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Leila Monroe
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Posted July 16, 2009 in Reviving the World’s Oceans
Almost a year since I first wrote about the research presented by Fanny Douvere and Bud Ehler on marine spatial planning and management to avoid ocean “sprawl and brawls”, this concept is getting attention in mainstream media.
, June 08 2009 – 8:00am
To Tuesday, June 09 2009 – 5:00pm
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The Northeast Regional Ocean Council, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and NOAA, is sponsoring a workshop on marine spatial planning in New England. The Nature Conservancy will be discussing the data available through the Northwest Atlantic Marine Eco-Regional Assessment and asking participants to consider how this data is useful to marine planning exercises. Additionally, participants will be discussing how to move forward with marine spatial planning at state and regional scales. This workshop is by invitation only.
Location: Warwick, RI (Crowne Plaza)
Ukiah Daily Journal Staff
SACRAMENTO First District Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro (D-Eureka) said Tuesday that he is skeptical about the process used to develop a marine life protection bill that even many ocean advocates don’t like.
The Marine Life Protection Act attempts to implement a law passed a decade ago and has been controversial with coastal residents.
Research trip off north coast of Vancouver Island heightens group’s concern about fishing methods
By Judith Lavoie, Times ColonistJuly 15, 2009Comments (1)
A research trip that offered a close look at an ocean floor teeming with unusual life forms off the north coast of Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Islands shows an urgent need for the federal government to speed up protection plans, says an environmental group.
“We found so much life, it is unbelievable,” said Jennifer Lash, executive director of Living Oceans Society, who, last month, piloted a one-person submersible to depths of up to 500 metres as part of an expedition to find deep-sea coral. “It showed how much we don’t know about the ecosystem.”
Member of Congress:
The Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Senate
Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committe on Environment and Public Works
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and a sailor and diver, has been active in addressing global climate change’s its threat to ocean and coastal ecosystems. He authored an amendment to support investments in America’s oceans and coasts as part of the Senate’s FY09 budget resolution, and fought successfully to make sure climate change legislation passed by the EPW committee included protections for coastal communities, wildlife, and land and marine ecosystems. Whitehouse, who traveled to Greenland last summer to see firsthand the effects of climate change on its massive ice cap, has worked closely with Rhode Island’s environmental community to raise awareness of the potential impact of global warming on the Ocean State. In August 2008, he held an official field briefing of the EPW Committee at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus to examine global warming’s impacts on Narragansett Bay. Whitehouse has also been a champion for coastal and estuarine habitats, successfully fighting to reauthorize the Estuary Restoration Act (ERA) in 2007.
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