Daily Archives: January 15, 2014
New FOIA emails show EPA in cahoots with enviro groups, giving them special access – NOAA involvement?
From The Washington Free Beacon, Lachlan Markay. Press release follows. Internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emails show extensive collaboration between top agency officials and leading environmentalist groups, including overt efforts to coordinate messaging and pressure the fossil fuel industry. The emails, obtained by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI) through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, could fuel an ongoing controversy over EPA policies that critics say are biased against traditional sources of energy. Read [email protected] 21:52
Environmentalists sue Navy – Earthjustice? Environmentalists??
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Environmental organizations have added the Navy to their lawsuit against the federal government that seeks more measures to protect whales and other marine mammals from the military’s sonar use. Read more@kmph 21:11
Wrecking the Sea Bed with Offshore Wind Part 5
Finally I would like to bring up a topic nobody is talking about although I suspect it is a topic many involved with this project are fully aware of. Sea-bed Methane Release Coastal sediments can potentially hold large quantities of Methane ( see paper Reindl & Bolalek link -) & ( paper Mascharka, Montross, & Pierrehumbert link -) Read [email protected] 18:54
How radioactive is our ocean?
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine chemist Ken Buesseler began sampling and analyzing seawater surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant three months after the 2011 disaster. Today, he launched a crowd sourcing campaign and citizen science website to collect and analyze seawater along the West Coast of North America as the radioactive plume travels 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. Read [email protected] 17:23
EPA Releases Final Assessment of Bristol Bay Watershed
The EPA’s Region 10 office published the final assessment online Wednesday, but the agency declined to issue any regulatory decisions at this time. – The report concludes, in no uncertain terms, that “large-scale mining poses risks to salmon and the tribal communities that have depended on them for thousands of years.” Read the document here. Read more@kdlg 16:51
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Financing Will Be Key to Next Generation Fleet
I am here to testify today on the necessity of rebuilding the aging North Pacific catcher processor fleet. While my testimony is particular in some respect to Blue North, the points I wish to make are equally important across gear types, sectors and fisheries. The flatfish catcher processors, the pollock catcher processors and the longline catcher processors all will need federal support to rebuild their aging fleets. Read more@fishermensnews 16:14
Eileen Sobeck named assistant administrator for NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service
Today, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, acting NOAA administrator, appointed Eileen Sobeck as assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries National Marine Fisheries Service. (They just can’t seem to get this right!) Read [email protected]> 13:40
UMaine’s offshore wind energy pilot project wins initial OK
The Maine Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday morning approved in a 2-1 vote a term sheet for Maine Aqua Ventus’ pilot offshore wind energy project. Read more@bdn 10:30
Freezing temps put chill on early crawfish season
Last week’s frigid weather put a chill on a promising early crawfish season with retail prices jumping this week to highs of over $6 per pound. The colder water slows the maturity of emerging crawfish, according to Atchafalaya Basin fisherman Jodie Meche. The emerging crawfish shells do not harden during colder temperatures. Read more@dailycomet 10:04
State of Alaska Backs Feds in Lawsuit over Fisheries Management – Video
A group of fish processors, permit holders and crew members are suing the federal government over a measure giving the Department of Commerce broad authority to manage and conserve coastal fisheries. The 312-member United Cook Inlet Drift Association says the state’s salmon management plan is inadequate. The group is suing to make the federal government the lead regulator in state waters. Read [email protected] 08:53
Federal Fishery Failure Funding Articles will be consolidated in this post with headlines and links today
House targets $75M for Fishing Industry – Northeast Regional Office escapes Consolidation Shutdown – Read more@gdt 07:06
Divvying up the money – Declared Fishery Failures from Coast to Coast, and plenty of speculators – Read more@gdt 07:20
Gloucester Daily Times Editorial: Fisheries aid must go directly to our fishermen Read more@gdt 07:36
Mass. Congressional delegation, governor, applaud fishing disaster relief Read more@wickedlocal 08:46
Mass. fishermen among winners in budget deal – Read more@bostonglobe 12:21
Mass. Fishing Industry Catches Federal Aid Haul Read more@newsmax 13:53
Murkowski’s Appropriations Advocacy Reaps Fishery Failure and Tsunami Debris Aid – Read more@alaskanativenews
A Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council and commercial fishing boat owner defends crew (subcontractors)
“They absolutely will remain the subcontractors on my boat,” said Martin Fisher, the chairman of two advisory panels with the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council — the Reef Fish Advisory Panel and the Coastal Migratory Pelagics panel. “They’re positions are no way in jeopardy.” The men were fishing in a no-take, protected area just north of the Dry Tortugas National Park. “They were basically fishing in a zoo,” Hubicki said. Read [email protected] 06:34
