelyn
Mary
Linda
Ed
lisa
Shel
J.M.
Lindsay
Basil
phil
Caity
Jeanette
Mihir
Louise Pisano
Jane
Steve
Aaron
Mike
Clair
Shane
Joe
Nina
Sharon
Vicki
Penelope
Pia
Nicholas
Beardshear
Barratt-Brown
Michalska
Bernstein
Brock
Carrick
Carroll
Chopra
Dachos
Ellis
Elwell
Evans
Fraser
Germano
Gies
Gilhool
gonzales
Grove
Hiatt
Hixson
Kiwan
kline
Lang
McDonald
Shah
Simone
Simpson
Smith
Ucko
Weber
Woolley
Worth
Zelasney
Black Reid
hobrock
Hayes
Neeve
Mustonen
Pappas
Fort Collins
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
washington
Washington
Washington
WASHINGTON
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington DC
Washington, DC
Swindon
Chelmsford
Tampere
Boynton Beach
District of Columbia
District of Columbia This is a barbaric practice that must stop!
District of Columbia Waste not; want not!
England
Essex
Finland
FL
A
Braswell
Bradenton
FL
GRACE
marjorie
Donna
Susan
john
sue
Anders
elizabeth
Susie
Gudrun
BUSCH
angelo
Pemberton
Pelakh
Kleman
hoffman
Hengsteler jr
elaine
Cassens
Dennis
Bradenton
Bunnell
Cocoa
Cocoa Beach
Daytona Beach
Deland
Dunnellon
Fort Myers
Fort Pierce
Gainesville
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
Marion W.
Hylton
Gainesville
FL
Jason
Norm
Diane and Jerry
Gavi
sylvia
Kelly
Laurel
John A.
Cricket
carl
Hollington
Hansen
Tabbott
Stevens
r
Abrahall
Covington
Leone
Blanton
barta
Gainesville
Highland Beach
Jacksonville
Largo
Lauderhill
London
Lutz
Margate
Melbourne
Miami
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
Patrick
Reyna
Miami
FL
S. Elaine
Williamson
Miami
FL
Ramiro
Esther
Ann
darlene
Patricia
Catherine
andrew
James
melissa
Mary
Michelle
Rhonda
Camilla
Carolyn
John
Janis
Mary Sue
Barbara
Ramona
Abal
Garvett
Stetser
wolf
DeLuca
McNamara
kaplan
Sim
allen
Gutierrez
Inere
Watson
Spicer
Kiel
Thomas
Sawyer
Baker
Hicks
Mayer
Miami
Miami
Miami
Naples
Nokomis
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach
Palmetto Bay
Pensacola
Pensacola
Plant City
Port Charlotte
Port Orange
Punta Gorda
Santa Rosa Beach
Sarasota
Sarasota
Sarasota
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL
end drift gill nets now save dolphins and sea
turtles and others that may get caught that
are not what the fisher want to catch
Destroying life for profit has become an
epidemic ~ it must cease.
Drift gill nets must be outlawed. They are
decimating fish populations in an effort to
capture particular fish. Please help put an
end to this destructive practice
It's time to end this barbaric cruelty which is
damagi8ng the nature and threatens the
survival of the species.
Please put an end to this destructive
practice. Thanks for your consideration.
This is a no-brained. We need to save our
endangered species ( as well as other sea
animals ) for future generations
Victoria
Stern
Seminole
FL
Cheryl
Currier
Seminole
FL
Dee
Feldman
St Augustine
FL
Michael
Maureen
Patricia
Eric
Kelley
Nataly
Lisa
Robin
Kevin
Laura
Richard
Sonia
Paxton
Dane
cynthia
Matthew
evan
Mary
Susanne
Julie
Montgomery
Wasley
Sullivan
Hensgen
Charnas
Kraeva
Mazzola
Hudson
Doty
Guttridge
Sleator
Rego
Robinson
Schomp
murphy
Newman
hunt
Reilly
Hesse & Doug Dyer
Morgan
St Petersburg
FL
St Petersburg
FL
Tallahassee
FL
Tampa
FL
Tampa
FL
Tampa
FL
Tampa
FL
Tarpon Springs
FL
Vero Beach
FL
Vero Beach
FL
West Palm Beach FL
Weybridge
FL
Winter Park
FL
Winter Park
FL
32503 Florida
33020 Florida
33625 Florida
2123 Ridgemore Dr ,Florida
Alachua
Florida
Altamonte springs Florida
tim
joyce
Lisa
FRED
Tirso
Lee
Karen
carol
Willis
Lynn
meehle
schwartz
Dupuree
KAHN
Moreno
Dalton
Smith
zuckerman
Boshell
Attwood
altamonte springs
altamonte springs
Apopka
APOPKA
Apopka
Ardingly
Aripeka
aventura
Belleview
Blountstown
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
It is the West's obligation to lead the way for
the rest of the world in responsible,
sustainable fishing. Our ignorant, destructive
practices are destroying our seas and killing
millions of creatures that we don't intend to
kill.
Mile long drift nets maiming and killing
indiscriminately is unacceptable as a fishing
practice. There are environmentally
sustainable methods that are economically
feasible. Please make the move to shift
away from drift netting.
THEY NEED TO BE PROTECTED!!!
PLEASE HELP!!!
Stop using these drift gill nets.
Please help!
Life in the oceans is precious and we
disregard the lives of marine life as nothing
each time a catch is pulled from the sea.
Unwanted species are considered trash by
the fisherman and tossed aside to die for no
reason. Innocent creatures and mammals
are destroyed or left to suffer after
entanglement due to these harvests
Ryan
Dick
Boca
Florida
Steven
Trish
Handwerker
Bonnette
bOCA RATON
Boca Raton
Florida
Florida
dave
John
delson
Roig
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Florida
Florida
Kelly
Lyon
Boca Raton
Florida
Diana
Keith
Elena
Cristian
Rev. Elizabeth
Silvia
Joel
tessie
Phyllis
Jill
Akers
Berger
Brodskaya
Cupertino
Dodd
Hall
Klayman
salame
Schacher
Hammer
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
boca raton
Boca Raton
Bokeelia
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Cherryl
Roberta Lee
Friedman
Gerber
Bokeelia
Bonita Shores
Florida
Florida
Lucy
Bonnie
Andrew
John
Yemel
Michael
Marjorie
ed
Paul
Thomas
Sylviane
Harvey
Howard
Nadia
Barbara
Paschke
Sleeper
Eisenberg
Dieffenbach
Bryan
DeLoye
Hacker
Henner
Horne
Hutton
Mahaux
Metzger
Petlack
Vargas
Sallee
Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs
Boynton beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton Beach
Boynton beach
Bradenton
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Caryn
monica
Wayne
anne
Tara
Mary
Suzanne
david
viviane
erik
Linda
Ivette
Ackerman
geyer
Harris
henry
Wasko
Young
Bedat
gonzalez
vanbuggenhout
brush
Collins
Knol
Bradenton
Bradenton
Bradenton
Bradenton
Bradenton
Bradenton
Brandon
Brandon
brussels
cape Coral
Cape Coral
Cape Coral
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Please stop these mechanisms if death
now..!!! Of all states I would have thought
California would take the lead on their own
marine environment...
ACT NOW!!!
It is unbelievable that this type of fishing is
still allowed... I will never eat swordfish
again.
preserve all fish and marine life
Stop the carnage - they are hardly deserving
of such indifference
The death of these majestic creatures is so
pointless.
Come on - lets change the world to doing the
right thing for all who live I have seen and aided trapped sea life on
Santa Monica Beach, California. Horrid.
Now
Why do we need a petition to stop this?
Get rid of unwanted kills from cruel drift gill
nets.
Theodore
Bonnie
Bradley
Andre
Delores
Barbara
r
Bruce
Donna
Susan
Lundgren
Newburg
Smith
Yokers
Hardin
Truman
banks
Sowden
Willis
Bubbers
Cape Coral
Cape Coral
Cape Coral
Cape Coral
Carrabelle
Casselberry
casselberry
Casselberry
Casselberry
Celebration
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Terra
L
Denise
Scott
Kathy
Dennis
Gail
Mary
Linda
Nick
merrrill
Jacquelynn
Wendy
Jaime
susan
John
Dia
Ruth
Thomas
sonsire
enzo
Susan
Ciana
steven
Douglas
Steve
Mary
Clare
jane and harold
Linda
Maria
Valerie
Robert
carol
ilene
patrizia
saskia
Tony
Janell
Fayhaa
Tad
Jean
Tilker
Chandran
Rothfuss
Finamore
Shell
Hall
Breslin
Detrick
Giere
Hardy
kramer
Maruffo
Om
Ramos
sander
Schumacher
Schumacher
Serra
Sharbaugh
vale
bertucci
Biccum
DeSimone
gwyn
Sphar
Blauer
Dinino
Marder
rudner
Varie
Duffield
Robbbin
Carew
faga
furgang
gestro
saint-sulpice
Marra
Curtis
Doja
Swackhammer
Hoegh
Celebration
Championsgate
Chuluota
Citrus springs
Citrus Springs
City
Clearwater
Clearwater
Clearwater
Clearwater
clearwater
Clearwater
Clearwater
Clearwater
clearwater
Clearwater
Clearwater
Clearwater
Clearwater
clearwater
clermont
Clermont
Clermont
Clewiston
Cocoa
Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek
cooper city
Coral Gables
Coral Gables
Coral Springs
coral springs
Coral Springs
coral springs
coral springs
Crawfordville
Crestview
Cumming
Cutler Bay
Dade City
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
End this practice please! Now.
Please protect whales and turtles and other
sea life by replacing drift gill nets with
environmentally safe fishing gear. Thank
you!
Save the the planet save the animals
Carol
quinten
Debbie
Laura
Leonora
Candra
beverly
Jimmy
Paul
Tracey
Tammy
bradley
Tammie
marsha j
Cynthia
Jennifer
Michael
cheryl
Denise
judi
Wendy
Marilyn
Hansen
putnam
Clementi
Hanson
Xhrouet
Berglund
alfimow
Doty
Sadiq
Sadiq
Lettieri
pridemore
Rayburn
holbert roberson
McCutcheon
Severance
Bogle
cusella
Pendexter
travis
Weldon
Egan
Davenport
Davie
Davie
Davie
Davie
Daytona beach
daytona beach
Daytona Beach
Debary
Debary
Deerfield
DEERFIELD BCH
Deerfield beach
deerfield beach
DeLand
DeLand
Delray Beach
delray beach
Delray Beach
delray Beach
Delray Beach
Delray Beaxh
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
John
dawn
Diana
Stephen
Joan
Barfield
zegledi
Avila
Hughes
Lind
Deltona
Deltona
Doral
Doral
Dunedin
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Sandra
Leaper
Dunnellon
Florida
Mindy
Larry
Donna
tanya
Markwich
Nipper
Prussman
pallaci
Dunnellon
Edgewater
Edgewater
ellenton
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Marsha
Sherman
Englewood
Florida
Leann
Marion
dave
Michael
Lynn
Glenn
Frizzell
Lebo
mcvey
Lieberman
Ponto
Bristol
Englewood
Englewood
ENGLEWOOD
Estero
Fellsmere
Flagler Beach
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
We have to stop this madness.
Please stop
Please Protect of Marine life.....!!!!
Please help ocean wildlife survive. It is more
important now than ever.
There has to be a better way yo catch sword
fish, without killing endangered and other
species! Please outlaw these drift gill nets.
Pacific Fiery management council, please
move away from drift gill nets.
Please stop these nets because they kill a
these beautiful creatures.
This is just further evidence that our country
has been taken over by oligarch industries.
Not only do they take business away from
the common people, men and women, but
they don't care at all what damage they do to
other species, big or small, that get in their
way. We need to return to small, local
everything and get rid of oligarch
corporations such as this Pacific Fishery
Management Council and its members.
Shelley
R. D.
King
Peterson, Ph D
Flagler Beach
Floral City
Florida
Florida
shannon
teper
Florida
Florida
Deborah
London
fort lauderdale
Florida
elle
Rebecca
o
Muzychka
fort lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale
Florida
Florida
Bob
Kimberly
Oleg
Joe
Dawn
Martha
Conrich
Ferran
Finodeyev
Land
Strecker
Milne
fort lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale
Fort lauderdale
Fort Myers
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Micki
ME
Stacey
LINDA
Jennifer
Kathleen
LeCronier
Bailey
Daniels-Dattilo
HEIMBACH
Scott
Cornelio
Fort Myers
fort myers
Fort Myers
FORT MYERS
Fort Myers
Fort Pierce
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Carolyn
Wayne
William
Lisa
du Brin
Mills
White
Perry
Fort Pierce
Fort Pierce
Fort Walton Beach
Fruitland Park
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
carlos
Stephen
allie
philip
macias
McClasky
tennant
katzman
ft laud
Ft Lauderdale
ft myers
ft. laud.
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Mary
Catherine
D'Elia
Wilkins
Ft. Lauderdale
Ft. Myers Beach
Florida
Florida
Population is getting close to the max the
planet can sustain. Time is now to start
protecting as much of the sea life as
possible...
Please protect marine mammals, sharks,
and sea turtles from the danger of drift gill
nets.
I am sick of hearing of all the animals being
killed by accident. I will NO LONGER EAT
SWORDFISH until a solution is made and
adhered to. This must STOP!!!
If sharks die, we die
Please note that I and many of my friends
already look to purchase seafood that has
not been fished with drift nets.
These are death traps for innumerable
marine creatures , many of them threatened
or endangered. No more drift gill nets!!
This is BARBARIC. It HAS to stop.
Drift gill nets: a really stupid and damaging
practice--STOP IT.
Where is Secretary Jewell? Don't hear
much about her anymore.
it is way past time to end these destructive
ways of fishing. The continued over harvest
of stocks has already greatly diminishes
most food fish, we have to back off, before it
is too late.
Richard
Hiers
Gainesville
Florida
stephanie
Sharpe,RN
gainesville
Florida
knox
bagwell
gainesville
Florida
K
Steven
Bruce
Erica
Bernie
Vanessa
Patricia
Burks
Candace
Bettina
Kris
Dani
Celeste
Evgenia
Arkady
eric
Teresa
Augustine
Black
Blackwell
Borchgardt
Campbell
Carbia
Compton
Hunt
McCaffery
Moser
Pagenkopf
Pe
Shitama
Vyatchanin
Vyatchanin
rohrig
Godts
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
Gainesville
gainsville
Groveland
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
James
Sorrells
Groveland
Florida
suzanne
divoff
guatemala
Florida
Drift gill nets are simply disasters waiting to
happen. Much too likely to snag and kill all
kinds of species besides those commercially
valuable. The Oceans' resources don't last
forever, especially if we squander them
indiscriminately. I encourage you to go
ahead with planning to put all gill nets in
museums, but no longer allow them in the
Pacific Ocean.
Drift gill nets kill numerous species of marine
life every year, including whales, dolphins,
seals, sea lions, sea turtles, and several
species of fish. That is unacceptable when
better, more selective alternatives exist. You
must shift away from drift gill nets to more
selective fishing gear.
The grill net drift is obvious....so is the
solution.....lets do it
Please stop the use of these deadly nets
now!
We now stand at a point where there is no
time left to waste. We have inflicted
devastating harm to the environment and
wildlife around us with lack of awareness
and proper planning. We have a massive
responsibility to do everything we can in the
present to ensure a brighter future for our
children and the world around them. And
when the opposition said this just wasn't the
right time, you didn't want to wait another
year, or another decade, or another
generation for reform. You felt the fierce
urgency of now.
stop with this already. all these sea animals
have enough problems to deal with, without
adding these nets!!
Sigrid
Benson
Gulf Breeze
Florida
Paul
tim
ellen
donna
Groh
voeltz
walsh
grace
Gulf Breeze
gulf breeze
gulf breeze
Gulfport
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
linda
Tara
julia
Shan
Judy
Janice
harsin
Hottenstein
west
Albert
Schwartz
Brooks
gulfport
Gulfport
gulfport
Hallandale
Hallandale
Hallandale Beach
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Sue
Patty
phil
vicki
Cambren
PJ
Karolyn
Kathleen
Amell
Poock
tompetrini
Anderson
Davis
Janowitz
Keefe
Hall
Harmony
Hernando
hernando
Hernando Beach
Hernando beach
Hialeah
Hialeah Gardens
Hilliard
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
William
Maryann
Amy
ella
Raymond
Jennifer
Gina
LILIANA
Carmen
Rob
bob
margo
Lynn
Beverly
James
Dorothy D.
Mary
Peter
Isabel
Elisabeth
von Zangenberg
Piccione
Dellinger
dragif
Gibson
Keck
Mondazzd
PEANA
Plaza
Williams
zeitlin
alexander
Forsht
Golden
Heard
McTiernan
Gregory
Mahoney
Lafita
Carroll
Holiday
Holiday
Holly Hill
hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood
hollywood
homestead
Homestead
Homestead
Homestead
Homestead
Homosassa
Hurlburt field
Indian Rocks Beach
Indian Shores
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Since no one owns the water in the ocean,
no one should assume it's okay to destroy
any part of the ecosystem that has
developed there. Gill nets destroy whole
classes of animals in the sea.
You made a commitment in March to drift
away from the drift gill nets. Please don't
lose that drive. It's important to follow
through with what you promised. Thank you.
Oceans are being overfished to a completely
unsustainable degree, as well as
endangering whales & sea turtles. Its time to
end these drift gill nets as there are
alternatives.
amen
Please help stop bycatch, all animals have
the right to live... thank you, Kathleen Hall
This is an atrocity, why do we allow it?
how long before we put an end to suffering
Val
Marjoricastle
Inverness
Florida
Karen
DeFalco
Inverness
Florida
Cynthia
Carla
Wright
Williams
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
Florida
Florida
Kim
Godwin
Jacksonville
Florida
Daniel
michael
elaine
leah
Amanda
Holly
Irene
Robin
Kim
R David
Michelle
Balogh
chase
furman
george
Grob
Klotz
Lloyd
Peterson
Sonderman
Wicker
Terriault
Jacksonville
jacksonville
jacksonville
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
jacksonville
Jupiter
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Karen
Marilyn
nancie
Mary
Cook
Dempsey
serpico-white
Oconnor
Jupiter
Jupiter
key biscayne
Key west
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Patricia
Charles
Michael
dianna
Sandra
Crimmins
Newman
Stella
Slowey-Thomas
Webb
Key West
Key West
Key West
Keystone heights
Kissimmee
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
david
emery
kissimmee
Florida
Marcie
Chittenden
Kissimmee
Florida
Deborah
Alicia
DAWN
Kim
Eileen
Margaret
Carole
Darcy
Marlene
Mary
Alicea
Godreau-Baella
Trimble
White
Valachovic
Mroz
Hartleb
Baril
Mcgovern
Rowell
Kissimmee
Kissimmee
Kissimmee
Kissimmee
LAKE ALFRED
Lake City
Lake Helen
Lake Mary
lake mary
Lake Mary
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Finally, the cruelty of drowning mammals
and endangered fishes makes it all the more
imperative drift nets be abolished.
Stop this senseless act of murder. Whales
are mammals just like us.
Get rid of drift gill nets! Now!
Stop the horrific killing of God's creatures
with these nets!
These nets need to be eliminated as soon as
possible for the welfare of our sea creatures
that depend on free movement. Please
work for their protections.
It is truly reprehensible that gill nets are still
in use and harming sea life.
Please do the right thing. It doesn't have to
be done this way
Drift gill nets and many other drifting nets
should never have been allowed. But now
we simply MUST move to environmentally
sustainable types of fishing gear. The
oceans are too crowded with ships of all
sorts, and whales and other fleeing wildlife
have a hard enough time without the lethal
drift gill nets.
please stop this now before it all gone and
too late to do anything
This planet would not be as interesting if
there were no whales or sea turtles.
Lillian
kent
kent
Janna
Jon
erin
Charlisa
Ruth
Mike
martha
Richard
Shana
Dolores
Jennifer
Saul
Anna Louise E.
Ingrid
Hyland
driskell
driskell
Kepley
Madden
mcclanahan
Arthur
Soulier
Wolski
burton
Rothstein
Gerwens
Parra
Schusterman
Goldenberg
Fontaine
Vallieres
Lake Worth
lake worth
lake worth
Lake Worth
Lake Worth
lake worth
Lakeland
Lakeland
Lakeland
lakewood ranch
Lakewood Ranch
LAND O LAKES
Land O Lakes
Land O Lakes
Lantana
Lantier, QC
Largo
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
PAUL
NEEDLES
LARGO
Florida
David
Mark
daniel
Dean
barb
Joan
jennifer
Linda
Diane
Lanette
Kathy
Kathy
Laetitia
Diane
Jen
tim
basil
Baier
Grzegorzewski
morneau
Morris
morrison
Scigliuto
speake
Boutwell
Miller
Rapp
Walker
Williams
Rodriguez
Gentile
Odom
Rose
gianniotes
Largo
Largo
largo
Largo
largo
Largo
largo
Lecanto
Leesburg
Leesburg
Lehigh
Lehigh Acres
Liège
Lighthouse Point
Lighthouse Point
Lighthouse Point
long key
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
katie
Kelly
Darlene
Yvonne
c.
Christopher
Judith
Chris
harding
Hooper
Mahanek
Kupersmit
connor
Lant
Ferguson
Pozgar
longwood
Longwood
Longwood
Loxahatchee
mac
Madeira Beach
Maitland
Malabar
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Please save our endangered marine life!
It is a shame that so many fish are killed for
no reason and this has to be stopped!
The atrocity of your viscious slaughter of
turtles,dolphins, whales and sharks is an
obmination and affront to nature. Your
fishing policies are antiquated and must
stop!
these nets need to go! Dorothy M. Lowman
s/b prosecuted!
Are you trying to decimate the fish?
Let the ocean live.
Fancis
Reining
Marco Island
Florida
The current indiscriminate use of drift goal
nets is mindless and clearly results in
harmful collateral killing of irreplaceable
species. We don't hunt turkey with machine
guns, so why not a less lethal method for
food fishing ??? Please ban the needless
slaughter.
Laurel
marcy
Joanna
William
Robert
Venable
bernstein, rn
Stalker
Dolly
Martineau
Marco Island
Margate
Margate
McAlpin
Melbourne
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Christina
Mark
Steve
Kim
Marianne
Virginia
Elaine
Crosby
Donaldson
Grifffith
Larsen
Lazarus
Utt
West
MELBOURNE
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne
melrose
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
donald
Susan
Richard
s
groff
Termini
Allen
logan
merritt island
Merritt Island
Miami
miami
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Angela
Barbara
De Pasquale
Delgado
Miami
Miami
Florida
Florida
This is an atrocity. Find a better way
We must stop using outdated methods that
keep destorying ocean life. There is a better
way. Let's make the change please!
Maureen
Baird
Miami
Florida
Linda
Conner
Miami
Florida
We've lost approximately 40% of the planet's
species in the last 50 years, and destructive
fishing practices like drift gill netting are part
of the reason why.
what kind of a world do you want to leave to
your children??
Miss.Mandy
Albert
JOSEFA
Cindy
Jose
Jacques
Regina
Gabriela
Irene
Peter
Nidia
Guillermo
Tara
katusha
Sarah
Alcurrie
Alvarez
ARANA
Araya
Artigas
Autain
Barakat
barrocas
Brizard
Bromer
Calderon
Cancio
Cejas
cornejo
Cullen
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
miami
Miami
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Please help save our resources for the
future . I appreciate all of your hard work on
this matter,
These horrid nets destroy everything they
get in the way of, we MUST do better at
protecting our sea life!
Fish Fair...!
These damn Drift Gill (Kill) Nets kill too much
other sea life to support their existance
RAYA
Susana
James
claudia
Karina
claudia
Kathleen
debora
Ken
Yahaira
German
Virginia
Gillian
Julie
Nancy
Tanya
Judy
Yusty
Charles
Liana
M
ENGLER
Falconi
Glucroft
gonzalez
Gutierrez
hernandez
Hernandez
hojda
Kistner
Lopez
Mendez
Mendez
Miller
Miro
Pearlmutter
Rodriguez
Rogers
Saltzman
Sothers
Stanton
Whiting
MIAMI
Miami
Miami
miami
Miami
miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami
Miami Beach
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
EDWARD
Jean
Quida
Mariela
Lynore
Carolina
Shirley
Celeste
Derrelle
Paul
dr wayne
jamie
Tina
Ann
CUBERO
Goldman
Jacobs
Martinez
Reiseck
Rozo
Solis
VeZolles
Gable
Fullerton
garland
thomas
Beedle
Miller
MIAMI BEACH
Miami Beach
Miami Beach
Miami Beach
Miami Beach
Miami Beach
Miami Beach
Miami Beach
Miami Springs
micanopy
micanopy
Middleburg
Milton
Monticello
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Lynda
Jones
Mount Dora
Florida
carlos
ramirez
naples
Florida
covi
Babs
Thelma
Stephen
Allan
Eleanor
lopez
Marchand
McDaniel
Reinertsen
Thomas
Phillips
naples
Naples
Naples
Naples
Naples
Nassau
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
It's up to us to protect for future generations
No more drift gill nets. They're cruel,
wasteful, inefficient, and selfish.
Gill nets have een illegal in several countries
for years. Seacraft using them should be
pulled off the ocean, their owners
imprisoned, their workers fined, and their
craft impounded and sold to finance
conservation and reclamation of ocean
habitats.
HELP ANIMALS ARE SAME THAN
US.....FEEL PAIN AND LOVE
Let's work to save this fishery we must act
now tomorrow may be too late. Working
every minute of every day to save our
oceans!
illisa
Thomas
Drew
Keth
Milt
Richard
Helen
Holly
Bonita
Bernadine
Diana
Vicki
Jennifer
Tibor
Sister Frances
kelman
Dahl
Duncan
Luke
Weisman
Bannon
Leong
Rose
Sierra
Turner
Fisher
Messier
Hudson
Tankovits
O'Dell, O.S.F.
new haven
New Port Richey
New Port Richey
New Port Richey
New Smyrna Beach
New Smyrna Beach
New Smyrna Beach
New Smyrna Beach
New Smyrna Beach
Newberry
Niceville
Nokomis
North Fort Myers
North Fort Myers
North Miami
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Donald
Linda
Colonel
Dennis
Marge
Susan
Cristine
Holzberg
Kronholm
Meyer
Balgemann
Miegl
Berg
Saunders
North Miami Beach
North Port
North Port
North. Fort. Myers,
Oakland Park
Ocala
Ocala
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
vicki
Janet
SID
Charles
Deborah
Barbara
Lori
Nancy
Jack
Cecelia
matheny
Amann
Jennings
LAKIN
Long
Schwartz
Triggs
Rittenhouse
Dean
Nelson
Ocala
Ocala
Ocala
Ocala
Ocala
Ocala
Ocala
Ocoee
Oldsmar
Orange City
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
H
Hollon
Orl
Florida
Dr. Jim
Arwen
Hanson
Weiss
Orlando
Orlando
Florida
Florida
Corbett
Kroeher
Orlando
Florida
Please stop this needless killing.
Please use common sense and wisdom in
dealing with this fish issue.
DO THE RIGHT THING!
Smart fishermen that really care about our
oceans and it's fish...should do the right
thing! Entrapping endangered Whales &
sea turtles, to catch a swordfish...is not the
right way!
This has got to stop.
Any animal we save is a PLUS for man kind.
If we DON'T, then SHAME ON US!!!
We must do all that we can to stop the
unneccessary killing of whales, turtles etc by
these huge nets and we must do it now!!!
Be ethical. Do the right thing.
Common sense tells us that the drift gill net
method of fishing is both wasteful and
incredibly hazzardous to all marine animals.
It is time to move on to more sustainable
and selective fishing practices, for so many
reasons.
In Florida, we banned gill nets about 20
years ago and the impact on the health of
our coastal areas has been phenomenal.
You should do likewise. California marine
mammals will thrive, which will be good for
your economies.
M. Diane
Ryan
Orlando
Florida
Stop the slaughter going on with these nets.
Ted
Dylewski
Orlando
Florida
Karen
Burroughs
Orlando
Florida
This is cruel and should be outlawed - doing
more harm than good - it's time to end this
practice.
With climate stresses and overfishing in
general, it's time to end this wasteful and
unmanagable method of catching fish.
Brian
barbara
Cheryl
Dorothy
sarah
Emily
Ronald
Marjorie
debbie
Allison
Wendy
Harriet
Michael
Ken Farley
Lisa
Leila
audrey
Samantha
Jane
vince
Brenda
Holliday
Erica
Austin
Charlot
Charlotte
Ainsley
bemis
Caldwell
Chiles
cushing
Evangelista
Harmon
Holt
hunt
Lee
Mathisen
Damesek
Hughes
Ken Farley
Koehl
Matson
nichols
Turetsky
Pettit
l
Perkins
T
Coco
Manchester
Taylor
Doran
Orlando
Florida
Orlando
Florida
orlando
Florida
Orlando
Florida
orlando
Florida
Orlando
Florida
Orlando
Florida
Orlando
Florida
orlando
Florida
Orlando
Florida
Orlando
Florida
Ormond Beach
Florida
Ormond Beach
Florida
Ormond Beach
Florida
Ormond Beach
Florida
Ormond beach
Florida
ormond beach
Florida
Ormond Beach
Florida
Osprey
Florida
oviedo
Florida
Oviedo
Florida
Oviedo
Florida
Palm Bay
Florida
Palm beach
Florida
Palm Beach
Florida
palm beach gardens Florida
Maureen
Angela
Gary
Joanne
Burke
Ryals
Worth
Robrahn
Palm Beach GardensFlorida
Palm Beach GardensFlorida
Palm City
Florida
Palm Coast
Florida
cheryl
Tricia
Mark
wray
Lily
Walter
Kerry
Judy
Kate
Margaret
Vaughan
Andrea
Bruce
Robert
watters
Deane
Ernst
abercrombie
Caron
Graue
McNeil
Moran
Mullan
Walker
Greene
Sweeney
Athey
Carpenter
palm coast
Palm Harbor
Palmetto
palmetto bay
Palmetto Bay
Panama City
Panama City
Panama City
Panama City
Panama City
Panama City Beach
Parrish
Pass a Grille
Penney Farms
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
I look forward to the day when these death
traps no longer exist in our oceans.
We need to stop overfishing and using
methods that are indiscriminately killing all
species.
Please help these creatures.
Protect our marine life before it's too late!
gina
Suzanne
Mary
Robert
Lynn
sue
brown
Claggett
Lewis
Wernicke
Westlake
nusbaum
pensacola
Pensacola
Pensacola
Pensacola
Pensacola
Pine Ridge
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
suz
cat
Susie
bonnie
Vera
Benjamin
Doran
Lizbeth
Cynthia
Stan
Andrea
Susan
warner
day
warner
wyatt
Jarrett
Joannou Jr
Marold
Simpson
Thomas
Davis
Grainger
Vendola
Pine Ridge
Pine Ridge
Pine Ridge
Pine Ridge
Pinecrest
Pinecrest
Pinellas Park
Pinellas Park
Pinellas Park
Plant City
plant city
Plantation
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Dave
Tanya
Sylvia
Suzanne
barbara
James
Alaina
Cristy
Stewart
Joel
June
Rachel
Eric
Rochelle
cindy
Robert
Adria
Tonya
Jodi
Linda
Linda K
Karen
Ori
Ken
L.
Sheri-Lynn
Ron
Robert
Renee
Steve
Patty
Liz
Jillian
Suzanne
A Lynn
Wilkes
Tweeton
Cuolahan
Fejes
jasko
Niedzwiecki
Reed
Romero
Rosenkrantz
Gelb
Maddock
Jett
West
Mikowski
bushway
Santomartino
Siraco
Andreacchio
Hitchcock
Lippner
Anderson
Turnbull
Mayer
Brown
Erickson
Daley
Whiteley
Keiser
Madera
Edinger
Kent
Lindsay
Smith
Vandiver
Raiser
Plantation
Florida
Plantation
Florida
Pompano
Florida
Pompano Beach
Florida
pompano beach
Florida
Pompano Beach
Florida
Pompano Beach
Florida
Pompano Beach
Florida
Pompano Beach
Florida
Ponte Vedra Beach Florida
Port Charlotte
Florida
Port Orange
Florida
Port Orange
Florida
Port richey
Florida
Port St Lucie
Florida
Port St Lucie
Florida
port st lucie
Florida
Port St. Lucie
Florida
Port St. Lucie
Florida
Port St. Lucie
Florida
Punta Gorda
Florida
Punta Gorda
Florida
Ramat Hasharon
Florida
Rivera Beach
Florida
Riverview
Florida
Rockledge
Florida
Rotonda West
Florida
S. Miami
Florida
S.W. Ranches, Ft.Lauderdale
Florida
Safety Harbor
Florida
Safety Harbor
Florida
Safety Harbor
Florida
Saint Augustine
Florida
Saint Augustine
Florida
Saint Johns
Florida
NO MORE DRIFT GILL NETS -You are
wiping out and destroying the oceans !!
stop killing the oceans animals!
Please stop this senseless practice....Stop
the murder.......
Terrible waste of nature.!
Please!
Charles
Brennan
Saint Pertersburg
Florida
Meaghan
Lasha
Nicole
Judy
Diana
Allan
Linda
Kathleen
Leavitt
Wells
Wilke
Marti
Cancel
Ryan
Jennings
Morrison
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
San Jose
San Mateo
Sanford
Sanford
Sanibel
Sarasota
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Bonnie
Bakkom
Sarasota
Florida
heidi
sue
Suzanne
Joanne
Alex
Bonnie
connor
michel
Murphy-Larronde
Kennedy
Macchi
Spielman
sarasota
sarasota
Sarasota
Sarasota
Sarasota
Sebastian
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
michele
s
shelley
labrie
lowe
vickery
sebastian
sebastian
seminole
Florida
Florida
Florida
Leticia
Mark
Sharon
Denise
michael
Patricia
Cherie
Arthur
sheri
Steven
whitney
Holly
jude
Theresa H
david
DK
Karin
Doug
Malagon
Barrett
Rich
White
burroughs
Keelean
Milburn
Schnabel
cutright
Combes
watters
Crawford
schleicher
Deery
hollister
Bolen
Braunsberger
Landau
Seminole
Silver Springs
South Daytona
Southport
Spring hill
Spring Hill
Spring Hill
Spring Hill
st augustine
St Augustine
st augustine
st pete
st pete
St Pete Beach
st pete beach
St Petersburg
St Petersburg
St Petersburg
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
All gill nets, no matter where they are used,
should be banned completely with no loop
holes.
gill nets =death for all marine species..
God save us all. Man cannot control
himself. We need divine intervention!
Thank you for PEW Charitable Trusts!!! for
trying to help mankind stop the overfishing of
our oceans, and unnecessary cruelty to all
living things.
I totally agree that nets should NEVER BE
USED. AND, WHEN THEY ARE, IT
SHOULD BECOME A CRIMINAL
OFFENSE!
I urge you to STOP!
It is time to do the right thing.
no more, no more!
The real cure for our environmental
problems is to understand that our job is to
salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a
formidable enemy in this field. It is the
hunters... and to convince them to leave
their guns and fishing nets on the wall is
going to be very difficult. But we must keep
on keeping on.
What these nets do are horrible and need to
be stopped.
Please stop gillnet fishing.
STOP THE GLUTTONY!!
angela
Kathryn
Richard
Lindsay
Rebecca
porsch
Younkin
Dockter
Johnson
Pavlik
st petersburg
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St. Augustine
St. Augustine
St. Petersburg
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Mark
Judith
Melanie
Don
Lenn
Suzanne
Donald
David
Anna
Laurence
Constance
James
William
Holmgren
Costello
Dodson
Margeson
NEFF
Saunders
Shaw
Wenzel
Bergalis
Key
Mainwaring
Rizzolo
Passmore
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Stuart
Stuart
Stuart
Stuart
Summerfield
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Kevin
Gerri
Martha
Irena
Jessica
Geraldine
Andrea
bernice
Jason
Nishanth
Korpics
Brown
DeRousse
Franchi
Hoyt
Harvey
Smith
smith
Vinokur
Krishnamurthy
SUMMERFIELD
Summerland Key
Summerland Key
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Sunny Isles Beach
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Sunrise
Sunrise
Surfside
Tallahassee
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Ray
David
Donald
Susan
Melissa
Beverly
Sean
Stanley
Esther
jeff
roger
Bellamy, MD
Bernstein
Crosby
Evans
Gaskins
Plaviak
Rinehart
Pannaman
Prexl
tabin
vaughan
Tallahassee
Tallahassee
Tallahassee
Tallahassee
Tallahassee
Tallahassee
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Tamarac
tamarac
tampa
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Matt
Mueller
Tampa
Florida
MERCEDES
DIMAIO
Tampa
Florida
This cruel and horrific type of fishing which
randomly kills whales, sea turtles -- and any
living creature in its path, is a crime and
must be outlawed.
we must behave responsibly.
Diabolical evil
How cruel, selfish, and short-sighted can
industry be? Using drift-gill nets is
unconscionable. End immediately this
harmful, indiscriminate use.
Gill nets are an incredibly irresponsible
method of fishing. Get rid of them!
I live near the water and have a keen interest
in the elimination of unnecessary and
wasteful marine deaths caused by gill
netting.
Please ban immediately and have enforced!
Thank you!
PLEASE--PLEASE--PLEASE--NO MORE
DRIFT-GILL-NETS!!!!!!THANK YOU--WHY
ARE WE KILLING ALL THESE INNOCENT
FISH!!!????MERCY DIMAIO
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James
lisa
John
Claire
M
Nancy
Stacy
Frank
Carol
Kat
Jack
Marilyn
Anderson
Brunton
cain
Cammack
Jackson
Johnson
Lowell
Pace
Perez
Rosas
Shaffer
Steinberg
Waldord
Tampa
Tampa
Tampa
Tampa
Tampa
Tampa
Tampa
Tampa
tampa
Tampa
Tampa
Tampa
Tarpon Springs
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
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Nicholas
Paul
Cole
Galante
Verzosa
Tarpon Springs
Tavares
Temple Terrace
Florida
Florida
Florida
ReNae
Suzy
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
george
Virginia
Andrea
Andrea
Christina
Christina
Anastasia
Nowicki
Siegmann
Denning
Lamers
craciun
Zagar
Chisari
Chisari
Santarlasci
Emmerik
Devaris
Temple Terrace
Temple Terrace
The Villages
The Villages
thonotosassa
Thonotosassa
Titusville
Titusville
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Trinity FL
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Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
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Edwin
William
Terri
Larry
Carol
William
Elizabeth
Judith
Bumiller
Tirado
Claiborn
David
Hirsch
Malott
Michael
Scherbak
King
Valrico
Vega Baja
Venice
Venice
Venice
Venice
Venice
venice
Vero Beach
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Please stop stripping the oceans of all life.
