The fertilizer industry is fighting a bylaw that Falmouth town meeting passed that would limit fertilizer use within 100 feet of an estuary and town-wide reduce application by five times the amount recommended by the Massachusetts Association of Lawn Care Professionals. Thanks to the Cape Cod Times for publishing this opinion piece of mine on…
Attorney General files law suit over fishing cuts to kill more cod Cod are Political Capital for Attorney General in Suit Against NOAA May 30th, Martha Coakley with lawmakers and fishermen by her side on Boston’s Fish Pier cast a wide net of accusations against NOAA, NMFS and the New England Fisheries Management Council. Demonstrating…
I am writing to thank the individuals who recently donated to our save the dolphins of Indian River Lagoon Florida campaign. Your thoughtful support has raised sufficient funds so that I may go to Florida early next week to meet with colleagues and experts. The problem we are challenged to solve –nitrogen pollution of the…
Nitrogen is the worst pollutant of our oceans. In Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, it is making dolphins sick by turning the water into a toxic soup every summer. A population of bottle-nosed dolphins swims their entire lives in Indian River Lagoon. The dolphin population outside the Lagoon shows less signs of stress with significantly less…
“We’re overfished; we’re overfishing. … If we don’t do something, it’s likely the long-term viability of [the menhaden] fishery is going to go away,” said Louis Daniel, North Carolina’s fisheries director and chairman of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Friday, at a hotel in South Baltimore, Daniel masterfully maintained order. Only once was there…
“And the words that are used for to get the ship confused will not be understood as they’re spoken. For the chains of the sea will have busted in the night and be buried at the bottom of the ocean. A song will lift as the mainsail shifts. And the boat drifts out to the shoreline. And…
A population of black seabirds, later called “guillemots,” survived the last Ice Age near the North Pole by fishing the cracks that opened and closed in the ice. Throughout the year, these birds dove for arctic cod beneath the ice. Today, black guillemots are challenged by shrinking pack ice reduced due to global warming. With…
For me the concept of a National Ocean Policy dates back to the mid 1980s and Charles H. W. Foster’s book Experiments in Bioregionalism. In Massachusetts, Foster understood, as did Charles Eliot before him, that natural resource management had to occur in transboundary settings. Think ecosystem as defined by natural boarders. The problem was managers…
