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Commercial Fishing Matters Family-owned, small commercial fishing boats have been a way of life for generations. It's a tough, dangerous job and a way of life that is seriously in danger of disappearing. Whenever a small boat owner decides to stop fishing, there is an economic impact not just to that fisherman and his or her family, but to the community that harbors the boats as well. If small, family-owned commercial fishing boats stop working the water, America loses an important contributor to a healthy food chain. And we become poorer as a result. This video shows you what it's like to be a commercial fisherman fishing for salmon and crabs off the coast of San Francisco San Franciso is a long way from the Gulf of Mexico but this slickly produced video makes some excellent points about our way of life. This video was written, produced and directed by Bruce Tokars for:
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H.R. 1584: Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2009 has been introduced and has been sent to the House Committee on Natural Resources . A similar version of this bill has died in committee the past two years. Please do not let this happen this year. This bill proposes nothing more than a common sense approach to fishery regulation that should have been in the re-authorized Magnuson-Stevens Act from the beginning and will help provide some desperately needed relief for beleaguered commercial fisheries and fishermen.
Help bring this to the attention of your Congressmen and Senators. They don't use email so you will have to go to the websites of your Congressman and our two Senators (or your own if you aren't in Florida). The Florida Delegation's contact links and an example message you can copy and paste into the message box on their website are here.
You can track what we need to be the steady progress of this bill through Congress with the widget below.