Gov. DeSantis awards $7.5M to Lee County for shrimp dock rebuild

June 5, 2024 Gulf of Mexico

Nearly two years after Hurricane Ian bashed into Southwest Florida, the area is continuing to recover. Gov. Ron DeSantis is pitching in with $7.5 million to rebuild and refurbish the shrimp dock at San Carlos Maritime Park in Fort Myers. The structure is important not just for commercial fishing but to help in emergency situations after a storm, DeSantis said. “This dual-purpose facility serves as emergency operations site to launch barges and provide a place for shrimp barges to dock,” DeSantis said during a press event at a Home Depot in Fort Myers. “If it’s needed for disaster response it’s going to be able to serve that purpose as well.” more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 09:50

$7.5M to Lee County, Florida, for shrimp dock rebuild, Gov. Ron DeSantis, San Carlos Maritime Park

2 Responses to Gov. DeSantis awards $7.5M to Lee County for shrimp dock rebuild

james R Lovgren says:

June 6, 2024 at 5:17 pm

While governor DeSantis is helping the fishing industry, New Jersey’s Governor Murderphy, is busy destroying it.

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- borehead - Moderator says:
  
  June 6, 2024 at 7:58 pm
  
  Ole Phil is doing a bang-up job, too, that disgusting sell out. It’s all about easy money for their infrastructure financing. It’s all they’ve got to look forward to as we face the Biden recession.
  
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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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