“In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but what we refuse to destroy.” — John Sawhill Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! Just wanted to express my gratitude to all the non-profits that have taken on this campaign, all of you that have signed and shared this very important petition (LINK IN MY BIO) as well as those who are just getting started! Thank you also for reaching out to FWC, attending FWC workshops and gathering support! I'm extremely grateful that you are all working hard to save our friends in the sea from the needless slaughter purposed by the FWC. @jim_abernethy #lovenature #saveprotectedanimals #savegoliathgrouper #protectwhatyoulove #savenature #jimabernethysscubaadventures (at Jim Abernethy's Scuba Adventures & Marine Life Art Gallery)

I'm extremely grateful for all your help with the Goliath Grouper! Thank you, just doesn't seem to be enough to show my enormous gratitude for all your help! Today I will speak for my friends in the sea at the FWC meeting! After a sleepless night worried, afraid and scared that my efforts... our efforts were not enough to protect these magnificent creatures that I've grown to love and enjoy from countless hours spent underwater studying their behavior, while enjoying their company for decades! Today, with a very heavy heart I will do my very best to protect them, as I know there existence is essential to the life of all around them as the eco-engineers they are! Our efforts are for the benefit of all life on the planet! For me it is personal as I view them the same was you view your pets... as family members that you can protect and love! Please pray that our efforts were enough to end this extremely crazy fight with a so called "conservation" entity, FWC that wants to kill 400 critically endangered Goliath Grouper! Thank you Thank You Thank You to all that have signed and shared the petition or my conservation posts! You all have brought the petition up to 58,000. Please keep up the incredible efforts! I'm so very grateful. Come with me and meet Shadow yourself this August & September! URGENT CALL TO ACTION! Here's what you can do to help! Please sign and share the petition below to your followers! Link also in my bio. https://www.change.org/p/the-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission-fwc-protect-the-critically-endangered-goliath-grouper Please speak up for the Critically Endangered Goliath Grouper in Ft. Lauderdale FWC meeting Today! Place: Marriott Fort Lauderdale North 6650 North Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 Repost any of my Goliath Grouper posts, but with the new schedule and location. Please contact me to get the science facts and find out what else you can do. Thank you so much for all many of you have already done and continue to do! Save the Goliath Grouper! @jim_abernethy #love #beautiful #saveprotectedanimals #diving #savegoliathgrouper #bethevoice #overfishing #needlessslaughter #Bethechangetheworldneeds (at MyFWC)

A goliath grouper up close with one of my best friends and extremely talented writer and photographer @lazruda Laz Ruda! Thank you Thank You Thank You to all that have signed and shared the petition or my conservation posts! You all have brought the petition up to 37,000. Please keep up the incredible efforts! I'm so very grateful. URGENT CALL TO ACTION! Here's what you can do to help! Please sign and share the petition below to your followers! https://www.change.org/p/the-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission-fwc-protect-the-critically-endangered-goliath-grouper Please speak up for the Critically Endangered Goliath Grouper in Ft. Lauderdale FWC meeting April 26th. Place: Marriott Fort Lauderdale North 6650 North Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 Repost any of my Goliath Grouper posts, but with the new schedule and location. Please contact me to get the science facts and find out what else you can do. Thank you so much for all many of you have already done and continue to do! Save the Goliath Grouper! @jim_abernethy #saveprotectedanimals #savegoliathgrouper #bethevoice #overfishing #needlessslaughter #Bethechangetheworldneeds (at MyFWC)

Happy Earth Day! Thank you Thank You Thank You to all that have signed and shared the petition or my conservation posts! You have added 25,000 signature in 5 days! Please keep up the incredible efforts! I'm so very grateful. URGENT CALL TO ACTION! Please speak up for the Critically Endangered Goliath Grouper in Ft. Lauderdale FWC meeting April 26th. Place: Marriott Fort Lauderdale North 6650 North Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 Here's what you can do to help! Please sign and share the petition below to your followers! https://www.change.org/p/the-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission-fwc-protect-the-critically-endangered-goliath-grouper Repost any of my Goliath Grouper posts, but with the new schedule and location. Please contact me to get the science facts and find out what else you can do. Thank you so much for all many of you have already done and continue to do! Save the Goliath Grouper! @jim_abernethy #saveprotectedanimals #savegoliathgrouper #bethevoice #overfishing #needlessslaughter #Bethechangetheworldneeds (at MyFWC)

