Please send a letter to President Obama urging him to reverse his decision to increase sea turtle killings in Hawaii and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Obama administration recently moved to triple the number of endangered sea turtles that can be caught by industrial fishing fleets off the Hawaiian coast. In the Gulf of Mexico, sea turtle bycatch will increase by 700 percent. The turtles will be brutally snagged on thousands of hooks attached to miles-long cables dragged through the ocean by massive fishing vessels. Worldwide, 200,000 loggerhead and 50,000 leatherback sea turtles are caught this way each year.

Sea turtles can't survive this level of entanglement and killing. Just months ago, federal scientists declared that loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles are declining toward extinction due to industrial fishing bycatch. In addition to sea turtles, thousands of whales, sharks, sea otters, and sea birds are caught by the same outdated longline fishing practices.

Speak up for endangered sea turtles by sending a letter to President Obama today.

Thank you,

Center for Biological Diversity