Environmental

New CA Bill to Ban Driftnet Fishing to Protect Whales, Dolphins and Sea Turtles

Driftnets kill more than 100 whales, dolphins, and sea lions along CA coast every year

 

Sacramento, CA–(ENEWSPF)–February 21 2014.  Yesterday Assemblymember Paul Fong (D-San Jose) introduced legislation (AB 2019) co-authored by Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-San Rafael), Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay), and Anthony Rendon (D- Lakewood) to end the indiscriminate capture and killing of marine wildlife such as whales, dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles, and sharks, in mile-long drift gillnets off California’s coast.

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