At a meeting this week in North Carolina, government scientists were largely silent on the question of how the Atlantic menhaden population should be assessed in 2012. Fishing industry consultants, on the other hand, dominated the process — so much so that some in attendance questioned whether efforts by industry representatives to steer the discussion …
Andrew Sullivan has recommended PTP Director Alison Fairbrother’s investigation into Atlantic menhaden management in his blog “The Dish” at the Daily Beast. Read The Dish here. Read Fairbrother’s investigation at the Washington Monthly.
Ezra Klein’s WonkBlog at the Washington Post has chosen PTP Director Alison Fairbrother’s investigation into Atlantic fishery regulation as a top long read. Read the WonkBlog here. Read the investigation, “A Fish Story: How an Angler and Two Government Bureaucrats May Have Saved the Atlantic Ocean” in the Washington Monthly.
PTP Director Alison Fairbrother has released an investigative feature article in the Washington Monthly about the mismanagement of Atlantic menhaden by the regulatory agency charged with overseeing marine species in state waters. Read an excerpt below: “On a balmy afternoon in late summer, Jim Price reaches into the body cavity of a striped bass and pulls out …
8:10:00 AM – Menhaden management board has begun! Board is now taking public comment. Jim Price of the CB Ecological Fdn and Bob Geisler have spoken. 8:10:40 AM – Price talked about the importance of menhaden to the long-term health of striped bass, favored species among anglers + the ocean’s cash cow 8:11:33 AM – …
3:49:08 PM: River herring management board beginning at #asmfc12. Stock assessment report starting now. 3:52:57 PM: Stock assessment overview, river herring: A lot of holes in the data coastwide. Most of places where there’s good data occur in the NE area 3:53:17 PM: Historically, river herring has had a low management priority #asmfc12 3:53:41 PM: …
8:31:53 AM: Striped bass management board getting underway at #asmfc12 8:34:10 AM: Kate Taylor, ASMFC staff is now reviewing draft addendum 3 for #stripedbass 8:39:51 AM: Problem: In Feb, #asmfc12 passed motion to initiatie an amenddment to incorporate recs by Interstate Watershed Task Force on #striped bass. 8:42:26 AM: Investigation in Chesapeake Bay found 1 …
10:48:41 AM: This week, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meets on important marine species like herring, menhaden, striped bass, lobster. 10:49:09 AM: We will be live-blogging the proceedings for those who want to tune in from home! #asmfc12 is the hashtag 10:49:35 AM: First up: the Commission meets on Atlantic herring at 1 pm …
Nine members of Congress — five Republicans and four Democrats — have urged the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to consider corporate-funded research in assessing Atlantic menhaden, a forage fish vital to the Atlantic ecosystem. In a letter to the ASMFC, the politicians expressed concerns that the agency has not included the “latest information” …
Read the full story at Grist. If you saw “Arsenic in Our Chicken?,” Nick Kristof’s much-read New York Times column from earlier this month, you’ve heard about the widespread use of some unexpected additives in chicken farming. Studies released this year detected caffeine, acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Benadryl), fluoxetine (the active ingredient in Prozac), various antibiotics, …
