By becoming a Baykeeper, you are helping Coastal Alabama become a better, healthier, and safer place to live. You are part of a movement that is growing stronger every day. The more Baykeepers we have in our coastal communities, the better defended our natural resources will be.
At Baykeeper, we are focused on water quality and its effect on our lives. If our communities unite over what makes Coastal Alabama special — our waters — we can achieve a better tomorrow.
We’ll know we are successful when no one has to question whether the fish are safe to eat or the water is safe to swim in, when our seagrasses and oyster reefs recover, and our coastal communities take responsibility for the health of the water.
No one should have to fear eating the fish of Coastal Alabama. Baykeeper will prevent heavy metals and chemicals from reaching our waterways. Through monitoring, government/ agency review, and influencing decision-makers, Baykeeper commits to lowering the chemical and heavy-metal pollution in our waters.
Our children should be able to swim in the waterways of Coastal Alabama without fear of disease or carcinogenic exposure. Baykeeper will track, mitigate, and reduce the impacts of sewage spills and stormwater runoff in our watershed. We will reduce the amount of fecal matter, fertilizers, and other contaminants entering our waterways and swimming spots after rainstorms.
Seagrasses should be more present in our watershed as they are the foundation of our coastal ecosystem. Baykeeper will restore our lost seagrasses and fight the pollution that has affected them so greatly in the past. Seagrass not only provides food and shelter for redfish, crabs, shrimp, and tarpon, it also provides ecosystem benefits such as sediment stabilization, nutrient filtration, and carbon dioxide absorption.
Oysters should be more present in our watershed as they are a natural solution to myriad water quality issues and provide critical ecosystem infrastructure in our Bay. Baykeeper will revive our oyster populations to improve water quality throughout the Bay and will stop the destruction of the few oyster reefs that currently exist.
March 1-April 12 is Mobile Baykeeper’s Spring Member Drive. Our goal is for 100 people to become new members and for 150 to renew their membership over the course of the campaign. We hope that you’ll share our work with friends and family, or donate in their honor, to help us reach our goal.
For this year’s Spring Member Drive, your support funds our efforts to bring attention to pollution and other issues that affect our local seafood industry, the fish we bring home, and public health.
Coastal Alabama’s waters have provided for our communities for thousands of years and produce some of the best seafood in the world. However, our local seafood industry has been boxed out of our local restaurants in favor of cheaper, foreign imports. While we have over 40 fish consumption advisories throughout Mobile and Baldwin counties, local facilities are able to continue dumping the heavy metals and carcinogens in our waters that make our catch unsafe to eat.
If you agree that Coastal Alabamians should have the option to eat the fish they catch without fear of illness or to know where their dinner comes from, then you’re already a baykeeper.
Over the course of this member drive, we’ll discuss these fish consumption advisories, efforts to defend our seafood industry, and how your support ensures more Coastal Alabamians know what they eat.
At Baykeeper, we are focused on water quality and its effect on our lives. If we pollute our waters, we’re poisoning ourselves. If our communities can unite over what makes Coastal Alabama special — our waters — we can achieve the future we desire.
By becoming a member or renewing your membership with a $50 tax-deductible gift this spring ($100 per household), you will enjoy benefits like receiving a year’s worth of CURRENTS magazine, our quarterly publication telling the stories of the Delta, Bay, and Gulf, plus FREE entry and crawfish at the Spring Member Drive Crawfish Boil, Saturday, April 12, from 4pm-7pm at Braided River Brewing Company in Downtown Mobile.
Thank you for your support and commitment to our waters.
If you’d like to avoid processing fees that come from donating online, please mail a check to 450C Government St, Mobile, AL 36602
These waters are yours.
Defend your way of life.
Revive what we’ve lost.
