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Lots of people love to eat swordfish. But off the South Carolina coast, catching them was causing big problems.

People were catching swordfish with lines with lots of hooks that stretch for miles through the sea. Those lines were catching nice big swordfish. But they also were catching small ones. The fishermen didn't want these, so they threw them back, dead. Even worse, they were catching the small ones around swordfish breeding areas. Swordfish populations were taking a nosedive.

Grayson Schlepegrell and his fifth-grade classmates decided to do something about it. They spoke to state officials about banning fishing in these special breeding areas. They wrote letters to restaurants and grocery stores, urging them to stop selling swordfish so the populations could recover. They also spoke in front of the U.S. Congress. Soon long-lining during the breeding season was banned in sensitive areas off the South Carolina coast.

Thanks to Grayson and his classmates, swordfish populations off the South Carolina coast are already starting to recover.

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