Sustainable Marine Fisheries Policy
All parties, commercial and recreational fishers, consumers, environmental groups, governmental regulators, and the general public, must move towards a policy of recovering depleted fisheries stocks and developing a sustainable fishery management regime.
Sierra Club Marine Policies
The Sierra Club endorses some recommendations of the Panel on Oceanography of the President's Science Advisory Committee.
Marine Mammal Policies
The Sierra Club favors legislation to prohibit all hunting and harassment of marine mammals, with the exception of
occasional specimens captured for scientific research and zoos,
hunting by American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, etc., for the sole use of their families, and
carefully managed seal fisheries (sometimes called "harvests"), so long as these activities do not endanger marine mammal populations.
Offshore Oil and Gas Policy
The nation's tidelands and Outer Continental Shelf are being exploited with the same unbridled singleness of purpose that left much of America's landscape ravaged for the last century...