We only have 1 planet and need to protect
species from this collateral damage. We
need to be more responsible than careless.
Other animals only kill what they need but
humans overkill everything as if there is an
endless supply and with no respect for other
animals. I am often ashamed to be human
and to be associated with idiots that can't
think rationally. Are you going to be that idiot
or not?
Please get rid of drift gill nets.
No need to fish, hunt or cause pain to any
animal. As of today....there are plentg of
grocery stores, restaurants & McDonalds
serving & selling dead animals for you to
enjoy and eat!
People need to start caring more about life
than money. At the rate we are doing this
beautiful earth in, soon we won't have life or
money! Wake up people! Protect our
ecosystem!
ronda
William
Sonya
David
Susan
Melissa
Kurt
Ethel
suzanne
Kenneth
Diane
good
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Myers
Snow
sanchez
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valencia
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Vero Beach
Vero Beach
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Wellington
Wellington
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Florida
Florida
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Florida
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James
Sarah
Victor
Christina
HELENA
Deacy
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Miles
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Mucha
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Rojas
West Palm Beach
Roman
West Palm Beach
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WESTON
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Florida
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Marcia
Edward
Robert
Ahearn
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Williston
Williston
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Florida
Florida
Florida
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Steve
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Danielle
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Knight
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FRANCE
France
France
Eliette
michele
florence
JENNIFER
William
Bozzola
tritscher
gauthier
DEHART
Norman
Muël
strasbourg
TRAMBLY
Atlanta
Atlanta
France
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you must put an end to gill nets!
The ocean provides so much life and
nourishment. We owe it to all living creatures
to devise smarter, safer fishing practices.
Always Always remember, once sea life
goes, that,s it..and sadly it,s happening
Stop the use of drift gill nets. Conserve,
preserve,and protect! Do no harm!
Be smart
The picture says it all.
All other the word , we have to take action to
STOP these wholesale slaughter , this no
respect of the life on earth . Life is a chain .
The future will be for all forms of live or no
one! But men are so greedy that they run to
their death .
Drift nets shouldn't be legal!
Bev
betty
Edward
Beth
David
WES
gertrude
Jacqueline
Nancy
marguerite
Thomas
almand
McDowell
Severance
Finch
MCKEWIN
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Michelle
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deZavala
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Smith
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Acworth
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Albany
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Alpharetta
Alpharetta
Americus
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Athens
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Athens
Athens
Athens
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Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
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DeHaven
Atlanta
Georgia
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Stoudemire
Atlanta
Georgia
Tracey
Smith
Atlanta
Georgia
Lynne
Dr William
Tom
Amelia
David
Chimiklis
Davidov
Ferguson
Fusaro
Kallechey
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
NOW!
Gill nets are an unacceptable fishing
method--cruel and wasteful.
the fishermen should havemore
protect the oceans !
you're shooting yourself in the foot if you
don't take sustainable measures to ensure
these fish will be around for decades.
no more nets!
Please - get rid of drift gill nets. They're
torture.
Please stop killing marine mamals and other
innocent creatures.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE STOP THE
UNNECESSARY KLIING OF MARINE LIFE
IN THE PACIFIC. PLEASE, PLEASE,
PLEASE MOVE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
AWAY FROM DEVASTATING GILLNETS.
Recent statistics have listed an average 52%
decline of wildlife in the past 40 years,
Marine species have been depleted by 39%
in such a short time. Every effort needs to
made to curb the destruction immediately!!!
Edith
Kimberly
Janet
William
Norma
Alexis
John
heather
will
Christi
Eleanor
Anna-Marie
Aaron
Joanie
Karen
John
celia
David
Roberto
Larry
stephanie
GILBERT
Barbara
E.
Marie
Rebeccah
Sharon
Charles
Annie
Kelman
L.
Leavell
McGoldrick
McNeill
Nixon
Reaves
rodbell
scruggs
Sizemore Behrend
Smithwick
Soper-O'Rourke
Stearns
Thomas
Tiegren
Wienert
mayo
Schilling
Villanueva
Byrd
granada
MARTINEZ
Gagnon
Blankenship
Harrison
Jones
Palmer
Connolly
Stewart
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
augusta
Blairsville
Braselton
Buford
Buford
CALHOUN
Camilla
Canton
Canton
Canton
Canton
Carlton
Carrollton
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
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Georgia
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Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
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Georgia
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Georgia
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Darren
Cara
Tatum
Hopper
Mitton
Schmidt
Young
Clarkston
Clarkston
Clarkston
Clayton
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Louise
Patricia
Blume
Petit
Clermont
Cleveland
Georgia
Georgia
JoAn
Thompson-SimmonsColbert
Georgia
Deborah
King
Columbus
Georgia
Debra L. D.
Claudia
Garab
Markov
Columbus
Commerce
Georgia
Georgia
maryann
laukaitis
conyes
Georgia
The decimation of populations of Marine
Mammals is a direct result of Drift Gill Nets,
and, since it has been scientifically proven
that Whales have a large impact on the
healthy ecology of oceans, and, the nets are
killing them as well as smaller mammals,
SOMETHING must be done to change this
situation before we lose everything!
Don't be so irresponsible. Stop killing whales
and sea turtles.
It is time to end this wasteful and inhumane
way of fishing.
California is the only state I know of to
outlaw plastic bags.
We must protect our oceans and its life and,
in turn, we will be protecting our planet.
Please keep our oceans thriving with good
ocean management leadership. Thank you!
Please stop hurting animals that we love.
grace
Nathan
Julia
andrew
Diane
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Pavanne
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Debra
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Carol
Kathy
Nancy
Garmon
Combs
cotter
Faucett
Lucy
Howard
Dawsonville
Decatur
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Decatur
Decatur
Douglasville
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
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Nancy
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Diane
Watson
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Eudy
Tina
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Gordon
Randi
Stonehill
Tamara
Shurling
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Dixon
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Ashmore
Madison
Hampton
Gene
Hatfield
Bryan
Bennett
Tara
Long
Christine
Priller
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Ellington
Sara
Bryce
Zachary
Hardy
Janet
Austin-Grimsley
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Duluth
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Gary
Arthur
Thomas
Matthew
Skip
Canada II
Herlinger
Hughes
Hunter
Tarpley
Clement
Marietta
Marietta
Marietta
Marietta
McDonough
Midway
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Patricia
Reber
Milton
Georgia
There has to be better ways to fish than to
drop these nets and kill all of these creatures
unnecessarily.
THIS MUST STOP !!!
This is inhumane and should be stopped
immediately. I personally will boycott any
fish consumption until this stops.
If it endangers other species, it must stop!
There is other ways to catch fish!
Stop harming our wildlife in these nets!
We need to do everything we can to stop
killing our ocean wildlife.
Talk about overfishing and indiscriminate bycatch. This mile long drift gill nets are a bane
to civilization.
I hope I see some progress on this tragedy
before I die. Come on, folks, I am 75 and I
am waiting.
liu
wai ling
N.T. Hong Kong
Georgia
Barbara
Laurie
Teresa
Doucet
Mattingly
Ely
Newnan
Newnan
Norcross
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Heidi
Hammerstein
Pembroke
Georgia
Elaine
Roberts
Powder Springs
Georgia
Dawn
Marilyn
Haskin
Orlandoni
Ringgocld
Rome
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Georgia
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Gee
Luther
Mitchell
Roswell
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Sabina
Jaime
Frank
Kristi
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marcy
Sharon
Janell
TABATURA
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Karen
Dennis
Jeffrey
Carmela
Denise
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Natalie
Missy
roy
Laurence
Dan
Arnone
Cushing
Gillham
McCraw
Smith
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Snellville
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please put an end to drift gill nets , In
the Pacific ocean , off the coast of
California , mile long drift gill nets left
hanging in the water for hours at a time
in hope of catching swordfish , please to
move away from drift gill nets , Thank
you
Let us make this happen and protect the Sea
Turtles Please, and Thank you!
It's the right thing to do. None of those fish
you are taking and selling for money are
yours anyway.
It's high time to stop the indiscriminate
slaughter caused by gill nets.
What the heck are we doing to our abundant
resources??? We will have nothing left if we
don't stop! People don't seem to have any
respect for life or wildlife. We need to
educate you and everyone that life is
prescious not to be so disrespected as to do
things like this. STOP IT NOW,
WHY has there been YEARS of trying to end
drift gill nets when they have ALWAYS
BEEN a ghorrid method of catching
BECAUSE they entangle and kill so many
OTHER SEA CREATURES. It is WAY PAST
TIME to curtail this evil!
This is so wrong. It must be stopped.
Please protect our ocean wildlife!
Patty
John
Diane
Babbie
Martha
Kostas
andreas
ELENI
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Elke
Steffi
Delia
Tim
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Boothe
Snow
Chapman
Tanner
Korovilas
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manek
Fehr
Dürrenberg
Jacobi
Lengtat
Schamsai
Day
Wildwood
Winder
Winder
Woodstock
Woodstock
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athens-greece
Thessaloniki
Θεσσαλονικη
Johannesburg
london
Hamburg
Hamburg
Hamburg
Hamburg
Hamburg
Eastleigh
Mark
Viergutz
Captain Cook
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Barb
Terry
Terence
Joan
Wicki
Makahilahila
Price
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Travis
Travis
Heartfield
Van De Veer
Captain Cook
Captain Cook
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Ewa Beach
Ewa Beach
Haiku
Hanalei
Renee
Michele
Julie
Derinda
Ruthie
F
Janton
Nihipali
Miller
Cantrell
Bernaert
Imada
Hanalei
Hauula
Hawi
Holualoa
Honokaa
Honolulu
Fred
L.M.
Luke
Holmes
Honolulu
Honolulu
Laurie
Mckeon
Honolulu
audrey
vanderschoot
honolulu
noenoe
K.
Lorri
Paul
barney-campbell
Chung
Crockett
Davis
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Honolulu
Honolulu
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
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greece
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Hamburg
If the oceans die, we die!
Hamburg
Hamburg
Hamburg
Hamburg
Hampshire
All life on Earth (including us) requires a
responsible, sustainable approach. Drift Gill
Nets are neither.
Hawaii
These nets are indiscriminate and
inhumane.
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
We havr arrived at the time when we can be
wiser in our choices. Please listen to that
still small voice within and step away from
the use of drifr gill nets.
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Perhaps the intention is not wholesale
slaughter, but results are what matter, and
one might think that no sane person would
argue that reckless killing is okay. Please
bring sanity into the process.
Hawaii
Stop the waste and the greed.
Hawaii
This fishing method can no longer be
justified.
Hawaii
This fishing method has never been nor will
it ever be sustainable. It is time to end it
NOW. Prolonging a bad idea is just that. It is
a bad idea!
Hawaii
We need to stop this disgusting wasteful
idiotic devastation of life in our oceans
NOW!
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Harvey Arkin
Ann
Christie
Charles
Valerie
Javier
Alex
June
Eric
Harvey Arkin
Holt
Lane
Lee
Loh
Mendez
Oshiro
Yokomoto
Vetter
Honolulu
Honolulu
Honolulu
honolulu
Honolulu
Honolulu
Honolulu
Honolulu
Kailua
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Margaret
Leanne
tlaloc
Goettelmann
Morin
tokuda
Kailua
Kailua
kailua kona
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
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David
Danielle
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Yolanda
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Clay
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Kailua Kona
Kailua Kona
Kailua Kona
Kailua-Kona
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John
don
Thelander
Broussard
cooke
Kailua-Kona
Kamuela
Kaneohe
Hawaii
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Lilikala
bonnie
Eric
Jane
Joy
Anita
Choy
Kameeleihiwa
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Kapaa
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kihei
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Hawaii
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Susan
Scott
mariah
Diana
Jacqui
Lax
Rubin
Hanson
frye-Keele
Miller
Skill
Kihei
Kilauea
Kona
Kula
Kurtistown
Lahaina
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Hawaii
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Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
John
Conti
Lahaina
Hawaii
Global change including ocean warming and
acidification add layers of stress to marine
organisms that we cannot relieve in the near
future. There are some things we can do to
help to restore ocean health and
sustainability of marine populations. Putting
an end to drift nets will be a high impact
action that will benefit humanity and marine
life in the long run.
Inaction is causing the death of thousands of
fish and mammals, please act.
Drift gill nets are lethal killers of multiple
species and their use needs to be outlawed
NOW.
please, its time to protect whats left of our
ocean's wildlife
Gill nets strip the ocean of everything that
gets in its way. Stop them NOW!
This needs to stop.
I cant believe these are still in existence
considering all the marine life that has been
destroyed by these nets..it's reprehensible
!and another terrible legacy of the human
race!
It's terrible that these are still in the ocean
after all the endangered marine life they've
already destroyed!!
Nancy
Harter
Lahaina
Hawaii
Robert
Nina
Delicia
Haydn
lennie
Gigi
Wintner
Monasevitch
Burnell
Huntley
rodoff
Brandford
Lahaina
Lihue
London
Makawao
ocala
OV
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
debbie
Roanne
kelly
LeBrun
pahoa
Pahoa
Hawaii
Hawaii
Marilyn
Bobbi
Hartson
Georgie
David
Mary
Arthur
david
tia
Lisa
Dwayne
Christine
malia
Susie
Jennifer
Robert
Markley
Lempert
Doak
fong
Dewenter
TRUE
Hodge
bohn
Pearson
McDaniel
Munar
Andrews
cabaccang
Crick
Nelson
Maxwell
Pahoa
Paia
Pearl City
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Pepeekeo
Pepeekeo
Volcano
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wahjiawa
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Waianae
Wailuku
Waipahu
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Woodstock
WATFORD
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Tina
Margit
Jascha
Tobi O.
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Ulli
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Gerlinde
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Tammy
John
Muriel
Craig
Patchava
Baumgartner
Lindner
Moie
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Roth
Fitz
Heckmann
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Griffith
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Tovar
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Anne
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Webber
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Sullivan
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Garwin
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Algonquin
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Please help to eliminate gill nets that kill and
maim so many sea creatures for no purpose.
The time will come when men such as I will
look upon the murder of animals as now they
look upon the murder of men.-Leonardo Da
Vinci
End Drift Nets Jerks...
Let's start saving these wonderful sea
dwellers instead of killing them!
Aloha:
End the wasteful practice of, killing
endangered species of marine life
Not only is it cruel and money oriented, but is
now continuing to limit our indiginous
endangered populations.
Jocelyn
heather
Lisa
Heather
Eugene
Davis-Beck
cornwell
Valiente
Bryan
Timpe
Beecher
Big Rock
Bolingbrook
Bourbonnais
Carbondale
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IL
IL
IL
IL
Candace
Gary
Kenton
Cari
V
Elisabeth
Suzanne
Jay
Alan
Karen
S.
Davis
Kolb
Macy
Brookbanks
Evan
Noty
Pentek
Schelman
Serlin
Sewick
Carlson
Carbondale
Carbondale
Charleston
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Downers Grove
Evanston
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IL
IL
IL
IL
IL
IL
IL
IL
IL
IL
Caroline
Mead
Glenview
IL
jeffrey
Carolyn
sanders
Rice
Glenview
Granite City
IL
IL
Mary
Charlene
Jennifer
Lana
jack
Janice
JANELL
Kathryn
John
Margaret
Reynold
Margaret
Bret
Annie
Southard
Foulke
Romans
Schmitt
schranz
Ehrenhaft
SMITH
LeMosy
Weber
Crawford
Tharp
Waltershausen
Sher
Aggens
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Libertyville
Libertyville
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Mokena
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Vernon Hills
Wilmette
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Phil
john
Keri
FELICIA
John
Young
koperczak
Jensen
WADE
Massman
Woodridge
Worth
Addison
AMBOY
Antioch
IL
IL
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
NO gill nets!!!
For our own benefit we need to conserve,
not destroy, ocean wildlife.
Our ocean's need to continue to feed us
over time and as we decimate the less
useful commercial creatures, we soon won't
have viable fisheries any more.
Don't be mean. Be kind and move away
from drift gill nets before more bad things
happen.
Sustainable fishing is what is necessary,
right now, to guarantee food for future
generations. Continuing as is, is
irresponsible to endangered species but our
children, grandchildren and future
generations. Be responsible adults now.
Please take decisive action on this by ending
the use of drift gill nets. Thank you.
WE'RE KILLING OURSELVES
John
Loebel
Arlington Heights
Illinois
Laura
Angela
sheryl
Randy
Tammy
Bobbi Jo
rick
Jennifer
Erika
Stacy
Eugene
Dorothy
Rosina
McCoy
Peters
hogan
Papineau
Moore
Parsley
canning
Cunningham
DeCarlo
Rutkowski
Chin
Stoner
Padilla
Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights
arlington hgts
Ashkum
Ashley
Atwood
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Aurora
Aurora
Aurora
Bartlett
Bartlett
Berwyn
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Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
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Pauline
Catharine
TODD
mc
gary
Rafael
Cindy
Donna
Cordale
Phyllis
dennis
Mike
Mary
Mary Ann
Carol
BARBARA
Demari
Thomas-brown
Crockett
WILSON
kubiak
rejsek
Albarran
Kasnicka
Barrett
Brown
Jenkins
kreiner
Dotson
Baechle
Black
Smith
BAGGS
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CHGO
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Steven
Taylor
Chicagio
Illinois
Our seas are endangered. The size of fish
caught today vs 20 years ago is significantly
smaller. We are terribly wasteful in the use
of our precious gift of the Oceans. We need
to begin to manage how we use this
resource better to help us ALL including the
fish and mammals of the oceans. It is 2014...
soon it will be too late
We need to protect our Oceans now more
than ever!!
PLEASE PLEASE PUT AN END TO
THIS.....
DENNIS R. NELSON,naturalist/Environmental
Chicago
Researcher
Illinois
Paul
Schutt
Chicago
Illinois
Richard
Bossie
Chicago
Illinois
Marcy
Gustafson
Chicago
Illinois
Georgia
Shankel
Chicago
Illinois
Robert
Hamilton
Chicago
Illinois
Merrie
Thornburg
Chicago
Illinois
Susann
MacLachlan
Chicago
Illinois
I am one of the original, modern
environmental/conservation activists (ocean
advocates) ever since around the very first
EARTH DAY Celebration (Wednesday, April
22, 1970), over 44 years ago. (During my
high school years, I got my Oceanography
Merit Badge as a part of my Eagle Scout
Award/Bronze, Gold, and Silver Palms.) I
have a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in
Biology and Environmental Studies from
Dana College, Blair, Nebraska. [During my
sophomore year, I took Marine Biology-Experimental as my January Interim in the
Gulf of Mexico--and visited the Marine
Biology and Entomology Departments of
Texas A&M University (The Aggies) in
College Station, Texas; Aransas National
Wildlife Refuge; and Padre Island National
Seashore.] Continuing on, covering over
70% of our planet's surface, there is actually
only one ocean, despite our preference for
naming the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian,
Southern, and Arctic. (It is a connected body
of water that gives the appearance from
outer space of a big blue marble. The
surface also hides mountain ranges and
larger valleys of some magnitude.) Being as
scientifically important as intriguing, our
marine environment is viewed by
oceanographers, marine ecologists, and
environmental/conservation activists (ocean
advocates like myself) as an extremely
important
to bekilling
preserved
It is time to'finite
stopresource'
the unwanted
of
marine animals by fishermen. The bycatch
thrown away or left in the ocean is terrible.
It's terribly wrong to allow the killing of so
many sea creatures with drift gill
nets,especially the endangered ones! You
should do everything you can to stop this
immediately!
Let's start doing the right thing. Our children
are starting to hate us (you).
Must we kill every living creature to feed
ourselves.
Ocean biodiversity must be protected and
carefully managed for its ability to provide
food for future generations of people.
Please encourage fishermen to stop using
gill nets, too many other unintended victims
are caught.
Please stop this barbaric, inhumane practice
on these intelligent sea mammals.
Roberta
Barbara
Brian
Freeman
Peterlin
Chadwick
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Merrie
Gayle
Aaron
Thornburg
Sierzega
Turkewitz
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Chicago
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Ann
Raven
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max
simpson
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Sharon
Burke
Chicago
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Cara
Artemis
David
Stephen
John A
Jodi
Robert
Mark
Rev. Max
Barbara
Trish
Leonard
Marlen
Thomas
craig
Zack
Sandra
Candace
Sean
Cassy
adele
Joe
Barrett
Gary
Aguirre
Ammon
Asproyerakas
Barnett
Bauser
Beavers
Bohl
Bossie
Brooker
Burg
Cochrane
Conroy
Cork
Cruz
Edwards
figtree
Frank
Franz
Gabriel
Gash
Gerber
Gleason
Gold
Goldflies
Grice
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Please!
Stop netting!
Stop this nonsense. The by catch is insanity.
We are going to have empty oceans soon
enough.
The use of gill nets needs to stop
There are other says to catch Fish.
This is an issue that is enormously important
to me. It lies at the core of transitioning to a
more sustainable mode of living within the
earth's many vibrant and intertwined
ecosystems. I hope you will act soon to
prevent continuing unnecessary, collateral
damage by the fishing industry.
We need our marine life for a healthy
ecosystem. Many fish and animals are
endangered because of our carelessness
and greed. Let's make significant changes
to preserve the planet for our children.
Thank you,
We understand that if the oceans die, we will
as well. Humans must change their
behaviors if the oceans are to survive There
is much sacrifice we all have to make for this
to happen. Please, do your part.
When are we going to wake up to the fact
that healthy oceans are necessary for our
own survival?
Peter
mee
BOB
alexander
Arci
Philip
Rachel
Raminder
Georgia
diane
Amy
Natalie
Julie
Rob
John
Debbie
Mark
John
Alicia
Dean
M.Patricia
Gloria
Mark
C
Monica
Jamie
Michael
Sergio
A
Deborah
Alexandra
Pamela
Theodore
Burton
Charles
Peter
Liliana
Nan
deidra
Zoe
louise
Roselyn
Janet
Joan
Wyman
Constance
Gunther
Chicago
haaw
chicago
HAGELE
CHICAGO
hartray
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Jimenez
Chicago
Kritzman
Chicago
Krucoff
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Kumar
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Moore
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Neimark
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Pertel
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Picchetti
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Porter
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Post
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Reifman
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Rigoli
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Schechter
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Sipiora
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Spacek
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Steck
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Steck
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Stransky
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Tijerina
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Chicago
schultz
chicago,
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Cicero
Kuncl
Collinsville
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Whipple
Dahinda
Pennington
Danville
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Alexis
DIXIE
Stephen
Bonnie
Tim
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Eisenhauer
Julian
MARTIN
Anderson
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Ball
McConkey
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Danville
Danville
DECATUR
Deerfield
Deerfield
DeKalb
DeKalb
Time to take responsibility for the
commercial nets that are killing our sealife.
Do it now PLEASE!
Louise
kaitlyn
krisitn
Sarah
Friedenson
nicholson
nicholson
Wolfe
Des Plaines
des plaines
des plaines
Dongola
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Matt
Lucy
Misti
Judy
Sarah
Cornelius
Ed
Heather
Patricia
Christopher
R.
Bonnie
Susan
Maria
Brriicckmmman
Mance
DeLap
Schneider
Genandt
Baker
Devlin III
Van Oppen
Latta
Chelmecki
Heuman
Thorne
Wiklanski
Madden
Faisal
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East Peoria
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Cindy
Ann
Lovell
Moczarney
Mallow
Elmwood Park
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Evanston
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karen
scotese
Evanston
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Serena
Connie
A
Janice
John
rohana
Maryann
Lisa
Amy
Richard
Jane
Walter
William
Marilyn
Bernstein
Fischbein
J
MacDonald
Watson
wolf
Stork
Markwart
Gramza
Laubhan
Lewis
Schultz
Smith
Nicol
Evanston
Evanston
Evanston
evanston
evanston
evanston
Fairbury
Forest Park
Fox Lake
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There has to be a better way to fish rather
than using mile-long drift gill nets. The
oceans are not endlessly supplied with all
manner of fish for humans to harvest. We
humans have so damaged the environment
that mass hunger and starvation are coming
for all of us, humans, birds, fish and all
animals alike is a given. Now, right now, is
the time to transition to environmentally
sustainable fishing gear. These mile-long
drift gill nets must go...this type of fishing
must be another human mistake that lives in
the past.
This practice must stop NOW!! How much
loss of marine wildlife will it take to change
the way we fish in our oceans?!!!
A change to better fishing methods is LONG
over due.
The animals that are killed may have genes
that we will need to fight disease etc. Lets try
not to kill them just for greed.
Catherine
Michael
Diane
Shanna
Max
jan
Ellen
Dorien
debra
Stephanie
paula
Ann
DANIEL
Barbara
Theresa
Laurie
Valerie
Janet
Linda
C
A.G.
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Matthew
M
David
Critz
Martin
Steitz
Cardea
Barack
zanoni
sharkey
Zaricor
heatherly
Seed
picchietti
Siegel
FAISAL
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It is time to get rid of these nets!
Please help.
I believe these nets should be outlawed!
Wasteful, cruel obscene all for $$$$
Please move away from using drift gill nets.
It's the right thing to do.
Stop this horrible practice!
Kelly
Crawford
Mattoon
Illinois
Drift gill nets is the human LAZY way to fish.
It then harms and kills huge numbers of
other sea life who get caught it them. Drift
net owners do NOT care about how many
other sea creatures get killed, so we must
make laws to stop them from the killing.
Liz
Szabo
McHenry
Illinois
It is my opinion that not only is it a sin using
drift gill nets it is also down-right MURDER!
Drift bill nets need to be outlawed globally as
of yesterday.
Christine
Amy
terrence
Lenore
Catherine
andrew
Berardi
Morgan
ward
Reeves
Jurgensen
hoffman
Melrose Park
Metropolis
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Montgomery
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Kevin
William
todd
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Todd
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lee
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Arroyo
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Glass
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Al
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There are better ways to catch fish available
now.
Please change this policy!
Now is the time to do away with Drift Gill
Nets. There is a better way.
Give sea life a chance
Stop the wanton destruction of marine live.
g
Patty
Michael
Sabrina
Susan
Kristine
Sharon
Linda
Susan
Debra
Kae
carolyn
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Karen
Elmer
William
Jackie
Harold
Maggie
N
Gene
corey
Anne
CYNDI
Cecelia
d
Terrie
Steve
Aguirre
Van Tuyle
Costabile
Linz
Maldonado
Hubbard
Friedenbach
C
Ginter
parker
Romanow
SALINAS
Samp
o
Matson
Drucker
Romeoville
Roodhouse
Roselle
Roselle
Round Lake Park
Royalton
Savanna
Schaumburg
Schaumburg
schaumburg
Schaumburg
SCHAUMBURG
Schiller Park
semur en brionnais
Sheridan
Sherrard
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Gabriel
valentina
Stacy
rhonda
Dawn
Corza
halliay
Lang
lawford
Smith
Skokie
skokie
South Beloit
south wilmington
Spring Grove
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Dan
Mirl
Julie
Soleman
McCurdy
Whitaker
Griffith
Hashmi
Springfield
Springfield
St. Charles
Streamwood
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Sounds like a weapon of mass destruction
with a lot of collateral damage.
Stop the slaughter
IMAGINE YOU ARE OUT SWIMMING AND
TANGLE IN A NET AND DROWN
Please practice better fishing techniques. It
is everyone's responsibility to protect our
wildlife and Mother Earth!!
Brad
Earl
MARK
J
Brian
Marie
Nicole
Nayeem
Michael
Janet
Walker
Shumaker
GROTZKE
Beverly
Mustain
Foley
Hilkovitch
Aslam
Burmester
Ostrowski
Swansea
Sycamore
Tinley Park
Urbana
Urbana
Vernon Hills
Vernon Hills
Villa Park
Villa Park
Waukegan
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Renee
Caputo
West Chicago
Illinois
Eric
KAYE
Mary
Ryan
Lina
matt
Dori
James
frank
Nancy
Elaine
Abrar
Jan
Brad
Barbara
Elizabeth
Austin Alana
CAROL
JOANN
Edwards
AURIGEMMA
Muraski-Stotz
McHugh
Hammadeh
miksys
Cole
Stuhlmacher
disler
Mallory
Al Meqdad
Qureshi
Barshis
Bornstein
Silverman
Thomas
Fruzyna
JOHNSON
WEDIN
West Chicago
WESTCHESTER
Westchester
Western Springs
Westmont
Westmont
Wheaton
WHEATON
wheeling
Wheeling
Willowbrook
Willowbrook
Wilmette
Wilmette
Wilmette
Wilmette
Winfield
WINFIELD
Wonder Lake
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Michael
Dan
Jeff
alexandra
Stuart
McLaughlin
Seitz
rose
Wonder Lake
Wood Dale
Woodridge
Woodridge
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Dave
Ronald
susana
Bruker
Drahos
soares
Bloomington
Bloomington
braga
IN
IN
IN
Show you care.....get rid of the nets...Please!
We can no longer tolerate harmful and
outdated fishing practices! Healthy oceans
are crucial to our planet and the US
economy.
Fish at any price is far too costly. They
cannot bear the burden placed on their
survival much longer. It is up to us to decide
what price is too great to pay for the
decimation of these great species.
Please put an end to drift gill nets
The true cost of seafood harvested by way
of gill nets would be astronomically high if
the net wildlife loss from bycatch were
factored into the price of these animals on a
menu, and would likely be unaffordable, just
as our oceans cannot afford to lose these
animals, which are considered waste by the
fishing industry. Drift gill netting must end for
the sake of both our oceans and our food
security as a species.
Kenneth W
M.
michelle
Dale
Christlieb
Tomec
dust
LaCognata
Fort Wayne
Granger
Highland
Indianapolis
IN
IN
IN
IN
Maura
Keelan
Peter
Mark
Buckley
Smith
Scott
Hodie
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Knox
Munster
IN
IN
IN
IN
Karen D
Mary
Sharon
Thomas
Susanna
V.
Matthew
Mark
Karisha
Gerald
paul
Dorothy
Cindi
Barb
Rhonda
Gregory
Wanda
Laura
Felts
Mikesell
J
Hoover
Hinant
B.
Baucco
Hallett
Kirk
Rahn
schneller
Wilson
Schwartz
Carter
Churchill
Neel
Bryce
Long
Noblesville
Noblesville
Otisco
Rachel
Susan
Mary
Sue
Richard D
A.J.
James
Imogene
James L
Eugene
Buck
Dorchin
Tarallo
Johnson Filley
Alley
Earley
Harvey
Burkhart
Wolcott
ODonnell
Columbus
Delray Beach
DeMotte
Elkhart
Elwood
Evanston
Evansville
Evansville
Evansville
Fishers
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Ellen
Felicity
Kimberlye
karla
William
Clark
Dorsett
Osterholt
stranger
Pohley
Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne
fort wayne
Franklin
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Angela
Michael
Walter-Schemahorn Fremont
McCartin
Ft Wayne
IN
IN
IN
46037 Indiana
Bean Blossom
Indiana
Bloomington
Indiana
Bloomington
Indiana
Bloomington
Indiana
Bloomington
Indiana
Bloomington
Indiana
Bloomington
Indiana
Bloomington
Indiana
Bristol
Indiana
Brownsburg
Indiana
Brownsburg
Indiana
Cambridge City
Indiana
Camby
Indiana
Chicago
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Humans put the Drift Gill Nets there.
Humans have to find a different method and
get rid of the nets.
When will the federal government realize
that so many of our creatures are under
threat? What will it take to make them listen?
Drift gill nets are wasteful and cruel. We
need to find a way to feed people without
killing the other species trying to survivie on
this planet with us.
Please find another way to fish
Please stop the rape of American ocean
waters.
I was trained in Marine Science and there is
no reason to continue to use this destructive
fishing gear. Please take action.
Danielle
Pamela
Cindy
dina
Rose Ann
Diane
Payne
VourosCallahan
Brice
frigo
Kaiser
Brandstetter
Ft Wayne
Granger
Highland
highland
Huntington
Indianapolis
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
R
LYN
Leep
BERLING
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indiana
Indiana
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis
La Porte
Lafayette
Lafayette
Lafayette
Lafayette
LaPorte
Liberty
logansport
Lowell
Martinsville
McCordsville
Merrillville
Michigan City
Middlebury
Muncie
nashville
New Albany
New Albany
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Elizabeth
Brooks
Irish
Carlisle
Philip
Dennany
Sally
Flood
Liz
Garratt
Magdalena
Gis
Krista
Gremos
Tricia
Hart
Bruce
Hlodnicki
Annie
Kim
Douglas
Long
Kathleen
O'Connell
Rosemarie
Overstreet
Kari
Robinson
William
Ryerson
Larry
Ulrey
Judith
Beltz
Betty Jayne
Gregory
Ted
Harris
Janice
Jones
Marcia
Ouellette
Terrence and Elizabeth
McCloskey
Sean
Yates
kim
english
Mark W.
Mehl
Cathy
Gianikos
Stephen
Means
Megan
M
David
Cross
Dana & Nelda
Snider
Jutta
Vogelbacher
anne
miller
Jessica
Cresseveur
Jeanette
Micca
Man should be a protector not a destroyer.
Please act now to protect our sea life from
gill nets that they probably cannot get out of
if caught.
Please stop using those nets! thank you
We have been writing about this issue for
years and years. To have a change in this
terrible fishing practice must be very very
difficult. Everyone knows it must happen.
How can fishermen be so resistant? Aren't
they also concerned about the welfare of the
big fish and sea turtles? What will they do
when they are all gone??? Maybe everyone
says It's not my responsibility. Lies will catch
up with these very careless people.
Robin
Lance
nicole
Louise
Daniel E.
Linda
Chelsea
Curt
Farias
Mason
newkirk
Clendenen
Chase
Szymoniak
Hirtzel
Perry
New Salisbury
Noblesville
Pendleton
Plainfield
Portland
Schererville
Seymour
South Bend
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Jared
Sandra
Brett
Collins
Miller
Anderson
South Bend
South Bend
Unionville
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Susan
Marilyn
Yustina
Magdalena
Jeane
Margo
Anduskey
Olson
Sandrayanti
Borkowska
Harrison
Vanderhill
Valparaiso
Valparaiso
South Jakarta
Stockholm
50321
Alton
Indiana
Indiana
Indonesia
Inget
Iowa
Iowa
Eric
Crouch
Ames
Iowa
Miriam
shawn
Joe
Symone
Dan
Carol
Patterson
thompson
Orstad
Ma
Meier
Turner
Ames
ames
Ankeny
Ceda Falls
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Kris
Marya
Patricia
Brooks
Warren
Judith
Kay
Joy
Deke
Douglas
Barbara and Jim
Anna
Brandi
Leesekamp
Zanders
Everly
Obr
Allely
Neal
Steinauer
Strasser
Gliem
Lass
Dale
Gannon
McCauley
Cedar Rapids
Centerville
Clinton
Coralville
Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs
Davenport
Dawson
De Witt
Decorah
Des Moines
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
I'm sick of seeing these evil things on the
reefs.
Please act now. It is pointless to make minor
and incremental improvements to a method
of fishing that is fundamentally
indiscriminate!
By now we should all understand that no
resource is unlimited, and that eliminating
waste in our enterprises is beneficial. In the
case of fishing, taking unwanted fish and
other creatures harms the ecosystem that
supports the fish we want to harvest. On
another level we should reduce the suffering
of creatures without cause. The fishing
industry should also realize that wanton,
wasteful behaviors are not good for public
relations.
Stop killing innocent whales, turtles and
other sea creatures.
Jesse
Bernhardt
Dubuque
Iowa
Put an end to this lazy, wasteful, and clearly
industrial scale fishing technique. Let people
earn the price their intended catch will fetch
through more sustainable methods.
Mary
Brady
Dubuque
Iowa
What a selfish way to clean out the oceans
of fish that die in these nets and then
dumped back in the ocean.
Linda
Beth
Hurd
Asklund
Drewelow
Hess
Duncombe
Evansdale
fairfield
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Alison
Wasielewski
Fairfield
Iowa
Diane
Keyser
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Walt
S
Vera
Sheila
Hesse
Fulton
Cousins
Tran
Fulda
Grimes
Grinnell
Hartley
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Mary
Kirkpatrick
Iowa City
Iowa
Jack
Marie
Holly
David
Cindy
Andy
Deb
Deb
Nancy
James
Rebecca
manuela
bernardo
wendy
Ema
Bruno
Carlo
mario
enzo
Sabrina
Robins
Socarras
Kukkonen
Ward
Borske
McCollum
Lincoln
Lincoln
Thompson
Sliney
Skalsky
wolter
alayza mujica
niemeyer
Lev
Milone
Zucchi
giannone
mulas
Favero
Iowa City
Iowa
Iowa City
Iowa
IowaCity
Iowa
Le Claire
Iowa
Mason City
Iowa
Mount Vernon
Iowa
Osage
Iowa
Osage
Iowa
Ottumwa
Iowa
Robins
Iowa
Runnells
Iowa
san-jose
Iowa
surquillo
Iowa
waterloo
Iowa
Tel Aviv
Israel
Aci Catena
Italy
Como
Italy
florence
italy
florence
italy
Paderno Dugnano Milano
Italy
Davide
emanuela
Federico
Defavari
sala
Bortoletto
Palermo
verano brianza
Albignasego)PD)
italy
italy
Italy : Nord-Orientale
This is one of the more insane fishing
methods used and has been shown to
destroy or cripple numerous forms of sealife
just to satisfy consumers with a fish that is
not a vital food source.
Why should I even ask you for this? Have
you no humanity?
Please stop the unnecessary killing of sea
life in the Ocean. The ocean does belong to
all people.
I have waited and waited for many years now
for someone to put an end to drift gill nets.
Please to something about them.
Protect ALL life!!!!!!! I want seafood that has
been harvested responsibly and
respectfully!!
Stop devastating drift gill nets !
I have a dream: One day, soon, living
without any suffer for animals...Please stop
this primitive behaviour!
