Community Sign-On Letters
Bringing fishermen’s voices to the fight for a fishery-friendly just transition
The Fishery Friendly Climate Action Campaign’s Community List-Serve offers a space for individuals, businesses, and organizations within the U.S. fishing and seafood industry to co-create and amplify their own statements in support of fishery friendly climate action.
The sign-on letters displayed below represent the fruit of these collaborations.
As of January 2023, 26 organizations and 74 individuals and businesses in the fishing industry have utilized our platform to create and submit letters and joint issue statements calling on policy makers at multiple levels to support fishery friendly climate action.
Fishermen and Fishery Leaders: How to use our platform to develop, circulate, and amplify your own policy statements
Circulate a sign-on letter through our Community List Serve. Members of the U.S. commercial fishing community and their representatives are invited to utilize the Fishery Friendly Climate Action Campaign’s community list-serve to expand the diversity and breadth of signatures on your sign-on letter. Our goal is to help climate leaders in the fishing community achieve maximum impact and solidarity across regions and fisheries.
Get your policy statement published on this page. Letters that have been circulated for signatures through the community list-serve may further request to be published on this page for added impact. The Fishery Friendly Climate Action Campaign’s Governing Council is responsible for ensuring that all letters posted to this page are aligned and consistent with the Campaign’s vision of “fishery friendly climate action”. Contact Sarah Schumann for more information.
U.S. Fishing Industry Letter to NOAA on Fishery Friendly Climate Action in the National Seafood Strategy, 03/31/2023
U.S. Fishing Industry Letter to EPA on Inflation Reduction Act Ports Program, 01/18/2023
Multi-organization letter to the EPA on Implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, 12/05/2022
Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island letter to the RI Executive Climate Change Coordinating Committee, 12/02/2022
U.S. Commercial Fishing Letter to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on the Ocean Climate Action Plan, 11/18/2022
National sign-on letter to the White House and implementing agencies from 10 fishing associations and 24 fishing businesses on “fishery friendly” implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, 10/20/2022
Letter from New England fishery associations to New England Senators and coastal district Representatives on the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, 09/08/2022
Northern New England commercial fishing industry response to Biden climate speech: Climate action must support ocean ecosystems and resource-dependent communities, 08/10/2022
Sarah Schumann: The Inflation Reduction Act Offers Hope for Fishery Friendly Climate Action. Saving Seafood, 08/05/2022
Southern New England commercial fishing industry response to Biden climate speech: Climate action must support ocean ecosystems and resource-dependent communities. 07/22/2022
Roger Berkowitz and Sarah Schumann: Don’t endanger aquatic ecosystems in the name of solving climate change. Boston Globe, 06/20/2022
Synthesis of the Views of 20 Southern New England Commercial Fishermen on NOAA’s Role in the America the Beautiful Initiative, 12/28/2021
Fishery Friendly Climate Action Agenda Statement Sign-On