Dear Neville
We don’t usually email this often but we thought you would want to know. The Dirk Dirk (aka Geelong Star) has arrived in Albany Western Australia and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority is already saying it is good to go fishing.
Have they not been listening?
75,000 petitioners names
7,000 emails to local MPs and Senators
Letters and meetings from the Stop the Trawler Alliance
Expert Panel reports
Unanswered questions on science and management
Door stop protests to Prime Minister Abbott
Convictions for illegal fishing activities overseas
If this vessel is allowed to stay here and fish the Small Pelagic Fishery it could open the flood gates to more super trawlers and a path of ocean destruction.
We can still stop this huge factory trawler but we need to show the Government we are not giving up.
Please, take a few minutes to call your local politician and tell them how outraged you are.
We have made it easy for you – just click on the link above, put in your post code, and follow the directions.
Your local MPs and Senators are meant to represent you. Why are they welcoming freezer factory trawlers run by foreign companies who break laws?
In 2012 we stopped the super trawler Margiris with help from people like you. We got a result from Parliamentarians who simply could not ignore you. Let’s do it again, and keep Australia’s oceans, fisheries and marine life healthy for the next generation!
Just 1 phone call is worth about 1,000 petition signatures when it comes to getting a message across.
Click here and call your local politicians today!
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority is nervous, the Coalition Government is nervous, because they understand that this is one issue that people from all walks of life across the country have come together on. We do not want this industrialisation of our fisheries or the threats it poses to our local fishing and beautiful marine life. Don’t let them get away with it.
Thanks so much for your ongoing help.
It’s crunch time.
Bec, Erika and the Stop the Trawler crew
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