David
Davis
Basehor
Kansas
JoAnn
Ellis
Basehor
Kansas
Susan
Dobbelaere
Bonner Springs
Kansas
Rebecca
Debra
Oglesby
Arb
Clifton
Emporia
Kansas
Kansas
Jon
Destiny
Philip
Olomon
Pannell
Bauer
Garden City
Junction City
Kansas City
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Toni
Roy
Carol
emily
Marie-Odile
Michael
Delana
Janice
Ernie
Everett
Charles
Caldwell-Clark
Siegmund
Bischoff
Feingold
Fortier
Henderson
Lee
Durham
Kovac
Ward
Brumleve
Kansas city
Kansas City
Kerkrade
Lawrence
Lawrence
Lawrence
Lawrence
Leavenworth
Leavenworth
Leavenworth
Manhattan
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Theresa
Christine
Ken
Joy
Cammy
Rick
Jennifer
Francine
Marilyn
Frances
Daviann
Sherry
Croft
Hutchins
Schefter
Burns
Colton
Esmay
Shontz
Sutton
Logan
Rove
McClurg
Honey
Olathe
Olathe
Olathe
Osawatomie
Overland Park
Overland Park
Overland Park
Overland Park
Prairie village
Prairie Village
Sat
Scott City
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Mike
Marsha
Robert
Judith
Vanlandingham
King
Rutkowski
Scherff
Shawnee
Topeka
Topeka
Topeka,
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Michael
Jane
Trudi
Ribordy
Neave
Rankin
Wellington
Wichita
Dover
Kansas
Kansas
kent
Tahoe
Leigh
Shepway
Kent
Wendy
Shanks
Alexandria
Kentucky
Please do not allow our fish & turtles to
become extinct when you could do
something to help prevent it, Outlaw Drift Gill
Nets Now for the sake of our oceans!
Please put an end to drift gill nets! They are
catching anything that comes along and that
is wrong!!!
Drift gill nets kill non-target marine life. Use
more selective alternatives which do exist.
This change needs to be done now while
there are still whales and sea turtles left!
This should also include native Alaskans.!!!!
It is time to take care of our friends in the
sea or it will turn into a waste land.
Stop using these nets that trap anything and
everything.
Please get rid of these forms of killing vital
sea creatures.
Is nothing safe from mans greed, bycatch is
wicked
Have no lessons been learned from
numerous deadly incidents? These should
be OUTLAWED FOREVER!!!
cathy
Steve
schmiers
Boyce
bardstown
Berea
Kentucky
Kentucky
Laura
Toreka
Roderic
Dolores
Manges
Pulou
Hodges
Giblin
Berea
Cave city
Cold Spring
Covington
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Gayle
Ed
Melissa
Tony
William
Jacqueline
Dana
Lesley
Joey
MICHELLE
Lorraine
arner
Glick
s
Menechella
Powell
Newman
Harris
Lusher
Stevenson
HARRIS-SHIELDS
Dumas
Cynthiana
Edgewood
Edgewood
Frankfort
Glasgow
Greenville
Hopkinsville
Lancaster
Leitchfield
LEXINGTON
Lexington
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Donna
Gary
sid
C
Danny
Linda
Michael
Glenna
Patricia
Blue
Criswell
haney
Ruder
Stamper
White
Wohlleb
Harris
Gowin
Lexington
Lexington
lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lou.
Louisville
Louisville
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Jane
Hope
Louisville
Kentucky
Lynn
Stephen
Jennifer
Janet
Judith
Ronald
Susan
Rachel
Sharon
Brian K.
serena
Andrea
CYNTHIA
peggy
Christa
B
Tina
Russel
Cralle
Dutschke
Edelen
Falcone
Jones
Kestler
Lee
Onstott
Peariso
Sutton
talbott
Alexander
BLACKLEDGE
white
Dailey
Lloyd
Kim
Caudell
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
louisville
Mayfield
MOREHEAD
Owensboro
Paducah
Petersburg
Radcliff
Russell
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Please end this wasteful and destructive
practice!
Wasteful anything is a violation of nature.
Gill nets violate nature.
disgusting
We must do everything possible to save sea
animals from bill nets.
Do what is right and do it now.
Mile long death traps are unconscionable,
both from an environmental and a humane
standpoint., It's time to follow through on
the commitment to use more
environmentally sustainable fishing gear.
Thank you for your consideration of this
letter.
Carlene
Petty
Shepherdsville
Kentucky
Patricia
amanda
Michelle
Wesa
Stephanie
Unni
Eddie
Kathe
Debra
Janet
Dennis
Pam
Pamela
Nazzaro
peck
Mcbride
Sweeney
King
Krishnan
McKinney
Garbrick
Gakeler
Carmichael
Dehn
Martin
Parrott
Union
union
Villa hills
Willisburg
Woodbine
Trivandrum, Kerala
Holton
Manhattan
Overland Park
Shawnee
Topeka
Corbin
Lexington
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kerala
KS
KS
KS
KS
KS
KY
KY
Sheila
Scott
Dale
David
Mike
LOLA
Nick
Laura
Penrod
Meyer
Warren
Morais
Farris
CUADRADO
Passabet
Perez
Lexington
Louisville
Nicholasville
Metairie
Natchitoches
New Orleans
New Orleans
River Ridge
KY
KY
KY
LA
LA
LA
LA
LA
Ed
Miguel
Daniela
Audrone
Marie
Franca
Gillian
Deborah
patrick
Madison
Max
Tony
Vera
Ann
Hammerli
Valderrama
Rossi
Jokubauskiene
Honey'Jones
Bontacchio
Cockburn
Bertrand
percy
LaFleur
Magbee
Medlin
Taylor
Middleton
Thibodaux
Trujillo
Pomezia (Roma)
Vilnius
Conwy
brescia
Edinburgh
Abbevillr
baton rouge
Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge
Benton
LA
La Libertad
Lazio
Lithuania
LL30 1UU
lombardia
lothian
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
S
Laura
Parish
Hall
Bossier
Bossier City
Louisiana
Louisiana
Nancy
Thomas
Wayne
Jeff
Jeanne
Russel
Joseph H.
Joseph
Sam
Bonaventure
Trenchard
Gossett
Garmon
stulb
Deroche
Brown
Vincent
Thomas
Clinton
Covington
Destrehan
Folsom
folsom
Gramercy
Hammond
Harvey
Havelock
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Because they kill SO MANY untargeted fish,
turtles and cetaceans, gill nets should be
banned from fisheries.
Please do the right thing and stop using drift
gill nets.
Please protect our natural inheritance of
diversity before it is too late!
simple decency.
These nets are robbing the oceans of
beautiful creatures which our grandchildren
will not be able to enjoy that beauty.
gill nets kill endangered species and this is
unacceptable.
Marcie
KYM
Ginger
Guidry
MARULLO
Davis
Houma
KENNER
LA PLACE
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
angela
bobby
Margaret
diane
sharon
simmons
michot
Wilby
lewis
chang
lafayette
Lafayette
Lafayette
mandeville
marrero
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Hazel
Champagne
Metairie
Louisiana
patty
D.
Ashley
Effie
M. (Moo)
Pedro
chris
Thomas
Patrick
brey
Dell
Goodson
Michalos
Prince
Hernandez
hunter
Tugwell
Judge
metairie
Metairie
Metairie
Metairie
Metairie
Monroe
monroe
Monroe
New Orleans
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Shawn
Linda
Hall
Carroll
New Orleans
New Orleans
Louisiana
Louisiana
thomas
metzger
new orleans
Louisiana
Allison
Harmon
Wendy
Scott
Scott
Herb
Bonny
Marlene
John-Christopher
Harton
Nicholas
James
Judi
Melody
Michon
Kathryn
HELEN M
Elsee
Greenblatt
Greer
Jennings
Pellegrino
Sayas
Schumaker
Smith
Ward
Firmin
Sherman
Caldwell
Lamendola
Halligan
Shinn
Lemoine
PARK
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
new Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
Plaucheville
Schriever
Shreveport
Shreveport
Slidell
Slidell
West Monroe
West Monroe
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
My 12 yr old daughter hopes this practice
can be stopped. We hope this is a success
and thousands if whales, turtles and other
sea life will be safe.
Stop all of the unnecessary killing!
may Satan stick you in a gill net for all
eternity!
Let's be careful not to harm alreadyendangered (or not) species through our
thoughtlessness and carelessness. We
need to wise up about how our activities
cause damage to others who share our
planet with us.
For too long these death traps have been
the sign of lazy fishing practices. They are
cruel and undiscriminating. Ban them!
NOW!!
Please do the right thing here!
Saving marine life now will mean better
fishing in the future. Destroying marine life
now will leave nothing for the future. If
nothing else, please follow enlightened selfinterest and abandon drift gill nets.
Thank you for not letting greed and
corruption deystroy our world.
Gregory
Franziska
Bettina
Andreas
Christina
Dean
nicole
Janet
Truus
Ducey
Eber
Lorenz
Staschull
Klein
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schildcrout
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van den Broeke
Zachary
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Rhede
Salzgitter
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annie
Carole
Karen
shad
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Mastrototaro
ryan
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Gottlieb
williams
Billerica
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Centerville
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Karen
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Riley
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Kane
vicalvi
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Thornton
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Kohn
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john
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meserve
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Schmidt
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Shawn
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jordan
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pomerantz
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hon
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Knox
Sheffield
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MA
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athens
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Maine
auburn
Maine
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Maine
Augusta
Maine
Please let's stop this Horror!
Terrible, wasteful, and barbaric practice.
This matter is of great importance to me, my
family, and my friends. Please ensure
transition from drift Gill Nets to more
environmentally friendly types of fishing gear
as soon as possible. We will be elated when
you follow through on your commitment to
this transition now.
Imagine being caught in a net while
swimming under water, unable to come up
for air or free yourself to be able to eat...what
a horrible way for creatures to die at the
hands of their stewards!
It is time we cease the use of Drift Gill Nets.
Do not be part of killing innocents. Do not let
the lure of money get in the way of doing
what is right for our fellow beings.
This is a most crucial issue!
Wendy
Jeff
Snezana
Bill & Marilyn
Deborah
Elissa
cindy
Jane
Sasha
Roxanne
Anne and Brent
John
Eckert
Reynolds
Miletic
Voorhies
Fobes
Mericle-Gray
curran
Foster
Shapiro
Meek
Follweiler
Peck
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Belgrade
Bernard
Berwick
Berwick
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Bowdoinham
Bremen
Brewer
Brooklin
Brunswick
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Colleen
katharyn
Kimberly
Jeni
Kristin
Laura
Sara
McKenna
aroneau
Wyke
Frazee
Krause
Sholtz
Leonard
Brunswick
camden
Camden
China
Durham
Exeter
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Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Susan
Marthese
Doris
Christianna
Christianna
Le-Ann
Karen
C
Douglas
Karissa
ALAN
Suzanne
Nancy
Meeker-Lowry
Cassar
Luther
Skoczek
Skoczek
Kropa
Stickney
Dolan
wilson
Ostheimer
HART
Hedrick
Wright
Fryeburg
GUDJA
Hollis
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Kittery Point
Lewiston
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Maine
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Maine
Maine
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Maine
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Sandra
Dotty
Jacqui
Sheridan
Joy
Caldwell
Deveneau
Northport
Orono
Penobscot
Portland
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
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Jacques
Portland
Maine
Laurel
padraic
Elizabeth S.
Karen
Lisa
Joan
Burns
dougherty
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Yates
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Maine
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Maine
Maine
For every thing's sake, please do stop this
disgustingly indiscriminate business.
please do the right thing, we are running out
of time
Please behave humanely!
Please behave humanely!
If we kill everything in the ocean, we kill
ourselves. Everything is interconnected and
especially in the ocean. Ocean life and
health is directly connected to our well being.
Letting stupid profits trump the ocean's life
giving resources is just dumb, terribly
irresponsible and self-damaging.
Their ocean, their lives...
Please do whatever it takes to end the sad
deaths of so many that were not met to be
trapped.
Thank you for your consideration. This
matter is vital.
Marcy
Scott
Emily
Elizabeth
James
Dedam
Powers
Roth
Stephenson
Melloh
Presque Isle
Raymond
Rockport
Rockport
S Portland
Maine
Maine
Maine
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Donna
Ericksen
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Westbrook
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York
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Clay
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Virgil
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Pamela
Jim
Brad
Rigano
Steinhilber
Adam
Baumung
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krause
Lindell
Pauls
Winston
Mason
Long
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York
Gonor
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April
MJ
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Mills
Annapolis
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Maryland
Reckless destruction of the oceans as we
know them. Elimination of a a rich
ecosystem which could have fed future
generations.
Driftnets are death traps for all who
encounter them! They were created out of
laziness. Would be great if fishermen went
back to fishing instead of killing all creatures
that pass by.
mile-long drift gill nets are left hanging in the
water for hours at a time in hope of catching
swordfish. these nets also catch anything
that swims in their path, including
endangered whales and sea turtles. It’s time
to end this outdated and wasteful fishing
method and find a better way to catch
swordfish.
How can there be anything but support for
this long-overdue change in fishing methods.
We live on the sea coast and know of the
damage that these nest do to the by-catch
fish.Continuing the use of these nest will
just make the fish population decline faster.
We can't afford to allow irresponsible,
wasteful practices like this. Our precious
world's resources deserve better care and
stewardship.
mary louise
Rich
Tara
wooldridge
Zadora
Wilk
annapolis
Annapolis
Arnold
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Derek
Steve
Madonna
Watkins
Kline
DePalo
Arnold
Balt.
Baltimore
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Richard
Voelkel
Baltimore
Maryland
Linda
Eustis
Baltimore
Maryland
Pat
Parran
Baltimore
Maryland
Lisa
kevin
Vaughan
kriescher
Baltimore
baltimore
Maryland
Maryland
kathleen
Regina
harvey
Minniss
baltimore
Baltimore
Maryland
Maryland
Val
Alexaner
Baltimore
Maryland
Marcia
Richard
Elsie
keyshia
Amy
Joseph
SONJA
Barbara
Gary
Tamara
Bookoff
Brewster
Brooks
custalow
Daugherty
DiMaggio
franz
H-E
Herwig
Kukla
Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore
baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore
BALTIMORE
Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
This senseless by-catch has got to stop! It's
cruel and unnecessary.
All life is precious. Please do all you can to
protect these creatures...they are our
brothers and dependent on us for protection
and respect. Thank you.
As an avid scuba diver I personally want to
see these nets banned!
Drift gill nets are cruel and wasteful. We
need to protect our marine resources.
It's inexcusable that drift gill nets are being
used when there are far better alternatives
that are not responsible for the deaths of a
variety of innocent marine life. It is lazy and
irresponsible fishing. Too many species are
dying because of irresponsible fishing
practices, whether it is using improper,
outdated equipment or leaving nets and
other gear that entangle, strangle or harm
them in some other way, eventually causing
death. Our oceans and the precious life
within must be treated with more respect and
sensitivity. We need to protect them by
monitoring and placing more and better
restrictions on the fishing industry. Drift gillnet fishing must be replaced by using better
alternatives that will not continue to kill
numerous species.
No more drift gill nets. Please.
Readers will deny this, but it is obvious that
we would be more appalled by drift-netting if
the crime occurred more visibly; above the
ocean surface. Imagine hunting dear with a
machine gun that slaughtered rabbits, birds,
people, etc. in the process!
Stop! you are killing us too!
Unnecessary trapping is extremely wasteful,
and unnecessary lost of sea life.
We have a responsibility to protect the rest
of the life on this planet
b
leved
Karen
Meadow
Janet
Morrissey
Dixie
Mullineaux
Gayle B.
Rosenberry
Rusty
Simpson
Jessalyn
Timson
Jacqueline
Walsh
Keith
Wheeler
Frank
Wilsey
Alan
Wojtalik
Katherine Barrett
Zywan
mary
Bunting
Kelly
Allison
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Snell
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Snowden
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Vice
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Angotti
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Kim
Heyman
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Bell
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Baker
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James
Howard
Coughlin
McCoy
Catonsville
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laura
judith
Jack
Schwarz
kramer
rowe
Gegner
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chevy chase
Columbia
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Lisa
Benjamin
Donna
valerie
Dyan
anette
Leigh
Jeffrey
Dickie
Allen
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brown
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Sands
Slattery
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I grew up on the west coast, and my sister
lives there still. We want to see commercial
fishing practices changed to avoid
unnecessary damage to non-target species.
The drift gill nets are a menace to many nontarget fish and marine mammals.
Use of the Drift Gill Nets should be
discontinued at once.
The first book of the Bible states, near the
end of chapter one, that, after God created,
He surveyed all that He'd done and said that
it is good! This means that God does not
make junk! Hence, any one who abuses any
part of Nature (Creation) abuses and insults
God as well!
Please end this indiscriminate form of
fishing. It is not Gods way.
Aleksandra
Theresa
Brian
Carolyn
Lisa
Peter
William
Omar
Mark
ruby
Elizabeth
Karen
Timothy
Stacey
Christine
Theresa
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Save our Oceans and its creatures!
Use of drift gill nets should be banned. It is
a destructive and wasteful practice. A move
away from the use of drift gill nets is LONG
OVERDUE.
When we have killed all the fishes in the sea,
deliberately or thru indifference then what ;
farm grown blue whales ?
It is alarming that drift nets haven't been
outlawed and are currently in use in CA.
STOP ALL FORMS OF THESE FACTORY
SHIPS FROM DESTROYING OUR
ENVIRONMENT.
David
Deb
Joan
Charles
laila
Michele
Christine
Todd
DONALD
Lynn
Kerry
Jill
Triantos
Duley
Fratantuono
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atallah
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Loveless
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Anne
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shirley
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bonnie
allor
hunt
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hobson
Koehler
Schifferle
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Brenner
probst
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These gill nets must go !
stop killing whates and turtles because you
are either lazy or greedy or both
we depend on a healthy ocean-stop gill nets
!
We are running out of time to save so many
species. Please take seriously the obvious
measures you can take to ensure animal
and fish survival in our oceans. A productive
fishing industry depends on a future with
diverse animals in it.
Lesley
ashley
jessica
Gene
Anne
Mrs. P. D.
Candice
Barbara
Israel
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There are too many unacceptable bycatches with gill nets. The oceans are
suffering and we need less destructive
fishing methods, even if the yield is smaller.
Ban drift gill net fishing practices.
What's good for industry is rarely good for
the biosphere, and gill nets are an excellent
example.
Sally
JOHN
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Gill net fishing is unutterably wasteful as well
as cruel and ecologically damaging.
We are rapidly depleting all oceans of the
species that we prize the most. The
evidence is conclusive that the vast oceans
are not inexhaustible storehouses of food for
the human race. Now is the time for action
to begin reversing the damage that has been
done.
The unnecessary killing must stop. Half the
species wiped out already due to humans.
It's disturbing and disgusting.
Please outlaw gill nets and their cruel and
indiscriminate destruction of sea life. The
ocean ecosystem can't afford this
destruction.
Sea creatures have more than enough
trouble living with pollution and propeller
strikes, without being killed by nets for no
reason at all.
Have the courage to confront the vested
interests and think of our children's future
with barren seas.
Richard
Savoy
Boston
Massachusetts
Kelly
Mack
Boston
Massachusetts
Christine
b
anne
juan
Katrina
Irene
mindy
Phyllis
Mariana
Victoria
Priscilla
toni
Vidya
Carol
Debra
Gail
Christopher
Kathryn
Sheila
Nikolay
Joseph
Dan
Michele
lisa
meghan
Stephanie
craig
Jeff
Eliot
Pamela
Robert
Amisano
coniglio
detweiler
enriquez
Gold
Knight
maxwell
Miller
Ovalle
Schechinger
Shade
siegrist
Sivan
Berkeley
Pinkham
Holbrook
Miller
Boland
Enright
Moltchanoph
Nelson
Yazbek
Billadeau
giusti
follansbee
Clark
webster
Gifford
Schickler
Barlow
Petersen
Boston
boston
boston
Boston
Boston
Boston
boston
Boston
Boston
Boston
Boston
boston
Boston
BOXFORD
Boxford
Bradford
Brewster
Brighton
Brighton
Brighton
Brighton
Brighton
Brockton
Brockton
Brook line
Brookfield
brookfield
BROOKLINE
Brookline
Cam
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Sus
Magdanz
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Abigail
Alexis
Correia
Rizzuto
Cambridge
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Hannes
susan
Wendy
James
Brachmann
earle
Feign
Koger
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
cambridge
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Please use your power to put a swift end to
the odious practice of using gill nets. The
earth and its resources are dying at a
sufficiently alarming rate such that it needs
no further help from us. Let's do what we
can while we still can.
Thank you for your attention to this urgent
matter. It is a long time overdue to make this
happen for the sea creatures it will hugely
benefit.
Keep your promise!
Please stop this tragic waste of life of so
many non-target species.
There are other ways to catch fish without
causing death for the dolphins turtles and
whales
This is absurd.
We are living in a time when our wildlife and
biodiversity are being decimated on land and
sea. A whale drowning in a fishing net is a
preventable death. Please act to prevent it.
David
Ben
Kathy
Steve
Larry
john
K
Louis
Holly F.
Patricia
jacqueline
Teller
Umans
Walker
Wineman
Crump
schaechter
Ryder
Drinkwater
Malarney
Connors
bacon
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
Canton
canton
Chatham
Chelsea
Chelsea
Chicopee
Clinton
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Deborah
Rebecca
Coviello
Tippens
Clinton
Colrain
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Francene
Amari-Faulkner
Concord
Massachusetts
Ying
Cheryl
Ken
Donald
Cooper
Petrone
Reeves
Walker
Concord
Concord
Concord
Conway
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Diane
Melissa
Carol
Gail
Clayton
Fleming
Robinson
Skinner-Brassard
danvers
Danvers
Dorchester
Dracut
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
JOANNA
Jack
Sara
Julie
Ronald
Lawrence
Vutha
CUTTING-BRADY
Martinelli
Trayser
Guarino
Hammarstrom Jr
Dingman
Hean
DRACUT
Duxbury
Duxbury
East Boston
East Weymouth
Eastham
Easthampton
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Karen
MELISSA
Miller
BEAULAC
Fall River
FITCHBURG
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
There is no need to continue this outdated
and cruel practice and it should be stopped
and those who use it should be fined and
brought to court for animal cruelty
This is a tragedy born of greed,
carelessness and disrespect. If you are
going to fish, one needs to be a true
fisherman, and respect the animals whose
lives you are taking to sustain others' and
their habitats. This rapacious, netting has
got to be made illegal. Are we to be real
sportsmen or just killers for greed...i mean,
that is what it is.
Every effort must be made to remove these
from our oceans.
Mining the oceans inevitably leads to scarcity
and extirpation of the resource. Drift gill nets
do not contribute to good management.
Fishing should be restricted to BEST
practices, not easy ones.
There really is no excuse to justify these
nets. Please outlaw their use.
If we can be a leader in the world in showing
more compassion for our oceans, the blue
heart of our planet, as pioneer Sylvia Earle
would say, maybe others nations will follow
as well. Please. The time is now. Our
oceans are dying. We are killing off species
after species.
Mark
Judith
Jarlath
Kouniotis
Embry
Crowe
Florence
Florida
Foxboro
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Frank
Pilholski
Framingham
Massachusetts
Vafa
Sebastian
christy
Ansarifar
Leu
park
framingham
Framingham
gloucester
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
lana
Peggy
Christine
Richard
Gretel
Lawrence
Fifi
Allyssa
Kristopher
Colleen
Alice
nancy
Peter
Shawn
Beth
Kelly
Charles
david j.
Kathy
d
Dennis
Jeannette
Susan
Dawna
Priscilla
sarah
kathy
Dalit
Michael
Herman
Leslie G
Kathleen
Dawn M.
Olivier
Andrew
Herbert
Jane
Norma
matter
Kocoras
Guerrero
Warren
Clark
Walker
Ball
Kvenvold
Kvenvold
Kvenvold
Kelley
burger
Kahigian
Murphy
Fairservis
Brewer
Rapport
lafond
Chakoutis
cohen
Rogers
Szabo
Grant
Francis
Herrington
arsenault
holland medanic
Rabinovitch
Rivard
Diaz
Baker
Medina
Bertelli
Resca
Lenz
Korn
Luu
Capparrille
gloucester
Granby
Great Barrington
Halifax
Hamilton
Hanover
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harwich
haverhill
Haverhill
Haverhill
Haydenville
Holden
Holliston
Holyoke
Hopedale
Hopkinton
Hubbardston
Hudson
Humarock
Hyannis
Ipswich
Jamaica Plain
jamaica plain
Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain
jp
Lenox
LENOX
Lenox Dale
Lenox Dale
Leverett
Lexington
Lexington
Leyden
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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I'm a retired US FWS employee, who spent
30 years trying to save the endangered fish
species. Our success rate was pretty small
despite our great efforts. The free range gill
nets are a great insult to these wildlife of the
Pacific Ocean, as well as other seas.
Please stop this senseless, mindless,
indiscriminate & unintentional killing.
There is no reason to use gill nets now that
we know the harm they cause.
This is horrible, please fix this!
Terry
King
lincoln
Massachusetts
John
ruth
JM
Madeline
Sheila
Kim
Richard
Shai-Dre
Danya
Richard
Lynch
Mendelson
Cantino
Loder
Miller
Zwicker
Cushman
Dillard
Kuperstein
Dolan
Lincoln
lincoln
Littleton
Longmeadow
Longmeadow
Lynn
Lynn
LYNN
Lynnfield
Malden
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Meaghan
David
Colleen
Alfred
Sorce
LaForge
Wade
Wilson
Malden
Manchester
Mansfield
Marblehead
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Constance
Almy
Marblehead
Massachusetts
Robert
Jean
Berry
Sim
Marion
Marlboro
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
We must look ahead at our actions now and
how they will impact future harvests from our
oceans.
This has got to stop!
Stop hurting and killing animals!
Using gill nets is highly inefficient, given the
progress of technology and resources
available for research into better means of
catching food for human consumption. The
fishing industry needs to learn to adapt with
change and go with the punches. The
government doesn't provide aid to workers in
the construction industry when housing
demand fluctuates, so why are fisherman
granted so much leniency? The work of
scientists is constantly checked and
doubted, so more government funding is
needed to provide scientists with the tools
needed to develop more sustainable fishing
methods.
This needs to be stopped!!!!! ASAP!!!!!!
A ridiculous and damaging way to hunt
fish.nLike we should just keep doing it until
someone finds a better way or until we
empty the seas of things to catch? It's like
throwing explosives in a river to catch
salmon! (But that might make some salmon
fishers rich, and support their families and
enable them to pay taxes, etc. To think that
our Government - the richest in the world would continue a practice that seriously
endangers so many of the planet's most
remarkable creatures! SHAME on the
Pacific Fishery Management Council for
taking such a narrow, anachronistic view of
the Ocean it is meant to help safeguard.
Please save the turtles, whales and
dolphins!
Claire
Schneider
Marshfield
Massachusetts
Michael
Fred
John
Sullivan
Kozak
Paone
Marshfield Hills
Marstons Mills
Mashpee
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
So
Hilary
Megan
ELIZABETH
Dennis
Deirdre
Mary
Andrea
Susan
LAUREN
Pilar
Frank
Desiree
Francine
Mike
Barry
Dave
James K
allen
Meyer
Hathaway
SHUMAN
Stein
Morris
Nott
Spence
Drees
ROTONDO
Quintana
Fontaine
Johnson
Traniello
Dalesio
De Jasu
Gladstone
Hadcroft
mashpee
Mashpre
Mattapoisett
Maynard
Medfield
Medford
Medford
Medway
Melrose
MELROSE
Methuen
Middleboro
Middleboro
Middleboro
Milford
Montague
Montague
N. Falmouth
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Suzanne
Marie
Sybil
J
Michelle
valerie
d
Barbara
Sullivan
Gildehaus
Schlesinger
boucher
Pattridge
clark
muraco
Russek
N.Falmouth
Nantucket
Natick
natick
Natick
Needham
needham
New Bedford
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
ameke
L. J.
Cecile
Lara
Peg
john
Marianne
Joseph
J.C.
baptiste
Lanfranchi
Rooney
Henderson
Herlihy
rhodes
Vesey
Carson
Horsburgh
New Bedford
New Braintree
New milford
NEWBURYPORT
Newburyport
newburyport
Newburyport
Newton
Newton
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Let us throw the captors in, have them sink
or swim. Then throw their wives and
children into the nets! HOOP! HOOP! Hurrah
Maybe they would not only learn but grow,
when they lose someone! These people,
who KILL, should not be allowed to have
their families live.
The use of these nets has gone on long
enough. Their use needs to be eliminated at
a faster pace.
It's time to stop attacking our oceans!
Save our sea life and our seas.
I am a Veteran, Active Voter and TaxPayer.
As a Veteran I put my life on the line for
Democracy. This missive is Democracy in
action. Please help stop the plutocratic take
over and save American Democracy and the
middle class.
We must act now to protect our oceans.
it's time this careless, destructive means of
fishing was ended. The loss of marine life for
pure profit is a crime.
Put the animals before human greed.
Stop throttling the bycatch!
Virginia
Donald
claire
Jennifer
Danielle
Christine
Monja
Diane
Robinson
Yurt
nivola
Salhus
Miele
Canning
Lacasse
Dana
Newton
Newton
newton highlands
Norfolk
North Andover
North Attleboro
North attleboro
North Easton
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Casey
Tracy
janice
Rona
Mushkin
Jones
carduner
Leventhal
North Reading
North Weymouth
northampton
Northampton
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
GIB
CHASE
Northborough
Massachusetts
Harriet
Clifford
debbie
Forman
Phillips
Ahern
Northbridge
Northfield
norton
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Michael
Laura
Finch
Troll
Oakham
Onset
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Marjie
Susan
Tina
Jeanne
Carolyn
Nagle
Sturgeon
Yaskell
Giles
Villanova
Peabody
Peabody
Peabody
Pelham
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Barbara
Tully
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
Tammy
June
Rebecca
elaine
Hayward
Stewart
Strout
finase
Pittsfield
Pittsfield
Pittsfield
plainville
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Please please find alternatives to this
method of commercial fishing. We know
better than to fish like this.
PLEASE honor your commitment.
This has been going on for DECADES! I
can't believe we are still dealing with this
issue!
Gill nets have been and are a major
destruction of marine life. Our ocean
biological recources are under constant
assult and marine fish populations, sea
turtles and sea mammals are all impacted by
gill nets as are sea birds. There is no
reason to be employing these destructive
practices when are marine life is continually
dwindeling before our very eyes. Abolish
this practice and given some fish and other
life forms a chance to recover. This fishing
methods goes directly against good
management, sustainability and
conservation of our natural resources.
This should not happen it is inhumane to sea
mammals sharks turtles ect
I thought we took care of things like this
when we went without eating tuna for years
decades ago. Perhaps it's time for another
boycott if this petition doesn't do the job.
Please do all that is necessary. Thank you.
These nets are a disaster for ocean
creatures.
Ashley
Curtin
Plymouth
Massachusetts
Richard
Sherry
Karen
Don
Eugene
jeanne
Marie-Louise
Kathleen
Nancy
Lynn
Gary
Nancy
IRENE
John
Matthew Carter
Stephen
William
Stephanie
Anita
Nilah M.
Walt
Paul
elana
Linda
Amy
Bruce
Michael
Wayne
William
Donald
Donald
Karla
jack
Anne
susanne
Karen
John
Christine
Kelly
kelly
Sankey
Rubin
Brusin
gowe
Jackson-Miller
Lewis
Nolan
Rogler
Thaler
Hendrickson
FOLEY
Hess
Matthew Carter
Snyder
Dearstyne
Marco
Murray
MacDonald
Luerken
Lauenstein
katz rose
Orel
McCoy
deGraaf
Lambert
Cordes
Cromwick
Cronin
Williams
Huard
longo
Nyman
richey
Vayda
Kosiorek
Roane
Plymouth
plymouth
Plymouth
Plympton
Quincy
quincy
Quincy
Quincy
Reading
Rehoboth
Revere
Rockport
Roslindale
Roslindale
Rowley
Roxbury
Salem
Salem
Saugus
Scituate
Seekonk
Sharon
sharon
Sharon
Shelburne Falls
Shrewsbury
So. Deerfield
So. Hadley
Somerville
Somerville
Somerville
South Barre
south chatham
South Deerfield
south hamilton
Southampton
Springfield
Springfield
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Dylan
Nancy
Ken
Jodi
Anne
Jenn
Paul
Stephen
Nancy
Susan
sherry
Ellen
Jones
Jones
McKay
Rodar
Valdez
Luksha
Henry
La Serra
Woolley
Schwartz
weiland
Rice
Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
Sterling
Stoneham
Stoneham
Stoughton
Sturbridge
sudbury
Sunderland
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
We need to stop this...we are endangering
these creatures even further. This needs to
stop before its too late to make a difference.
Drift nets kill everything.
Imagine yourself cought up in a net
Stop indiscriminate killing of sea life!
End this madness
This is a disaster and you can stop it
We can, and must, prevent the wanton
killing of all these sea creatures.
JAKE
SCHWARTZ
SWAMPSCOTT
Massachusetts
Lynn
JAKE
Linda
Gwen
Bethanie
Biddle
SCHWARTZ
Waine
Young
Petitpas
Swampscott
SWAMPSCOTT
Taunton
Templeton
Tewkbury
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Alfred
Nancy
Judith
gina
steve
richard
Debbie
janique
James M.
Correne
Nathanael
brooke
Jane
Mancini
Carringer
Beers
johansen
schatvet
collins
Koundry
o'shea
Connors
George
Pine
muggia
Penn
Tewksbury
Tyngsboro
Wakefield
wakefield
walpole
waltham
Waltham
waltham
Watertown
Watertown
WATERTOWN
wellesely
Wellesley
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
RICHARD J
SAVIDGE
WELLFLEET
Massachusetts
Jean
Lena
Julie
Steven
Jennifer
marcy
Paige
Suzanne
Renee
Brian
Patricia
Peter
Tina
Victoria
Felicity
Dorothy
Michael
David
William
george
Forward
Fransioli
Kennie
Kennie
McNeil
klapper
Dickinson
Sheldon
Giusti
Kolek
Randazzo
Beves
Michael-Dahlmann
Olson
Botwinik
Anderson
Bates
Murphy
Parr
sommers
Wendell
Wenham
West Dennis
West Dennis
West Roxbury
west tisbury
Westfield
Westfield
Westford
Westford
Westford
Westminster
Westport
Westport
Westwood
Weymouth
Weymouth
Weymouth
Weymouth
weymouth
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
PLEASE DO MUCH MORE TO GET RID
OF THESE DESTRUCTIVE GILL NETS.
NOW......PLEASE!
fundamentally indiscriminate. Please, do the
right thing and stop the use of drift gill nets.
Thank you
We all depend on healthy ocean
ecosystems. Please act immediately to end
wasteful & needless marine deaths through
bycatch from drift gill nets. We're all
watching.
PLEASE LET US DO AWAY WITH
FISHING THAT KILLS BI-CATCH,THANKS,
SINCERELY, RICHARD JAMES
SAVIDGE,FISHERMAN.
Save the fish!
Save the fish.
steven
weinstein
whately
Massachusetts
Nancy
Katrin
Schechterle
Winterer
Wilbraham
Winchester
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Mike
Marguerite
bonnie
Moira
McKenna
Cambria
stevens
Ashleigh
Winchester
Winthrop
woburn
Woburn
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Paul
judy
Roger
Foisy
stetson
Karr
Woburn
Woods Hole
Worcester
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
David G.
Elizabeth
Anna
Szymon
Cathy
Daniel
Anne
Art
Laramie
Charlton
Stolecka
Stolecki
Cook
Fewster
Frederick
Sweeny
Worcester
Yarmouth Port
Warszawa
Warszawa
Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore
Chestertown
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Mazowieckie
Mazowieckie
MD
MD
MD
MD
Merry
Joan
Bruce
Lane
Paul
Guben
Boros
Blum
Page
McGuire
Chestertown
Chevy Chase
Columbia
Columbia
Frederick
MD
MD
MD
MD
MD
I am outraged that an agency named Pacific
Fishery Management Council is allowing
countless mammals like whales and other
endangered species to be drowned and
asphixiated just to save a few more dollars
for the swordfishing industry. That is totally
unacceptable to me, and instead more
humane and up to date methods of
swordfish catch need to be substituted, and
the faster the better. Why are governmental
agencies always so slow, and so swayed by
lobby groups, to not do what is urgently
needed, and allow unacceptable
environmental damage to be done and be
ongoing.
It is time to transition commercial fishing for
Pacific swordfish away from drift gill nets
toward more environmentally sustainable
types of fishing gear. Please follow through
on your commitment.
Please find a better option. Thank you
These nets are stripping the ocean of way
too many things. They are cruel, abusive and
unsustainable.
With technologies available today that will
allow for more selective catch, there is no
reason for this grossly antiquated type/style
of fishing. I also believe there should be low
to no interest loans from the feds that will
allow these fleets to upgrade their gear for
the purpose of a more sustainable fishery.
The same issue for draggers MUST be
addressed here on the east coast. They are
destroying the ground fishery habitat in the
GOM.
Stop the indiscriminate wasteful killing that
drift nets cause!
Lisa
White
Fruitland
MD
Ryan
Beverly
Georgina
James
Beth
Bradley
Lewis
Forester
Welms
Levine
Greenbelt
Halethorpe
Montgomery Village
Parkville
Rockville
MD
MD
MD
MD
MD
Mike
Schneible
Rockville
MD
Gracinda
Raymond
Christine
Rodrigues
Arent
Grewell
Severn
Severna Park
Silver Spring
MD
MD
MD
Jim
Michael & Kathryn
Moselle
Elizabeth
Ronald
ronald
Jack
Yvette
Laura
Rebeca
Colette
jamie
dionne
Ilene
Nancy
Anna
Cyndee
Robert
Richard
Kristine
Fary
Kevany
Milner
Baer
Lockwood
bougie
Hayes
Pratt
De la Garza
Steinberg
Slade
fisk
toye
Kazak
Taylor
Brewer
Kott
Van Kolken
Booth
Moy
Silver Spring
Silver Spring
Silver Spring
St Michaels
White Plains
Auburn
Portland
South Portland
Sant Cugat
Mexico
Ann Arbor
Bay City
Belleville
Detroit
Flushing
Fountain
Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids
Grosse Ile
Grosse Pointe
MD
MD
MD
MD
MD
ME
ME
ME
Mexico
México
MI
MI
MI
MI
MI
MI
MI
MI
MI
MI
JAN
Pamela
gail
Art
Natalie
Denise
Robert
Clarette
William
Wayne
PAYNE
Green
walter
Hanson
Hanson
Hawkins
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Jackson
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Holly
Melissa
Judith
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Woelke
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ELAINE
David
MICHAELS
Dodd
Shelby Twp
Southfield
MI
MI
These gill nets are no more than DEATH
TRAPS for whales, dolphins, sea turtles
ect...
I'm vegan for the animals and the
environment. Please see Cowspiracy.
Stop the use of drift gill nets and save the
ocean
Only take what you need. No more drift gill
nets that take everything they reach.
The oceans and sealife need our help now
to survive. We need to do the right thing for
the environment not for profit.
