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Sierra Club Policies on Marine Issues 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... Sustainable Marine Fisheries Up to Top HOME | Email Signup | About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | © 2008 Sierra Club