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Is it the real deal? Do you own a restaurant or fish market that sells fresh Florida grouper and/or snapper? If so, you are undoubtedly aware of the on-going controversy over unscrupulous businessmen selling imported or farmed fish and labeling it as fresh grouper or snapper. This practice hurts all of us who fish for or buy and sell these products. Giving consumers a lesser grade of fish while charging them for fresh high quality fish is not going to generate any future sales of grouper or snapper but is highly likely to have the opposite effect. Also, substituting a lesser grade of fish is not only dishonest, it is illegal.
If you proudly serve fresh caught Florida grouper or snapper, we encourage you to "Take the Pledge". You can download the graphics in high resolution format (.pdf, .bmp and .tif) from us and use them in any of your menus or advertising in any way you see fit. We will also promote your restaurant or retail store (at no charge) here on our site. We ask only two small things in return.
We are planning on making some window or door stickers like the artwork we have here to download. When we get them made we will distribute them to anyone who has notified us that they want to take part in the program. We will also be posting a page where we will prominently display banner ads for every restaurant or fish market that has "Taken the Pledge." We will also use the small banner ads in a random rotation to display on our web site. (see example below).
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Bill Tracker
H.R. 1584: Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2009 has been introduced and has been sent to the House Committee on Natural Resources . A similar version of this bill has died in committee the past two years. Please do not let this happen this year. This bill proposes nothing more than a common sense approach to fishery regulation that should have been in the re-authorized Magnuson-Stevens Act from the beginning and will help provide some desperately needed relief for beleaguered commercial fisheries and fishermen.
Help bring this to the attention of your Congressmen and Senators. They don't use email so you will have to go to the websites of your Congressman and our two Senators (or your own if you aren't in Florida). The Florida Delegation's contact links and an example message you can copy and paste into the message box on their website are here.
You can track what we need to be the steady progress of this bill through Congress with the widget below.