Subject: RE: Washington's Sealife in Peril!

From: Mike Middleton <[email-masked]>
Date: 7 Nov 1995 04:41:21 GMT

Richard Anderson <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>Tens of thousands of seabirds -- murres, auklets, puffins, murrelets and
>other diving seabirds -- are in grave danger and desperately  need your
>help.  The issue is the prevention of the illegal take of seabirds >through net entanglement in Washington waters.  The proposed solution is
>initiative I-640 that will appear on the ballot November 7th.  The
>opponents: Washington’s sizable commercial fishing industry; whose >members have infiltrated and hold influential positions in our most >powerful environmental groups. The dilemma we face: due to the total lack >of interest -- almost to the extent of shutting out -- from the media, it >is nearly impossible to get the information to Washington voters and find >allies within politically active environmental organizations.....

Please note that in the previous article,  the bullit quoting the Fishery 
Observer Program was not obtained from the National Audubon Society Fact 
Sheet.  Our apologies to the author, John Wilson for misquoting him. The 
last piece of information is infact gathered from research funded by the 
National Marine Fisheries Service authorized under the Marine Mammal 
Protection Act.  For a copy of the Fishery Observer Program Report, call 
Bob Turner, Director, Department of Fish & Wildlife at (360)902-2225.
                                 Thank you,
                                            Jill Middleton
                                         Daughter of Richard Anderson