Issue Position: Preserving our Coasts and Fisheries

Issue Position

I am very concerned with our fisheries; we are overfishing. We have to promote sustainable, productive and responsible fisheries. Here in the Pacific Northwest, Puget Sound is a beautiful body of water, on the surface. If you look underneath it is dying. This is an urgent matter. Puget Sound is the lynchpin to our entire ecological system in this region. We need to prevent the building of an oil super-port in the Puget Sound, prevent more risk from more pollution. We need to preserve salmon runs because it is the key indicator to environmental health.

We need much more aggressive regulation of off-shore drilling and just aggressive protection of key waterways in general. It's not just about environmental sustainability, but economics as well. Because if we pollute the environment, we destroy jobs; hundreds of thousands of jobs are dependent on our waterways. This is about environmental and economic sustainability.

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