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The decision of the Walton Family Foundation to invest $36,341,561 in Environmental Defense Fund and other nonprofits helping the Obama administration re-engineer U.S. fisheries though catch share programs has produced a nascent campaign to boycott Wal-Mart stores. The push back against the world's largest retailer began on North Carolina's Outer Banks, by North Carolina Watermen United, a group of perhaps 200 commercial, recreational, longliner and charter fishermen, and has been joined by the Recreational Fishing Alliance, with members in every coastal state, including Massachusetts. The $2.2 billion Walton Family Foundation is led by descendents of Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart in Bentonville, Arkansas. A grandson, Sam R. Walton, was in 2008-2009 an EDF board member. "We object to your sponsorship of catch shares," Britton Shackleford, president of Watermen United, wrote to members of Wal-Mart's Global Ethics Committee on Wednesday. The organization said it "would like to inform both Wal-Mart Stores and the Walton Family Foundation that it has encouraged its members to begin a boycott of your stores immediately." Read the complete story from The Gloucester Times
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
