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Federal Fisheries Policy Reform Project: Rebuilding Fisheries and Fishing Communities

America's oceans are in trouble and need our help. Pollution, habitat destruction, mismanagement and overfishing have impoverished our ocean resources. Thus, the nation's fisheries have been declining precipitously for decades, with more than 90 percent of the world's large predatory fish, including tuna, swordfish and marlin disappearing from our oceans.

The Federal Fisheries Policy Reform Project calls upon the National Marine Fisheries Service to develop and implement policies, regulations, and fishery management plans designed to eliminate overfishing and protect the marine environment. It works with scientists, fishermen, policy makers, regional fishery managers and conservation organizations throughout the country.

The Pew Environment Group

The Pew Environment Group is the conservation arm of The Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-governmental organization headquartered in the United States that applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improving public policy, informing the public and stimulating civic life.

The Pew Environment Group advocates for strong policy solutions to address:

• the dramatic changes to the Earth's climate brought about by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere
• the erosion of large wilderness ecosystems that contain a great part of the world's remaining biodiversity; and
• the destruction of the world's marine environment, with a particular emphasis on global fisheries.