Our letter to the fishery council will bring many voices to the management of herring. You may read our letter with 1260 signatures from all fifty states and hundreds of comments by clicking here – Herring Amendment ORI Letter – for the pdf. Twelve Selected Comments Click here to view 250 more comments Herring Amendment ORI Letter…
Video: Rob’s kitchen demonstration of the wine-dark sea in a pint glass. We all know communities that believe their children are better than average. Lately, I’ve been startled to hear conservation colleagues down by the Gulf of Maine, in Boston, Portsmouth and Portland, say their ocean water is special because it’s warming faster due…
One hundred forty odd miles southeast of Nantucket, the cod-gray seas of Georges Bank turned to Mediterranean blue. We had left the continental shelf in our wake and were motoring out over one of the deep sea canyons. The first sperm whale we came upon was floating dead in the water. Likely killed by a…
The Accessing Strategic Resources Offshore Act (“ASTRO”) is astronomically bad in many respects: Revenue from offshore drilling is redirected to coerce reluctant governments and certain coastal states (VA, NC, SC, GA, and Alaska) to accept the risks of drilling accidents and routine pollution off their coasts. The closer the rig to your place the more…
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Please write a personal thank you note to the President in the comment section below. Please include your town and state, so the President will see that saving this ocean realm is more than of local interest. Top Ten Comments Calling for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Marine Monument, a wondrous Atlantic Ocean 4,900…
Liz Stebbins, one of two ORI spring interns, spent Spring Break in Bocas del Toro, Panama. I’ve invited Liz to be guest blogger and here’s her report: Each day we went to one of three types of sites: mangroves, sandy beaches, or coral reefs (usually finger corals or staghorn corals). My favorite were the mangroves…
George W. Bush forever protected Pacific Ocean seamounts by proclamation creating the Northern Hawaii Island National Marine Monument. Now the rare earth elements and high-tech metal mining-eye of Mordor is turning to seamounts in the Atlantic Ocean off of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The four pristine seamounts are named Bear, Physalia, Mytilus, and…
