Thread: This Could Be Scary!!!

Dear NACO Member, We felt like this was an important issue that you needed to see Keeping You Informed National Association of Charterboat Operators PARTITIONING THE OCEANS BY USER GROUPS--BE WARY *OCEANS:** White House task force crafting 'marching orders' for managing waters*/(08/24/2009)/ *Allison Winter, E&E reporter* The Obama administration is working to craft a new overarching national ocean policy that could change...

Quote: Originally Posted by Doug Jowett Dear NACO Member, We felt like this was an important issue that you needed to see Keeping You Informed National Association of Charterboat Operators PARTITIONING THE OCEANS BY USER GROUPS--BE WARY *OCEANS:** White House task force crafting 'marching orders' for managing waters*/(08/24/2009)/ *Allison Winter, E&E reporter* The Obama administration is working to craft a new overarching...

"Striper wars" is a good study in why a national or regional organization is needed. I think this is a great move, but a challenging one. People's livelihoods are at stake.

Yeah, ditto w/ the replies above. This may be interpreted as a more comprehensive, integrated step forward in managing / conserving our ocean resources. Of course, the devil is in the deatils. Sorry, but I guess I need a clunk on the head.... Why should I be scared?

Hopefully some good ideas will come from this effort, but I have yet to see the federal government develop and effectively implement any program or poilcy that didn't eventually cause more harm than good. I want to protect the oceans' resources as much as anyone but I also know that politics is basically b_llsht_t elevated to a profession, so you'll have to excuse me for not counting on the federal government to make a...

I agree with lots of these posts! IF done right, this could be a very good thing, but a huge if whenever politicians are involved. IMO, the failure to date of the government to view these ecosystems in a more complex and extensive conceptual framework is a major shortcoming in much of our resource/ecosystem management-extensive interagency cooperation under a common ocean-based doctrine would be a good start. As dlangan says, the devil is most...

Very scary, the pew foundation will do the studies New head of NOAA worked for Pew,She will instruct obama admin on policy Ironic obama on the vineyard,one of my favorite places to fish