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Good News For Gulf Sea Turtles
NMFS expects the new TEDs to reduce leatherback annual
mortality in shrimp nets by 97% and loggerhead mortality by
94%. However:
Longlining, for instance, is responsible for killing an
estimated 40,000 sea turtles each year. |
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A
Commitment To The Future
Seafood
Market
We at
FreshFromTheBoat wear many hats. We are commercial fishermen,
recreational anglers, and Consumers of Fresh Gulf Seafood. As
such, we are committed to the conservation efforts that will protect
our Gulf fisheries and insure availability and quality for
generations to come. We are committed to delivering to you, our
customer, only fresh local Gulf seafood. We ship local seafood
at local prices. We will never sell
the imported seafood, that you generally find at supermarkets around
the country. Our prices aren't
higher. Our quality is!
The very
future of the Gulf of Mexico, North America's most economically
productive body of water, is in jeopardy. We believe that only
through unified efforts can we protect this precious resource.
Help us insure that the quality of water and the health of our gulf
fisheries is maintained for our children and grand-children.
You can learn more about the problems threatening the Gulf by
clicking on the links on the left. While we don't act as a
rubber stamp for all of these groups or share all of their concerns,
we do agree that problems exist and that we must all work together
to preserve the viability of a resource that we can't afford to
lose: the Gulf of Mexico.
Our primary concerns include the continuing expansion
of the Gulf "Dead Zone" and the failure to ban the use of longline
gear to harvest fish in the Gulf. We invite you to increase
your awareness, draw your
own conclusions and to e-mail your representatives in Washington
with your thoughts and concerns. Without your help, we won't
succeed. We have enclosed the links below to help you.
Just click on your state and choose your representatives and
senators from the list provided.
WE DO NOT KNOWINGLY SELL ANY PRODUCT THAT WAS OBTAINED
BY USING LONGLINE GEAR OR FISH TRAPS.
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