Urgent Call to Action! Please speak up for the Critically Endangered Goliath Grouper in Ft. Lauderdale FWC meeting April 26th. Place: Marriott Fort Lauderdale North 6650 North Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 If i was to tell you that an entity was going tho KILL CRITICALLY ENDANGERED ANIMALS in the name of science...you would have thought it was the Japanese killing whales! If I was to tell you an entity was going to sell tickets so you could KILL CRITCALLY ENDANGERED ANIMALS...you would have thought it was like Cecil the trophy killing lion hunters! But this is right here in United States of America and the Entity is the FWC, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Yes the same one that killed many of our black bears! We cannot allow this to happen! The fish is poisonous with mercury so it's against the law to sell it and obviously you shouldn't eat or even feed it to your pets. Our oceans need ecological engineers like this to sustain even more life than without them! They bring millions of tourism dollars in by divers that just want to see them! Here's what you can do to help! Please sign and share the petition below to your followers! https://www.change.org/p/the-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission-fwc-protect-the-critically-endangered-goliath-grouper Repost any of my Goliath Grouper posts, but with the new schedule and location. Please contact me to get the science facts and find out what else you can do. Thank you so much for all many of you have already done and continue to do! Save the Goliath Grouper! @jim_abernethy #saveprotectedanimals #savegoliathgrouper #bethevoice #overfishing #needlessslaughter #Bethechangetheworldneeds

First Thank You Thank You Thank You if you helped SHADOW and her kind get over 5000 signatures on our petition below! We're all very grateful! Time is running out so please continue to share my content, sign and share the petition and put an end to this horrific insanely stupid attempt by the FWC to KILL the CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GOLIATH GROUPER! Shadow has been my friend & the friend of divers over 2 decades to all that visit her at Shark Canyon Palm Beach County, Florida! Please help us fight for her life as well as the lives of all the CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GOLIATH GROUPERS! The FWC wants to sell 400 tickets so people can kill 400 CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GOLIATH GROUPERS! The $120,000 raised they say will be used to help protect the species...just like Cecil the Lion Killers! We can't continue to allow the needless slaughter of our planets wildlife! All the goliath scientists say DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN! The fish is poisonous containing 7 times the allowable mercury poisoning. Economically the Goliath Grouper generates millions from divers that want to see it ALIVE! PLEASE HELP US STOP THIS NEEDLESS SLAUGHTER! @Jim_Abernethy URGENT CALL TO ACTION! Please speak up for the Critically Endangered Goliath Grouper in Ft. Lauderdale FWC meeting April 25 & 26th. Place: Marriott Fort Lauderdale North 6650 North Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 Here's what you can do to help! Please sign and share the petition below to your followers! https://www.change.org/p/the-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission-fwc-protect-the-critically-endangered-goliath-grouper Repost any of my Goliath Grouper posts, but with the new schedule and location. Please contact me to get the science facts and find out what else you can do. Thank you so much for all many of you have already done and continue to do! Save the Goliath Grouper! @jim_abernethy #saveprotectedanimals #savegoliathgrouper #bethevoice #overfishing #needlessslaughter #Bethechangetheworldneeds #needlessslaughter #saveprotectedanimals #savegoliathgrouper (at MyFWC)

Shadow has been my friend & the friend of divers over 2 decades to all that visit her at Shark Canyon Palm Beach County, Florida! Please help us fight for her life as well as the lives of all the CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GOLIATH GROUPERS! The FWC wants to sell 400 tickets so people can kill 400 CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GOLIATH GROUPERS! The $120,000 raised they say will be used to help protect the species...just like Cecil the Lion Killers! We can't continue to allow the needless slaughter of our planets wildlife! The scientists say DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN! The fish is poisonous containing 7 times the allowable mercury poisoning. Economically the Goliath Grouper generates millions from divers that want to see it ALIVE! PLEASE HELP US STOP THIS NEEDLESS SLAUGHTER! @Jim_Abernethy URGENT CALL TO ACTION! Please speak up for the Critically Endangered Goliath Grouper in Ft. Lauderdale FWC meeting April 25 & 26th. Place: Marriott Fort Lauderdale North 6650 North Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 Here's what you can do to help! Please sign and share the petition below to your followers! https://www.change.org/p/the-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission-fwc-protect-the-critically-endangered-goliath-grouper Repost any of my Goliath Grouper posts, but with the new schedule and location. Please contact me to get the science facts and find out what else you can do. Thank you so much for all many of you have already done and continue to do! Save the Goliath Grouper! @jim_abernethy #saveprotectedanimals #savegoliathgrouper #bethevoice #overfishing #needlessslaughter #Bethechangetheworldneeds #needlessslaughter #saveprotectedanimals #savegoliathgrouper