Greenpeace airs TV ad targeted at Alaska pollock fishery
Published Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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Stumble It!ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Greenpeace is taking to the airwaves to encourage a a federal fisheries regulatory group to consider even more stringent catch limits on Alaska's pollock fishery.
The environmental activist group - better known for putting themselves between whales and whaling ships - began airing television ads on Tuesday in Alaska and Seattle. It features a fisherman in yellow rain gear standing on a street corner holding a sign that says "Unemployed: They Overfished the Pollock."
The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council has recommended a commercial catch limit of 815,000 tons, or a nearly 19 percent cut, but Greenpeace wants a higher limit. The council will meet in Anchorage later this month to decide.
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Stay outside where you belong green morons we have a fish and game department here. We do not need your fanatic mindset here! Whats the matter run out of whales to save you morons!
Too bad we can't deal with them like the French did when the "Rainbow Warrior" was harrassing them over a resumption of nuclear testing...
The fact that they would air an ad that seemed to indicate they were concerned with the welfare of fishermen is despicable. These people place the lives of animals well above their own species.
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