November Newsletter
Save Our Oceans
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Purchase only sustainable seafood. Ask your fishmonger or check out Seafood Watch.
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MCBI works to reduce harmful fishing practices and to encourage sustainability. But we need your help. The choices you make, one meal at a time, make a difference.
BycatchHow we catch fish and how many fish we catch are two of the fastest ways we are destroying the ocean.
 
Certain fishing methods, like bottom trawling, destroy seafloor habitats where many animals live and reproduce. Like this picture of bycatch from shrimp trawling that will be thrown back, dead and dying.

Catching fish faster than they can reproduce means many US fish populations are on the verge of collapse.

To protect the ocean ecosystems from the impacts of bottom trawling, MCBI has been a world leader in providing solutions to policymakers in the US and abroad.
 
Please help us to stop destructive fishing and save our ocean ecosystems
Sincerely,
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Elizabeth Purvis
Marine Conservation Biology Institute