Sens. Murphy and Blumenthal propose bill linking commercial fishing and climate change
Connecticut’s U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal have teamed with their Massachusetts colleague Elizabeth Warren on a new bill designed to update Atlantic Coast commercial fishing as it relates to climate change. The Supporting Healthy Interstate Fisheries in Transition (SHIFT) Act would require the Department of Commerce to consider the changing geographic ranges of fish populations as it oversees federal fishery management plans and quota allocations for Atlantic states. The senators stated restrictions on the species and number of fish that can be caught in Atlantic waters need to be updated because fish locations have changed in response to warming ocean temperatures and climate change. more, >>click to read<< 08:01
Fishermen beware, ultra liberal Connecticunt democrats are trying to change the Magnuson act to benefit their state’s fishermen. Let the Fishery management councils do their jobs, they are well aware of climate change and its effect on species migrations. This is just an attempt at a resource grab by a state that historically had little in the way of an offshore fishery, hence was granted little allocation. The fact the the EDF and NRDC are supportive of this effort should tell fishermen, even those from Connecticut that this is not a good idea, it is a trojan horse that will open a can of worms and divide the industry.
How are you, Jim? When I read it, I thought. here are three offshore wind farm advocates, with a lousy anti-fishing supporting cast. I see nothing good here!
Must be an election year!
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