This week on TalkingFish.org – January 23-27

“Bottom Line: Historic Anniversary for Fishing in America’s Oceans”: Lee Crockett of the Pew Environment Group discusses the 2007 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the progress that has been made because of its strict limits on overfishing.
“Fish Talk in the News – Friday, January 27″: This week’s news roundup: discussion of NOAA’s potential move from the Department of Commerce to the Department of the Interior, talking fishery management with Maine fisherman Glen Libby, and updates on menhaden conservation and the Gulf of Maine cod stock assessment.

Tags: Bottom Line, catch limits, Fish Talk in the News, fishery management, groundfish, Lee Crockett, Magnuson-Stevens Act, news update, NOAA, overfishing, Overfishing 101, Pew Environment Group, Talking Fish, TalkingFish.org

Posted in: Ocean Conservation

2 Responses to “This week on TalkingFish.org – January 23-27”

Keith Rizzardi

January 30, 2012 at 10:49 am

For more view points on the proposed merger of NOAA into Interior, visit ESA blawg. NRDC also had a different take. And what about food safety, should we move that too?

Thanks for chance to comment.

Keith Rizzardi

P.S. I tweet @esalawyer

ESAblawg:
http://www.esablawg.com/esalaw/ESBlawg.nsf/d6plinks/Merger

NRDC: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dgoldston/between_the_devil_and_the_deep.html

Food Safety:
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/01/omb-says-food-agency-consolidation-is-next/
Samantha Caravello

February 3, 2012 at 1:37 pm

Thanks for sharing, Keith! I look forward to reading these blogs. I hope you’ll check out TalkingFish.org and get involved in the discussion there as well.