It took decades, but we got nearly all gill nets
out of the Great Lakes. We need to do the
same for Oceans.
You are killing endangered animals. Please
stop the killing.
Janet
Jennifjer
linda
Carol
Peterson
Warrow
marble
Rahbari
Troy
MI
Washington Township
MI
Webberville
MI
Ypsilanti
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Carol
SUTLIFF
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Ilene
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laura
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Thomas
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James
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Donald
Michael
Vicki
Julie
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Conley
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Jan
Karen
Ebersole
Allmond
Chesterfield
China Township
Michigan
Michigan
48806 Michigan
Michigan
Michigan
Drift gill nets should be banned all together.
With so many species in trouble, it's
unconscionable to use these dangerous and
wasteful nets.
Drift nets kill indiscriminately. They must not
be allowed indiscriminately.
Please, respect life and stop the killing.
STOP USING DRIFT GILL NETS !!
This is the answer to potential extinction of
some dolphins.
DRIFT GILL NETS CATCH ANYTHING
AND EVERYTHING IN THEIR PATH! WAS
A SENSELESS WAY TO MURDER
BILLIONS OF OCEAN CREATURES
NEEDLESSLY AND CRUELLY!
Leanne
Glygoroff
Clarkston
Michigan
Nicole
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Monique
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D
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Barbara
Nancy
David
James
Christine
linda
William
Joseph
Liliana
Joy
Jackie
Susan
Peggy
Cogar
Sims
Musialowski
Baier
Haltom
moray-brach
La Fleur
Siepierski
Gilleo
Less
wilcox
Becker
getchel
Haggerty
Hess
Lettieri
Torrenga
Collins
Inman
Malnati
Clinton
Clinton Township
Clinton Twp
Dearborn
Dearborn
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Dearborn Heights
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dundee
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East Lansing
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Richardson
Farmington Hills
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Susan
Nancy
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Jennifer
Stephan
Patty
Pam
bonnie
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Taylor
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Reame
Kopacz
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hill
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ann
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Please stop killing innocent animals. They
deserve to live just like you think you do.
It's time to stop the use of drift gill nets,
which have the unintended consequence of
catching species that fishermen aren't trying
to catch -- many of them endangered
species. There are more efficient and
humane alternatives.
Please helo save the lives of these whales
clean up tge dtift nets
Please keep on doing everything you can to
stop the use of drift gill nets. Too many other
marine animals are being caught and are
dying because of them.
The nets HAVE to go!!!!!!!
WE CAN ONLY HOPE
Wendi
beth
Carol
Gordon
Ramon
Sylvia
Virginia
Mary
margaret
Timothy
Tris
James
Herb
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reimel
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Smith
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Cook
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beck
Schacht
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Bess
Glahn
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Michigan
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tryles
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Foster
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Jackson
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Wilson
Jackson
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Bradley
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Andrew
Sharon
Jessamine
Heather
Elise
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Richard
Donna
Tom
Philip
Amy
Frederica
M
Caler
Graham
Marshall
Liefer
Caron
Belland
Benac
de Doncker
Farris
Gilman
Miller
Almer
Henderson
Lindstrom
Steller
Leszczynski
Jackson
Jackson
Jackson
Jenison
Kalamazoo
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Thomas
Charles
Lilly
Misty
MacFarlane
Dineen
Mahaney
Jackson
Lawrence
Lawton
Leland
Leslie
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan
Gill netting in the Great Lakes ended years
ago. Consider the improvements that
decision made.
Come on people you need to start caring
about these animals. Get some sense & a
brain.
This is torture and murder. Use the
alternatives. Please.
It can be done...it needs to be done!
Gill nets are a greedy and careless way to
fish. If the lives of other creatures are taken,
the way one is fishing needs to be corrected
to preserve our ocean environment.
Cynthia
Twyla
Sally
Josh
Gary
Theresa M.
melissa
Danny
Loree
Cynthia
Sherman-Jones
Douaire
Peck
Smith
Purcell
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kadri
Kline
Stinson
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SMITH
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MELVINDALE
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Sharon
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William
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Jill
greg
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Farmer
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clark
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We continue to fight the same fights. Is
anyone winning? Or are we all losing?
This method of fishing catches way too
many other species of marine life. It is time
to stop this.
seriously, are drift gill nets the best we can
do? then we don't deserve to survive as a
species.
No more using drift gill nets...too many other
marine animals die because of their use.
Please.
All of these marine animals
Our marine animals must be saved
Robert
Thomson
Southfield
Michigan
Ashley
Albrecht
Southfield
Michigan
Gary
juana
Vanessa
Karen
Jean
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Kyle
Bradley
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nancy
Sue
Elaine
Anita
Margaret
Michael
Michael
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Terri
Mary
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Katherine
Robert
Tara
Steven
Dave
LaClair
medina
Clarey
Anderson
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Janicki
Mastalier
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Houseworth
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Susan
drew
Matt
Bryan
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Susan
Barbara
Douglas
Robin
Juliann
Robert
evelyn
Brown
Puscheck
hempel
Johnson
Wyberg
Schneider
Jobe
Zdarsky
Stephen
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Rule
McManus
boeckman
Ypsilanti
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Michigan
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Gill nets kill all trapped animals. They
should be outlawed.
Stop using nets , you are killing off other
marine life!!!
Please stop this needless killing.
Please be humane in all your actions
These poor animals have enough trouble
with all the pollution we've poisoned their
world with. Can we maybe stop torturing
them to death as well?
It is just plain WRONG!!
A beating heart is more important than a
penny in the pocket.
April
Narcisse
Bloomington
Minnesota
Jon
Linda
kosiak
Hayes
bloomington
Brooklyn Center
Minnesota
Minnesota
Dean
Hugh
Todd
Christiane
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Renee
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Nicole
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Dreeszen
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Schmidt
Klemm
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Duluth
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Eagan
Eagan
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Edina
Excelsior MN 55331
Fairmont
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Minnesota
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Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
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Terry
shelly
Janna
Kokesch
Evans
Kranz
Neperud
Gibbon
Golden Valley
Hastiings
Inver Grove Heights
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Minnesota
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John
Pulkrabek
Fitzgerald
Inver Grove Heights Minnesota
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Liebn
Lake City
Minnesota
Mert
Lassonde
LAKEVILLE
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Drift gill nets are too damaging to many
forms of life that are not intended to be
caught in the nets. We can not afford to lose
any more wildlife in this haphazard way.
Please transition from drift gill nets to a more
sustainable method of catching intended
target fish. Thank you!
It is unacceptable to treat the ocean's wildlife
this way. I don't know why this kind of
fishing was ever allowed but it must be
stopped.
Do the right thing now.
Our seas are already being depleted of
some species. We should certainly do all we
can to keep the surviving fishes alive.
Pls. do end the use of drift gill nets...bad and
outdated, really wasteful:-(
It is time to end this wasteful, indiscriminate
and unsustainable form of fishing. It is
immoral, an insult to future generations and
will eventually collapse the ocean ecosytem.
Better alternatives are available. Please
implement them.
PLEASE, start doing what is right for this
world and its inhabitants.
Jean
Mary
Ordell
MK
Jessica
Steve
Jim
Joseph
Lenore
Lewandowski
Madeco-Smith
Vee
Smith MD
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Steele
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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
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Winkelman
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laura
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Kim
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Arthur
Matthew
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itman
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Jane
Chet
Kay
nancy
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Les
heidi
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Ball
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ahlstrand
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Raleigh
Koritz
PLYMOUTH
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Endangered sea creatures need the
maximum help now, including protections
from wasteful drift gill-nets. They need to be
banned immediately.
Gill nets remind me of greed gone rampant,
not caring who gets hurt in the process.
This practice is not good. Please help end it.
Life in the oceans continues to dwindle.
Please get rid of this wasteful, tragic death
trap.
If there is a better way, use it.
These kill too many unintended fish and
that's not OK
This needs to stop. There is an alternative
to replace drift gill nets.
Allyson
Kimberly
Kris
Robert
Jenna
Wendy
Harper
Nieman
Hermel
Wohlberg
Behnke
Moylan
Plymouth
Plymouth
Prior Lake
Richfield
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Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
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Dawn
Kathy
Jon
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Gaby
cindy
Catharine
Alexander
Bissonnette
Demaske
Magne
Read
Walsh
Roth
page
McEachern
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Saint Paul
Saint Paul
Saint Paul
Saint Paul
Saint Paul
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sherburn
St Paul
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Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
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Carole
kathy
Natalie
Densmore
Feray
johnson
Mickelson
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Jon
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barfknecht
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Webster
Minnesota
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Paul
Alana
Aimee
Kathleen
Stu
Kristina
Ed
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Thomas
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Willroth
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Moraski
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Norman
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Thiele
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It is far past time to make this change, and
with climate changes affecting the ocean, it
is critical humans reduce other stresses to
ocean life immediately!
Can you imagine how horrible drowning
would be?? I don't even want to think about
these innocent animals being trapped!
Emptying the oceans of marine life will spell
the starvation of the future world.
instead of focusing on immediate profits
please focus on sustainability and an
environmental future
While commercial fishing does a great job of
helping to feed the planet, it should be done
in such a way that many other marine sea
life dies.
Susan
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Ashley
Paul
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Elizabeth
Carl
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Please help before more damage is done.
What kind of sub human trash are those
fishermen ? To catch a particular fish, they
are responsible for the murder of innocent
fish that they do not want. They need to go
into another line of work. Those useless,
greedy, money hungry pieces of garbage.
Do they think that they will be able to take
the money they make & be happy ? The
blood of the innocent God's creatures will not
let them rest & be happy. Thank you.
Drift Gill nets are a hazard to ocean life.
Please ban them!
Please make this happen sooner rather than
later.
PLEASE STOP using Drift Gill Nets and
killing these majestic animals...IT IS NOT
NECESSARY!!!
Have a heart!
Stop hunting whales
Please, please develop an alternate way of
catching swordfish. Thank-you kindly.
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Drift nets kill unneeded victims like sharks
and dolphins and whales. Stop using them!!!
STOP USING DRIFT NETS!!!!
We must preserve our ocean life
Gill nets are inhumane and cruel with the
suffering they cause. Indiscriminate killing
everything and anything that comes its way
for what? Greedy people wanting money.
What are you going to do if you don't change
and destroy everything in the oceans? I'm
not eating seafood any more until better
practices are adopted.
Julie
Glenn
Saint Louis
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Reese
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CAROL
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Please help save these creatures. If we don't
who will?
Why are gill nets still in use? You and I both
know that they are inefficient and result in
millions of tons of bycatch deaths annually.
There are better methods that are more
environmentally friendly that must be utilized
to help preserve our marine life.
Every individual of every species has a right
to be and a right to safe habitat; eliminate
drift gill nets from the home of marine
species.
Please move away from these horrible drift
gill nets.
You know drift gill nets are indiscriminate
killers so why don't you show some common
sense and devise a more selective gear that
doesn't entrap and kill whales, turtles and
dolphins!
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We NEED to PROTECT all of our MARINE
LIFE in every way possible!!
Stop using drift gill nets!
Everything will be extinct soon. We can't kill
life fast enough!!
Please stop the use of these nets. Have
seen too many times whales being caught some not even able to get to the surface to
breath because of the nets weighting them
or tied around them. PLEASE help these
beautiful creatures.
driftnets are decimating the fish populations
of target fish and non-they are equal
opportunity destroyers of life and should be
banned.
We have already depleted the ocean of too
many fish in our greed for profit, stop this
destructive practice.
Sandi
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Butte
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Elizabeth
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Miller
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joan
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jeanne
Clarke
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Our oceans and marine life are in danger
due to the acidification in our oceans, over
fishing, and endless garbage that ends up in
our waters. Please, lets give our marine
life every chance at life. Thank you.
Something needs to be done about this, let's
get something done.
Drift gill nets catch anything that swims and
does great damage to non-food species and
marine mammals. Please stop the use of
drift gill nets!
As a private citizen concerned about the
unsustainable impact we as a species are
having on our fellow earthlings, I implore you
to use your management policy to mandate
a ban on the use of drift nets in the capture
of Pacific Swordfish.
Stop the killing of various sea creatures with
these gill nets! Things must change as we
can no longer do the things from the past
especially when it kills animals or fish!
Stop the unacceptable levels of bycatch
Huge drift gill nets are obscene and should
be outlawed. It is your job to eliminate this
horrible amount of endangered species as
bycatch. Swordfish are too endangered to
be fished this way anyway.
I strongly support this issue
Manuel
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If our critical fisheries are to be sustained,
we have to employ technologically sound
and sustainable fishing methods. Drift gill
nets are NOT a sustainable fishing
technology. The use of this method needs to
stop now. Thank you.
Many believe that as the oceans go, so goes
our survivor status. But these nets are
irresponsible and we can do the right thing!
Encourage the more sustainableTransition
from Drift Gill Nets to Cleaner, More
Sustainable Alternatives. Quick action is
needed. In fact it is overdue.
drift gill nets are no good in todays
environment
Please be aware of the danger to whales
and sea turtles at risk. We must not lose
these important creatures.
Stop this wasteful practice.
Suzan
Dini
Ica
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Booth
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Young
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Our oceans have increasing problems such
as over fishing of certain species,
temperature increases, growing acidity,
increased pollution, sea level rise, little
understood issues like sea star death to
name one. What is known is the need for
strong biodiversity amongst animal and fish
species and the interdependence of all
marine life.
Drift gill nets are harmful and inefficient let's save our oceans and our own resources
with smart methods.
Drift nets are a menace to sea life
The trapping of marine mammals in drift gill
nets not only causes declines in populations but suffocation and or injury - constitutes
animal cruelty and must be seen as such.
New standards as to consequences of
fishing practices must be undertaken and we
should lead a global effort to do so.
These nets are cruel and need to be
outlawed. The time has come!
An obvious analogy would be if we were to
have miles of spring-loaded leg traps of all
sizes throughout all our forests, filled with
whatever luckless animals were dying in
them. Thank goodness we have learned to
treat the land with a bit more conscious
awareness.
Susan
Fong
Las Vegas
Nevada
Drift gill nets are deadly to many species of
marine life including sea turtles, dolphins,
seals, etc. Please STOP THE USE OF
DRIFT GILL NETS PERMANENTLY in the
ocean. We are losing wildlife in abundance.
Please help wildlife by ending the use of drift
gill nets forever!
Ianca
Beyer
Las Vegas
Nevada
CYNTHIA
PRIVITERA
LAS VEGAS
Nevada
Patricia
Baley
Las Vegas
Nevada
Gladys
Rosemary
Rhoads
Swartz
LAS VEGAS
Las Vegas
Nevada
Nevada
Insanity needs to end. Our beautiful animals
will soon be extinct.
NOTHING deserves to die literally fighting
for their lives and drown doing so.
These walls of death must be taken down
permanently!
this nets do more harm then help to you.
We must be good stewards of this planet!!!
Liz
Thompson
LAS VEGAS
Nevada
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Connie
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WHAT A HORRIFIC, NEEDLESS ENDING
FOR THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES YOU
ARE KILLING WITH YOU INSANE
NETS...STOP THE INSANITY! LET THEM
LIVE!
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Carrick
Reno
Nevada
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Gillaspy
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Aldrich
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire
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Rebecca Lynn
Mullen
schaefer
Dreller
AMHERST
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Sederquest
Chester
New Hampshire
DRIFT GILL NETS ARE AN
ENVIRONMENT DISASTER WAITING TO
HAPPEN. KEEPING OUR OCEAN
CRITTERS HEALTHY & ABUNDANT
REQUIRES RESPONSIBLE
MANAGEMENT. BAN THE DRIFT GILL
NETS!!!!! ELAINE CARRICK
It is time to move past drift gill nets and
develop technology that will not harm other
innocent creatures.
It's time to start respecting our one and only
home and the many beings that inhabit it.
Please end the harmful practice of using drift
gill nets.
Please have mercy
We have to stop raping and pillaging our
planet's resources and treating the ocean
like a sewer and landfill. All life deserves to
live. Humans are headed to extinction
because humans have caused so many life
forms to go extinct.
save the turttles
How horrible to use these still. It should end
now.
Drift gill nets are cruel for ALL ocean
creatures. They are akin to people taking
bubble baths with plugged in toasters.
Outlaw them ALL. NOW.
Surely with the near daily advancement of
technologies there is a better way.
Every year spent attempting to make
incremental improvements will delay the
necessary transition to cleaner and more
sustainable alternatives.
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This is just bad all the way around!!!!
Decency and Compassion Please do the
right thing. Thank you. Jane Bonkoski
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These Drift Gill Nets are lethal, they catch
any sea life in their midst. This is a horrible
act. Time to stop this and be responsible
and think of the sea life you are
endangering.
Indiscriminate is the key word. But think of
the concentrated evil of the Japanese et al.
in their concentrated murder of the beautiful
DOLPHINS, i.e KNOWN since ancient times
for saving boaters/swimmers in distress...
Shannon
G
MR. & MRS. BRUCEREVESZ
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Soteropoulos
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Drift Gill Nets kill many, too many, of the
animals in the Seas. We must find another
way to fish. Too much killing.
Please see that all sea creatures
No more gill nets Please!
Stacey
Jane
Linda
Nicole
Ruth
Lascinda
Alan
aymara
Baldassare
Wood
Davidson
McKillip
Cruz
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andre
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Please reconsider this outdated method.
This cannot continue our oceans are already
depleted sharks whales and turtles cannot
be killed indiscriminately
No more profits over humanity.
i am very much into protecting fish. our
marine life needs protection
Please do the right and moral thing!!!
Please Stop the use of Drift Gill Nets.
Please end allowing the use of these deadly
drift nets.
We are smarter than we pretend to be.
Don't pretend to be unintelligent do the right
thing based on credible research and
common sense. Ban gill nets.
Linda
Patricia
Marticek
Mathis
Ho-Ho-Kus
Holmdel
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Rose
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How can any enlightened person or country
still use these nets, knowing the deadly
consequences.
My opinion is that it's bad enough that they
catch swordfish, however, everything else
that is entangled in the trap makes me sick
to even hear about it!
This is such an obscenely wasteful way of
fishing, there's no excuse to allow it to go on.
Gill nets are wasteful. The ocean's are not
as abundant any more.
Any vast spaces of ocean used for fishing is
overkill.
Killing countless whales, sea turtles, and
other marine species in drift gill nets must
stop. Fishing should not include senseless
slaughter.
Dave
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judy
marion
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SandyHook SeaLife Foundation supports
only selective swordfishing methods and is
opposed to drift gill nets.
This is so harmful for the ecological balance.
Do the right thing pls!
Responsible fishing is a must.
Indiscriminant methods need to stop
immediately.
PLEASE support this important request
We must stop this senseless killing of
innocent sea life now!
Human beings can no longer treat the
earth's natural resources this way. If we
continue, we'll be digging our own collective
grave.
Drift nets are a scourge in our oceans and
they should be outlawed.
Josette
Mo
Elise
Denise
Iris
Winifred
Le Beau
Kafka
Clyde
Gomolka
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Johanson
Neptune
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Kenneth
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This is so cruel and unnecessary
Stop the use of drift gill nets. They catch too
many other creatures and end up killing
them.
I am so sick of commercial fish profiteers
getting away with this large scale murder of
marine life. stop them now. noaa appears to
be their pimp
This is a no brain-er.... stop these nets they
are killing the ocean and its residents!!!!!!!
Please stop this practice and end this
unnecessary death.
We all know that drift gill nets kill all kinds of
marine species and we, as intelligent
humans, need to fish responsibly. Want to
catch swordfish? Use the proper pole and
bait. Don't use nets that kill anything and
everything just so you might get a swordfish!
This method is horribly wasteful!
Kristina
David
Susan
Carroll
Valerie
Crockett
Fisher
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Kimmins
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Rodriguez
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We must stop cruelty in all forms and places.
The lost, thrown away and all nets are a
danger to all creatures in the ocean and
need to be banned
Stop the murder of endangered sea
creatures.
Barbaric and cruel!
Thank you for urgently resolving this
problem.
We must take care of our oceans. If you
don't take action then who will? These are
defenseless creatures being caught
unnecessarily. Please stand up for them.
These gill nets are unacceptable. They are
an environmental catastrophe.
Joan
Faszczewski
Springfield
New Jersey
Can you make the nets a little safer for the
marine life. So They don't get caught.
Please do something.
Carol
Courtney
Clive
WILMA
Fred
Paul
Mavis
Montague
Amburg
Smith
DAVISON
Keen
Babicki
Rivera
Stockton
Stratford
Summit
TABERNACLE
Tenafly
Titusville
Toms river
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey
Susan
Rubin
Toms River
New Jersey
Save the Dolphins, Whales and Sharks now!
Robert
Schreib
Toms River
New Jersey
You are making entire species extinct, stop
it!
James
Debra
Jean
Nicholas
Carla
Warren
Mockaitis
Nacovsky
Toler
Mantas
Pereira
Grossman
Toms River
New Jersey
Toms River
New Jersey
Toms River
New Jersey
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Vladimir
Steph
marie
laura
Judy
Anthony
John
Kuznier
Plisko
Falkowski
riccardi
dickey
Fairless
Ivankovic
Gfrorer
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waldwick
Warren
Wayne
Wenonah
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Carol
Sandra
James
Robert
Robert
Mauro
Jamie
Ruth
Jennifer
S
Maura
Martina
Joni
Matthew
Joan
Jeanne T.
Joseph
Boucher
Kisieleski
Goldberg
Jonas
Veralli
Monia
Greer
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Smith
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Quit that shit.
Please let's be friendly to these iconic
marine animals. Let's stop using drift gillnets.
While the under-educated fishing fleets
continue to foul the oceans of this formerlywonderful planet, we of the public depend on
agencies like yours to correctly oversee and
supervise the process.
The more you delay, the more we lose.
Man's inhumanity to man is only eclipsed by
man's inhumanity to other living creatures.
Thank you for reading my letter...
Patricia
Kathy
Karen
Harris
Keating
Eicholtz
Woodbine
Woodbridge
Wyckoff
New Jersey
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New Jersey
Jennifer
Cheryl
Sharon
Laura
Kim
richard
Rodema
Parisi
Dzubak
Tozzi
Grossman
Foster
riger
Ashby
Wyckoff
Yardville
Yardville
Abq
Alamogordo
alb
Albuquerque
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New Mexico
Aimee
Williams
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Dan
Barkley
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Helen
V
sylvia
Alan
Cate
Richard E
Carlin
Rebecca
Amanda
Teresa
Jan
Herald
Karen
Reeve
Stephen
Priscilla
vikki
Elizabeth
Todd
Gordon
Ivan
Elisabeth
Victoria
Abraham
Alexander
anderson
Arnold
Clark
Cooley
Freeman
Gentry
Graham
Hammond
Jeffries
Johnson
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Love
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Martinez
melnick
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Parker III
Pfeifer
Price
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We are ruining this planet, exploiting the
animals, suctioning the last drop of energy.
It's us not the animals. We are the problem
and it is our responsibility the right the
wrongs. If we don't respect other life forms
from our own, we don't deserve this planet.
We will go extinct as every advanced
civilization before us but we will damage
every other species and the environment
before we end.
as goes the ocean, so goes the land & all
who live thereon. our lives are depending on
your taking action to end drift gill net fishing
now.
Gill Nets have been proven to be one of the
worst things we humans have done to ocean
dwellers. I do not believe we have the right
to destroy these creatures for our own greed
and pleasure. They are WRONG and should
be banned completely.
Please, for the sake of all ocean dwelling
animals I beg you to stop this terrible
practice.
Robert
Marilyn
Mike
Josh
Marian
Sydney
RACHEL
Doris
Marcia
Dennett
sally
Stephanie
Rebecca
Rosas
Rose
Roussel
Salyer
Simmons
Suttman
THOMAS
Vician
Walton
Grover
moore
Vorse
Walding
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Alto
bernalillo
Carlsbad
Cerrillos
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
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William
Joyce
Bernard
Helen
Marilyn
richard
R.
Edward
Joan
joann
Bill
Word
Buss
Cousino
Cullen
Faller
Hoff
hogle
Kirkpatrick
Mosimann
Earnshaw
collins
Byhower
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Corrales
Deming
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espanola
Espanola
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gila
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New Mexico
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New Mexico
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New Mexico
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New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
david
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Joy
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Nicole
Sara
Gertrude
Pat
Margaret
John
Stephen
Harriett
William
Sandra
Anne
CR
Katie
BARBARA
Karen
Alan
Rita
JC
Gigi
giordano
Kraimer
Nelson
Ramirez
Sylvester
Pocernik
Clawson
Duncan
Weinrod
Wilson
Fischmann
Clementson
Nobles
Brown
Lambert
Maddy
Robert
SWYDEN
Boehler
Bixler
Glasscock
Corcoran
Gaulin
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Las Cruces
Las Cruces
Las Cruces
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Magdalena
Mesilla Park
Placitas
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Rio Rancho
Rio Rancho
Rio Rancho
Rio Rancho
Rio Rancho
Roswell
Sandia Park
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
New Mexico
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New Mexico
It's time to step up to the plate and do what
is right. We are supposed to be the
caretakers of the planet, not the destroyers.
Why you gotta hurt my friends?
There's only one Earth!
This process is helping to deplete the
oceans of sustainable fishing for future
generations!
We can do better!!!
This wasteful practice should stop!
ALL life is precious.
Go Vegan!
it is time to be responsible
Yvette
Tapp
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Richard
Khanlian
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Fiona
Macdonald
Santa Fe
New Mexico
david
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Jeff
Dwight
Ana
Donna
Bruce
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Rita
Cherie
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Kay
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Marylee
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Linda
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GERARD
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katy
Kathy
Jan
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I.
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bradbury
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Brown
Capshaw
Cohen
DiBianco
Donnell
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Gentry
Jorgensen
Kray
Lockridge
Luehrmann
McInnes
Root
Silliman
Sperling
Stark
VACHEZ
Hollis
belt
Dahl-Bredine
McCreary
Leonard
Butler
Engle
Stratton
Hartcher
santa fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
SANTA FE
Santa Teresa
silver city
Silver City
Silver City
Taos
Valdez
Village 0f Tularosa
Armi
Ashfield
New Mexico
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New South Wales
New South Wales
irene
Jerry
Chico
kucyk
Cook
Birrell
bangor
Billinudgel
Byron Bay
New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales
Glynis
Caroline
Howarth
Hoisington
Canton Beach
Clontarf
New South Wales
New South Wales
Ken
Brown
Invergowrie
New South Wales
Sonia
Deb
Geerlings
Turvey
Macksville
Newcastle
New South Wales
New South Wales
Leave Life of Earth to Nature and the Great
Spirit whose hands we all are created from
and sustained by.
Ocean ecology cannot sustain the collateral
damage caused by drift gill nets.
Violates the marine mammal protection Act
Between these and other damaging fishing
methods, and the continuing dumping of
megatons of rubbish in the oceans we need
to get a lot more urgent about cleaning up
our act!
There are less destructive ways to keep
people and their livelihoods happy.
Encourage and choose better ways.
We are damaging the ocean ecosystems in
so many ways, to our own peril. This is one
that needs to be stopped now.
This practice is sheer stupidity! What does it
take for humans to take action on the
damage to our marine life and oceans!
Fiona
McCuaig
Sydney
New South Wales
Drift Nets is the most horrific fishing
practice... an invisible wall of death to so
many creatures. Please end this immediately
before more innocent marine animals drown,
thank you, Fiona McCuaig, Sydney, Australia
Lyn
Mews
Sydney
New South Wales
Anthony
Krithinakis
Sydney
New South Wales
I am sick of the greed and thoughtlessness
associated with the killing of wild
animals/marine life for human satisfaction.
There is no respect for the environment, our
planet , our home. Once destroyed can't be
replaced.
It's incredoble that we need to ask you to do
this, isn't it obvious this practice should be
prohibited?
Samantha
OLIVIA
Michelle
M
Diana
Jeroen
Shona
euan
Jeff
Brian
Judith
Gale
Sydney
KEMP
SYDNEY
lesmond
sydney
Mari-Dale
Sydney
Nedeljkovic
Sydney
van Kernebeek
Sydney
Howarth
Tea Gardens
provost
toormina
[email protected]
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Kaplan
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franciamore
Kessler
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Bonnell
Drakopoulos
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Hallow
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Herman
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jim
kathleen
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Christopher
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Dawn
Mark
Beach
Becker
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Collins
courneen
csiza
Desch
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Mead
Odonnell
Forsyth
Albany
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New York
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Wake up
Please stop killing all these beautiful animals
This request has been made for years.
Time to act.
These nets are arrogantly irresponsible in
their inherent lack of selective harvest and
are unacceptably destructive of non-target
species.The use of these drift nets MUST be
stopped
Julia
Debbie
Linda
Mary
Stahl
Wheatley
Catlin
Wheat
Amsterdam
Apalachin
Armonk
Astoria
New York
New York
New York
New York
michael
bocian
Astoria
New York
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James
Tammy
Jesse
Hiroko
Paul
William
Tracey
Scott
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JOAN
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Ko
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MaryAnn
Carole
Shannon
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susan
Enid
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Browne
Cooper
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Goldin
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Johnson
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Lall
Levine
M
MASSETTI
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risberg
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New York
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New York
New York
Gary
pamela
Joan
Sun
Denice
Kimberly
Cox-Steiner
hoover
Abruzzo
Cho
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Gelvin-Wilks
Bayport
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Beacon
New York
New York
New York
New York
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Karin
Thomas
Highfield
Bellerose
Bellport
New York
New York
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Corinne
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Thomas
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T
Judith
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Anna
Acton
Montana-Stack
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Giblin
Hammond
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Cho
Susser
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Lukaszewicz
Berkshire
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blah
Blasdell
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This type of fishing is depleting too many
species already at risk!
zillions of innocent animals are killed in this
inhumane act of cruel trapping
How can they fish in such a cruel and
indiscriminate way? And sleep at night?
This is just tragic. Please protect the wildlife
in our oceans. One planet one family. Stop
the killing, please.
The Council has already agreed that drift gill
nets are ecocide in action - so what is the
holdup?
Save the ocean
Ann
Brennan
Blauvelt
New York
Susan
nancy
Wendy
Nicholas
Catherine
Nancy
Burian
cataldo
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Friedman
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brewster
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Sheila
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Michael
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owen
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George
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Lynne
Molly
Kendler
Conaway
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Dempsey
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Gold
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medford
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Perez
Picchioni
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Velez
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Rushefsky
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New York
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New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
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Danik
Brooklyn
New York
Helen
Cu
Brooklyn
New York
Mary
McGeary
Brooklyn
New York
Michael
Haviland
Brooklyn
New York
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Fishstein
Brooklyn
New York
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Adams
Brooklyn
New York
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Friedman
BROOKLYN
New York
A
Albanese
brooklyn
New York
The drift gill nets catch endangered species
like whales and sea turtles,important parts of
our ocean ecosystem.Commercial fishing
should not use these cruel,outdated
methods when there are safer,kinder
methods available. Thank you.
These drift gill nets should be outlawed.
There is absolutely no question that these
nets are a crime against the ocean life. The
use of these nets is irresponsible and
should be treated as a crime.
This is important.
I am very concerned about the depletion of
wildlife & urge you to take responsibility for
your actions & perform responsibly.
Please end drift gill nets! The collateral
damage they bring to other marine species
and animals is needless and preventable.
Save endanger species by eliminating drift
gill nets fishing. Thanks.
Thank you for taking the time to read my
comment.
The time for indiscriminate fishing, as is
done using drift nets, is over.
These nets are killing whales, sharks, and
many other sea life, which has to stop--there
are other ways to catch the specific fish, not
drift gill nets.
This is just common sense. Please adopt a
better way. We are all connected and
destroying wildlife will ultimately lead to our
own demise as well.
We cannot let our oceans to be depleted by
this criminal practice!
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Douglas
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christina
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neil
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Howard
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judy
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aron
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Ellen
Anne-Elizabeth
Armillas
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Bellone
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Demetropoulos
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ford
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glaser
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Greenberg
Humann
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kolodziejczyk
Koosis
Lewandowski
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Lewis
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Lilley
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Musacchio
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palmer
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rhee
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wright
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Lynch
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New York
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Perkins
Circleville
New York
Nancy
maureen
Chan
lynch
Clarence
clifton springs
New York
New York
How many times do you have to be told the
same thing?
Drift gill nets - a terrible idea in the first place
and a hazard to many endangered species.
Please put an end t drift gill nets that trap
and drown whales, dolphins and sea turtles.
Thank you.
It seems humanity and decency is not part of
one's creed if such is allowed to happen
unnecessarily.
Greed, gluttony and wastefullness cause
terrible deaths and suffering to animals that
are VITAL to our own survival. Stop this
particular method of killing!
we're losing too many species at too rapid a
rate for them to reproduce and survive
Russ
claudia
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sierra
nancy
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a.l.
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New York
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Elaine
David
Barbara
Sharada
MONICA
Theodora
Jodie
Beth
charles
Cassandra
Mary Jane
Eu
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Bernadette
Bortree
Matheson
Hand
Nordenberg
Jayagopal
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wagner
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Marner
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e Patchogue
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East Elmhurst
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Farmingville
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Edward
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Brian
H
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franklin square
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This is a horrible practice.
URGENT, CRITICAL, GET THE JOB
DONE!
This is way more collateral damage than is
acceptable.
Human health is ultimately dependent upon
a healthy marine ecosystem.
Please take these comments to heart before
it's too late.
There are better ways to fish without putting
the lives of other sea creatures in danger.
Please stop Destroying
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Herkimer
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New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
Jeanine
Vivian
Sammis
Lombardozzi
Hewlett
Hicksville
New York
New York
This extremely destructive method of
random fishing must be stopped!
This practice should be outlawed one and
for all !
Please, Please!
SHAME on LAZY IGNORANT fishermenthey are nothing to be proud of
Please do everything in your power to
prevent these horrendous accidents. These
beautiful creatures must not be allowed to
suffer and die needless deaths. Many of
them are endangered, also.
It should be a crime to allow the use of these
devices. They never should have been
allowed. Get rid of them quickly.
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Joyce
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Weaver
Greenberg
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A healthy ocean is vital to a healthy Planet
Earth. Indiscriminate killing is a crime.
It's time to pull in the mile-long drift gill nets.
They are a horror and their use must end!
They are just way too destructive!
STOP THIS GREED NOW.
This is a barbaric practice that must end
immediately!
This is so clearly so destructive and greedy
to our already dwindling sea creature
population. Please wake up and find
another way to earn a living that doesn't
involve needless killing.
How about you stop catching swordfish also!
Save the Ocean and the creatures for future
generations!
Ann
Millonig
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New York
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Resources are numbered. Caring for nature
is man's obligation. Destructive practices
hurts us all.
Drift gill nets are a danger to all animals.
They kill our marine mammals. They need to
be banned.
We need to do this now
Please transition away from these drifting gill
nets.
What a sleazy, lazy way of trying to catch a
fish, and killing everything in net's path too.
Hopefully one of the killer fisherman will get
caught and drown. Then maybe will think
twice about this total disregard for ocean life.
have a heart
DONNA
STODDARD
MARCELLUS
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THESE NETS HAVE TO BE GONE SOON ,
ALOT OF POOR INNOCENT WHALES
AND SEA TURTLES ARE DYING FROM
THESE , IT SHOULD NOT BE
HAPPENING NOW AT
ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gill nets should be banned!!! Please protect
our ocean beings
Time to end the senseless killing
please find an alternative to this cruel
practice.
This is an archaic fishing method, non
selective and awful for non target species.
We are better than that, correct this real
problem!
Please act on your promise to transition
away from drift gill nets
Shelley
Theresa
Volk
Kelly
New Rochelle
New York
New York
New York
Sarah
Gallagher
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New York
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Trentlyon
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Sturm
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Garey
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Rachel
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At the end of your day...do you think God
will say, you've earned one more tomorrow
by the work you did today? My guess he is
outraged by your lack of caring about his
precious, awesome sea life and he will have
his revenge with you for your greed in not
putting an end to Drift Gill Nets!
Enough already!! We want fish in our
oceans, not empty space!!
I can't believe anything as horrible as drift gill
nets is even allowed. They must be banned!
In general, anything that causes this much
waste should not be practiced.
It is time to take action that is final and
sustainable.
It makes sense.
It's devastating to know that whales,
dolphins, turtles, sharks and other beings
suffer terribly because we haven't stopped
using drift gill nets. This has to stop. Until it
does, the suffering will continue.
Let us finally be doing THE RIGHT THING
regarding the creatures of this planet, and
not just allow the destruction of this Earth.
Please Ban Drift Gill Nets
Please save these magnificent animals.
Please, get rid of these nets!!
Please, there are alternatives to
unnecessary killing.
PUT AN END TO DRIFT GILL NETS
Stop killing endangered sea life
Stop these horrible nets!!!! They kill so much
marine life!!
stop this torture
The living beings that call the Ocean their
home-- DESERVE to live in that environment
in health and Safety --take care of them !!!
The use of gill nets needs to stop if we are to
preserve a supply of fish for future
generations.
these are outrageous killers and should be
outlawed!
These nets sound horrible. Swordfish has
tons of mercury and people shouldn't be
eating it anyway.
think of the suffering
Lisa
Weisberg
New York
New York
This action is a win-win for everyone. The
fisheries will be protected to ensure the
sustainability of abundant fishing in the
future and as more and more people
consume fish for its dietary benefit there will
be a solid supply for the ongoing demand.
Leslie
Gretchen
Lund
Berger
New York
New York
New York
New York
Kara
Schmiemann
New York
New York
This is horrific and must be stopped.
This is inhumane and destroying our fish
populations.
We have a responsibility to keep all marine
wildlife safe and unharmed in our efforts to
fish commercially. It is wasteful, unethical,
and an outdated practice. I urge you to
pursue more humane fishing methods!
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What price swordfish!?!?
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Marine Mammals have to surface to breathe.
When they're caught in a Drift Gill Net, they
drown. Let's put an end to these killer nets.
Until the nets are select enough to catch only
the target species they should not be used.
this is cruel and unacceptable.
stop the nets now
guy
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Fifty percent of the world's wildlife has
disappeared since 1970 thanks to such
human practices as poaching, hunting and
over-fishing. It's time to put a stop to the
waste of ocean life as occurs with gill nets.
These indiscriminant nets are killimg
thousands of sea creatures that are
unwanted and discarded. This is contributing
to the slow death of our oceans and must be
stopped.
Such a terrible waste!
This is inhumane. Stop torturing these
innocent creatures.
do we have to kill everything that gets in the
way of what we want?
Human dominion requires human decency.
We have an obligation to other species that
supercedes our economic interests.
