Daily Archives: December 21, 2019
Army Corps of Engineers’ Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Pebble Project is inadequate and underestimates potential impacts
Congress yesterday completed a spending deal that includes a stern warning to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding its rushed and flawed permitting process for the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The warning, included in a report to the appropriations bill that covers the Department of Interior’s spending,,, >click to read< 15:39
Have you had enough?
Since its inception in 1976, the agency charged with managing our fisheries, the NMFS, has overseen their decline, a decline which in most cases was a product of their own machinations.Usually most ideas the government has for managing our lives are well intended but terribly executed, this was a prime example. NMFS, for all that it was intended to be and do for our fisheries, has failed and in some cases, this wasn’t by mistake, but by design. By John Rice, >click to read< , and the comment venue is open there! 13:37
Gov. Inslee Report Weighs Future of Snake River
It’s designed to increase understanding on both sides of the issue. Amy Grondin, a commercial fisher in Port Townsend, was interviewed for the report and says the salmon industry continues to be hurt because of the dams’ effect on fish migration. “Over the last 50 years, the commercial fishing fleet has been asked to compromise and to not fish and cut back their numbers, and annually we see what we’re allowed to catch become less and less,” says Grondin. “We’re really at a tipping point for the fish and the fleets.” Audio, >click to read/listen<11:00
Rare one-in-100million albino lobster caught off the Yorkshire coast
An incredibly rare albino lobster has gone on display after being caught off the coast of Scarborough. The National Trust have taken custody of the crustacean, whose pigmentation is so rare that only one in 100 million lobsters have the same colouring. It is living in a display tank at the Old Coastguard Station in Robin Hood’s Bay after a fishing trawler caught it near Scarborough. >click to read< 08:21
A California dilemma: Save the whales or eat the crabs?
I had always assumed Californians loved whales, and that measures to save the gigantic, federally protected creatures would be universally applauded. I was wrong. “There are so many whales out there! When we stopped shooting them with exploding harpoon tips, the whale population started to increase,” Collins said. “The gray whales are at historical levels!” Singling out the commercial crab fleet feels extremely unfair to Collins. After all, he said, ship strikes kill more whales than crab lines. “But we are the only ones paying for that!” >click to read< 06:56
