The film explores the world of sardines – the silvery fish from the Bay of Fundy that are nature’s superfood. It takes you inside the planet’s largest – and North America’s last remaining – sardine cannery, Connors Bros. in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, as well as the associated fishery. The town has been billed as the “Sardine Capital of the World”, but the cannery is facing huge challenges that are putting this title, and the community’s livelihood, at risk.

Check out the film preview http://youtu.be/NwquoUSuajU and tune in this Sunday at 12 Noon.

My name is Bob Wiltshire and I am the Director of the Center for Aquatic Nuisance Species (CANS), a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the human caused spread of invasive species. As you are no doubt aware, aquatic nuisance species (ANS) are beginning to have huge impacts on fly anglers around the world. From river closures and felt bans in New Zealand to mandatory boat inspection in much of the western US there is no doubt that we as anglers will be significantly impacted by these invaders.

One of the programs that the CANS is developing is the Clean Angling Pledge http://www.cleanangling.org. This simple pledge “I pledge to Inspect, Clean & Dry my equipment to the best of my ability after every on-water use” gets anglers to commit to taking the simple steps necessary to reduce the chance that they are transporting ANS to other waters. Our goals is to get all recreationists to clean as best as they can after every trip and to be aware that they can easily spread ANS through their recreation.

People who take the pledge are eligible to receive the monthly newsletter the Clean Angling News http://www.stopans.org/News/Clean_Angling_News.php which contains articles of interest to anglers and boaters and serves to remind them that reducing the spread is up to every one of us.

The Pledge is being widely supported by organizations, agencies and industry. TU and FFF both encourage their members to take the pledge. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has adopted the pledge as their primary means of getting individual anglers involved. We are working with SIMMS, Patagonia, Corkers, Dan Baileys and other wader manufacturers to incorporate the pledge into their marketing and communication efforts and many others in the fly fishing industry are promoting the pledge to their employees and customers.

I am now beginning to reach out to Blog publishers to seek their support for the Pledge and that is why I am writing you today. Would you be willing to promote the Pledge on your Blog? This can be done in a lot of ways. I think it is most effective when the Blogger writes from his or her own perspective and encourages readers to take the pledge. However, I am happy to write a “guest post” or to provide you a press release that you can reference and post a link to. I can also provide HTML code if you are interested in putting a pledge form on your site. If you do this people who take the pledge will never leave your site as they will just get a thank you pop-up when they pledge. These are just a few of the ways that we can approach this and I am wide open to any suggestions you might have or to any other way in which you might want to promote the pledge.

Rather than making this even longer I will stop here and ask for your support, criticism or questions. Please let me know if you are interested in discussing this further.

Thanks

Bob

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