Americans need to know that fishing is
carried out in humane and sustainable ways,
or we'll just stop eating /using fish products.
Franco
Emily
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charmaine
Glenda
yvonne
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Michael
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oakley
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New York
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New York
susan
Beth
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Donna
Michellle
Joan
H Ellis
Ruth
deane-miller
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Lenhart
Palmas
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Randi
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norma
Gustafsson
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harris
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queens
New York
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jane
Aranyani
ted
Bill
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Dale
grace
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linda
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alice
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Smith
furman
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Laura
Jane
laura
Jeffery
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Murphy
raforth
Young
Ridgewood
Ripley
rochester
rochester
New York
New York
New York
New York
Virginia
Denninger
Rochester
New York
Kate
Eisenberg
Rochester
New York
Stop the waste. Stop drift nets!!
Stop hurting the sea life
Thank you for your consideration of this
important matter that affects all oceans.
please stop killing whales in this way.
It's more than time to stop the use of these
deadly and outdated nets.
We must begin to live our lives as neighbors
in one comunity
This is barbaric. It is so sad these nets
capture and torture undesirable fish/animals.
Gill nets are not necessary and are
inhumanely cruel!
GET RID OF THE NETS!
Gill Nets are wrong and kill endangered
species.
Please put an end to this practice, our
oceans are being decimated!
Stop the unnecessary killing by using safe
gear. You are putting yourself out of
business.
Janet
Bovitz-Sandefur
Rochester
New York
Stephen
Laura
mary
Ryan
Barbara
LINDA
John
Karlene
Marilyn
Stephanie
Karen
Jim
Florence
Larry
Paula
Beth
Carol
Timothy
June
Chris
Kimberly
Stephen
Amy
joe
Karen
RICHARD
janice
Emilia
Graham
Gene
Christina
Susan
Wendy
arlene
Barbara
Bellomo
Boehm
buecheler
Caster
Debes
Del Monaco Willard
Doerich
Gunter
H
Hildreth
Maddalena
McGrath
Morris
Musson
Neville
O'Brien
Pettit
Raymond
Summers
White
Wiley
Mitchell
Dozier
wetherell
Roberts
ESPUGA
Clowe
Delibasheva
Richman
Polito
welteroth
Krause
Hull
miljour
Trypaluk
Rochester
Rochester
rochester
Rochester
Rochester
ROCHESTER
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
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rocky point
Rome
ROSELLE PARK
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Rye
Rye
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New York
New York
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New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
don
Laura
Alisha
D
Kenneth
Cynthia
Vincent
Donna
Karen
Thomas
bill
Andrea
rich
Kathy
wiltsie
Tartaglia
BeGell
Beattie
Honig
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Rusch
Coutant
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warner
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Schenectady
Schenectady
Schenectady
schenectady
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Schenectady,NY
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
We need to THINK more about our actions
and the impact they have on ALL life. Shame
on us.
no drift gill nets!!!!
It's high time gill nets were replaced with
more eco-friendly methods that don't catch
sea turtles and endangered whales. Please
don't delay action any longer!
too much waste
time to end drift gill nets.
Patsey
Tyler
Patricia
Harvey
Manning
Harrington
Packer
Gluckin
Schenectasy
Schuyler Falls
Scotia
seaford
New York
New York
New York
New York
Michele
Cindy
Martin
Kevin
MIKE
Jackie
Lorna
Ledesky
Schultz
Rocek
Oldham
pagillo
Sylvander-Sodano
Finning
Seaford
Seaford
Setauket
Shirley
shirley
Shrub Oak
Shushan
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
Nicole
M
David
Merle
Howard
Jasmina
Alice
Gloria
Kristin
Lourdes
Susan
Georgeanne
Gambino
Marsala
Middleton
Molofsky
Barker
Cuk
Rosenfeld
rosenzweig
Walsh
Guzman
Wald
Spates
SI
New York
SI
New York
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New York
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New York
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New York
Solna
New York
Somers
New York
somers
New York
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New York
SOUTH OZONE PARK
New York
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New York
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New York
Albert
Eddie
Gene
Lynn
shelah
James
Beth
Martha
Marietta
Arias
Ward
Aarnio
Deuschle
bennett
Hansen
Carr
Russell
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Southold
Spencer
Spencer
spring valley
Spring Valley
Stafford
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New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
RALPH
Judith
Lara
Lenny
Matthew
Alan
jeffrey
William
Rudolph
Ed
Demi
Lee
LIZO
Busse
Cassell
Fuchs
Hyland
Katkin
marciano
Moriarty
Ripp
Vieira
Fortuna
Margulies
STATEN ISLAND
Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island
staten island
Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island
Stony Brook
Stony Brook
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
Stop this craziness of trapping anything that
swims and worrying about realeasing it
later!!
Because we can't typically see under our
oceans to know what damage is being
created does not mean we can continue
practices that do harm. Please act. Our
children and grandchildren deserve better
from us.
Let's do it! Let's deal with the drift gill net
issue ASAP!
It is a disgrace and barbaric that in the 21st
century you still knowingly kill mammals for
man's greed and indifference,
STOP IT NOW
Lauren
Omar
Stephanie
Jason
Richard
Lee
Bax
Beqaj
Cuellar
Giulieri
White
Pesce
Suffern
Sunnyside
Sunnyside
Sunnyside
Syosset
Syracuse
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
pat
David
Susan
ralph
Alison
Michael
Kelley
Peter
Clif
elisabeth
joyce
Marie
Melissa
Fern
Claudia
Nuriya
Della
Mary
Paula
Christian
Amanda
Honey
Heather
Elizabeth
susan
Emma
Edythe Ann
hagan
Beard
D'Amato
ferrara
Kocek
Mayo
Scanlon
Thompson
VanAuken
bauer
byrne
Garescher
Miller
Stearney
Aier
Bulatova
Wels
Christy
McCarty
Tabone
Benvenuto
McGarry
Carman
Root
straight
Spurgin Hussey
Quinn
syracuse
Syracuse
syracuse
syracuse
Syracuse
Syracuse
Syracuse
Syracuse
Syracuse
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tarrytown
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Tarrytown
Tarrytown
Tichester
Togliatti
Tomkins Cove
Tonawanda
Tonawanda
Tonawanda
Troy
Troy
Trumansburg
TRUMANSBURG
trumansburg
Truro
Unadilla
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
Janice
M.
Patricia
Sharon
keri
Cragnolin
May
Van Cour
Krikorian
bennett
Unadilla
Utica
Utica
Valatie
valley stream
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
margaret
Patrick
Thomas
Heather
scripp
Matriscino
Reynolds
Turbush
varysburg
Victor
Voorheesville
Wading River
New York
New York
New York
New York
Kim
Paul
Manzo
Rivadue
Wading River
Wantagh
New York
New York
How many petitions and how many years is it
going to take to end the use of drift gill
nets??? Obviously, someone needs to
watch the Climate Summit's intro clip,
narrated by Morgan Freeman, then make
your decision!!!
please stop this horrible method!
Please protect. Do NOT harm and waste
other sealife. Thank you.
Please, end the use of drift gill nets
Please do something about this, this is awful
and totally unnecessary
Please stop this cruel act, this is not
necessary!!!
Protect aquatic life, including marine
mammals.
Sharon
Intilli
Warwick
New York
Sarah
Edward
Susan
Hunnewell
Kush
Maranda
Water Mill
Water Mill
Webster
New York
New York
New York
Paula
Florence
Carol
Sarah
kristin
angela
Clayson
McEvoy
Ramo
m.
wiles
eckert
Wellsville
West Babylon
West Babylon
West Danby
west edmeston
west falls
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
ed
Barbara
colburn
Jones
west falls
West Islip
New York
New York
Beverly
Simone
West Nyack
New York
Karen
Leslie
Paul
Lani
Joan
Audrey
Aaron
Gail
susan
Floss
Robert
Dragana
Anne
Joseph
Philip
Mari
Nina
Sherry
Thea
Ann
Anna
Rhoda
Michele
Linda
hehry
Lorraine
Marilynn
Hinderstein
Just
Tobin
Boyer
Conca
David
Warren
Perlmutter
carey
Shahbegian
Lane
Lisonek
Huibregtse
Guzman
Louie
Smet
Garfinkel
Gallant
Hetzner
K
Kolovou
Schlamm
Temple
Truong
halama
Rengers
Rowley
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New York
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New York
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New York
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New York
White Plains
New York
White Plains
New York
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New York
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New York
Williston Park
New York
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Woodside
New York
Woodside
New York
Woodside
New York
Woodside
New York
Woodside
New York
Woodside
New York
woodstock
New York
Woodstock
New York
Woodstock
New York
The human race is moving FAR TOO
SLOWLY in rectifying all the many problems
and imbalances WE have created on this
planet! CHANGE is overdue!
As the higher beings it is our job to make
sure we protect all creatures from harm and
distinction. You can make sure this
continues. Protectbour waters and their
habitats. Thank you
Someone should invent nets where they
disolve over a short period of time!
This is a horrific practice and needs to stop
NOW. These fisheries can work smarter not
mindlessly. Do the right thing and make the
world a safer place for all living things.
These nets are horrible, murderous,
contraptions that should be banned without
question!
Jennifer
Nicole
Taveras
Lauren
Wurtsboro
Yaphank
New York
New York
Paul
Chuck
Arthur
Edgar
DIANE
Eric
Ruth
Hal
Collarile
Donegan
Leibowitz
Tobachnik
Deutsch
Abrams
Brighton
Posselt
Yonkers
Yonkers
Yonkers
Yonkers
youngsville
Bow
Brentwood
Canterbury
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
NH
NH
NH
Samantha
Eric
Stanley
Robert
Paula
Sherrill
De
Clotilda G.
Driscoll
Jones
Fistick
Sargent
Vanbuskirk
Barbary
Ru
Devlin
Derry
Glencliff
Littleton
Salem
Seabrook
Atlantic City
Belmar
Bernardsville
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NJ
NJ
NJ
E.M.
Fetch
Branchburg
NJ
Jan-Paul
Doris
Maryann
SHERWOOD
Cstherine
Alon
Carey
Foss
INDERLIED JR
Nelson
Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill
Clayton
Cliffside Park
NJ
NJ
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NJ
Allan
Nancy
Eileen
Yorkowitz
Chismar
Ballard
Colonia
NJ
Edison
NJ
Egg Harbor TownshipNJ
Carlo
Deborah
Sandra
Howard
Marie
Andrea
Angela
Aileen
Richard
Susan
Mary Helen
Anna
Kelly
Richard
Nicholas
Popolizio
Parker
Gray
Schwartz
Stone
lewis
Stuebben
Glynn
Pecha
Farro
Pombo
Jacus
Choi
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Conte
Estell Manor
Ewing
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Forked River
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Hamilton
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Linden
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NJ
Please SAVE MARINE LIFE by eliminating
drill nets NOW!!! Precious lives are at stake.
give sea creatures an even chance to live
out their lives....not to die through bycatch
Waste of good creatures is always
repugnant.
Shift the drift gill-net fleet to more
environmentally sustainable types of fishing
gear- NOW. These nets also catch anything
that swims in their path, including
endangered whales, sea turtles, and many
species of marine life every year!
Stop the killing of endangered wildlife
essential for the Ecosystem!
Protecting all factions of our environment
should be our number one priority as they
hold the keys to our survival.
Pat
Patricia
Darvin
Sean
Terry
V.
e
Bob
Barbara
Ruth
Heather
Christine
Ellen
Ruth
Eugene
Robert
Tony
Rolston
Burke
Schild
G
Vaccaro
Euripides
sto
Rusk
Westergaard
Hodum
Nemeth
Grace
McConnell
Boice
Gorrin
Graver
Greiner
Mount Tabor
Mountainside
North Arlington
North Plainfield
North Plainfield
Oakland
Passaic
Point Pleasant Boro
Princeton
Red Bank
Ringwood
Robbinsville
Sayreville
Shamong
Union
Vincentown
Albuquerque
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NJ
NM
Susan
Diaz
B. Thomas
Diener
Lori
Hammett
LISA AND GEORGEFRANZEN
Janiece
Jonsin
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Placitas
Santa Fe
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
PATRICIA
Crystal
Joanne
Merry
Nina
Melanie
CARLTON
Wolf
Cockerill
Harsh
Shirina
Clark
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Silver City
Silver City
Moscow
Christchurch
NM
NM
NM
NM
no
Non US
Marie-Ange
Shanida
Jelica
P
Claudia
Helena
Tara
Mike
Melania
sweet
victoria
Berchem
Ahmad
Roland
Thomas
La Paglia
Gebrier
Hunt
Evans
Padilla
gan
palacio
Altlinster
ampang
Buzet
Cambridge
GENOVA
Isla Mujeres
kerry
Leominster
Managua
manila
Manizales
none
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
As with proposed carbon markets, we should
make by catch more costly than hook and
line fishing for swordfish. I worked on a
charter boat that specialized in billfish
fishing, it's not too difficult. The cost for
swordfish should be commensurate with the
work involved to sustainably fish such a
species without negligent bycatch, not on a
level with farmed catfish, tilapia etc. It's time
for a transition to save the ecosystems of our
oceans.
Please find a less harmful way to other
species than by catching swordfish with drift
gill nets. Killing turtles, sharks and whales in
the hopes of catching swordfish is
inexcusable and antiquated.
SO LAST CENTURY! GET WITH THE
NEW SUSTAINABLE MILLENIUM.
Margriet
Sonia
bernadette
Miranda
J
Stacey
Mervi
Cristina
Selva
Alexandr
Penny
Gail
sue
Aubury
fenando
Victoria
Dan
David
Rebecca
Martha
Ronald
Juliet
Kool
Gatt
cuellar
vanTol
Cahill
Calvert
Rantala
Novelo
Carnevale
Yantselovskiy
Mitchell
Courtney
wadland
Smith
soler
Mann
Beam
Sachter
Mitchell
Girolami
Clayton
Van Otteren
Moordrecht
None
NA
None
névian
None
Ridderkerk
none
Somerset
None
Sunderland
None
Tampere
None
Veracruz
None
Villa Gobernador Galvez
None
Vyshneve
None
Wakefield
None
Walthamstow
None
east sussex
none tn33 9jx
28403 North Carolina
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Anne
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iain
Joseph
Billie
jan
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Celine
Christina
Gavin
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G.W.
Kristina
Martha
Joseph
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Childers
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Hamilton
Johnson
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mcgarvie-munn
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zollars
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Susan
Ryan
Madeleine
Donald
Davis
Loftis
Friedman
Harland
Burlington
Burlington
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Candler
North Carolina
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North Carolina
North Carolina
Stephanie
Adam
Kimberly
Melanie
Michele
Phillippi
Versenyi
Jordan
Beckmann
Yellin
Carrboro
Carrboro
Cary
Cary
Cary
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
please consider stopping these drift nets as
they are a travesty to so much wildlife.
Gill Nets are not a selective gear, please
stop the use of all gill nets.
We need to eliminate drift gill nets
immediately! Drift gill nets are wasteful and
environmentally unsustainable.
Please find a better way.
Keith
Philip
Dolores
Allen
Johnson
Campbell
Cedar Grove
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Candace
Osborne
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Richard
Zandra
Shelley
James
Ruchir
Douglas
Gina
Strowd
Talbert
Theye
Thomas
Vora
Waldruff
Gregoire
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
CHARLOTTE
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Michelle
Aldridge
Charlotte
North Carolina
Eileen
Scholl
Charlotte
North Carolina
Tim
Leighton
Charlotte
North Carolina
Fishermen are ruining our environment and
driving species to extinction by using fishing
gear that indiscriminately kills whales,
sharks, dolphins and many other animals.
Do a better job of policing yourself and
moving away from long lines and drift gill
nets, otherwise an ever increasing and wiser
portion of the population will finally demand
much harsher, necessary regulations on the
fishing industry. It's the economically smart
thing today, but more importantly, it's the
morally right thing to do.
Betsy
Curlin
Charlotte
North Carolina
Karen
Hodges
Charlotte
North Carolina
If you consider the interdependence of sea
life, you could inadvertently be destroying
swordfish by using this method of fishing.
Since some of the swordfish's food will also
end up in these nets, you may be
contributing to the demise of swordfish
worldwide through your present fishing
practices.
It's time - and past time - to start caring for
marine species in a more intentional way.
John
La Stella
charlotte
North Carolina
Della
Ronald
Robin
Shereen
Larry
Charlene
Jessica
Oliver
Dodge
Furr
Gillette
Hannon
Kozloff
McGratty
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Drift Gill nets are just plain bad news.
Gill nets are wrong and the navy is just as
wrong helping to destroy marine life.
Please stop the gill net fishing. We need to
be protecting and saving as much as we can
now. Thank you.
Ban the use of drift gill nets. Catch the
swordfish another way.
Do the correct thing and protect our
ecosystem and food source.
Drift nets are inhumane as well as a wasteful
form of fishing which catch many species of
fish and mammals that are endangered.
Please stop this terrible practice.
It's time to be responsible and make the
changes.
Please move away from Drift Gill Nets.
Scott
Andre
Mary
Nancy
ron
cris
Chris
Richard
Rafael
Darrell&Carol
Vickie
charlie
Nick
Joe
Kim
Rita
McKendree
Meaux
Murchison
Sanderson
schimpf
shewchuk
Simmons
STARLING
Taylor
Vale
Morton
nitsch
Hood
Phillips
Adams
Clonts
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte
Cherryville
chlt
Clemmons
Colfax
Columbus
Concord
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Jenny
Dennis
Carol
Miller
Raines
Young
Creston
Currituck
Druham
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Thomas
Struhsaker
Durham
North Carolina
T
Miriam
Alyson
Lynn
Cronan
shelley
Jan
jenn
Jade
Brett
Ben
David
Lou
Joyce
Connie
Phyllis
Peter
Jeanie
Robert
Al
sarah
Andrea
Wynne
Abashian
Angress
Boyer Rode
Elliott
Family
frazier
Gillespie
hilliard
Kelley
Morachnick
Mullen
Owens
Peters
Pusel
Raper
Reidy
Reynolds
Rodgers
Smith
Delavan
owenby
Crook
Queen
Durham
Durham
durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Fairview
fairview
Fayetteville
Forest City
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
We now know the danger of drift gill nets.
Eliminate them. Nothing else is acceptable.
Please don't form and committee and study
it. Eliminate them.
Very bad way of fishing.
What's left of ocean life can no longer
should no longer be subjected to the
indiscriminate, killing nature of drift gill nets.
Incremental improvements have not proven
to be a satisfactory solution and time is
running out for many species.
Terminate the use of drift gill nets, the
indiscriminate killers.
mae
basye
fuquay varina
North Carolina
Susan
Terry
John
angela
RICHARD
Teresa
Susan
Peter
Galante
Cook
Kinsella
humphries
MCCRARY
Pitts
ONeal
Arata
Fuquay Varina
Fuquay Vasring
Fuquay-Varina
gastonia
GASTONIA
Glen Alpine
Graham
Greensboro
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Chelsea
J.I.
Debra
Nancy
Tamara
Dawn
Shirley
Devon
Diana
Paula
ellen
Giana
doug
Bruce
Brooks
Farlow
Fish
Kondracki
Lovelle
Mcginty
Rodman
Seltzer
Stemkowski
Stober
rodney
Peranio-Paz
franklin
Clarke
Greensboro
Greensboro
Greensboro
Greensboro
Greensboro
Greensboro
Greensboro
Greensboro
Greensboro
Greensboro
greenville
Haifa
hayesville
Hays
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Robert
Pat
Kathie
Wilfred
Andrea
Michael
Kay
Blackwell
Blackwell
Hegert
Robin
Snyder
Watson
Sanders
Hendersonville
Hendersonville
Hickory
Hickory
Hickory
Hickory
High Point
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
kaitlyn
Lisa
George
Melissa
Danusia
Vlk
Joseph
Barry
Rebecca
Jasmina
bellino
Neste
Neste
Santiago
Tsu
Leafe
Phillips
Anderson
DuPre
Bricic
High Point
High Point
High Point
High Point
HUNTERSVILLE
Kannapolis
Kernersville
Kill Devil Hills
Kings MountainI
Kinston
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
drift gill net walls are horrible - outdated and
indiscriminate must give way to selective and
sustain.able fishing methods
These nets kill animals needlessly and
disrupt the natural balance of the oceans. If
continued there will nothing left to fish for.
Duh!
My God! Is catching swordfish the easy way
worth endangering so many other creatures?
PLEASE HAVE A HEART!!
Catching everything every living sea-creature
in drift gill nets seems like a high price to pay
for swordfish - especially thinking in terms of
endangered whales and sea turtles.
Incremental improvements are
unacceptable. Selective alternatives exist
and must be implemented.
Dorothy
Paul
lisa
Jennifer
mary
richard
Yvonne
Frederick
Ken
Ralph
Floyd
Susan
Lynn
Art
Carmen
Sam
Alisa
Adrian
Christi
Darlene
Bret
A.
John T
BARBARA
Rachel
Luci
kenneth
Melissa
Sue
Charles
Richard
James
Lee
Turner
hollis
Brandon
rand
burns sr
Townsley
Valone
Dyar
Herman
Back
Brown
Gregory
Smoker
Plummer
Heaton
Ostwalt
Smith
Dillon
Pagan
Withrow
Gardner
White
WILLIAMS
Parnell
Pugh
johns
Hastings
Tuman
Cotter
Ashton
McKeny
Leicester
North Carolina
Leicester
North Carolina
leland
North Carolina
Lexington
North Carolina
lillington
North Carolina
louisburg
North Carolina
Louisburg
North Carolina
LOUISBURG
North Carolina
Manteo
North Carolina
Marion
North Carolina
Mars Hill
North Carolina
Mars Hill
North Carolina
Mars Hill
North Carolina
Mars Hill
North Carolina
Midland
North Carolina
Mocksville
North Carolina
Mocksville
North Carolina
Moncure
North Carolina
Mooresville
North Carolina
Mooresville
North Carolina
Morganton
North Carolina
Mount Airy
North Carolina
Murphy
North Carolina
New Bern
North Carolina
New Bern
North Carolina
New Bern
North Carolina
new london
North Carolina
Newport
North Carolina
North Topsail Beach North Carolina
Pine Hall
North Carolina
Pinehurst
North Carolina
Pinnacle
North Carolina
Pamela
betty
Barbara
Kelsey
Diliberto
phillips
Terry
Hale
Pittsboro
Pittsboro
Pittsboro
Raleigh
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Ridwaana
Susan
James
Sarah
ray
Michael
Elizabeth
Kimberly
Sara
Randy
Linda
Veronica
Zola
Megan
Allen
Allen
Chaney
Davis
derrickson
Eisenberg
Forsythe
Hurtt
Loeppert
Morris
Muntner
Noechel
Packman
Schmitt
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
North Carolina
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North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Sea life needs to be protected.
Drift Gill Nets have long outlived their
usefulness and are now a major problem.
Please do away with this form of fishing.
This will help sustain endangered
populations of sea life.
Find better ways to catch the swordfish
instead of other creatures.
Carol
Adrienn
Jen
Margie
pamela
Soroos
Uzsak
Weaver
Zalesak
bolton
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Raleigh
Ramseur
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Hazel
Poolos
Richfield
North Carolina
Ana Luisa
Varas
Rio de Janeiro
North Carolina
Marie
Edwin
william
Michl
Skinner
bailey
Rocky Mount
Rocky Mount
Rougemont
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Barbara
brandon
Regina
Magee
Cynthia
Donald
Linda
Orchid
Barron
oakley
Epley
Jordan
Davis
Barker
Barker
RA
Rougemont
rougemont
Salisbury
Salisbury
Saxapahaw
Southern Shores
Southern Shores
Southport
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Marybeth
Aurelie
Carolyn
Tepper
Ward
Smith
Southport
Statesville
Stoneville
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Laura
Wendy
Adams
Johnson
Stony Point
Summerfield
North Carolina
North Carolina
Make drift gill nets illegal. They kill MUCH
more than they are suppose to. Protect our
oceans from wasteful killing. We can't save
the oceans of all its creatures are extinct.
We can't afford to waste any of our
resources. Don't use drift gill nets. Use
better types of fishing gear.
There should be better ways to catch fishes
without endangering the other species!
This is one of the worst ways to fish for
anything. Might as well dynamite it.
Teach a man to fish, he destroys the planet
with GREED!
End this use of drift gill nets. It kills too
many ocean dwellers.
Todd
Crawford
Surf City
North Carolina
Bruce
P
Beth
Julie
Lois
Harry
Carlina
Serena
Blacknight
Wright
Alexander
Roohi
Hoot
Mauney
Smith
Dossenko
Surf City
Vilas
wake forest
Wake forest
Washington
Washington
Waxhaw
Waynesville
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Evelyn
Janine
sharon
Brandon
Mary K.
Coltman
Berger
mora
Ballinger
Williams
Waynesville
Wendell
whittier
Wil.
Willow Spring
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Deborah
Lindsey
Mcguinn
Hooper
willow spring
Wilmington
North Carolina
North Carolina
Ileana
Clavijo
Wilmington
North Carolina
Debby
Lindsay
Wilmington
North Carolina
tye
Thomas
block
Leonard
Wilmington
Wilmington
North Carolina
North Carolina
The senselessness of allowing the continued
use of gill nets is overwhelming. Along the
Atlantic Coast area, particularly North
Carolina coastal areas, we have tried to stop
gill net fishing and also ended up with a
compromise solution. The commercial
fishing industry effectively won by crying that
disallowing gill nets would cost fishing
businesses too much money in having gear
that would be useless. What an interesting
argument for continuing the wholesale
slaughter of endangered marine animals! By
the way, the industry abides by our
compromise settlement agreement terms
only when they believe that they may get
caught. The compromise settlement is not
working and will not work as long as it
requires oversight and regulating entities,
which are almost non-existent. Please do
not make our mistake and make your stand
against gill net fishing strong and without
compromise. Only your courage will work in
this situation. Oh, one last item. As with all
large businesses, they WILL NOT POLICE
THEMSELVES!
When will we stop. When all our marine life
are dead? Wake up!!!
Isn't it time you stopped the needless
killing??
Please ...Hear this well. Drift nets are killing
endangered species. And by allowing these
nets to kill vital marine life that balance our
ecosystem; we humans will eventually
become extinct as well.
The United States needs to ban gill nets
from state and federal waters. They are
inefficient and destructive to marine life.
we have to have someone monitor at all
times and go cut the net and help them
escape
Richard
Norman
James
Susan
willie
mark
Della
Rachel
Gale
Joanne
jak
Ran
Marla
Michele
Leo
Pamela
Erica
stefanie
Diana
Ludger
Jupp
Salwitz
Sharp
Zizzo
Savia
hinze
march
Oberst
Roper
Rullmann
CAfee
brewer
Zirasri
de Vries
Reid
Lantz
Kjono
Minglis
hunscha
Nymand
Wilp
Kerckerinck
Eva
Irene
Andrew
Daniela
Annette
sofia
Walter
Sylvie
Margot
Debbie
Anja
Helene
Ceri
Eva
Claudia
hella
Sandrine
Litsa
Vicky
Samuel
Vercknocke
Ljiljana
Emily
Bruce
neil
corinne
Ioana
Paulette
L
Peter
Schmelzer
Brosseit
Harrison
Holmes
Landré
tsiamouri
Ferrari
Ries
Loerky
Kirkbride
Blat-Muylaert
Beck
McClellan
Luursema
Acosta
van buynder
Coulon
Katsarou
Moraiti
Silva
Pascal
Milic
Keeling
Hallett
bissex
vanbegin
Mitu
Fay
B
Loveland
Devon
Jones
Wilmington
Wilmington
Wilmington
Winnabow
Winston Salem
winston salem
Winston-Salem
Winterville
Youngsvile
Zebulon
zionville
Bismarck
Eibergen
Fargo
Fargo
Grand Forks
Woodstock
58640 iserlohn
Bonn
Bottrop
Drensteinfurt
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota
Please act and remove gill nets now.
North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota
North Rhine-Westphalia
protect all ocean´s life please.
This practice is not working and kills too
many marine animals.
Duesseldorf
Herford
Issum
Mülheim/Ruhr
Wesseling
athens
Not in U.S.
Brecht
Not in U.S.
Calmus
Not in U.S.
Monfalcone, Italy
Not in U.S.
3650 Not in US
9402 Not in US
Aarhus
Not in US
Althorne
Not in US
Amsterdam
Not in US
It would make a great difference.
Amsterdam
Not in US
antwerpen
Not in US
Arc-sur-Tille
Not in US
Athens
Not in US
Athens
Not in US
Aveiro
Not in US
bagnols sur ceze
Not in US
Belgrade
Not in US
Birmingham
Not in US
Brickton
Not in US
BRISTOL
Not in US
bruxelles
Not in US
Bucharest
Not in US
Byker
Not in US
Cambridge
Not in US
Cape Town
Not in US
With the ever increasing pressure on marine
life in general this method of fishing is just no
longer acceptable.
Cardiff
Not in US
Bruno
emilia
Alan
Prata
boccagna
Stuart
Castelo Branco
catanzaro
Chatham
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Kazue
Gabriela
RAVINDER
Pieter
Beaulah
Philip
Melanie
Tanaka
Craciunas
SINGH
van Slooten
Nel
Humphry
Gomes
Chiba
Cluj-Napoca
Delhi
Deventer
Durban
Edgware
Galway
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Not in US
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nadine
Peter
chatel
Gunn
GENTILLY
Glasgow
Not in US
Not in US
Lesley
Christensen
Glastonbury
Not in US
Romola
Newport
Greymouth
Not in US
jeanne
Ernst
schrerus
Mecke
haelen
Helsinki
Not in US
Not in US
Ingrid
Mehmet
Louise
Danuta
Anne
Geisha
giulio
Helen
Isaksen
Genc
Brown
Watola
Moir
Garcia Ginart
ugazzi
Bennett
Hvalsta
Istanbul
Johannesburg
Kalety
Kirkcaldy
La Coruña
la maddalena
Lancaster
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Ludo
BEATRICE
Ana
Bartlomiej
Adrienne
Stassijns
SILVESTRE
Mesner
Tomczak
Hulf
Lebbeke
LIEGE
Ljubljana
Lodz
London
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Maureen
Wendy
Urbain
Christopher
Monique
josh
margaret
Bamford
Forster
Mireille
Evans
TONET
pelleg
runfors
Manchester
Manchester
Marseille
Near Byton Hand
Nice
Omer
Örebro
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Drift gill nets target all species, they continue
to kill indiscriminately even when discarded.
Their use has no place in the 21st century. If
we continue to extract top predators the
welfare of the oceans is compromised
These are lethal nets, the large ones
especially should be banned and replaced
with more sustainable fishing gear.
The very worst fishing method ever devised
These drift gill nets need to be rapidly
phased out for continual sustainability of the
fishing stock
Drift nets indiscriminately kill marine life and
should be banned, lives before money.
It could meanwhile have become clear that
such wasteful methods put by far too much
pressure on the anyway overstressed
environment.
Please remember your commitment and
more to a more modern, sustainable way of
catching swordfish than drift gill nets.
STOP PLEASE.
High levels of by-catch are totally
unacceptable. Please move away from drift
gill nets now.
protect all seea life
Hervé
Anna
Bee
Antonello
Roel
gervais
Susie
Alex
ΤΗΕΟDORE
Phillip
Matt
Ewa
Azia
sandra
Maud
Paola
olaf
olaf
jerry
Olaf
Lidia
Sara
stéphane
Luis Jorge
mauricio
ana
Björn
Frances
Elisabetta
Elizabeta
john
Geoff
Miia
chantal
Silvia
monica
Katia
Harald
Monika
Sally
Bérard
Jasiukiewicz
Siponen
Imborgia
Palmaers
le luong
Ngamsuwan
Taylor
SPACHIDAKIS
Anderton
Langsford
Wojtkiewicz
Singh
arapoudis
vanTol
Scodellari
groeneweg
groeneweg
verdel
Groeneweg
Baltazar
Paoluzzi
dachy
Rivera-Herrera
carvajal
lopes
Möllersten
Darcy
Lelli
Suljagic
durkin
Kemp
Suuronen
beveren
Bertano
russo
Scaglia
Bilek
Huber
Sonnex
Orsay
Ostrów Wlkp.
Oulu
Palermo
Panningen
paris
Pattaya
perth
PIRAEUS
Poole
Poole
Poznań
Rawdon
rhodos
Ridderkerk
Roma
rotterdam
rotterdam
rotterdam
Rotterdsm
Sabugal
Sacile
Saint-Servais
San Juan
Santiago
Sesimbra
Skogås
Sligo
Spinetoli - AP
Srebrenik
stockport
Swindon
Tampere
tervuren
Torino
torre annunziata
Verona
Vienna
Vienna
Whitfield
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
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Waltraud
Usahanun
Wien
Not in US
Margit
Mariana
Iva
Frederik
Dora
Erica
Otterbach
Bozic
Turato
De Roeck
Hardegger
Munn
Wien
Zagreb
Zagreb
Zonhoven
Zürich
Halifax
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Not in US
Nova Scotia
STOP trashing the ocean!
mettre fin à la dérive des filets maillants
The ocean's resources are limited, we
cannot afford to allow unsustainable fishing
practices to continue. All techniques that
yield high levels of by-catch and/or which
degrade the ecosystem need to be stopped.
People need to vote unacting authorities
acting irresponsibly to future generations and
living creatures out of occupations once and
for all!
Jim
Mary
Jean
Bailey
Wyman
Perry Jones
Lawrencetown
Lower Sackville
Las Vegas
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
NV
Janet
Betty
Eileen
mary
susan
Meredith
Barbara
John
Nicole
marcy
april
Augusto
Ramsey
Schenck
boyle
gunther
Priestley
Kouts
Ebersberger
O'Neil
moyer
henry
Las Vegas
Las Vegas
Las Vegas
Albany
Beacon
Bedford
Bellport
Bethpage
Binghamton
Bronx
Bronx
NV
NV
NV
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
Evelyn
Maurice
Jeffrey
ROBIN
K.
John
Elena
Johanna
Theresa
Daniel
Sandra
matthew
Steven
Michael
Patricia
Patty
Kathleen
Richard
Sherrie
mark
Ian
Paula
Steve
Jean
Jackie
Carol J.
Roel
Miriam
david
Kevin
Mark
Cruz
Grefe
Korn
STOnebridge
Arnone
Berman
Chernysheva
Elias
Galvin
Klein
Naidich
ramos
Werfel
Mack
Burchard
Gibbons
Murray
Gast
Pizzo
lotito
Hannon
Muth
Kohn
Padilla
Mills
Painter, Ph.D.
Bergema
M
riggs
nardill
Abushady
Bronx
Bronx
Bronx
Bronx
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Burlington Flats
Camden
Central Islip
Clifton Spgs
Constable
Elmira
Garden City
Great Neck
Greenport
Highland
Hopewell Jct
Inwood
Ithaca
Kollumerzwaag
Lake Grove
Levittown
Lloyd Harbor
Long Island City
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
Galen
Trembath
Long Island City
NY
Be species selective. Stop the by catch
massacre. Don't use drift gill nets. Don't
waste your children's future.
Gill nets are horrendous!!!
To do all we can to protect these creatures
populations is a boon to the longevity of your
industry as well as to the creatures
populations and our planet. Let's work
together to create a better world for all
creatures. Thank you
This haphazard way of catching swordfish
must stop. It is wasteful, harmful, and
jeopardizes our living oceans.
Kimberly
Marlena
Barry
Susan
Frank
Martha D.
Edith
Wade
Lange
Zuckerman
Hutko
Wagner
Perlmutter
Borie
Malverne
Middletown
Middletown
Minoa
Minoa
New City
New Paltz
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
Regina
Andrew
Esquivel
Wasserman
New York
New York
NY
NY
diane
Susan
sacchetti
Freel
New York
New York
NY
NY
Deidre
Moderacki
New York
NY
Marc
Michael
Pamela
Alan
Nyack
S.
Richard P
Constance
rubina
June
Julie
John
Maxine
Sheila
cave
Liz
April
Walker
Wendi
Beschler
Bondoc
Brocious
Brown
Clancy
Etherton
Faust
George
hassan
Hurst
Jensen
Keiser
Klein
Kolodny
man
Piercey
Plumeri
Everette
Cohen
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
Niagara Falls
Nyack
Ossining
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
Kristina
Turechek
Otego
NY
Patricia
Isabel
Gause
Fuica
Owego
Port Chester
NY
NY
fundamentally indiscriminate.
PLEASE IT IS DUE!!!!
These lazy and outdated fishing methods
must be made illegal to prevent the wonton
destruction of the oceans. If we don't
collectively manage these important
resources in a responsible manner, we will
all suffer. Taking no action would be lazy,
ignorant, and further accelerate the rapid
decline of our oceans.
This is like mass murder...
Whales need our protection and so do all the
other creatures affected by these nets. Stop
it now!
You have the power to save life or continue
to allow unnecessary death. Please show
me your level of commitment to our ocean
ecosystems.
All our ocean life deserves our respecting &
protecting & to be here as much as we do &
need to stop drift gill nets to help stop killing
lots of ocean wild life that gets caught in
them & to help find safer alternatives thank
you?!!!
Killing any creature as garbage is a sin, drift
nets are the weapons.
hal
David
Michael
joan
Elizabeth
PILLINGER
Randall
Van Riper
silaco
Maas
Port Chester
Port Jefferson
Putnam Valley
Queens Village
Rego Park
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
sean
Richard
kenneth
Carol
Jacqui
susan
elisabeth
Janet
jean
Laura
Susan
marge
J
Mary
Frank
Shigemi
Katherine
Laura
Dr. D
Becky
Marie-Louise
Edward
Sandy
Ann C.
brennan
Kurz
clark
Hinkelman
Lipschitz
messerschmitt
guss
Grossman
ritchie
Dame
Richeson
dakouzlian
Walby
Boudreau
Curtis
Ohta
Terrell
Danna
Fassman
Moroney
ERICSEN
Rengers
McClure
McGill
Ridge
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rochester
Rockaway Park
Sag Harbor
saint remy
Saranac Lake
Shirley
staten island
Staten Island
Syracuse
Troy
Tsukuba
Utica
Warrensburg
Westbury
Westbury
White Plains
Woodstock
Blue Ash
Brunswick
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
OH
OH
Edward
Erika
Keary
Jacques
Lonnie
Alice
Chamberlain
Schoeps
Missler
Zakin
Stanton
Sweeley
Columbus
Columbus
Dublin
Dublin
Felicity
Grove City
OH
OH
OH
OH
OH
OH
Tom
Bullock
Lakewood
OH
Jean
Ryan
Mary
Patricia
Barb
George
Connor
Yanchar
Brown
Clinger
Baird
Marsh
Lorain
Mentor
Morrow
Port Clinton
Rayland
Tiffin
OH
OH
OH
OH
OH
OH
Please follow The Golden Rule when
considering the creatures and ecosystems of
this planet.
