We've told them about the starving fur seals and endangered Steller sea lions, the humpback and fin whales, the sea otters and sea birds... all these animals who call the Bering Sea home and who depend on Alaskan pollock fish for survival. But the North Pacific Fishery "Management" Council says they can all do with less.
Last week the Council voted to reduce the 2009 Alaskan Bering Sea pollock catch limit by just 18.5 percent. For many that will do - for years the fishery council has buckled under industry pressure and taken no action. Greenpeace has been urging that the catch be reduced by 55 percent in the face of evidence that the entire pollock fishery is on the brink of collapse - This is no time for half measures.
Pollock is the world's largest food fishery. Used to make McDonald's fish sandwiches and frozen fish sticks, the population has decreased by a stunning 50 percent since last year. Factory fishing trawlers take over a million tons of pollock out of the ocean each year. The fish cannot reproduce and recover as quickly as they are being fished.
Greenpeace is determined to take our demands further, but we need your help. If you have not yet made a generous year-end gift, please click here and donate now. In these tough economic times, you know that Greenpeace will make every dollar you give count.
Thanks to the thousands of you who have already donated, we've been able to run advocacy ads on TV stations in Alaska and Washington, release a documentary of our work in the Bering Sea, deliver more than 18,000 supporter letters to the Council, send detailed comment briefings to the Council's scientific advisors, attend their meetings and present them a letter signed by more than 20 organizations and 60 ocean scientists.
Our success in Alaska will be because of the support you've given - please make a gift now so that we can increase the pressure and achieve lasting results to guarantee the survival of the Bering Sea. Change is in the air and we need to take full advantage. Please support us today.
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P.S. I also want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your great support in 2008 and to wish you the very best for 2009.
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