AfSD™(ADVOCATE FOR SAVING DOGS™and all living creatures)
Friendburst :
Advocate for Saving Dogs™
Animal Rights
RILEY ®
Critical Legislation in Guam to ban sale of shark fins needs your comments
PLEASE, send a letter of support for Guam‘s sharks as soon as you finish reading this email!
The momentum to protect sharks is snowballing in the South Pacific! Guam‘s Vice-Speaker BJ Cruz and Senator Rory Respicio have introduced a bill to ban the sale and possession of shark fins.
Although only just introduced, Bill No. 44-31 is already being met with strong opposition from the fishing community
The Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the bill next Tuesday night Guam time, which is Monday night EST.
You can make your voice heard by sending a letter in support of the bill to the Honorable Rory J. Respicio. His email is roryforguam@gmail.com. (please also CC Mike Lydia on these emails at mike.lidia@senatorbjcruz.com), or you can fax your letter to Senator Respicio at (671) 472-3547
Please send your letters by Sunday afternoon January 30th (sooner would be better). The more letters Senator Respicio receives, the greater the chance of passing this bill!
Your letters should include the following information:
1. Your name.
2. Where you live.
3. Your reasons for wanting to protect sharks.
4. A request to “please pass Bill No. 44-31 with no amendments”.
Here are some suggestions that you may want to give for supporting passage of the bill:
Sharks have been the ocean’s apex predators
for 400 millions years. The removal of millions of sharks has already
disrupted the ocean ecosystem and is resulting in tropic cascades.
Sharks
are slow growing, mature late, produce few young, and cannot reproduce
fast enough to replace their populations at the current rate of
depletion.
The depletion of sharks is driven by the shark fin trade. Sharks
formerly caught as bycatch of other fisheries and released alive, are
now landed just for their fins and their carcasses are dumped overboard.
The sharks’ fins are used solely as an ingredient in expensive soup!
Some
73 million sharks will be slaughtered this year for their fins. That
averages out to more than 6 million per month, more than 217,000 per
day, around 9,000 per hour!
The
IUCN Shark Specialist Group has determined that 1/3 of all shark
species are “near threatened” or “threatened with extinction”. If the
slaughter continues, sharks may go the way of the passenger pigeon, the dodo, and other species that humans have hunted to extinction.
Sharks are far more value alive. They are the #1 attraction for divers. Alive, sharks generate a continuing source of revenue to Guam‘s local economy!
Letters should be in the following format::
Honorable Rory J. Respicio
Majority Leader
Suite 302
155 Hesler St.
Hagåtña, Guam 96910
January 25, 2010
Dear Senator Respicio:
– Your reasons for supporting the bill
– Where you live
– What you do
–Please pass Bill 44-31 with no amendments
Sincerely yours,
-Your name
Please forward this email to everyone in your email address book. This is critical legislation for sharks.
It’s about time something was done,butchering Sharks for their fins….. 🙁
Horrendous just begins to touch the tip of this issue….
Good blog my friend.
D.
Thank you D!
People say they love animals and WISH they can help, well, I would like to tell every one how fairly easy it is to help a GREAT deal. Simply sign petitions, or when the need arises, send an e-mail. When animal lovers find out a company is practicing cruelty to animals, our favorite word is “BOYCOTT”. Stop using their products, this hits them where it hurts because obviously they care more about money than they do about the act of being “Humane”. Unfortunately with them-compassion walks while money talks. EXAMPLE: in 2008, we came across an article stating a hotel was housing a convention for doctors demonstrating their new equipment on live pigs, when surely there were more compassion methods they could use than showing off on something living and breathing. We posted bulletins, left comments with phone #’s and email addresses of the hotel and tell them they will never stay there because of what they where supporting, cruelty. I am NOT JOKING, in 1 1/2 days, the hotel recieved OVER 4,000 phone calls and emails…guess what? they canceled the convention! The same I find with politics…votes…money…boycott, all the same. TRUST ME I KNOW, this works on anybody. They receive thousands of e-mails in a short time with unhappy ppl, they DO LISTEN.
A simular example is also almost 2 years ago, I was browsing craigslist and came across a woman BEGGING for help. She put her 8 y/o poodle in a boarding kennel so she can have surgery. Instead of 2 weeks, she remained for 9 weeks. Upon return, the kennel refused to release her pooch unless she paid in full…the bill was like 2, 000 dollars. When she finally came up with this amount, the bill went higher, now at 4, 200 dollars. WTF!? she was on disability! I called this elderly sweet lady, and she melted on the phone. Now mind you…she was in NY, and I am in Fl… I got her info, then proceeded to phone the kennel. HA, the owner refered me to her lawyer asap, I stated I am here for the dog, and not the woman, I am the dog’s voice. She’s like “oh” then, like I’m her “buddy” tells me the “owner” did not go to the hospital, she went to the Bahamas, lol, and now she was homeless and refused to release the poodle to a homeless person. (like that really matters anyway) .I listened, then called the other back right away. lol, She emailed me her statements from the hospital, and a letter from her land lord. I started a petition, had a friend in NY contact the news station, a day later it was on the news a day later. Oh! and the day before the news…the actor Danny Trejo’s wife contacted me Debbie, (she runs a rescue k9compassion) and offered to pay the bill so the dog can go home. I immediately called the kennel to tell them the news of the bill being paid and who was going to pay it. SHE LIT UP with excitement, and said, oh…well….the bill went up! I says…oh, ok, here, fax me the bill and she did because of her greed (dumbass). That became evidence. Okay, so a day later, it’s on the news, the news shows my petition with THOUSANDS of signatures world wide (dang I love the internet) and a copy of the bill she faxed me, lol, the news spread her name and busines like wild fire, lol, we already had a civil, or was it small claims curt date set up, and two days after that we already had a date with the STATE SUPREME court. I had animal ppl show up at court with signs, and rescue ink attended also. The kennel lady buckled, gave back the dog with no money owed AS LONG AS WE STOP THE PUBLICITY! and the funniest thing is…what everyone I go against says….”I don’t know who you are” no you don’t, cause I don’t matter…booya!
do you waaannna see the news clip?lol
I gotta dig though
I was just a nobody, who cared about animals, taking some time out, with a little help from my FRIENDS!
I love you all!
XXXOOO
I actually took the time out last night and wrote this on one of my comments to a friend, Hi D! I felt it important enough to isolate and share. There is always soo much more you can do than what I listed in here, I will always add. One GREAT thing you can do here online, is to report to Kevin,or myself if you witness animal cruelty online here, or animals being sold in the market place. We are KILLING 800 pets every hour in the US ALONE, via GAS CHAMBERS,DECOMPRESSION CHAMBERS’s and HEARTSTICK! PPL it’s a holecost I witness EVERYDAY, you do not, but at least you can help me, and let some one know
Love to all
XXXOOO