Now is the time!!!!
this is a horror and must end now!
We cannot afford to destroy fish that will be
needed for food in future years.
We know oceans contain precious
resources. Let's use good practice in
harvesting these resources so that they will
thrive for future generations.
Bycatch is wasteful, economic, and natural
harm that the fishing boats ought to prevent
or pay high costs to compensate for. The
time is long since past to improve these
practices, and the sooner we can reduce
bycatch, the sooner ocean fisheries will
recover. Let's get it done and not
procrastinate.
Nicole
Dennis
James
McAtee
Woolley
Lindsay
Toledo
Youngstown
Akron
OH
OH
Ohio
Roberta
Rebecca
Margaret
Benita
Lisa
eric
Gene
Mary
Dawn
amy
Warren
Stacy
Marc
Tim
L
Ron
Cindy
Daniel
Stephanie
JIll
Anthony
Jeanne
Aber
Katzenmeyer
Landrum
Musleve
Nagle
schickendantz
Ammarell
Costello
Kosec
schumacher
Kerrigan
Grossman
Masto
Collingwood
Bendict
McCutcheon
Wargo
Bachmann
Fairchild
Knecht
Mehle
Hartzog
Akron
Akron
Akron
Akron
Akron
akron
Athens
Athens
Austintown
beavercreek
Berea
bexley
Boardman
Boston Heights
Bowling Green
Brook Park
Brunswick
Cambridge
Cambridge
CAnfield
Canfield
Canton
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Rebecca
Debra
Karen
John
Edward
Julie
Laura
Ellen
Catherine
John
Diane
Phyllis
kathleen
Banner
Gillis
Kindel
Weis
Roach
Clayman
Solomon
Kinney
Whitright
Schmittauer
Pekarcik
Park
kinsey
Canton
Canton
Canton
Canton
Centerville
Chagrin Falls
Chagrin Falls
Chardon
Chardon
Chauncey
Chesterland
Chillicothe
cincinnati
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Carolyn
Watts
Cincinnati
Ohio
Kay
Bonnie
lee
Matthew
Randy
Amy
Caveman
Michael
Lindsay
Wolfley
Beverage
buckmeier
Burton
Centner
Elder
Etris
Freeman
Garrett
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Stop the indiscriminate killing of life in the
ocean!
The sooner these are eliminated, the more
jobs in tourism and tax dollars.
it is way past time to put a stop to this
practice.
Please stop with these nets....they ruin the
free travel of these wild beautiful creatures!!
What if nets stopped you from your everyday
activities and you could do nothing about it!!
Stop the waste of life, OUR ecosystem.
Sister Paula
susan
Sue
Heather
Christina
Denise
a
Fredde
Norm
Lynn
sheila
Emma
Gail
Gonzalez
Huesken
Murray
Nardini
Yearout
Donaldson
christopher
Hollman
Schmidt
Walker
basing
Shook
Meese
Cincinnati
cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Cleveland
cleveland
Cleveland
Cleveland
Cleveland
cleveland hts
Cleveland Hts.
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
MAX
FRAZIER
Columbus
Ohio
Chris
Mendel
Columbus
Ohio
Maureen A
Absten RN
Columbus
Ohio
SARA
Susan
Sally
Ana
Kathleen
Karen
Donald
henry
eugene
Samuel
Kathleen
Kathi
Brian
Lu
Steven
anne
Clement
Pamela
Aloysius
Judy
JOAN
Jeff
Tammy
Paul
sterling
Klaus
Patty
CROSBY
Gibson
Hinshaw
Holtsberry
Howren
Hughes
Hyatt
jones
kinbur
Moore
Morris
Ridgway
Robb
Roth
Skal
sullivan
Thurn
Unger
Wald
White
MORRIS-KNOUFF
McCollim
Weatherly
Szymanowski
hanselman
Becker
Ridenour
Columbus
Columbus
Columbus
Columbus
COLUMBUS
Columbus
Columbus
columbus
columbus
Columbus
Columbus
Columbus
Columbus
columbus
Columbus
columbus
Columbus
Columbus
Columbus
Columbus
COLUMBUS,
Concord
Cortland
Curtice
cuyahoga falls
DATTELN
Dayton
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
terri
pigford
dayton
Ohio
Madam Chairwoman,
Protect ocean life!
gill nets kill endangered turtles and other
poor critters, and besides I never eat
swordfish as it is very high in mercury !
Indiscriminate killing of sea life should have
been stopped immediately.
Manage the fishery and help these whales!
That's your job!
We must be careful, considerate &
conscious to protect this resource for all
time.
I find it difficult to believe that the fishing
industry has no compassion for the sea
creatures that it INTENTIONALLY DROWNS
every time a drift gill net is used. That is
completely disgusting.
Kevin
Stith
Delaware
Ohio
Nancy
Jonathan
Earl
ROBERT
James
Beverly
Dawn
Gay
Sandra
Mel
Catherine
Ginny
Daniela
Nancy
Patricia
Lauren
Slava
Don
Meredith
gayle
Rebecca
Elizabeth
Carol
James
Lauren
Brant
Peebles
Grove
GEE
Lovich
Whelan
Spencer
Goden
Prybylek
Arnet
Carlin
Siferd
Bosenius
Kelley
Doyle
Jusek
Radaković
Pew
Needham
richardson
Slisher
Rose
Gottesman
Palus
Wade
Delaware
Delaware
East Canton
East Palestine
Eastlake
Eastlake
Elyria
Euclid
Euclid
Fairgield
Fairview Park
Findlay
Frechen
Galloway
Garrettsville
Garrettsville
Gibsonburg
Girard
Granville
grove city
Groveport
Hilliard
Hubbard
Independence
Ironton
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Kristin
Katie
Mark
Dan
Barbara
Margaret
David
Gary
Gabella
Remele
Cosgriff
Pongallo
Scholl
Michal
Bolman
Jeffers
Kent
Kent
Lakewood
Lakewood
Lancaster
Lebanon
Leipsic
Liberty Township
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Betty
Combs
Londonderry
Ohio
Mark
John
Linda
Ed
Cheryl
Lori
John
Dennis
David
Garcia
Dierig
Kiernan
Bukovinsky
Elsass
Stenger
Brewer
Kaplan
Kersten
Lorain
Loveland
Loveland
Lowellville
Mansfield
Mantua
Marietta
Mayfield Heights
medina
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Please, these nets are barberic and deadly
to some of the world's smartest and beloved
creatures. Please do what you can. Thank
you
Stop Killing Marine Life! It's Cruel And
Wrong! Let Them Live! They Deserve To
Have A Life!
These things are horrendous and I've always
detested them being a sport fisherman. The
indiscriminate way they take life from the
creatures of the sea should be abhorred by
all and banned from existence .
Please out law these nets that are killing so
many..
Kim
Janet
Lisa
shannon
Alisa
gretchen
Diane
Virginia
Chris
R
Jill
Natalie A.
Mark
Cheryl
Pfahl
Oliver
Witham
horn
Dunn
sullivan
McJunkin
Wasserman
Robinson
S
Brothers
Carter
Chudzik
Tyhson
Medina
Mentor
Mentor on the Lake
Middletown
Milford
millersburg
Monroe
Mount Gilead
N Canton
N Ridgeville
Negley
Newark
North Olmsted
North Royalton
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
James
Mary
Roland
Tamyra
Rachel
Valerie
Kerrie
Frank
michael
Carla
Teri
Gemma
Raymond
Wendy
Riddle, PhD, JD
Thoma
Pandolfi
Mouginis
Bares
Hildebrand
Shisila
Herda
quillin
Scheall
Koslen
Stracka
Beebe
Stewart
North Royalton
Oakwood
Oberlin
Olmsted Twp
Painesville
Parma
Parma
Parma Heights
parma heights
Peninsula
Pepper Pike
Pepper Pike
Perrysburg
Pickerington
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Robin
Mary
Craft
Jones
Plain City
Portsmouth
Ohio
Ohio
Daniel
Cottle
Portsmouth
Ohio
Kristin
LaMonda
Powell
Ohio
Susan
Crawford
Powell
Ohio
This is a very cruel practice.
Extinction means forever.
This is such an outdated method and needs
to be banned. There's too much marine life
that is lost due to these archaic ways of
catching swordfish.
What a waste to kill fish needlessly.
The time is now to change wasteful,
environmentally damaging fishing methods.
By not following through with your proposed
agenda you are not giving the consumer a
good impression of your intents. When a
company spokeperson says something like
changing a harmful procedure to a better
approach and fails to followthrough with that
the consumer draws a negative feeling
towards that company. If you continue to
disregard your own statements, the many of
us consumers will take that litteraly and
change our purchasing power to someone
who truely cares how its consumer feels.
Protecting these species from extinction
helps keep us from our own extinction.
Given that there are better alternatives that
seem reasonably cost effective to use
instead, it seems negligent to continue using
this method of fishing to catch swordfish or
any other fish.
ann
Barbara
Daniel
Adam
Rev Curt
Deanie
Jayleen
Deborah
Lynne
Lisa
Kathleen
edelman
Koles
Kozminski
Savett
Miner
Oldfield
Hatmaker
Randall
Baird
Pace
Bradley
reynoldsburg
Shaker Heights
Solon
Solon
South Charleston
Spencer
Springboro
State College
Steubenville
Stow
Strongsville
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Greg
jocelyne
Erin
Lilian
Nielson
lapointe
Prince
Nichols
Strongsville
terrebonne
Tiltonsville
Tipp City
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Cindy
David
Koepfer
Neuendorff
toledo
Toledo
Ohio
Ohio
Harvey
Sherry
Kevin
J.W.
Robyn
Susan
Cal
Debra
Frankie
Jennifer
Cristine
Debra
Elinore
Marlowe
Kendall
mary
Raymond
Linda
Hanna
Ochoa-Rounkles
Charnas
Pavlic
Villella
Gano
Cole
Bruegge
Doerpers
Hill
Bhaiji
Stadler
Evans
Nelson
Pleasant
zack
Gettins
Foutz
Toledo
Troy
University Heights
Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Warren
Waynesburg
West Chester
West Chester
Westerville
westlake
Whitehouse
Willoughby Hills
Wooster
Wooster
worthington
Wyoming
Xenia
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
marina
Mary Jo
Jessica
Barbara
Stephanie
Radha
Karen
Linda
owen
Nagy
Zackasee
Grimm
Hensley
Singh
Bunch
Langmacher
yellow springs
youngstown
Youngstown
Broken Arrow
Tulsa
Ardmore
Broken Arrow
Carnegie
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
OK
OK
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
We need responsible policies to keep the
ocean sustainable for everyone. Please let
us move away from drift gill nets.
Creatures of the sea are being bombarded
and decimated by human actions, and drift
gill nets certainly are not wise to use in our
oceans. We must learn to take care of other
forms of life, and not just destroy all in our
path. End this outmoded way of fishing for
swordfish!s
PLEASE STOP THIS CRUELTY NOW..
Too many other creatures are accidentally
killed. This is inhumane and unnecessary.
Save the planet. !!!
Time to get this taken care of right now!
we need to respect our oceans, we cannot
sustain this continued killing indiscriminately.
its time to stop the destruction
Mercedes
Lackey
Claremore
Oklahoma
Mary
lydia
Chrissie
roser
Steve
Marla
Donna
Jason
liam
william
Stephanie
Kathryn
Cheryl
Pauline
Kathy
Cynthia
John
Carol C
Arikka
DC
John
Cynthia
Sharon
Rebecca
Patricia
Cathy
Kathy
Ashley
bneet
heather
Julia
Rob
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Alison
Emily
Birgit
Andrea
Price
garvey
Johnson
gari
Trammell
Bradley
Davis
Lindley
whitlock
elliott
Jones
Rice
Bryan
DeJear
Forney
Stevenson
Shannon
Brown
Finn
Harris
Jolley
Murphy
Norris
Oberlin
Tate
Reynolds
Nix
Chlebak
bhamra
childs
Barnes
Bennett
Abrantes
DOnofrio
Carnie
Lancaster
Walch
Zappe
Cleveland
Clinton
Elgin
madrid
Meeker
Norman
Norman
OKC
okc
OKLAHOMA CITY
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City
Ponca city
San Antonio
Stillwater
Stillwater
Tulsa
Tulsa
Tulsa
Tulsa
Tulsa
Tulsa
Tulsa
Tulsa
Tulsa
Walters
Yukon
Bowmanville
brampton
Burlington
Burlington
Burlington
CAMBRIDGE
Grafton
Grand Bend
Guelph
Hamilton
Kenora
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
sea turtles. It’s time to end this outdated and
wasteful fishing method and find a better
way to catch swordfish.
Please stop this form of fishing!
Please stop this!
It isn't humans' planet to destroy ...
G
R
London
Ontario
Please follow through with your agreement
about transitioning commercial fishing for
Pacific swordfish and get rid of those
harmful drift gill nets. Find other ways to
catch swordfish, why should so many other
species die unnecessarily. I would think that
your Management Council would want to
show that they do what they say they are
going to do! Or else why do you all bother
with a Pacific Fishery Management Council?
Do the right thing, please.
Victoria
Szilagyi
London
Ontario
Sustainable fishing methods should be
implemented to ensure to the future health
not only of the oceans, but this lonely planet
as a whole.
Doreen
J. David
rory
Nancy
C
Mike
barry
Kenneth
Brian
Forbes
Scott
tipping
Lowe
Lambourn
Baldasio
werbowsky
Lapointe
Buchan
London
London
london
new lowell
Newmarket
Niagara Falls
north york
Ottawa
Peterborough
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Shannon
B
Connor
scott
Karen
Bernardo
P
Saucier
williamson
Crawford
Quinte West
Rostock
Russell
sault ste. marie
Toronto
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Kent
Kraemer
Toronto
Ontario
Elle
Price
Toronto
Ontario
Paul
Victoria
Cortney
Suneet
Thom
Lisa
Kaitlin
Darn
Pitchford
Proctor
Srivastava
Zimerle
Mikolich
McQueen
Toronto
Toronto
Toronto
Toronto
Toronto
vineland
Whitby
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
PLEASE do what is best for the innocent fish
that are captured by mistake and outlaw the
nets that are causing this.
Get rid of drift nets.....
Gill nets kill thousands of creatures that
fisherman refer to as by catch. Put an end
to drift gill nets.
It makes no sense to continue putting
threatened species at risk when you have
the power to change to more sustainable
fishing gear. It's time to make the change.
Please act on your commitment. Thank you.
Please help these species of fish. We need
them all and we cannot be continuing with
this horrible situation. Fishermen need to be
more aware of what's going on and instead
of taking too much fish, take the right
amount instead of too much. It's not fair and
it's greedy. Please help the fish.
Enough is enough.
Laureen
melek
jane
Michelle
Carolin
Robert and Donna
Richard
ashley
Jaime
Laurie
D'Alessandro
korel
cease
Hoff
Schellhorn
Janusko
Sappelli
heffner
Bernthaler
Figaniak
Woodbridge
istanbul
Allentown
Allentown
Ardmore
Bethlehem
Bethlehem
Bradford
Bridgeville
Bryn Mawr
Ontario
Other
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
Barry
Patricia
Hans
Joyce
Andrew
James
Elizabeth
Pat
Jeff
Diane
Fran
Ergang
Greiss
van Huijkelom
Filauri
Mix
Glatz
McCormack
Dengel
Lowry
Veath
DeMillion
Bryn Mawr
Carlisle
Collegeville
Coraopolis
Downingtown
Greentown
Harrisburg
Hummelstown
Johnstown
Johnstown
Kennett Square
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
Jean
George
Joanne
Carol
Marilynn
Tara
Connor
Jameson
Rande
Kenneth
craig
Georgia
James
DIANE
Robin
Emily
Celia M
Ilonka
Donna D
Laura
Linda
Barker
Bullwinkle
Mack
Miller
Harper
Gutknecht
Duffy
McDonnell
Mandelblatt
Veith
conn
Feild
Goble
KOKOWSKI
Scherr
McDonald
Janosik
Guenther
Varcoe
Carrasco
Battoni
Kennett Square
King of Prussia
Lester
Macungie
Media
New Kensington
Norwood
Phila
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Quakertown
Scranton
Sewickley
Singapore
State College
Stowe
Wapwallopen
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA
Paul
Michael
Jessica
Bradley
Carlos
Justin
Lee
Kathleen
Lerman
Schmotzer
DeMatty
Zidane
Alén
Emery
Fister
Furness
Wyncote
York
???
Allentown
Allentown
Allentown
Allentown
PA
PA
15644 Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
This practice has to end. Please make it
so?
This small action can bring about positive
conservation results
When will we ever learn?
It is time to acknowledge that drift gill nets
are wasteful and should not be used. The
bottom line should not be all about money.
Janise
William
Robert
Linette
logan
Julia
Janis
Mike
beatrice
Rosemary
Gregory
Ruiz
Wilson
Feaser
Schreiber
welde
Keegan
Kinslow
Peale
broughton
delPino
Peterson
Allentown
Allentown
Annville
Ardmore
ardmore
Aston
Aston
Aston
avondale
Baden
Bakerstown
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Silvana
Lana
Marian
Peggy
Robert
Shannon
Joan
Ronald
Malcolm
Kathleen
Anthony
Judie
Rosanne
Janice
Borrelli
Fishkin
Rowland
Izzo
Van Wtk
Elliott
Iorio
Pazdro
Norton
Colwill
Capobianco
Massung
Minich
Wolbach
Bala Cynwyd
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with the changes wrought by warming
oceans, we are doing enough damage to
ocean life without perpetuating the use of
these killing nets
It's time to end this outdayted + wasteful
fishing method, period.
Please, help to end the use of gill nets.
Thank you.
This should be common sense, get rid of the
drift nets!!!
Killer nets is a more appropriate name for
these death traps.
please save the other fish and mammals
that are caught in these nets c'mon we can
do this
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David
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Janice
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You inherit the fruit of your actions as your
inescapable karma. What will it be?
It is essential that drift nets be eliminated
immediately. Endangered species such as
whales, turtles, sharks are dying in these
nets. This is unacceptable.
I believe the incidental catch involved with
drifting gill nets outweighs any financial gain
of the fishermen.
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Haughey
essington
Pennsylvania
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Philomena
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Chinitz
Fort Washington
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suan
Eileen
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Verbalis
andersaon
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ruby
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allison
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The killing of our sea animals is horrifying
and can be prevented by outlawing these
barbaric nets!! Imagine yourself and your
family being caught in one of these nets and
just imagine the terror and agonizing
death!!!!
Please pay attention to this! Thank you.
Please get these nets out of the waters!!!!
They are killing the sea life there!!!!! There
is a better way to catch swordfish and I urge
you to go that route and save our whales,
sea turtles, dolphins, etc.
Drift gill nests must stop! They catch
anything and everything, killing endangered
creatures. There must be a better way than
this wasteful killing.
The potential swordfish catch is outweighed
by the harm done to other species.
I do not support commercial fishing in any
way; in fact, I do not support any type of
fishing at all. There are enough plant foods
on our planet to feed everyone and sustain
the health of our human population.
stop this !
Michael
Stacey
david
Justin
donique
arlana
Gina
Patrick
Barbara
Rich
Raymond
Marilyn
Barbara
Kelly
Patty
Lawrence
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levin
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Butler
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Levittown
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There has to be a better way than this ocean
life is fragile it is being over fished. What
lives in the ocean should stay in the ocean
its their home.
Please be a voice for those with none.
What happened to the commitment that was
made??
sea turtles. It’s time to end this outdated and
wasteful fishing method and find a better
way to catch swordfish.
We need to improve so that these wonderful
sea life do not have to suffer like this
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David
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Patricia
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Candidus
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Bryn
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Risso
Hammarstrom, RN
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Please stop the use of drift gill nets
immediately & therefore protect whales,
dolphins, seals, sea lions, sea turtles, and all
the other species of fish that are not wanted.
Drift gill nets kill so many marine animals
that are endangered. Drift gills nets need to
banned from using them!!!
The greatness of a nation and its moral
progress can be judged by the way its
animals are treated.
Too much of the life of the oceans is already
at risk. We must change our ways if we are
to protect that life.
Why do you need these nets,knowing that
anything under water will be caught in the
net.
The time is way overdue to end all drift
netting!
https://movetoamend.org/
Bruce
Ellen
Kathy
richard
Emile G.
Parry
Bardo
Stack
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Ilchuk
Mt. Pocono
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myerstown
N. Catasauqua
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George
Rachel
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David
Janet
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Karen
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Jeanne
Matthew
Barbara
DONNA
Anissa
Glenn
Walter
Angela
Emma
Barbara
Gilman
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Cartwright
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Rafferty
ITZOE
Corse
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Martin
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Maier
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Esta Jo
ABRAMS
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Miller Jr
Phila
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bettie
Patricia
diibuonaventura
Libbey
phila
Phila.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
I guess if man is going to destroy this planet
he just might include the sea creatures.
Please help save our environment.
How many helpless ocean creatures have to
drown in these hideous drift gill nets???
Harmful wasteful and so outdated
Please stop this!!
Useless killing, and just for profit. Shame on
them and shame on you if you don't take
action to stop this practice.
Why do we let this carnage continue? Such
a waste! I don't understand.
STOP KILLING THE INNOCENT AND
HELPLESS!!!!!
M.Jean
Henry
Rosemary
Gavin
Frank
Breslin
Phila.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Errikka
Teresa
Jordan
Soufas
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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Wallace
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Winters
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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William
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jim
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Steve
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Jeffrey
Rasheed
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Silvio
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Barbara
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Jean
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tina
Clifford
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Allen
Diane
Barbara
C
Michael
Andrew
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Greg
evelyn
Tillman
Anderson
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Drift gill nets are the WRONG thing to do.
Drift Gill nets threaten the marine
ecosystem. Lets NOT reward the fishing
industry's LAZINESS by allowing this NONfishing method.
Help Put an End to Drift Gill Nets
It is our responsibility as human beings to
care for the poanet andf all the other
animals/fish/birds we share it with.
Just get rid of the drift gill nets! Stop
catching, injuring and killing fish and sea
creatures that you aren't fishing for! Update,
upgrade, modernize your methods!
The biodiversity of the oceans is in your
hands. Please do the right thing in
preserving its integrity.
We are systematically killing everything.
Rose
george
Noel
Juliann
Ellen
Charles
Sheila
Thomas
Pauline
Elizabeth
Poune
Ingrid
M.
helen
Anna
jill
Reuben
Tom
Steven
Edmund
Karen
Lee
Dora
Nan
Olenick
patterson
Petrie, LSW
Pinto
Poist
Price
Robinson
Ronan
Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Saberi
Sidorov
Struble
syen
Tangi
turco
Wade
Wardell
Weinberg
Weisberg
Wisniewski
Wolf
Martinez-Armstrong
Stone
Philadelphia
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Leo
Elizabeth
Anne
Kevin
cynthia
Iverson
Kucewicz
Manning
Pinkerton
Wiker
clark
Phoenixville
Phoenixville
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pittsburgh
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Machusak Smith
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Kate
Melissa
Junker
McSwigan
Pittsburgh
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Pennsylvania
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Cynthia
Patricia
k
Al
Mary
Marcie
jerry
NIna
Alicia
Laura
Bauer
Conkel
danowski
DeRoy
Dulgeroff
Eberhart
grunnagle
Hamilton
Haupt
Horowitz
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We need to stop this cruel and harmful
practice now. Our life in the oceans is at
terrible risk from so many dangers caused
by mankind. change is needed NOW.
Hopefully the writer of this petition has, or
will be working to get legislation changed
(and better enforcement)?
It is becoming increasingly more difficult for
ocean life to live freely as they were able to
do in the past. We humans are seemingly
doing everything in our power to make their
lives difficult to unlivable. These nets must
go. There has to be a more humane way to
catch swordfish.
Please help save our sea life!
We know better and have the ability to be
humane. Please take action. Thanks.
Rick
Nadia
Susan
Dave
Mari
Justin
Janice
Lauren
Mike
Andrew
Joel
Karen
Daniel
jeanne
T
Christopher
Trosky
DONA
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This is a crime against Nature Has to be
stopped !
We can do better!
Fishing CAN be done humanely.
Think about the future. What will you tell
your grandchildren?
It is just not fair to drown all the animals!
Margery
John
Stephania
Tina
Joan
Melissa
Rosemary
Carol
Bruce
cg
Stone
Brian
Byrd
Herzog
Kolessar
Katterson
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stop being lazy catch your fish the way
they're supposed to be caught and let the
whales and turtles live.
This casual disregard for life is appaling, it
must be stopped
Drift gill nets seem a lazy way of fishing and
fishermen in the past have been amazingly
acceptable of the high numbers of trash fish
and other creatures caught in these nets. It
is past time for a change in method. Change
presages growth for ll.
GREED, STUPIDITY AND SELFISHNESS
ARE KILLING THIS PLANET! WHEN THE
SEA DIES SO WILL THE HUMAN RACE!!
We cannot afford to continue this type of
waste.
jill
LUKE
Garry
Christine
Anna
Susan
gwenn
Priscilla
Gerald
Lisa
Jonathan
Jerry
Terry
irwin
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we need to be more conscious of what we
are doing with our wildlife before we have no
wildlife to be consciuos of..
Please find another way to catch swordfish.
This is truly cruel and inhumane to the other
creatures who live in our oceans.
This is a disgraceful waste of life in an
already ruined sea..stop the murder please
Sean
Landsman
Charlottetown
Prince Edward IslandIt is time we shift away from complacency
and reaction to one of pro-action with
regards to the health of our oceans. This is a
simple solution that will have an immediate
impact on the marine life using these waters.
Let's stand together - fishermen, managers,
scientists, and general public - and fight to
protect the thing that brings us economic
prosperity, recreational pleasure, and
personal enjoyment.
Dale
Capt Jose L
Johnson
Campos
Toronto
San Juan
Prince Edward Island
Puerto Rico
The north coast of Puerto Rico had been a
spawning area for humpbacks and other
ststing around late October. In the past 3
years have seen only 2. In to where we fish
off San Juan very frequently, twice a week.
Lise
Marie-Line
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animals are precious
Cruelty to animals is unacceptable in a
civilized society.
lets protect marine lives by putting an end to
gill nets! thank you!!
Not because we can't see everywhere
underwater that we must not care what we
do to the sea!
We have a moral obligation to take care of
our oceans…so that future generations can
enjoy them. Also, gill nets are simply cruel!!!
Please stop the large scale decimation
Pacific Ocean marine life!
it really is about time we started to take
greater care in our oceans
Allan
Bailey
Brisbane
Queensland
Antje
Peter
Bron
George
JACQUI
Terri
Isabella
Nebel
Cummins
Wicks
Theobald
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Porter
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lena
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Cooper
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retzel
Albrecht
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Conway
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This is a completely unsustainable means of
fishing that kills everything in its path. when
these nets are lost they go on killing then
they sink with their catch until the content
rots and falls away the the net will rise again
to kill again and again. If you have any
empathy for the world we share with all other
creatures please stop this
Surely the time has come to consider the
health of the aquatic life around the world,
there will be NOTHING left in our oceans
then they will die and so will many many of
the less fortunate who depend on it for their
sustainance. As always it's the greed of big
companys who see only $ signs and ignore
the bigger picture. TIME TO STOP !!!!!!!
Queensland
Queensland
Queensland
Queensland
Queensland
Queensland
Reggio nell'Emilia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-PalatinatePlease find a better way to fish. Now is the
time to change the method!!!
Kempfeld
Kempfeld
Willroth
Rhineland-PalatinateWehe, dem Menschen, wenn auch nur ein
Tier im Strafgericht Gottes sitzt.
2915 Rhode Island
adamsville
Rhode Island
Gill nets are death traps. Ban them.
Barrington
Rhode Island
It's time to become creative and save
instead of waste.
Charlestown
Rhode Island
Coventry
Rhode Island
PLEASE.
Coventry
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Sheffield
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This is an exceptionally cruel way to fish.
Surely we can do better than to kill off valued
species of marine life.
I really hope to see you take strong action
and remove Drift Gill Nets. Thank you!
Stop using drift gill nets!!!
PLEASE act to protect endangered whales
and sea turtles.
These are insidious things that kill anything
bigger than a small sea bird that gets near
them. The by-catch from these murderdevices is appalling.
Seems an inexcusable, antiquated and
wasteful technique which should be banned,
not just in the Pacific, but every where.....
The recklessness is rampant in our society.
The result of this is to look at our polluted
waters our dying (35,000 stranded seals)fishing nets neglectfully let loose, human
need to take responsibility for our land &
oceans & the living creatures that we are
knowingly killing at alarming rates!
We must stop the killing of innocent whales
and sea turtles and anyother sea creature
that can swim inot these deadly nets. Get
frid of the nets!!
Barry
deb
LeBeau
doolittle
Providence
Wakefield
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We need to protect Ocean Life - all of it.
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
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Drift Gll Netting is indiscriminate, barbaric,
cruel, and unsupportable. It kills everything
that comes its way. Please have it stopped.
Yee Yean
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simon
Chris
Lim
Childs
Tham
barrett
du Plessis
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bath
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durban
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Smith
Aiken
South Carolina
Elizabeth
Barbara
Ann
Harding
Kring
LeMay
Aiken
Aiken
Aiken
South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina
NO MORE GILL NETS: WE CAN'T
AFFORD NOT TO HAVE ALL THE FISH IN
THE SEA SWIMMING FREE!
Drift nets are among the cruellest and
unscrupulous methods of exploitation of
nature!
Look after nature , or nature will take us out
of existence..
All creatures should be able to live in peace
please protect them as humans should be
doing ?
In these modern times it must surely be
possible to devise more humane and
efficient methods of fishing. Continuing to
use this method will further damage the
image of the fishing industry, to its detriment.
Darraline
Patsy
PEG
marilyn
Salmon
Aiken
Fowler
Anderson
HENDERSON MILLSANDERSON
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The use of drift gill nets is outdated and
wasteful with a loss of life that is
unimaginable, please stop the use of drift gill
nets, save the lives of our marine animals.
We have known for decades that the
bycatch of gill nets is terrible! Time to end
their use!!
Please stop killing all the other sea animals
that you are not fishing for!
All life in the ocean is interconnected. When
you kill one species, you can hurt them all
including your own catch. Please don't use
drift gill nets.
Please get rid of these nets. You can not
control what is killed by them.
Liz
Kathy
Ginger
Lesley
Rich
Lisa
Joanne
Jan
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J.
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Quentin
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These people aren't fisherman, they are
cheating polluters.
As a former sea captain and commercial /
sport fisherman, I know that how inefficient
and immoral drift gill nets are; the by-kill is
horrendous.
It is past time to outlaw drift nets. Obviously
they allow fishermen to catch more fish and
thus maximize their profits. But the
indiscriminate killing of trash species
including endangered species, is
irresponsible.
Stop strip mining the sea just for your own
profit.
Liz
Ronald
Krisallen
Berenice Guedes
Almides Lemes
Orlando
Bernadete Lemes
Regine
Irene
Nuria
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Annabel
Steve
Ofstad
Ratner
Bean
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de Sá
Ruelle
Lorenzo
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sv
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Garrett
Sioux Falls
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Watertown
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Hässelby
Luleå
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stockholm
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sweden
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sweden
Switzerland
Switzerland
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Corinne
gabby
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walter
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mcdonald
Vaught
Cook
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hobart
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Kel
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pat
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james
Diaz
Wall
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Mott
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bilbrey
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Murphy
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They are suffering in silence. Please stop
using these nets.
Help Put an End to Drift Gill Nets: Call on the
Pacific Fishery Management Council to
move away from drift gill nets.
Fishing itself has been overfishing for
decades. It's time for the rest of us to
impose responsibility on those who do longterm harm to the oceans.
Jim
Steitz
Gatlinburg
Tennessee
Zachary
Claudette
Deborah
Jennifer
GF
Kelley
David
Timothy
Terri
Lorraine
Steven
Kim
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Shulkin
Jones
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annette
Jason
Charles
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Berkheimer
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cobb
Gurley
Martin
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Quillen
Reichard
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Terry
Tine'
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Horn
dekanich
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Wear
Smith
Pope
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Knoxville
Knoxville
Knoxville
Knoxville
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Lancing
Loretto
Maryville
Maryville
Maryville
Mcminnville
Memphis
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Arshad
William
Ameen
Cope
Memphis
Memphis
Tennessee
Tennessee
Gillnets are shrouds of death that evacuate
the oceans of life. They do not constitute a
means of fishing as most people would
recognize the term. Swallowing a vast realm
of the pelagic ecosystem within inescapable
netting and drowning countless intelligent,
sentient creatures, whose only crime is
swimming amidst lucrative swordfish and
thresher sharks, is morally profane and
offensive to our dignity. You must terminate
the use of gillnets in American-governed
waters entirely, as a heinous usurpation of
our common oceanic treasure by a
commercial clique.
Please put a stop to using Drift Gill N
This is disgusting and needs to stop. Hope
you all know that.
We need to stop using gill nets AND all other
methods that overharvest target species and
destroy other species.
This is the right thing to do. Now is the time
to do it.
Cheryl
Teresa
James D
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Vivek
Robert
STEPHAN
Diana
Dare
Iovino
Johnson
Owens
Savur
Fingerman
ALTSCHUL
Page
Memphis
Memphis
Memphis
Memphis
Memphis
Monteagle
MONTEREY
Nashville
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Michael
Holland
Nashville
Tennessee
Marianne
Bettina
Terissa
Patricia
Terry
Libba
Ronald
Ramcey
Elizabeth
Colleen
Kathy
Axel
J.
Eada
Debra
Robert
Frances
Amy
Ruth
Cindy
Monica
Richard
Phyl
Bentley
Bowers
Cantrell
Dishman
Green
Miller
Mincin
Rodriguez
Sanger
Sheppard
Tobey
Ringe
Petrilla
Webb
Fox
Mottice
M
M
Kaczmarek
Poston
Black
Helton
Morello
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
Nashville
New Market
Nsshville
Oak Ridge
Oliver Springs
Ooltewah
Rogersville
Rogersville
Springville
Ten Mile
Unicoi
Wartburg
White Pine
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
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Tennessee
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Tennessee
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Tennessee
Tennessee
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Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Bu
kristina
Lindsey
Courtney
Billy
Rosa
Jenn
Ellen
AnaLisa
Morello
lamons
McMahan
Barnings
Halgat
Arsiaga
Buchanan
Gaston
Crandall
White Pine
Tennessee
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77035 Texas
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Abilene
Texas
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Texas
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Texas
Adkins
Texas
I hope that drift gill nets are dropped as a
legitimate fishing technology. They cause
unnecessary death and suffering, and waste
resources.
The continued use of drift gill nets will
ultimately destroy the fishing industry. Both
for economic and environmental reasons,
ending the use of these nets is vitally
important. If we destroy the oceans and the
life in them, we have no future for humanity.
PROTECT OUR OCEAN LIFE FROM
BEING KILLED FROM GILLNETS!!!
Cynthia
McFall
Allen
Texas
These nets are killers and are destroying
many species that are simply thrown out as
by-catch. We have the means to do much
better than this. If we want a viable and
sustainable ocean ecosystem and fishing
industry, we have to work within intelligent
boundaries and minimize unintended
consequences.
Cindy
Malvenia
Michael
Tonia
Scott
mark
Crutcher
Lewis
Thurston
Deur
Taylor
dirnberger
Allen
Allen
Allen
Amarillo
Anna
arlington
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Julia
Burgen
Arlington
Texas
Dorothy Lynn
Mary
Linda
Robert
Kaye
glynda
nancy
Saad
jennifer
apryl
Bill
Pam
Brooks
Cato
Heagy
Landolt
Mccall
ray
salvatierra
Siddiqui
anderson
voskamp
Hall
Leighton-Burwell
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
arlington
arlington
Arlington
ausitn
ausitn
Austin
Austin
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Zachary
Bryson
Austin
Texas
Alicia
Fiedler
Austin
Texas
Janice
Weaver
Austin
Texas
It's no good to do a piece meal job in getting
rid of drift gill nets usage. It needs to be
stopped now! Some of our most beautiful
marine life are being killed, putting our
environment in danger and bringing the
senseless destruction of the oceans we love.
t
logan
austin
Texas
outdated and wrong
Please put an end to this practice that claims
lives of many non-target species.
We have but one planet. We must be
cnservative in our use of its resources. Drift
gill nets are a crive against multiple species.
Choose Love....<3<3<3
Drift grill nets kill much more marine life than
the targeted for profit swordfish. This use of
nets is unsustainable and should be banned.
In the long run it would be better for both the
fishing industry and sea life to abandon the
reckless use of drift gill nets.
It is time to let go of old ways and embrace
new ones if we wish to save the our oceans.
Joy
Ruth
Austin
Texas
Catherine
Livingston
Austin
Texas
Tierra
Chapman
Austin
Texas
Rainbow
Ken
Donald
Di Benedetto
Box
Jones
Austin
Austin
Austin
Texas
Texas
Texas
Paul
Robert J
Heather
Ivy
Simone
Donna
Janet
joyce
Ed
Carol
Stacey
Eren
Keith
Yvonne
Diane
Susan
James
shakti
alvy
Alex
Fiona
Odilia
Lisa
Deborah
Kimberly
steve
Becky
Sherry
Vince
Ari
Brandon
Jerry
Stuart
Addington
Barnhart
Brandon
Buchanan
Dail
Darling
Delaney
faulk
Fiedler
Fly
Francis
Giles
Hailey
Hansen
Hejl
Hendrix
Hildebrand
khalsa
king
King
Kozuh
Leal-McBride
LeBlanc
Livingston
Locke
lucas
Marek
Mason
Mendieta
Meyer
Mulder
Mylius
Newberg
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
austin
austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Texas
Texas
Texas
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Texas
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Texas
Texas
Texas
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Texas
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Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Please create change and bring an end to
the use of drift gill nets in the Pacific Ocean.
These long nets catch turtles, whales,
dolphins, some kinds of fish, and other
ocean inhabitants that are not targeted,
indiscriminately killing needlessly! This
wasteful and cruel method of fishing must
stop!
These nets have caused countless deaths
and crippling injuries. Every marine rehab
person has personal experience with the
tragedy of the animals caught in these nets.
This has to stop. Noone has the right to fish
for or eat swordfish caught using these lethal
nets.
This barbaric and greedy practice must end!
Shame on this!
This collateral damage is unacceptable.
This practice must be outlawed globally.
