I'm writing to thank New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg for supporting the Coastal Jobs Creation Act of 2010 that was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate.
I believe this is an extremely important bill that will help to end overfishing in the Atlantic Ocean.
According to independent data, 40 of the assessed commercially and recreationally important ocean fish stocks (about 20 percent) are subject to overfishing, and 42 stocks are at unsustainably low levels. We simply cannot continue to catch more fish than the ocean can reproduce.
Existing federal laws and regulations, including the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), are currently in place to prevent overfishing and to rebuild America's depleted commercial and recreational fish populations. Unfortunately, the MSA law is under siege by current flexibility legislation pending in Congress that will work to weaken MSA overfishing standards.
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