The North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously last year to “freeze the footprint” of bottom trawling in the Bering Sea. Now, another government agency - the National Marine Fisheries Service – is moving to turn the Council’s decision into final, in-the-water regulations that will go into effect this summer.

One final comment period separates us from protecting 180,000 square miles of vital seafloor habitat. Please send a letter in support of this final hurdle by Monday, April 21.