We should not recklessly slaughter marine
animals by continuing to use drift gill nets.
It's time to change what we do.
Kirsten
Courtney
Ashley
Grace
Rick
adrienne
Margery
Vicki
Carolyn
Kevin
Alexandria
Melissa
Greg
Christiaan
Chandra
Steve
horace
Danielle
Scott
Danielle
nadine
Thomas
Chris
Susan
Jane Leatherman
Samantha
Edward
Carol
Gabrielle
Chelsea
av
Crystal
Stephen
reiven
Annie
Dyan
Stephen
Patricia
Sheila
Nottage
Odell
Parks
Payne
Pearson
pond
Race
Rice
Riddle
Rolfes
Romo
Sellars
Sells
Siano
Sigmund
Sivley
smith
Stanley
Swanson
Vela
vergilia
Windberg
Winkley
Young
Van Praag
Schou
Sharp
Shelton
Gomez
Feneley
harville
Mitchell
Locke
west
Caton
Muse
Courim
McCain
Simonson
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
austin
Austin
Austin
Austin
Bartlett
Bastrop
Bedford
Bedford
belton
Benbrook
benbrook
Bertram
Bonham
borger
Brenham
Bridge City
Brownwood
Bryan
Bryan
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
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Texas
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Texas
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Texas
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Texas
Jeanna
Anita
Theresa
Julie
Steven
Joseph
cheryl
Norman
Kay
Erin
Abel
Jean
Ralph
Penny
Stephen
Faulkner
Rogers
Wade
Rodriguez
Cator
braxton
Haussner
Smith
Gentry
Garcia
Cameron
Ward
Whitaker
Bulverde
Carrollton
Carrollton
Carrollton
Cedar Creek
Cedar Hill
cedar park
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Cedar Park
Cleburne
Cockrell Hill
College Station
Commerce
Conroe
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
NO MORE DRIFT GILL NETS
we all have jobs to do and responsibilities to
do them right.
Treat the animal kingdom with dignity .
This is a barbaric practice that has no
productive place. Please stop it - NOW.
Diane
Alexander
James
Nicola
Dennis
Julie
James
George
Ethridge
Grant
Parsons
Holmer
Holmer
Bush
Klein
McKee
Conroe
Conroe
Conroe
Coppell
Coppell
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi
Cypress
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Stacie
Laura
Brian
philip
Wooley
Alvarey
Pike
nirchi
Cypress
Cypress
Cypress
dallas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Mary
Rhoads
Dallas
Texas
Freda
Sandra
Eva
Kirstin
amanda
Fran
Joyce
Bruce
H.
Taylor
Edward
Brian
lynn
stacy
Hollee
Karen
Victoria
Mike
Dirk
Lynn
erika
Ellen
Brett
Amanda
Allen
Hiroe
Dallas
Christine
A
Holiday
Michael E.
Joel
Franklin
Ronald
Laura
Ballas
Breakfield
Cantu
Chavez
collins
Cox
Dixon
Echols
Guh
june
Kadane
Kerr
kutler
lupori
Martin
Outland
Randall
Reyna
Rogers
Salzberger
schiegg
Smith
Stahl
Struse
Terrill
Watanabe
Windham
Wordlaw
Young
Evans
Mizell
Perkins
Platizky
Shenberger
Vera
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
dallas
Dallas
DALLAS
dallas
Dallas
DALLAS
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
DALLAS
dallas
dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Denton
Denton
Denton
Denton
Denton
Dickinson
Texas
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Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
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Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Any method that is so indiscriminate that it
catches endangered species needs to be
deprecated or prohibited.
These nets need to go NOW !!!
Please stop using these nets now!! You
don't realize the damage you are doing to
marine wildlife ecosystem. Stop this practice
now!!
We need to fish wisely and not waste what
we have today because it won't last
forever!!!
j
Carolyn
Theodore
Lindsey
Linda
Nancy
rosa
C
Victor
Maricruz
Michael
Carina
Stephanie
Micki
Ken
Amanda
Victoria J
f
Boydston
Brazeau
Caudill
Wise
Bain
brown
DELGADO
Delgado Jr
Lopez
Peters
Ramirez
Rodriguez
Bailes
Berry
Ryken
Lowe
douai
Dripping Springs
Dripping Springs
Dripping Springs
Dripping Springs
El Paso
EL Paso
EL PASO
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso
Elpaso
farmersville
Flower Mound
Fort Davis
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Whitney
Jerry
ward
Britt
Fort Worth
Fredericksburg
Texas
Texas
DM
Julie
Reynold
Holly
rebecca
Catherine
Angelita
Jade
Deborah
Donna
Degenhart
Martenson
Knops
Putman
marshall
Childs
O'Connor
Madrid
Brewer
Ferrierjohnson
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg
Friendswood
Frisco
Gainesville
Galveston
Galveston
Gardendale
Garland
Garland
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Tracy
Darcy
Janell
A
Laura
Doyle
Wayne
Tracy
Brophy
Dallin
Jenkins
Martin
Wilder
Sebesta
Langley
Brown
Garland
Garland
Garland
Garland
Garland
Georgetown
Grand Prairie
Grapevine
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Sherry
Darold
Blackshear
Smith
Grapevine
GREENVILLE
Texas
Texas
Donna
Theodore
Lozano
Mertig
Harlingen
Horizon City
Texas
Texas
Rick
Roberson
Houston
Texas
Marine life is at a huge risk from the
warming and acidification of the oceans.
Immediate steps need to be taken to
increase the survival of all kinds of marine
life, especially those killed unnecessarily in
Drift Gill Net fishing.
These nets should be piled high and set on
fire. NOW!
Please, have some humanity!
We must clean up our oceans before it's too
late for us.
the costs of these nets are too high to justify
their use.
As bad as using dynamite to indiscriminately
kill and catch anything in the vicinity. Should
be outlawed and severely punished.
TIME TO END THIS STUPID AND UN
SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE
Evolve or perish.
Ann
Harlan
Houston
Texas
I am dismayed that it has taken this long for
this decision to be made. Please commit to
conservation, and act on that commitment.
Ryan
Chauvin
Houston
Texas
Sue
Jett
Houston
Texas
I urge the Pacific Fishery Management
Council to drift away from harmful drift gill
nets and towards more sustainable types of
fishing gear.
It makes no sense to run these nets when it
puts whales, sharks, turtles and other sea
creatures at risk of death. Other means of
fishing can certainly be expedited to
minimize the risk to these great creatures.
Drowning is a devastating way to die for
humans or animals. Put yourself in their
place. They are not just the particular fish
they are. They are a part of nature we need
to nurture, not destroy unnecessarily.
PAUL
HERBST
HOUSTON
Texas
PLEASE BAN THESE CRUEL AND
UNSUSTAINABLE DRIFT NETS. THERE
ARE BETTER WAYS TO HARVEST THE
SEAS, AS OPPOSED TO HARMING THEM.
Rachel
Rommel
Houston
Texas
j
allen
Houston
Texas
Michael
Hardy
Lindley
Loe
Houston
HOUSTON
Texas
Texas
Ronald
Scott
Houston
Texas
Karen
Lussier Tarr
Houston
Texas
Joyce
Webster
Houston
Texas
Elaine
Hutzelman
Houston
Texas
LEE
LOE
HOUSTON
Texas
Please stop this incredibly wasteful practice
today!
Put drift gill nets around an elementary
school and you will see the results - not
pretty - and not acceptable. At least shorten
the nets to 50 feet. Miles of nets are just
stupid.
Stop the killing/waste of drift gill nets
There's gotta be a better way to make a
living!
These drift nets are like land mines that kill
whatever steps on them. Ban the use of
these net now.
This has gone on far too long!! Get rid of
these nets that are killing our whales,
dolphins and other aquatic beings! N
This is horrible, horrible, horrible. That's the
moral side of it. As a practical matter, we
cannot continue messing up our planet by
indiscriminately destroying its populations.
We will pay.
This is inhumane to other fish and
underwater creatures. I am sure there is
something better that you can use .
This must end! Turtles and other ocean
creatures must live out their normal life
span! HAVE A HEART!
Gloria
Susan
Frank
Amanda
Alvarado
Averitt
Blake
Blanchard
Houston
Houston
Houston
houston
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Stephanie
Patricia
LUIS
Joseph
Laura
Camila
Sarah
cole
Nephi
Donna
Greg
Ronald W.
Mary Lee
Everly
Kim
Brant
William
Sandra
Pat
John
Denise
Mike
amanda
Annette
Gary
Rich
Susan
pam
D.A.
Sharon
Robert
Lisa
Dayna
Pam
Jeanette
Yvette
George
Vanessa
Lora
roberta
Boudreaux
Brooks
CAMACHO
Carpenter
Corona
Cossio
DeMuro
ethridge
Ferguson
Hahus
Holt
Hull
Johns
Keenan
Kensinger
Kotch
Krause
Lane
LaStrapes
Lewallen
Malcher
Menendez
pearl
Pieniazek
Putnam
Rice
Rogers
roussell
ROY
Santy
Stark
Stone
Tellibayraktar
Thomas-Hill
Umeyama
Wiltcher
Worthington
Yataco
Zeis
arnett
Houston
Houston
HOUSTON
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
HOUSTON
Houston
Houston
Houston
houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
HOUSTON
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Hutto
Texas
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Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Mitchell
Maness
Irving
Texas
Cindy
jean
Shadows
Connie
Margaret
Blanche
Anita
Burzinski
colombo
Girl
Hodges
Maxwell
Carpenter
Cannata Nowell
Irving
irving
Irving
Irving
Irving
Irving 75062
Jefferson
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
California should lead the charge, not drag it
feet and nets!!!
These nets have got to go. They are way
too dangerous to ALL sea life.
Please---open this site.
http://trendinghot.net/invention-will-changeworld-just-watch/
Vernon
DeWitt
Jonestown
Texas
Lorraine
Amy
John
Suzette
Carole
Elaine
Pamela
sandra l
Sabine
Manon
Peloza
Stuart
Zander
Wilmoth
Berg
Evans
lawrence
Williams
Katy
Katy
Katy
Katy
Keene
Keller
Kemp
kerrville
Killeen
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Capri
Gary
Trigg
Leslie
Sheila
Sule
Betsy
Sims
Binderim
Wright
Richardson
Alban
Corwin
Read
Killeen
Kingwood
Klein
Kyle
La Porte
LA Porte
Lake Dallas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Dave and Rita
Cross
Lakeway
Texas
Nina
cynthia
Hildibrando
David
Sherry
Kit
John
Kathleen
Patrice
Lisa
Dorieta
m
E.R.
Roxie
James
Diane
Garrick
Davis
jobling
Lopez
Bigwood
Janetzke
Blumenstein
Campbell
Smith
Johnson
Ortega
Rogers
wilkinson
Lee
Richardson
Lowe
Sparks
Stephens
Lakeway
Lakeway
laredo
League City
Leander
Lewisville
Lewisville
Livingston
Lubbock
Lubbock
Lubbock
lubbock
Lufkin
Lumberton
Manor
Mansfield
Marfa
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Rael
Nidess, M.D.
Marshall
Texas
Patrick
David
Evelyn
Joshua
Aditi
De La Garza Und Senkel
McAllen
Mizener
McAllen
Adams
McKinney
Seff
McKinney
Sundarajan
Mckinney
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Any fishing technique which results in
massive overkill or habitat destruction should
be abolished. It is simply inefficient resource
management, and our civilization can surely
do better.
Humans do not have the right to destroy this
planet and kill innocent animals/sea
life!!!!!!!!!!!
Just do the right thing...for once. This world
and all in it can no longer afford to be
neglected.
We must do away with drift gill nets that
stretch over a mile and capture anything in
their path!
It's your job to protect sea creatures as
much as anything else you do... Please do
the right thing and stop this practice now...
We have to stop raping the Earth before we
cannot survive on it.
Patricia
Nadia
pocahontas
Tim
Cheryl
Linda
Ed
christopher
Penny
Sally
Flynn-Williams
Prieto
taylor
Milam
Conley
Cast
Perry
tuch
Hammack
Hall
Midland
Midland
midland
Mission
Montgomery
New Braunfels
New Braunfels
new braunfels
North Richland Hills
Odessa
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Kinney
becky
Robert
Jade
lesslie
Michelle
Gloria
tom
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Chris
Evitt
Sorrells
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Hollier
garza
Morgan
Morrison
rooze
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McGatha
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pasadena
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Pflugerville
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Texas
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Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
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Russell
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Gary
stella
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Richardson
Richardson
Richardson
Richmond
Rockport
Round Rock
Round Rock
Round Rock
Round Rock
Round Rock
Rowlett
Sachse
Sachse
San Angelo
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Please stop using drift gill nets
Take action now - we need you.
The nets hurt or kill these water and ocean
animals. Be kind and respect God's created
animals and fish.
We can not continue practices that will
deplete our oceans as well as murdering
endangered creatures.
MOVE AWAY FROM DRIFT GILL NETS.
Hoping that the Pacific Fishery Management
Council does a better job from now on.
Elizabeth
Morris
San Antonio
Texas
melissa
russo
san antonio
Texas
Len
Carol
Conrad
Covert
san antonio
San Antonio
Texas
Texas
doug
Margaret
Megan
Kay
Barbara
Jamie
Robert
margaret
James A
Maureen
Marilyn
Kathy
Linda
Roberto
Sandra
Debra
Beth
Frankee
Dave
Lisa
Karen
brown
Crane
Czeiszperger
Dahle
Fry
Holder
Howard
karambis
Langham
McCauley
Mick
Newman
Oldham
von Ellenrieder
Woodall
Bradford
Hawes
Monsivais
Waugh
Hamilton
Kawszan
san antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
san antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Antonio
San Marcos
San Marcos
San Marcos
San Marcos
schertz
Spring
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Nicola
Darius
Traci
antonella
Natalie
Kristin
dan
Elizabeth
David
Jeannine
Pam
Jennifer
Jaeger
Mazaheri
Morris
spain
Youngberg
Lewis
brumbaugh
Nicolini
Jenkins
Eremea
DeLitta
Wike
Spring
Spring
Spring
spring
Spring
Stafford
Sugar land
Sugar Land
Temple
The Woodlands
The Woodlands
The Woodlands
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
I believe we need to be considerate of all
others in our daily lives, and that includes all
animals in the environment. I believe we
should hunt humanely, and that includes the
hunting of swordfish. It is not necessary to
hurt and kill other animals in the fishing of
swordfish.
Paul II proclaimed that “the animals possess
a soul and men must love and feel solidarity
with our smaller brethren.” He went on to say
that all animals are “fruit of the creative
action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect”
and that they are “as near to God as men
are.”
stop drift gill nets
These nets are indescriminant killers. We,
as a species, must stop doing this to others.
Ask yourself......why do we continue to allow
this to happen? What is my part in
destroying the fragile earth? And....Why
don't I do something to save it?
Ms. Lowman,
It needs to stop in the next few days!
Pamela
Miller
Tolar
Texas
Kathy
Mary
Annie
Sherri
Paula
Denie
Mary
Espy
Donna
Spera
Whitehead
Winstead
Hunt
Pedersen
English
Piacenza
Barron
Burke
Tyler
Tyler
Tyler
Universal City
Universal City
Uvalde
Valley View
Victoria
Waco
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Janet
Spence-Evans
Waco
Texas
William
Judith
Yvonne
Karen
Wendy
Lee
Linda
Ana
Leana
Dajenne
Robin
Virginia
Mary
Belinda
Rhonda
Michele
roger
Michael
Klock
Fairly
Snyder
Sullivan
Bogaards
Hutchings
Fuqua
Perkins
Bosley
Dijkshoorn
Deltrap
Ilardi
Bristow
Sellari
Bradley
Villeneuve
wiesmeyer
Grish
Watauga
Weatherford
Weatherford
Weslaco
Wichita Falls
Wichita Falls
Willis
Wimberley
Wylie
Rotterdam
Tilburg
Bartlett
Brentwood
Brownsville
Crossville
Kingsport
Nashville
Austin
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
TN
TN
TN
TN
TN
TN
TX
Sharon
Monika
Diane
Karen
Gillespie
Mulder
Carrroll
Miller
Austin
Austin
Camberley
Corpus Christi
TX
TX
TX
TX
Steve
Bradley
Corpus Christi
TX
dorian
A
William
Sharon
gerald
Ana
samaniego
Patterson
Ward
Alexander
alberts
Torres
Corpus Christi
Dallas
Dallas
De Leon
Del Rio
El Paso
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX
Wendy
Emlinger
El Paso
TX
Please no more drift gill nets. They kill
innocent lives.
We must start caring about helping these
magnificent creatures!
Why is this utter stupidity allowed in the first
place! Wanton vandalism anywhere else
would be dealt with in no uncertain manner.
Stop this now!
Much more can and must be done to
preserve the marine environment going
forward.
There must be safe alternatives to drift gill
nets that protect our precious marine life.
We must wok in harmony with Nature or we
will all die, the Earth can take no more!
Because we can do a better job, we are
capable to think and to do better.
Eliminate gill nets, reduce their size so fewer
fish are caught, and let the oceans recover.
Charge more money for fewer fish.
George
Murr
Houston
TX
Thomas
David
Barbara
monjit
sharon
Maria
Guaraldi
Berkshire
Martin
guram
Frank
Blaszczyk
Houston
Houston
Jacksonville
Keller
Lewisville
Livingston
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX
S
Sheri
Matta
Curtis
Marion
San Antonio
TX
TX
George
Sandra
Allison
Gayla J.
Anne-Marie
Edward
Taz
michele
Ruth
McDill
Uribe
Yungclas
Gatling
Hewitt
Wright
Butler
murphy
Griffiths
San Antonio
San Antonio
Uvalde
Waxahachie
Bromsgrove
Glasgow
Gloucestershire
kent
Llanfyllin
TX
TX
TX
TX
UK
UK
UK
UK
UK
peter
collins
london
uk
Trish
m
Ali
Karley
Isabel
Marisa
Lynne
shirley
David
Wendy
William
Connie
Brennan
w
Haines
Khan
Dowbiggin
Nunes
Buckley
mills
Brown
Ericksen
Smart
Ball
Manchester
UK
Manchester
UK
Nottingham
UK
Plymouth
UK
London
United Kingdom
London
United Kingdom
Loughborough
United Kingdom
sandwell
united kingdom
Worcester Park
United Kingdom
Cottonwood Heights UT
Hurricane
UT
Kanab
UT
Martin
Carrie
Gary
Juanita
jack
Michael
Richard
Connie
Hill
Brummette
Hull
Hull
greene
McDonald
Perkowski
Curnow
Orem
Park City
Riverdale
Riverdale
Smithfield
Bluff
Bountiful
UT
UT
UT
UT
UT
84103 Utah
Utah
Utah
Let's do something right here and end the
use of the unnecessary, damaging and lifedestroying nets. Come on, people. We can
do this.
they cause to much harm to marine life!
For the love of marine life, and all of the
economic, esthetic, and ethical value marine
biodiversity supplies, I implore you to take
action!
Our sea life need protecting from these
nets!. PLEASE! HELP!....
STOP USING THESE DESTRUCTIVE
NETS!! THEY ARE SUCKING THE LIFE
OUT OF THE OCEANS. AND HUMAN WILL
BE THE LOSERS!
As a lawyer involved with the media,I know
many people are watching closely to see that
action is taken without any delay to stop the
suffering caused by this issue.
As we move toward 9 billion people we
cannot afford ANY collateral kills from gill
netting.
Carla
Jessica
t
Cathy
Joe
Ana
Cindy
Eleanor
Tami
Sharon
Laurence
Tracey
Jean
Alan
J
Jon
leslie Danielle
Ellen
Gaya
Connor
Monica
George
john
Taylor
Margith
Susan
Jason
Carolyn
Ann Marie
Geralene
M
Ezra
Pamela
Leslie
L
Stabler
mullarkey
Wilcox
Carrera
Carvalho
Abernathy
BLiss
Farr
Poessel
Yorgason
Hogan
Tabin
Carter
T
Hager
brown
Casteel
Covington
Hansell
Kimball
Mierisch
ordway
Rippy
Maughan
Myers
Burch
Clark
Ring
Spivey
Garrett
Ortinez
Saunders
Cirigliano
Draper
Herriman
kanab
Kaysville
Layton
Lisboa
Midvale
Moab
Murray
North Logan
Ogden
Park City
Park City
Provo
Provo
Riverton
salt Lake City
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City
salt lake city
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Cty
Sandy
SLC
SLC
SLC
Smithfield
South Jordan
Spanish Fork
St. George
Sunset
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Jule
Caylor
West Jordan
Utah
Cheryl
Vicky
Diana
Cheryl
Jennifer
Fergeson
Newell
Smith
Spencer Scher
Jen
West Point
Alexandria
Arlington
Atlantic
Blacksburg
Utah
VA
VA
VA
VA
Duncan
David
JL
Charles
Virginia
Porter
Crouch
Horn
Whigham
Barber
Blacksburg
Charlottesville
Chesterfield
Colonial Heights
Crozet
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
pamela
Carol
Leslie
Matt
claudio
Patricia
cubberly
Miller
Calambro
Roland
giovine
Quinn
Fairfax
Hamilton
Henrico
Locust Grove
milan
Norfolk
VA
VA
VA
VA
va
VA
This is a horrible way for fish to die.
We need to care for our oceans before they
are gone.
These snares are decimating ocean life.
Their use MUST be stopped.
We can not continue the unsustainable way
the industry operates.
It is outrageous that these nets are still
allowed.
Andrea
Steegmayer
Richmond
VA
Christine
Dorothy
Greg
Laurel
Elisabeth
Phoebe
susanna
Laura
Lofgren
Hunter
Singleton
Mancini
Richter
Reeve
nylander
Bliss
Roanoke
Spotsylvania
Springfield
Virginia Beach
Wiener Neustadt
Winchester
vantaa
Andover
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
vantaa
Vermont
lee
Ralph
Alan
Stephen
Nicholas
JIm
Harry
Catherine
russ
Palmer
Podber
Bailey
Sherman
Snee
Milkman
Bodnar
bennington
Brattleboro
Brattleboro
Burlington
Burlington
Center Rutland
Chester
Colchester
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
carrie
Jack
Violet B.
Vivian
Phyllis
charles
Phyl
Sue
walker
Zeilenga
Gautesen Krukonis
Valtri Burgess
Erwin
parent
Newbeck
Stroud-Speyers
Dummerston
East Montpelier
Essex Junction
Granville
Guilford
hinesburg
Jericho
Leicester
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Sue and John
cassandra
Morris
church
Marshfield
montpelier
Vermont
Vermont
Robin
Margo
karen
Colin
Gorges
Lovejoy
moulder
Crawford-Stempel
Montpelier
morrisville
MTS
Northfield
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Rev. Meredith
EJ
Rick
reina
Monika
Alison
Anderson
Frost
Bolotin
guarnaccia
Sloan
Church
Orwell
Pittsford
Poultney
Richmond
Richmond
Shaftsbury
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Scott
Butts
South Burlington
Vermont
We are depleting and destroying the oceans
with our careless, cruel practices. This is not
sustainable fishing, this is indiscriminate
killing of sea life. Stop the gill nets!
above a beast. Ecclesiastes 3:19
this is a ridiculously wasteful method that
should be put to an end.
Please stop using drift gill nets -- they are
killing, unnecessarily, our precious species
of marine life.
This fishing method is outdated, wasteful
and harms many animals as bycatch. This
needs to stop.
I can' believe this method of fishing could
ever be considered plausible. Humans need
to use common sense, the ocean & it's
species are in dire straits. Get rid of these
walls of murder!!!!
help the whales.
Take the compassionate and wise steps for
all those to be lost.
every moment of every day, you, like I and
all other people in developed countries get to
make choices, we choose alternatives, every
moment of every day.
Nerma
Ryan
Marcia
Nancy
Valentic
Gackenheimer
Liotard
Borg
South burlington
Starksboro
Starksboro
Stowe
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Jess
James
a
Russell
Santos
metcalf
Stowe
Stowe
vergennes
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Katherine
Joyce
Donn
Dianne
Marianne
Christine E.
Andre
Monica
Joyce
Werner
Hawes
Simpson
Laplante
Adkins
Maddox
Cavalier
Majors
Majors
Waitsfield
Waltham
Warren
Westfield
Wilder
Williston
Winooski
Wolcott
Woodbury
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Ingrid
Johnson
Woodstock
Vermont
Mark
Jones
Garfield
Victoria
Valerie
Gregory
Cameron
Page
Glen Iris
Kicunda
Victoria
Victoria
Elisabeth
Peter
Rodda
Flanagan
Melbourne
Melbourne
Victoria
Victoria
Ramon
Jenny
Jolie
Ciccone
Ilasi
Boyd
Melbourne
Melbourne
Victoria
Victoria
Victoria
Victoria
Just knowing what these nets are doing and
still allowing is absolutely CRIMINAL! If the
companies who have created, the
companies who are using these nets can't
figure out a better way, the governments of
EVERY country need to make them stop.
Stop Now!
Drift gill nets are inefficient and cause FAR
too much by way of by catch deaths.
In this day and age of stressed ocean life,
you continue to do this. Shame.
We are overfishing and waste catch is
depleting our animals at an alarming rate.
We can do better than this!
The broad brush approach of catching fish is
no longer an acceptable practice, it is like
rounding up and then killing all the men in a
town for the sake of capturing one murderer.
We would not do that because we realise it
is wrong, so please, put an end to the
destruction of wildlife for the sake of it and
find a solution that is sustainable and
effective for all life on this planet.
fishermen have to stop being hunter
gatherers and become ranchers of the sea
using systems that do not take 7 kilos of fish
to create 1 kilo of fish. They need to
breed/hatch fish on land and grow out in the
wild.
Get rid of all Gill Nets now!!
Risking high value marine reptiles and
mammals for small economic gain is not a
good equation. Fish harvesting has to be
more intelligent and selective for the desired
species. Otherwise it should cease.
Tanya
Paul
MARIO R
william
gene
Hannah
Laurie
Cowperthwaite
Bickmore
SEVILLA
skirbunt-kozabo
cochran
Ingram
LaGoe
22003
22314
23228
23831
abingdon
Abingdon
Alexandria
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Kathryn
Papp
Alexandria
Virginia
Suzanne
Lepple
Alexandria
Virginia
Kade
Ariani
Alexandria
Virginia
Please protect endangered ocean animals.
Patricia
Rowell, PhD, RN
Alexandria
Virginia
Recognizing the damage being done to
whale, turtles and other inhabitants of the
sea by mile-long drift gill nets there seems to
be only one decision the Pacific Fishery
Management Council can make - outlaw
such gill nets. If management is your
guiding principle, then , the Council must
ignore industry in any form when making
decisions about management of Pacific sea
life.
Michelle
George
Holly
Liz
Sandy
Caleb
C
Susan
Damon
Bruce
Donna
Barbara
Terrence
James
Robert
Amy
Kristin
Robin
chet
John
Ahn
Anderson
Brevig
Dyer
Frankenberg
Laieski
Martin
McKinney
Phillips
Rauscher
Robson
Slinker
Snyder
w
Fener
Gould
Kierig
Tyner
hepburn
Light
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria
Amherst
Annandale
Annandale
Annandale
Arlington
Arlington
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Drift nets are NOT selective. They drown
dolphins, sea turtles and other endangered
species.
Looks like Daniel Pauly is right - fishing
down the food chain. We'll soon be eating
plastic fallen to the ocean's floor.
Please enact this ASAP as it is so wasteful
to use the drift nets. Not only are they
catching all that by-catch but then many of
the nets (or portions of them) end up
abandoned - drifting in the ocean and
causing more harm. Thank you.
cruel, cruel, cruel!
Drift Gill Nets are inhumane and cruel. They
use vast areas of the waters that belong to
all people and painfully kill animals that are
in the care of all people.
Jill
Hunt
Arlington
Virginia
joann
marsh
Arlington
Virginia
James
Hartley
Arlington
Virginia
John
Mark
Stephanie
David
Cheron
Donna
Becky
Elliot
Donna
Lowell
Henry
Sheri
Judith
William
William
Barbara
Theodore
Kael
brandy
Catherine
Andrea
Steven
Erin
Melynda
Atman
David
Ronald
Nicole
Cheryl
valerie
Bloom
Bousquet
Brancaforte
Bunn
carlson
Cooper
Daiss
Daniels
Feirtag
Feld
Ickes
Langham
Paulos
Stewart
Welkowitz
Zibordi
Zook
Patterson
dominy
Nisselson
Freeman
Kranowski
Parker
Taylor
Johnson
McNiff
Smith
Arnoto
Zellmer
farrell
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Arlington
Ashburn
Aylett
Baileys Crossroads
Bealeton
Blacksburg
Blacksburg
Bristol
Buckingham
Burke
Burke
Centreville
Centreville
charlottesville
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Shirley
John
John
Peggy
Emily
CHRIS
Justin
Rachel
James E
Johanna
Maria
Midyette
Brauner
Cruickshank
Gilges
Gordon
LAWLOR
Lotak
McQuade
Shifflett Jr
Woodchild
Flengas
Charlottesville
Virginia
Charlottesville
Virginia
Charlottesville
Virginia
Charlottesville
Virginia
Charlottesville
Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLEVirginia
Charlottesville
Virginia
Charlottesville
Virginia
Charlottesville
Virginia
Charlottesville
Virginia
Chesapeake
Virginia
I can't believe this still happens? Can you? I
mean really, #HumanityFAIL.
the health of our oceans requires that this
practice be terminated--immediately.
There's got to be a better, more humane
way to catch the target species that doesn't
involve by-catch.
Is there no room for compassion and sharing
in the world of greedy fisheries? Do they not
see that they're killing the golden goose?
But what's that compared to short-term
profits?
Protect our sea animals and our oceans
Stop killing everything in the oceans!!
Judy S
Richlin
Chesapeake
Virginia
Rosi
Susan
Carol
Amanda
Sara
Thomas
Renee
lisa
Sue
Adriana
stephen
Martin
Meeker
Warren
Yoder
Keesling
Vosik
Nester
mclaughlin
Eanes
Dascalu
sivonda
Chesapeake
Chesapeake
Chesapeake
Chesapeake
Chesterfield
Christiansburg
Christiansburg
clifton
Col.Hgts.
Colonial Beach
covington
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Jonathan
Pamela
Shirley
Wahas
Puritz
Jiranek
Shirron
Zadi
Daleville
Earlysville
Elkton
Fairfax
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Paulette
Kaplan
Fairfax
Virginia
John
Mcpeek
Fairfax
Virginia
Nichole
Anna
T
Blankenship
Oberoi
Roland
Fairfax
Fairfax
Falls Church
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Lucy
Patricia
Peter
James
Daniel
Carol
judith
Julian
Liske
Sandbank
Trimm
Adams
Lipper
sanders
Falls Church
Falls Church
Falls Church
Falls Church
Ferrum
Fincastle
fredericksburg
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Paula
Chow
Fredericksburg
Virginia
Mark
marilyn
sonny
Helen
sandy
michael
Kim
john
Gina
Patty
Alexander
gray
lester
Torosian
rader
rader
Hughes
hughes
Paige
Bachner
Fredericksburg
fredericksburg
fredericksburg
Fredericksburg
Fredericskburg
Fredericskburg
Glen Allen
Glen Allen
Glen Allen
Great Falls
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Use of these drift gill nets is a horrendous
practice that callously disregards the
thousands of sealife that are recklessly
destroyed every year - some of which are
endangered! It is past time to find a better
way of swordfishing that would not wantonly
reduce our ocean resources.
Please!
Drift gill nets is a process that is harmful to
all marine life,and should be banned.
It's sad really, our oceans are dying yet no
one seems to even care
Please stop killing fish unnecessarily! Please
respect our marine creatures!
Quit with the gill nets. The by-catch is much
to wasteful and much too expensive.
Our oceans need protecting for our
descendants, deep into the future. Ban drift
gill nets.
almost all large fish and marine mammals
are in danger of extinction
Sustainable fishing management practices
ensure continued replenishment of marine
life. This is a no-brainer.
John
charles
Laura
Eva
Fred
E
Charity
Lisa
Marie
Thane
CINDY
Robert
Melissa
DJ
sylvia
Stephen
Belisa
Joseph
Sue
Murphy
shelton
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Get rid of gill nets!
How many letters do I have to send before
drift gill nets will be outlawed? These nets kill
EVERYTHING and should NEVER be used!
there is no reason we have to drag the
ocean and destroy nore than what we need whales are MAMMALS and they are there
for a reason - same for sharks, turtles, etc.
Each has a purpose and when we upset that
balance - we hurt THEM and US!
It's time to stop this practice. Would you
agree with the law executing a whole city in
order to catch one criminal? Wholesale
animal death to catch just one is equally
ridiculous. Don't do it.
We need to show some responsibility - not
just our greed!
Hugh
Valerie
Michelle
david
Oliver
Adam
David
Deborah
Jennifer
Barry
Anka
Jenny
Carson
McElwain
Ashley
Newell
rowan
Guichard
D'Onofrio
Savige
Perrero
Duffy
Greenhill
Jhangiani
Neff
Martin
North Chesterfield
OAK HILL
Oceanside
onancock
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Jess
Summers
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Willard
Kathy
wanda
Alan
Cate
Ramona
lois
sara
Robert
Jessica
Joe
Ann
Elaine
Alspaugh
Archambault
Barry
Day
frostick
Harper
Harrison
Hi
lommel
Roderer
Shippee
spence
Terry
Tiller
Becker
Richmond
Richmond
Richmond
Richmond
richmond
richmond
Richmond
richmond
richmond
Richmond
Richmond
richmond
Richmond
Richmond
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Eleanor
mahi
Judith
Louise
Jason
amber
Maryann
steve
Jim
Lasky
denny
Shematek
Mann
Green
hayes
Simpson
spiku
Traweek
Roanoke
salem
Seaford
South Chesterfield
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spotsylvania
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sprgfld
Springfield
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Michael
Tim
David
Heather
Melanie
Donovan
Lank
MacLean
Maxwell
Meyer
Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
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Virginia
It's the right thing to do.
It's time for humans to start acting
intelligently and compassionately, but if
some wish to remain self-centered, then
consider how wiping out other life forms on
this planet eventually equals wiping out you
and your offspring too because all life forms
on Earth are connected.
Please consider discontinuing the use of drift
nets, they are killing unnecessary sea-life
and people will not tolerate it anymore.
We MUST save species for future
generations!
For the survival of our aquatic world, we
must stop the indiscriminate killing of these
massive net traps.
Louise
Mark
Natalie
Perini
Winslow
Zuckerman
Springfield
Springfield,
Stanley
Virginia
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Michael
Jackie
Danny
Carlos
King
King
Aiuto
Penafiel
Staunton
Staunton
Sterling
Strasburg
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Kim
Alan
Hockman
McNutt
Suffolk
Troutville
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Koepsell
Troy
Virginia
Scott
lynn
Zellner
martin
Va Beach
Vienna
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Virginia
Laurie
Mullett
Tracey
Aquino
Amy
Biggs
Ken
Goldsmith
James
Jeffrey
Constance
Jones
brian
pappas
kate
parnin
mary
picardi, m.d.
Iris
Relis
Paula
Schneider
NADIA
BURNS
Gene
Canova
Ruthann
McDermott
sandra
moore
Barry
Mowday
Carol
Rideout
Gina
Stiff
E. W.
Waggener
Dr. Robert and GinnyBonometti
Stephen
Cucchiara
ILSE
HARTSTEIN
JOHN
PETSCO
d
Clark
Vienna
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Virginia Beach
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David
Yorktown
Virginia
George
The constant killing of already endangered
species is disgraceful. Time to stop it.
Humanity will have to choose between
disappearing as a thinking species that
attempts against the planet or evolving
towards a new era of integration with the rest
of the universe.
Please do you part to help our depleting
world. Thank you
Please help save the ocean's most
vulnerable animals.
Please stop killing all of our whales &
dolphins & sea turtles....& stop using these
gill nets
These nets are barbaric--please eliminate
them.
Don't let the commercial fishing industry
destroy the environment and even kill their
own livelihood - they have done it before and
will do it again if they are not regulated.
Phyllis
White
Yorktown
Virginia
These death traps should be replaced with a
responsible technology that will allow the
fishing community to make a living without
polluting our oceans with nylon nets that do
not biodegrade and continue to kill when
they are lost and abandoned. Drift gill nets
are bad inexcusable even when in use.
Susan
Antoniewicz
Yorktown
Virginia
Way past time to get rid of this insane,
dangerous, and murderous way of fishing!!!!
Alan
Joel
Citron
Trupin
Manchester Center VT
Marshfield
VT
Heather
Hilarie
John
Douglas
Catherine
Kennedy
Gade
Cipora
Anderson
Rodgers
Montpelier
New Haven
St Johnsbury
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Berkeley Springs
VT
VT
VT
WC
West Virginia
Robert
Angela
Sally
John
Lee
Ruggiero
Hughes
Roberts
Donaldsonll
Fargo
Charles Town
Charleston
Charleston
Clarksburg
Frankford
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
Kimberly
Helen
S
Donald
Thomas
McGinnis
Phillips
Wright
Gerrardstown
Harman
Inwood
Lost Creek
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
Whitney
amber
Suzanne
Bonnie Jean
jeffrey
Rita
Melissa
Scott
Peter & Dianna
Marilyn
Metz
bonitatibus
Covello
Brown
gordon
Lewis
Hillen
Gibson
Abbrecht
King
Mannington
McMechen
Middleway
Morgantown
morgantown
Newton
Romney
Saint Albans
Shepherdstown
Smithville
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West Virginia
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West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
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West Virginia
Lauren
Kristie
Senior
Hannan
Mirfield
{erth
West Yorkshire
Western Australia
Rebecca
Fowler
Armadale
Western Australia
Peta
Gerry
Alison
Risto
Kay
Clarke
Waneck
Bremer
Siljanoski
Bradfield
Denmark
Dianella
East Victoria Park
Perth
Perth
Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia
Commercial gain is no excuse for
environmental destruction
This is horrible, what do your grand children
think of this?
Please end this horrible practice and help
salvage what is left of our endangered ocean
species!
Please put an end to drift gill nets. Thank
You.
Please move toward a better method;
bycatch is unacceptable!
Stop using the mile long gill nets, these net
kill anything that swims in it's path. Save our
oceans and wild life. Put a stop to this
practice NOW.
this form of fishing takes a terrible toll on our
ocean life.
The by-catch of drift nets is unacceptable.
Please ban gill nets
Sharon
Stephanie
Joe
LISA
Karen
marylee
Debra
Cyndi
C
Michelle
Joanne
Barbara
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Kelly
John
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Mark
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Mark
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Stephanie
Art
edna
Linda
Lance
MICHAEL
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Ivan
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Kay
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Winter
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anderson
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Gail
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Please stop ravaging our oceans.
