Download our Swordfish Consumer Card [pdf] here.
Turtle Island Restoration Network fights to protect marine mammals and sea birds from industrial fishing, habitat loss and other threats.
Join us in our campaigns to protect marine wildlife.
Campaigns
Defend Marine Mammals & Seabirds from Hawaii’s Longline Fishery
Setting over 45 million baited hooks/year for swordfish and tuna, Hawaii longliners harm false killer whales, blue footed and laysan albatrosses. Help us reform this destructive industrial fishery.
Tell California to End Driftnets – Protect Whales & Dolphins
This fishery for swordfish and shark continues to capture and kill sea lions, dolphins and whales. Help us call for an end to California's deadliest fishery.
Action & Events
Pledge to Boycott Unsustainably Caught Swordfish
October 11, 2017
Join the growing number of caring people making a smart choice about seafood.
Save Sperm Whales & Sea Turtles from the Secret Drift Net Massacre Off Our California Coast
June 29, 2017
Tell the Pacific Fisheries Management Council that you care about endangered sperm whales and sea turtles. Ask them to close this deadly drift net fishery once and for all.
Defend our Marine Monuments
May 8, 2017
Please add your name to our petition calling on Zinke to withdraw his recommendations to downsize or reduce protections for national marine monuments.
News
5 Tips for Effective Advocacy
June 6, 2018
Advocacy is a show of public support for a policy or cause. In our case, it’s actually a combination of many various displays of support for ocean-f...
Bill to Protect Marine Wildlife from California Driftnets Passes Senate Appropriations Committee
May 25, 2018
Today, SB 1017, a bill that would transition California away from the use of large-scale driftnets successfully cleared the Senate Appropriations Comm...
Shocking Undercover Investigations of Commercial Seafood Industry Expose Cruelty of Driftnets
April 9, 2018
Breaking undercover investigations conducted by marine conservation and animal protection groups expose the sickening truth behind the California comm...
Sea Birds & Mammals Resources
Swordfish Boycott Consumer Card
CA Driftnet Resources
California Driftnet Fishery Reports Driftnet Overview Sea Turtle Impacts Economic Report California Driftnet Fishe...
CA Drift Gillnet Resources Photographs
Please go to Dropbox for all six of these images
