When the House passed a bill earlier this year proposing changes to the nation’s fisheries law, the Magnuson Act, the vote went straight down party lines. YEA votes were 98% Republican, with only 5 Democrats on board. That seems like business as usual for Congress these days, but it wasn’t always so. The two previous […]
Working Together to Protect Fish and Wildlife Habitat I just got done reading an incredible story of a hunter in Montana who had a very good year; he harvested a mountain lion, a black bear and a 360 bull elk, all in one season. That’s quite an accomplishment, and even though I only know a […]
On Monday, December 7, the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight field hearing in Riverhead, New York. Entitled “Restoring Atlantic Fisheries and Protecting the Regional Seafood Economy,” it illuminated the debate surrounding reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens). The Committee had already approved H.R. 1335, the so-called Strengthening Fishing Communities […]
Avoiding Past Mistakes and Keeping The Debate over MSA Reauthorization Focused on the Future On December 7, 2015 the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources held what is called an “oversight hearing” titled, “Restoring Atlantic Fisheries and Protecting the Regional Seafood Economy.” Instead of being held in Washington DC, this was a “field” […]
I had to look up who said that and learned it was Tip O’ Neill, former Speaker of the House. Not that it makes any difference, but I thought I’d provide a brief history lesson while I’m in Washington D.C. I find Washington, DC pretty far removed from my more natural habitat on the water. […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration after just about twenty years of wrestling with the issue, has announced the approval of the first genetically engineered (GE) animal product fit for human consumption. It’s an iteration of farmed Atlantic salmon-esque fish capable of growing in two years as long as its non-GE counterparts will grow in […]
15th CERP Anniversary Sees Another Everglades Estuary Dying Twenty-plus years ago, while guiding on Florida Bay in Everglades National Park, I volunteered to take water samples for The Nature Conservancy. Guides like me were desperate to help any way we could. The Bay was in the midst of a fish-killing algae bloom that was fueled […]
I know it’s a bit clichéd… actually, it’s really clichéd, but of course that’s what we’re supposed to write about during this season of thankfulness. It can’t all be all bad news all the time, right? Only after reading about the decay of pteropods in the Pacific and the mass strandings of whales off of […]
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