Ocean Zone News Blog

by Dan Bacher
Saturday Oct 24th, 2009 8:54 AM

John Lewallen, highly respected author, environmental leader and seaweed harvester, is calling for a community meeting in Fort Bragg to discuss a plan of resistance to the corrupt Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process, funded by a private corporation, the Resource Legacy Foundation. Please read this excellent commentary by Lewallen.

Real environmentalists don’t support Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fast-track MLPA process, the peripheral canal or the killing of blue whales under the guise of “research” and marine “protection.”
Marine Protected Areas, Offshore Drilling, and Ocean Zoning: Proposed community meeting in Fort Bragg Town Hall

Oct. 23, 2009 | Molly Peterson | KPCC

A blue ribbon panel charged with choosing marine protected areas along Southern California’s coast has delayed making a recommendation until next month. The panel wants more scientific information about a few key areas.

Hundreds of fishermen, kayakers, and supporters of ocean conservation turned out over three days in Long Beach to offer their views about which areas need protection most. The Marine Life Protection Act requires consideration of educational, environmental, and economic impacts in designing marine protected areas.

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The Great Barrier Reef of Australia: A blue starfish rests on a coral reef around the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.

Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meeting, 8-21-09

Madam Chair and members of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force:

I am Dave Harbour, a retired Alaska regulatory commissioner. I publish an energy website and serve as a volunteer member of the Consumer Energy Alliance Board of Advisors.

Since you wish to recommend Ocean policy that is based on science and facts I offer you these additional recommendations on ‘process’ as a former Alaskan regulator.

European and African participants from 11 countries next week will meet in Malta for an international seminar on Marine Special Protected Areas. The international seminar aims to establish criteria for the designation of protected areas at sea through seabird research. The seminar and workshops are organized by the EU LIFE Yelkouan Shearwater Project in collaboration with BirdLife International’s Global Seabird Programme and will take place between the 20th and 22nd of October, at the Aula Magna, Old University Building in Valletta. On Tuesday Maltese officials from MEPA, OPM, Malta Centre for Fisheries

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