Anchorage Daily News Op-Ed by Mayor of Unalaska, AK: Feds’ Fish Panel Puts Communities At Risk As mayor of a community that relies upon healthy fisheries to sustain our economy and city services, I find the prospect of a centralized ocean policy that restricts the autonomy of our Regional Fishery Management Councils to be troubling…
Alaska Mayor: Feds’ Fish Panel Puts Communities At Risk – November 25, 2011 Read More »
Gloucester Daily Times (MA): Fishermen, Farming, Mining Groups Decry Ocean Zoning A national alliance of fishing groups, including the Gloucester-based Northeast Seafood Coalition, and advocates for the nation’s farmers, ranchers, builders and miners have urged Congress to negate President Obama’s National Ocean Policy, rolled out in 2010 via executive order…
Seafood Coalition: Letter to the Chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee In a November 7, 2011 letter to the Chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, the Seafood Coalition expressed its appreciation for recent congressional oversight hearings, adding that testimony at the hearings demonstrates “the need for Congressional action barring the Administration from continuing to
Juneau Empire: Murkowski Claims Credit for Blocking Ocean Funding A Senate appropriations bill that passed contained funding for several federal agencies, but also specifically “defunded” a marine planning program that some development advocates worried could hurt the state…
Juneau Empire: Murkowski Claims Credit for Blocking Ocean Funding – November 2, 2011 Read More »