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Cape Fear coast in Obama administration’s offshore energy plans-Interior Secretary Salazar’s Smart From the Start? Lol!

December 13, 2012 Mid Atlantic

“Today’s announcement represents a significant step forward in facilitating the responsible development of renewable, clean energy offshore the United States,” said BOEM Director Tommy P. Beaudreau. http://www.wwaytv3.com/2012/12/12/cape-fear-coast-obama-administrations-offshore-energy-plans#comment-195734

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Report: Dispersants Used After Blowout Had Few Ill Effects

December 13, 2012 Gulf of Mexico

Lead author of the report, Doctor Jane Lubchenko, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was a key advisor to Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson when she made the decision, shortly after the blowout, to allow them to use dispersants underwater. “It was our judgment that use of dispersants would help the oil be naturally biodegraded more naturally, and that certainly seems to have been the case” Lubchenko said. http://www.alaskapublic.org/2012/12/12/report-dispersants-used-after-blowout-had-few-ill-effects/

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Commercial Fisherman to Pay Damages for Taking Crabs From Protected Marine Area

December 13, 2012 Pacific

Licensed commercial fisherman, Mark Russo, who owns and operates the fishing vessel ‘Freeland,’ allegedly engaged in unlawful business practices by fishing for crab in the protected Montara State Marine Reserve, and now he has to pay for it.

http://halfmoonbay.patch.com/articles/commercial-fisherman-to-pay-damages-for-taking-crabs-from-protected-marine-area

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BREAKING!!: FISCAL YEAR 2013 DISASTER ASSISTANCE Includes Fisheries Assistance in Disaster Assistance Supplemental

December 13, 2012 National

Summary: FY13 Disaster Assistance Supplemental COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE CHAPTER: $513 million

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): $482 million

$57 million for NOAA to locate, map, identify, track and clean up marine debris.

 $63 million to repair and improve hurricane and severe weather forecasting capabilities.

 $15 million to repair NOAA facilities and ocean observing and coastal monitoring equipment damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

 $150 million for fishery disasters declared by the Secretary of Commerce in 2012.

 $197 million to evaluate, stabilize, restore, and protect coastal ecosystems and habitat impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

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Channel Fish Co’s LOUIS SILVESTRO AND ADAM HOLBROOK Discect Pew Environment Group’s Peter Baker’s Phoney Menhaden Campaign

December 13, 2012 National

Your View: Environmentalist’s evidence on menhaden self-generated. Let’s look at Mr. Baker’s approach to science and evidence not generated through Pew channels. Read More. It’s good. Real good.

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Ocean Resource Privatization

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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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