The Ocean River Institutes invites people to help put the ducks back on display in Harvard Square. They maintained a window display on Mount Auburn Street from 2007 to 2017, a decade of ducks on display. Ocean conservation images and messages were exhibited and people liked to pause by the marine life. Parents were overheard…
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director New England Fisheries Management Council 50 Water Street, Mill 2 Newburyport, MA 01950 May 26, 2017 Dear Mr. Nies, I am writing to the Council’s Habitat Committee to comment on the Draft Omnibus Deep-Sea Coral Amendment alternatives. In 2014 I attended the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council’s presentation by Dr Nizinski…
Congress has been directed by the Administration to slash $1 billion out of NOAA’s ocean and weather programs. Join with us to speak out for oceans to maintain funding of our nation’s ocean programs that include exploration and fisheries research, weather and coping with shifting baselines. The Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce will prepare NOAA’s budget. …
Help wildlife of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Invasive plants have so tangled the underbrush that marsh rabbit and deer are unable enter. Rabbit are the main food for bobcats. The introduction of pythons into the Everglades is also reducing the rabbit population. Deer must stand on the narrow strip of land between wet prairie…
We’ve got wildlife socks to warm your feet when you join with us to save the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge from being shut down. Socks for individuals who give $5 or more a month. Click here to donate through Paypal ($10 minimum or more a month). From top to bottom the fish are mackerel, blue-back herring, cod,…
The long-term goal is to limit global warming to well below 2C or if possible 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Photo: AFP After Paris, Washington in your own voice When implementing the Paris Agreement, the biggest obstacle to success is the U.S. Congress. The Ocean River Institute is uniquely capable of surmounting the obstinacy in DC…
Will you take a stand for a national park area with 3 deep sea canyons and 4 cold-water coral seamounts? The Secretary of the Interior is recommending the president open the NE Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. Today, more than ever before, deep sea canyon rangers and seamount guardians are needed to make…
With Agriculture over-fertilizing 100% and lawns being over-fertilized 500% it comes as no surprise . . . In Falmouth Massachusetts, 16 striped bass were found dead from an algal bloom (pictured above). The town responded with a lawn care ordinance to spread fertilizer once in the spring and not the state standard of five times. …