We have known for a long time how
damaging and indiscriminate these nets are.
It is way past time that they be banned!
Please stop using drift gill nets
Do the right thing. Stop Drift Gill Nets.
Thank you.
If we consider ourselves to be the higher
species, we should show it by being
compassionate to our fellow creatures.
Protect the environment! End all forms of
capitalism!
Julie
Martin
Frederic
Wisconsin
Pastor
Bialeck
Friendship
Wisconsin
Darlene
Bruce
Ashia
Jackie
Leigh
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Delene
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Russell
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sakari
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jan
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Steger
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conley
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Judith
Ted
Christina
Savard
Haglun
Ciano
Laona
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roger
schmidt
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Beth
Sheryl
Michelle
Victor
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Tom
Sarah
Terry
Michael
Ellen
Adam
Linda
John
Gary
Jim
Lance and Jenny
James
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Bailey
Beck
Benning
Buerger
Castellanos
Dym
Elliott
Foster
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Johnson
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I strongly urge The Pacific Fishery
Management Council to move away from
drift gill nets. These drift gill nets are very
dangerous any creatures that swims.
It's a shame that if Government isn't allowing
the death of our mammals from oil spills, it's
sending them to a terrible death in your nets.
It's a shame you even allow this to continue
daily.
i just took a boat trip off the CA coast. It is
madness not to protect this amazing
ecosystem and its inhabitants!
Drift gill nets decimate ocean wildlife. It's
time to ban the use of this waste fully
destructive type of fishing gear. ENOUGH!
WE MUST TAKE CARE OF THE LIFE IN
THE SEA BEFORE IT IS ALL GONE FOR
EVER!
Stuart
Joe
Laura
Alan
Theodore
Katherine
Loretta
Ross
Sans
Stewart
Sundby
Voth III
Wiggins
Lemkuil
Madison
Madison
Madison
Madison
Madison
Madison
Manitowoc
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
David
Bruce
April
Patricia
Donald
Debbie
Frank
sue
Deb
Andrea
david
Joann
Mary
Jennifer
Nancy
Samantha
Sam
Martin
Randolph
Joseph
kevin
Drew
Henning
Krawisz
Strohmeyer
Christianson
Kosak
Markiewicz
Myers
rogan
Saeger
Zens
lindberg
Adkinson
Carian
Claunch-Meyers
Florsheim
Holm
Orlich
Pable
Schoedler
Wiesner
Zellmer
Roenneburg
Marshfield
Marshfield
Mauston
Medford
Menomonee Falls
Mequon
Middleton
middleton
Middleton
Middleton
milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Monona
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
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Mary
Sara
Stafford
JENNY
Tammy
George
Mary
Claire
Joyce
David
Judy
Jean
Junek
Miller
Kramer
ALBERTI
Rizer
Davis
Jones-Giampalo
Russell
Frohn
Rieckmann
Jolin
Gillespie
Mukwonago
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Muskego
NEW BERLIN
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Pardeeville
Pickett
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Jeffrey
Mercedes
Mirate
Dzindzeleta
Prairie du Sac
Racine
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
GET RID OF THOSE DREADFUL NETS!!!
WHAT THE F IS WRONG WITH YOU
PEOPLE???
The oceans are already all but fished out.
accidental by-catch continues to decimate
non-target species. We must address this
impact on aquatic life and reduce the fishing
industry destructive ecological footprint.
Fishing and ocean life can co-exist is a
sustainable manner.
These gill nets must be outlawed. There is
countless marine life being caught in this
treachery and drowning. Disgusting and so
preventable.
The 'catchall method' is harming our balance
of nature and destroying sentient beings in
the process. End asap!!
Linea
George
Mark M
Amy
Kathy
Bruce
Donette
chris
Ted
Nicole
Ruth
frances
Nan
Anthony
Becke
Giese
Haines
Ison
Denny
Erdman
ottosen
Knight
Loh
Cooper
smith
Nowak
Racine
Racine
Racine
Racine
Rhinelander
Shawano
Sheboygan
shell lake
Shorewood
Singapore
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spooner
Stevens Point
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Ken
PETER
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Ellen
Ty
Christine
Kellie
Rose
Sandra
Mary Lee
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Theodore
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Ray
G Allen
Mary
Andrew
Jan
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Holly
Linda
Grzesiak
sigmann
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Gutfleisch
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Johnson
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Wood
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Wuerslin
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Smith
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Washington Island
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Joanne
Rachel
Lori
willis
Fetting
Scott
Ward
patterson
Whitefish Bay
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Riverton
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin
WY
Diane
Verna
Alta
Wyoming
Rachel
Myriam
Rosene
Baynard
Casper
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Wyoming
Charles
Kuckel
CHEYENNE
Wyoming
Drift nets are absolutely senseless. Way too
wasteful and careless of other species!
The whales, dolphins, sea turtles, and other
sea life, many of whom are endangered,
depend on you for their protection. Please
do the right thing for them and for all of us
who depend on a healthy eco-system.
This has been going on far to long! they
might as well be using explosives, or
dredging the Ocean floor, that seems to kill a
lot of species also...........,
I am concerned about our oceans and
ensuring longevity for our whales.
please,stop using those nets,they are hurting
these poor creatures
Bob
sandy
Vance
Johnny
Amber
Laybourn
ross
Carruth
Fifles
Martin
Cheyenne
Cheyenne
Jackson
Jackson
Laramie
Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming
linda
pascale
Maud
Daniela
Elisabeth
Joanna
Nadia
Susan
Jon
James
Elaney
Gerard
Renny
jill
fulvio
josephine
Patricia
nicolettE
Ayca
Nadia
sylvia
cees
Ernie
vangelis
Irina
Goldman
blangis
Drapier
Mess.
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Wolvinya
vanTol
Allison
phipps
cessari
tenza
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tax
Scales
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Wyoming
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Wyoming
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Please stop the practice of drift gill nets! It's
kills WAY too much bicatch!
STOP DESTROYING OUR
PLANET!!!GREED MUST BE
FORBIDDEN!!!!
Please stop this wholesale killing of sea live
Stop cruelty
please stop the uneccessary killing of these
creatures before it's too late. Mankind is so
greedy its destroying the planet!
Please, let's stop using drift gill nets. They
kill an awful lot of innocent animals as
bycatch.
stefania
alison
Rose
John
Sarah
Ben
muriel
Lyndsey
grillini
yates
Ravenscroft
Ravenscroft
Dickinson
Selcoe
dejardin
Thomas
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bolton
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sue
Suzanne
callum
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eduardo
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sue
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ivan
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brant
Argi
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Toader
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basz
giannettino
Rostanzo
albiston
mcleod
san martin
Madeddu
hubbard
Brussels
Bruxelles
Bucharest
Budapest
buenos aires
buenos aires
Buenos Aires
burton
bury
Caba
Cagliari
Camas
Pete
Alp
sylvie
German
Haskell
Arslan
courtois
De La Melena
Cambridge
çanakkale
Cannes
Cape Town
Belinda
Geoff
Jose
maria manuela
Natalie
Mills
Tregaskis
Nieto
lopes
Vyhnankova
Cape Town
Cape Town
Carmen
Cascais
Cesky Tesin
We need to protect our oceans not kill
them....!!
I cannot believe these sorts of nets weren't
banned years ago!
Every year spent attempting to make
incremental improvements will delay the
necessary transition to cleaner and more
sustainable alternatives.
protect our sea live!
I am just back from a shark-watching
expedition to Isla Guadalupe, 210 miles from
the Mexican coast. We only saw 2 sea
turtles, and some sharks, sea lions, seals,
dolphins. It is more than high time to end the
indiscriminate destruction of endangered
species.
the seas deserve respect. stop killing the
whole world
we can fish in a better way- its 2014 not
1914
whales, dolphins and every creature that live
son the oceans should be protected and not
killed like that? Specially if there's no reason
for it! Every animal in this world is too
precious to be extinct!
Please help us save the ocean!
Malaeru
Robert
Ruth
Ruth
Linda
Susana
Mariana
Savery
Smithson
Smithson
Clements
Costa
cherbourg
chichester
Clacton
Clacton
COETLOGON
Coimbra
Jeannet
Kristoffer
Anna
Rebecca
lorraine
Bertelsen
Layton
Dudley
Rouse
newton
Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Coventry
Coventry
Crewe
Teresa
sylvie
lorraine
Holmes
C
taylor
Crowborough
cubjac
Dagenham Essex
Céline
RUCHI
Ron
Juan Carlos
Lemoine
SHARMA
buser
Álvarez
Dammartin sur Tigeaux
DELHI
Didam
Distrito Federal
Paulo Henrique
Pauline
Benitez
Sonnex
Dourados
Dover
Justine
Wendy
Johnson
King
Driffield
Dronfield
colm
aherne
dublin
Andrea
fiona
Roman
Tanja
Sarah
Tony
Alison
Anette
Ronny
Chee
Crisp
jones
Breevaart-Jansen
deGroot
Vuu
Arden
John
Svedberg
De Coster
Siew Im
Dunstable
Ellesmere Port
Enkhuizen
Enschede
Espoo Finland
Falmouth
Frome
Frösön
Gent
Georgetown
stephen
goldsack
glasgow
All fishermen do is take
Please, help humanity on its quest on fiding
balance with other species. We are not
alone.
Please, no drift nets these beautiful animals
get persecuted enough with countries
continuing to hunt them.
please STOP... Think of these voiceless
beautiful creatures and what they stand for...
please save fishes
The laws should take care of the of the
natural resources
All drifting nets catch to many endangered
species
We MUST PROTECT our Oceans and
SAVE it's inhabitants , URGENTLY before
it's too late! DRIFT GILL NETS DO NOT
HELP IN THIS REGARD! It's time NOW to
SAVE WILDLIFE, IN AND OUT OF THE
OCEAN! Throwing dead Fish, etc back like
unwanted garbage, in the ocean, caught in
these terrible contraptions is NOT GOOD, it
is an INSULT to these living beings and our
Planet! PLEASE FIND ANOTHER
HUMANE WAY! Thank You! X
wildlife is a tourist attraction;get rid of d nets
of d people wont come
A better world through kindness to animals
Duncan
Martin
Jill
Geoff
Morton
O'Neill
Scott
Ward
Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow
Gosport
Karin
annie
Edyta
Inga
Lindberg
barbier-hoffmann
Czapla
Ecker
Göteborg
goupillières
Gravesend
Graz
Rachel
Donna
Fernanda
Susanne
Micheline
nunn
Hamilton
Villava
Hajmassy
Mauvis
Grimsby
Gt Yarmouth
Guadalajara
Gythio
Harae
kristel
rosette
Ralph
moens
putzeys
Hobbs
hartlepool
hasselt
Hastings
Olivia
Carl Fredrik August
Outi
jan
lynn
Susan
Heidi
marisol
Nilsson
Boström
Moisio
bardill
hodsdon
Watson
Kuitert
melgarejo
Hedemora
Helsinki
Helsinki
Henlow
Hertford
Hexham
Hoofddorp
hoorn
marisol
Steph
Tommy
Julia
alenka
Reef
Lara
melgarejo
Stringer
Draper
Brand
soban
Dandashi
M
hoorn
Horsham
Ilkeston
Innsbruck
izlake
Jeddah
Jhb
If institutions like yourselves do not enforce
and follow up changes in legislation, your
words mean nothing, and creature will
continue to be killed needlessly, pushing
them closer and closer to extinction!!!!!!!!
Stop fishing in thus cruel way! I would love to
see that commercial fishing would be
stopped completely!!! Mass consumption
and profit oriented industries have forced
numbers of creatures living in our oceans to
a minimun level! Stop this now! We need a
healthy ocean not just for us but for the next
generations as well! Its great to see that
people start taking action! Go on!
Humans need Mother Nature to survive.
Mother Nature dies not need humans for her
existence. As long as humans destroy their
own reasons for existence we shoot
ourselves in the foot by our own actions.
Humans will die out before the planet notices
we are missing. Our choice to become better
or remain steadfastly stupid.
Please take the responsible course of action
Hope this works
SAVE THE ANIMALS OF THE OCEAN !!
WHE HAVE TO PROTECT THEM
Greg
Janey
elaine
Joyce
Sylvia
Flemming
Carmen Maria
simone
laurence
Dora
kate
Lyn
Danielson
James
mills
macdonald
Hemme
Terkilsen
Barrera Barrera
galperti
wouters
Demetriadou
Woźniak
Wainwright
johannesburg
Johannesburg
killala
Kimarnock
Klazienaveen
København Ø
La Higuerita
Lecco
LEZIGNAN LA CEBE
Limassol
lincoln
Liverpool
Christina
Thiele
ll59 5er
maria
vanessa
Miranda
Vivienne
Siobhan
Kate
Fleur
marcel
claudia
shireen
Stephanie
ANNA
Jo
Joseph
Thierry
Mike
maira rita
marlou
Marie
jesus
concepcion
CAMILLE
Kathryn
montgomery
amoroso
Barrie
Ben-Shir
Carleton-Green
Cassidy
Dawes
garbi
howard
jayyusi
jones
MAIETTA
Rockett
Ierna
Harnisch
Sharland
de martino
wevers
Six
caceres
de diego
HANSON
Hughes
london
London
London
London
London
London
London
London
London
London
London
london
London
Long Island
Lourdes
Luton
maas mechelen
maastricht
Maastricht
Madrid
madrid
MADRID
Malmesbury
Filippa
Maria
Sandra
Andrea
Erika
Montserrat
Diana
andrea
Christine
Vaidehi
Ella
Erixon
Luque
Pompa
Jurado
Hop
Rivera
Casillas
glez
Harle
Patel
Fallgren
Malmö
Marbella
Mazatlan
Mexico
Mexico
Mexico city
México city
morelia
Morpeth
Mumbai
Narni
Gill net are unnecessarily cruel and not
needed, they should be banned.
Bycatch creates so much unnecessary
waste, its an anthropogenic impact on
marine ecosystems that is totally
unnecessary and should be reduced, and
eventually aimed to be stopped!
Ban drift nets.
It's time to change our ways!
teken aub..... firmate per piacere......
STOP THIS KILLING PLEASE !!!
Please ban drift nets before its too late and
we lose more species unnecessarily, thank
you
Please help stop this senseless deaths.
Patricia
Fleming
Newton Abbot
joanne
roger
lockhart
payne
Newtownabbey
Norfolk
toby
bevington
Nottingham
Phil
jamie
Ursula
nadia
Bobby
Fieldhouse
small
Østerberg
tracy
Lust
Nottingham
nottingham
Odense
okehampton
Oostzaan
margaret
elena
morice
Dominique
amandine
runfors
gonzalez
hervé
NEMO
piedvache
Örebro
Panama
paris
Paris
paris
This is a critical issue for marine life, and
one that has been a problem for far too
many years now. Please find a sustainable
solution and
i just hope & pray they just leave the sea
creatures alone to get on with they're lifes
unhindered
Within our current situation, of declining fish
stocks and dying seas and the ever pressing
presents of global warming , along with our
unsustainable growth of human population. It
is now that it is imperative we take action to
both reduce the damage we are causing to
the oceans and also help give the oceans a
fighting chance to recover, for the sake of
both the countless species affected both
directly and indirectly along with our own
selfbpresivation not to mention the many
lively hoods within the fishing industry. It is
due to this reason, that it is now
fundamental we step away from all be it cost
affective methods of fishing, to less wasteful
and environmentally friendly methods that
are already tried and test as equally
affective. For the benefit of the fishing
Industry, humanity and imperatively the
oceans and their ecosystems that are so
carelessly destroyed and damaged beyond
repair, along with providing safe refuge to its
many already critically endangered species. I
hope that someone like yourself who's life is
so eveidentally linked with our marine
ecosystem and industry, will see the
importance to working in a environmentally
friendly way to both preserve our already
damaged precious resource and ensure the
continuation and hopefully regeneration
within the future
It is our duty to look after the earth. The right
to life doesn't just apply to humans, but to
every living being. We need these animals,
now and in the future. Think of your children
and your children's children, let them enjoy a
sustainable earth too.
regula
claudio
Ana Angelica
concetta
cathala
Cristian
Verónica
Barna
bos
Stephen
Elda
Agnieszka
Raffaella
Nicola
Maricarmen
hess
piviali
Lebron Stolle
di florio
corine
Passarello
Gil
Takats
claudine
Tassell
Rasero
Murawiecka
Longo
Samad
Romero
parmain
pavia
Perugia
pescara
Pierrelatte
Pisa
Playa del Carmen
Playa del Carmen
Poligny
POOLE
Portacomaro
Poznań
pozzuoli
Prestfoss
Puebla
Marcela
Ignacio
Imelda
Tamara
Amabilia
gary
Stella
Veronique
Bauer
Tan
Padilla
Zupe
Wanderley
simpson
Gambardella
Jansen
Puebla
Quezon City
Quezon City
Radenci
Rio de Janeiro
ROCHESTER
Roma
Rotterdam
joke
Di
Lynn
Carol
Emma
Lovina
Patricia
Nick
Carmen
Estela
berg
Faulkner
Bell
Algar
Nikita
fullgrabe
Elizalde
Cannon
Rojas
Cañas
rotterdam
Runcorn
Rustenburg
S/C de Tenerife
Saint-Arnoult
Salies de bearn
Salinas
San Juan
San Pedro
San Salvador
Nicole
Ida
Eduardo
renata
Felipe
Rosana
Rosangela
caroline
Elisabetta
Nila
Sara-Louise
Rosy
Carla
Gene
borremans
Fazzese
Campos
brosova
Leal
Melo
Goz
gonot
Argenta
Didot Chabotier
Aspinall
Tortomasi
Purtscher
Stevens
sankt vith
santa cristina gela
Santiago
santorini
São Paulo
São paulo
Saquarema
SAVIGNY SUR CLAIRIS
Savona
sedan
Selby
Seregno
Serfaus
Seven Mile Beach
for fishermen or similar, let networks built in
the oceans, must exist to sanction
Skarks for soup???
Please stop these nets.
Stop cruelty
Sharks, swordfish are viable species for
healthy oceans. Don't catch threatened (Red
list) sharks. Stop fishing with these nets like
these techniques are abandoned in Europe
nowadays as well! Stop unnecessary
bycatch. You take valuable lives and
destabilise the ecosystems.
Let the whales live!!!!
We have to save the animals for a better
world!
STOP PLEASE
Nicolas
tracey
Caballero
jennings
Sevilla
Singapore
Catherine
Josy
Therese
Jan
krisztina
Richard
Philip
Jasmine
Melanie
Joakim
Tina
Fredrik
Karl
Pirjo
Natalie
Marianne
har
Anne
Ross
Ahimsa
Petra
Liliana
Anne
jean Marius
GERARD
Ingrid
Alice
Régine
deborah
douja
Sandra
Elena
Simona
Marisela
femke
GENAND
jen
Ian
Roz
Teng
Canova
Lernhag
Forsberg
okunbor
Baker
Davison
Tribe
Hayler
Hamilton
Florell
Ledin
Stolk
Sundqvist
Kinnear
Leenders
pluijmakers
Miettinen
Grant
Karma
Lidor
Gutiérrez
Dubois
D'Alexandris
FABIANO
Cerqueni
Paoletich
Renard
morse
hanafi
Giacomino
De Fanis
Bevilacqua
Diaz
gersteling
SYLVIE
koala
Saunders
Paterson
Singapore
Sion
SKÅPAFORS
Skutskär
Slough
Southampton
Southampton
Speldhurst
St antonin noble val
Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm
Sussex
Susteren
susteren
tampere
Tavira
Tehran
Tel Aviv
Tijuana
Tildonk
TOULON
TOULOUSE
Trieste
Trieste
Trois-Ponts
tunbridge wells
tunisia
Valparaiso
Vaprio D'Adda
vasto
Veere
velp
VIENNE
warrington
Warrington
Wellington NZ
Fiona
Sarah
Bogna
Wallace
Penny
Komar
Westgate
Worcester
Wroclaw
I don't understand the need of an educated
and wealthy country to allow practices that
are destructive to the environment in order
to seek wealth .. Why fish thresher sharks
at all ???
The time to act decisively is NOW...
Please follow through.
Please use your power to stop the use of
drift nets. These walls of death catch
everything in their way and many of those
creatures are endangered. It is really time
we stopped wantonly wasting the lives of
other species on our planet or soon there will
be none left and where will we be then?
Douglas
Naho
Fiona
Henk-J
Bowes
Sakamoto
Salmond-Smith
Land
Yarm
Yokohama
York
Zaandam
Ms. Dorothy M. Lowman
Chair
Portland, Oregon 97220-1384
RE: Agenda Item I.4, Drift Gillnet Hard Caps and Other Priorities
I am grateful for the work the Council performs. Your progressive actions signal a
positive milestone that begins a new era in fishery management, which takes into account
the many links in the ocean food web and how everything is connected. As executive
director of FishWise, which promotes the health and recovery of ocean ecosystems by
providing innovative market-based tools to the seafood industry, I am committed to
supporting sustainability through environmentally responsible business practices. Our
belief is that everyone in the supply chain has an important role to play, from the coastal
communities and companies that farm and catch fish, to the specialty retailers and
distributors that differentiate themselves through sustainable business practices, to the
largest companies that possess the leverage to drive innovation and conservation in their
supply chains. All of us must work together to enact the change necessary to protect our
ocean resources long into the future.
That is why, as you look toward future regulations of the drift gillnet fishery for
swordfish and thresher shark off the west coast, I encourage you to adhere to your goal of
developing a comprehensive plan to transition this fishery to alternative gear types that
are more selective and less harmful to the ocean ecosystem.
In order to facilitate implementation of bycatch reduction measures such as hard
caps, the Council should require 100% observer coverage until electronic monitoring is
proven to be as effective as human observers and is implemented in the drift gillnet
fishery.
I am encouraged that the Council recognizes the need to protect these ecologically and
economically critical species. I look forward to the Council taking positive action that
gives everyone the security of knowing we can rely on a healthy ocean to provide an
economic engine for years to come.
Thank you for your consideration of my comments and for your continued work and
commitment to ensuring a healthy and productive Pacific Ocean.
Respectfully yours,
Tobias Aguirre, Executive Director
FishWise
Chair
RE: Agenda Item I.4 – Drift Gillnet Hard Caps and Other Priorities
I am writing to you as the co-owner and chef of the Border Grill restaurants. We are committed
to sourcing and serving the freshest ingredients and are always conscious of where our food
comes from. We serve only sustainable seafood in our restaurants, and strive to educate our
customers through our distribution of sustainable seafood guides. We are continuously looking to
step up our efforts with a host of environmentally friendly policies. We know that a healthy
Pacific Ocean means better food for our diners, and that maintaining a productive and balanced
marine ecosystem is a responsibility that we must all share.
Earlier this year I was happy to see that the Council agreed with our submitted comment calling
for a transition to a more deliberate fishery. The Council declared its commitment to develop a
comprehensive plan to transition the drift gillnet fishery to utilize environmentally sustainable
gear types. We have not seen any materials from the Council that reflects action taken towards
your commitment.
The indiscriminate nature of this gear is concerning and we urge you to adhere to your goal of
developing a comprehensive plan to transition the drift gillnet fishery to alternative gear types
that are more selective and less harmful to the ocean ecosystem. In the interim, and for as long as
the drift gillnet fishery exists, the Council should move forward with implementing management
measures that hold the drift gillnet fleet accountable and reduce the kill of non-target species,
including protected species, sharks, cetaceans and other finfish. Species caught as bycatch in the drift gillnet fishery are an important part of the ocean ecosystem
and are essential to maintain an ecological balance. Thank you for your consideration of my
comments and for your continued work and commitment to ensuring a healthy and productive
Pacific Ocean.
Respectfully yours,
Mary Sue Milliken, Co-Owner/Chef
Border Grill Restaurants & Truck
445 South Figueroa Suite B1-15, los angeles, ca 90071 213-542-1100 www.bordergrill.com
integrated ecosystems management
October 17, 2014
Ms. Dorothy Lowman, Chair
Portland, OR 97220-1384
RE: Agenda Item I.4 Drift Gillnet Hard Caps & Other Priorities
Dear Chair Lowman and Councilmembers,
I am a second generation Marine Ecologist- my father, Garth I. Murphy was the founding
coordinator of POFI and instrumental in introducing the word ecology into fisheries management.
I worked for two years on the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative South Coast project. Land and
sea are eternally connected, and in order to get the ocean ecosystem responsibly managed, we
have to consider the terrestrial interactions and demand pressures on the entire spectrum of
interactive ocean species.
At 70, I have personally witnessed drastic falls in populations of all species, and especially those
commercially harvested by seining and other net sets. Despite measures taken to reduce incidental
bycatch by the drift gillnet fishery, the indiscriminate nature of this fishery means that we
continue to see non-target fish and wildlife caught and killed.
As a concerned, actively involved citizen and lover of the Ocean, I encourage the Council to build
upon the work done through the current review process by implementing responsible
management measures that both protects important habitat areas and provides an opportunity for
continued sustainable fishing. We need immediate cross–ecosystem action in order to halt and
reverse the steady, but not inevitable decline of the natural abundance of marine ecosystems and
the California current. Limits on non-target species- particularly protected species- need to be set
at conservative levels, and 100% observer coverage should be required in order to ensure
implementation of management measures. Every net set is ecosystem destructive by un-naturally
targeting the largest fittest specimens of each species, but drift gillnets are the worst.
Thank you for considering my comments and for your commitment to a permanently productive
marine fisheries ecosystem. I look forward to seeing the general marine ecosystem revert back to
its historical natural state of abundance. Ecosystem balance, equilibrium and sustainability
requires treating fishers and fishing tech as part of the ecosystem, not exploiters of it.
Sincerely,
Garth Murphy, Marine Ecologist
Founder, Integrated Ecosystems Management
649 South Vulcan Avenue
Encinitas, CA 92024
Chair
RE: Agenda Item I.4 Drift Gillnet Hard Caps and Other Priorities
Dear Chairman Lowman and Council Members:
I write you today as the founder of the sustainable sushi restaurants Tataki Sushi Bar, Tataki South,
and Tataki Canyon and as a member of the rapidly growing sustainable sushi movement. The
sustainable sushi movement consists of restaurateurs and chefs that believe that sushi cannot
continue to exist without a healthy and productive ocean ecosystem, and thus offer sustainable,
local, and seasonal options instead of environmentally dubious conventional species such as bluefin
tuna, hamachi, and freshwater eel.
I traveled to the June 2013 Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting to deliver public testimony
on forage fish because I recognize the importance of the Council’s forward-thinking work to protect
the species that form the lynchpin of the ocean food web. Now, I write to implore you to follow
through on your stated goal to shift the drift gillnet fishery towards more environmentally
sustainable gear types.
I applaud the actions that the Council has already taken by adopting a fishery ecosystem plan. The
Council now has a wonderful opportunity to limit the amount of bycatch incurred by this
indiscriminate form of fishing- I urge the Council to adopt conservative management measures as
long as the drift gillnet fishery exists. It is necessary to develop a comprehensive plan, which
includes 100% observer coverage on all trips, as well as hard caps on protected species and other
non-target species killed.
These steps will ensure that the Council has a clear picture of how animals are caught in the drift
gillnet fishery. By finding a better way for fishermen to catch swordfish, we can make sure that
other marine life is being left in the water where it belongs. We can maintain a healthy marine
ecosystem, including the valuable sustainable fisheries my restaurants rely upon to stay in
business.
Thank you for your conservation leadership on this pressing issue. I look forward to
the Council taking positive action that gives us all the security of knowing that the drift gillnet
fishery is not only being held accountable, but is being transitioned to alternative gear types.
Sincerely,
Casson Trenor
Tataki Sushi Bar
pewtrusts.org
October 31, 2014
RE: Agenda Item I.4.c Public Comment on Drift Gillnet Hard Caps and Other Priorities
We write in regard to the management of the drift gillnet (DGN) fishery targeting swordfish and thresher
shark off the coast of California. In November, the Highly Migratory Species Management Team
(HMSMT) will report back to Council with their evaluation of bycatch performance scenarios. The
Council will have the opportunity to further guide the HMSMT’s analysis on management priorities for
the DGN fishery and reaffirm its commitment to transition the DGN fishery to more environmentally
sustainable gear types. The nature of DGN fishing gear is such that continued operation of the fishery,
under any management regime, is likely to have unintended interactions with protected, rare, and
vulnerable species as well as recreationally important fish. In light of this, we support the Council’s goal
of phasing out the use of DGN gear.1
Specifically, we ask the Council to:
1. Develop a comprehensive plan to transition the DGN fishery to more selective and actively
tended fishing gear including firm deadlines for Council action; and
2. Implement interim measures to reduce bycatch and require accountability in the DGN fishery
until a transition to more sustainable gear occurs.
Despite efforts over the last decade to reduce bycatch in the DGN fishery, it remains at unacceptably
high levels. The Council has the opportunity at its upcoming meeting in Costa Mesa to limit the impact of
the DGN fishery while it begins the process of transitioning the fishery to alternative gears.
Develop a comprehensive plan to transition the DGN fishery to more selective and actively tended
fishing gear
We support the Council’s stated goal in March to develop a comprehensive plan to transition the DGN
fishery to more environmentally sustainable fishing gear2 and tasking the HMSMT to begin work on an
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initial transition plan.3 Research is underway to test alternative gears for targeting swordfish and other
HMS species in the Southern California Bight4 and we encourage the Council to shift the DGN fishery to
alternative gears as quickly as possible.
In March, the Council sent a signal for how it wants this fishery to be managed. At the upcoming
meeting, we recommend the Council direct the HMSMT to analyze options for phasing out DGN gear
with expected target deadlines for approval of exempted fishing permits, research and development of
alternative gears, and fishery management plan amendments.
We understand that a transition cannot happen overnight. However, developing a plan and imposing
firm deadlines on Council action will push innovation and place new emphasis on research and funding
of more environmentally sustainable and selective gear. It will also give certainty to fishermen,
researchers, and other stakeholders.
Implement interim measures to reduce bycatch and increase accountability in the DGN fishery until a
transition to more sustainable gear occurs
We support the Council’s effort to implement management measures to reduce bycatch and increase
accountability in the DGN fishery until a transition takes place. These measures should not be
considered an end point, but as a means to hold the fleet accountable until a transition to more
selective and actively tended fishing gear occurs. Pew supports many elements of the Council’s
Preliminary Preferred Alternative (PPA), including hard caps on protected species, bycatch performance
objectives, and 100 percent monitoring. However, the PPA and associated analysis can be improved in
several ways. In further developing a range of alternatives, we encourage the Council to:
1. Analyze an alternative that requires 100 percent observer coverage for the 2015-2016 fishing
season;
2. Adopt a 1 animal hard cap on endangered sperm whales;
3. Base performance objectives on a reduction from average bycatch levels; and
4. Clarify the management response to the fishery reaching a performance objective.
First, in order to hold the fleet accountable and ensure bycatch limits are enforced, the Council should
require observers on every fishing trip and remove the unobservable vessel exemption starting next
fishing season. Observer coverage is a necessary component for assessing compliance with bycatch
management measures and for collection of scientific data. As acknowledged by the HMSMT:
The feasibility of a hard cap management system depends on monitoring fishing in real time.
Protected species takes in the DGN fishery are rare events, so reliably estimating takes with an
acceptable level of accuracy and precision is difficult without a high level of monitoring.5
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Agenda Item K.5.b, Development and Trials of Deep-set Buoy Gear in the Southern California Bight, March 2014.
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Agenda Item G.4.b, HMSMT Report 3, Sept. 2014, p.1.
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Any level of observer coverage under 100 percent requires fishery managers to extrapolate observed
interactions to account for assumed interactions that were not observed. This extrapolative method
may not reflect actual take in the fishery and can result in an unintended management response. By
requiring all DGN trips be observed, the Council will have an exact accounting of all catch in the fishery.
At the November meeting, we recommend the Council task the HMSMT with analyzing an alternative
that requires 100 percent observer coverage in the DGN fishery. While we support the use of electronic
monitoring (EM), the technology is not available and needs time to be developed and implemented. In
the meantime, 100 percent observer coverage ensures bycatch will be properly accounted. By requiring
all fishing trips be observed, the Council and members of the public will better understand the impact
the DGN fishery has on the ecosystem.
Second, the hard cap on sperm whales should be set at 1 animal. Hard caps on protected species should
be set at conservative levels allowing for a precautionary buffer between biological limits and
permissible mortalities. Using the new methodology in the updated stock assessment report currently
under review, the Potential Biological Removal (PBR) for sperm whales is 2.7 animals.6 This number
takes into account all human caused mortality and serious injury, not only mortalities resulting from
DGN fishing activities.7 The DGN fishery has taken 2 sperm whales in a single set.8 Keeping in mind other
sources of human caused mortality that apply to PBR in addition to take in the DGN fishery, the Council
should choose a precautionary limit and set the hard cap on sperm whales at 1 animal.
Third, bycatch performance objectives in the DGN fishery should be based on a reduction from average
bycatch levels, not a 10-year maximum. The Council’s intent in implementing hard caps and other
performance measures is to reduce bycatch in the DGN fishery.9 Further, the Magnuson-Stevens Act
requires that fishery management plans minimize bycatch of fish to the extent practicable.10 By taking
the highest bycatch rate over the last 10 years and using it as a performance objective, the Council does
not require the fleet to reduce bycatch. Therefore, the Council should request the HMSMT analyze the
average annual bycatch over the last decade in the DGN fishery and set performance objectives below
that average.
The ability of the fleet to reduce bycatch should be assessed annually and compared to the performance
of alternative gear. This will allow the Council to hold members of the fleet accountable and encourage
fishery participants to take steps to reduce bycatch and invest in alternative gears.
6
Taking of Threatened or Endangered Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations; Modification
of Permit, 79 FR 50626, Monday, August 25, 2014.
7
16 U.S.C. § 1362 (20)(“The term “potential biological removal level” means the maximum number of animals, not
including natural mortalities, that may be removed from a marine mammal stock while allowing that stock to reach
or maintain its optimum sustainable population.”).
8
NMFS California/Oregon Drift Gillnet Observer Program, Observed Catch – 2010/2011 Fishing Season, May 1,
2010, through January 31, 2011.
9
Council Decision Document, June 2014, p.3.
10
National Standard 9, 16 U.S.C. §1851(a)(9)(“Conservation and management measures shall, to the extent
practicable, (A) minimize bycatch and (B) to the extent bycatch cannot be avoided, minimize the mortality of such
bycatch.”).
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Finally, the Council needs to clarify the management response should the fishery reach or exceed
performance objectives. Any prescribed management response should involve a meaningful analysis of
the impacts on the ocean ecosystem and include the ability for the Council to take action.
Under National Standard Guideline 9, the Council must consider the negative impact on affected
stocks,11 the existence value of bycatch species, and impacts on other marine organisms.12 In essence,
the Council should take a holistic, ecosystem-based approach to managing bycatch. The Council has the
authority to make policy decisions regarding bycatch in the fisheries it manages and impose additional
management measures on the DGN fishery to reduce bycatch. As long as the DGN fishery operates off
the West Coast, these additional measures are necessary to adequately monitor the fishery, ensure
accountability, and enforce bycatch reduction measures.
Conclusion
We support the Council’s stated goal of transitioning the DGN fishery to more environmentally
sustainable gears. In order to accomplish this goal, the Council should outline a process and develop a
plan for phasing out the use of DGN gear. Rather than focusing management attention and resources on
prolonging the DGN fishery, the Council should focus efforts on developing alternative gears that are
more selective and actively tended.
We appreciate the Council’s attention to the above issues and we look forward to working with the
Council and other stakeholders throughout this process.
Sincerely,
Paul Shively
Manager, U.S. Oceans, Pacific
[email protected]
Tara Brock
Senior Associate, U.S. Oceans, Pacific
[email protected]
11
In the 2013-2014 fishing season, the DGN fishery caught nearly 4,000 common mola. Although common mola
are often released alive, there is no current stock assessment nor has a comprehensive study of post-release
mortality been completed.
12
National Standard Guidelines, 50 C.F.R. § 600.350(d) (2009).
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Robert R. Kurz
23256 Arelo Court
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
(949) 495-7272
FAX (949) 495-7676
E-mail [email protected]
October 27, 2014
Ms. Dorothy Lowman
Chair
Pacific Fishery M a n a g e m e n t Council
7700 N E Ambassador Place, Suite 101
R E : A g e n d a I t e m 1.4, D r i f t G i l l n e t H a r d C a p s a n d O t h e r P r i o r i t i e s
Dear Chairwoman L o w m a n and Council Members,
I a m an International G a m e Fish Association (IGFA) Representative for Southern California and a m
w r i t i n g in r e g a r d t o t h e u s e o f drift g i l l n e t s off t h e w e s t c o a s t .
N e e d l e s s to say, all of u s benefit f r o m a h e a l t h y p o p u l a t i o n of s w o r d f i s h o n t h e w e s t coast. H o w e v e r ,
I G F A , a n d its m e m b e r s , a r e c o n c e r n e d a b o u t f i s h i n g m e t h o d s - i n c l u d i n g t h e u s e o f drift g i l l n e t s - t h a t
i n a d v e r t e n t l y c a p t u r e a n d kill n o n - t a r g e t e d s p e c i e s o f f i s h a n d w i l d l i f e ,
1 c o m m e n d the Council for your decision earlier this year to develop a comprehensive plan to transition
t h e c u r r e n t drift gillnet f i s h e r y f o r s w o r d f i s h t o m o r e e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y s u s t a i n a b l e g e a r t y p e s .
G i v e n t h e i n d i s c r i m i n a t e n a t u r e o f drift g i l l n e t s , it m a k e s s e n s e f o r t h e C o u n c i l t o e s t a b l i s h h a r d c a p s t o
reduce the death and discard of non-target species, including sharks, cetaceans, and other finfish.
Further, I e n c o u r a g e the Council to require 1 0 0 percent observer coverage until electronic monitoring is
proven to be a s effective a s h u m a n observers. Hard caps a n d better monitoring are both necessary, t o
give time for the fishery to transition to cleaner alternatives for catching swordfish and thresher sharks.
A d d i t i o n a l l y , I a s k t h e C o u n c i l t o c o n t i n u e d e v e l o p i n g p l a n s t o p h a s e o u t t h e u s e o f drift g i l l n e t s in f a v o r
of fishing gear that can be actively tended, a n d that will m i n i m i z e interaction with non-targeted species of
fish a n d wildlife.
h e r n California

Agenda Item I.4.c Supplemental Public Comment 2

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