Conservation

Bluefin on the Brink

Coastal Conservation Association
6919 Portwest, Suite 100, Houston, TX 77024
Email: tvenker@joincca.org Website: www.joincca.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 28, 2008 CONTACT: Ted Venker, 1-800-201-FISH

HOUSTON, TX - The Coastal Conservation Association Board of Directors is

Saving Stripers

Stripers Forever members - recently the ASMFC - the interstate fishery commission responsible for managing striped bass - invited public comments on its next 5 year strategic plan. We submitted the following comments.

Brad Burns

The board of directors of Stripers Forever, a nonprofit corporation

EXPERTS SAY U.S. COASTS AND ESTUARIES CONTRIBUTE BILLIONS TO ECONOMY

Report from Restore America's Estuaries and The Ocean Foundation Shows High Economic Value of Coasts and Estuaries at Jeopardy Without Restoration and Protection
WASHINGTON (May 21, 2008) - At the National Press Club today Jeff Benoit, President of Restore America Estuaries and Dr. Linwood

Herring Hearsay

  • By: Ted Williams
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In what should be America's most important river-herring refuge, superstition suppresses these imperiled fish.

TIPTOEING INTO SALMON RECOVERY

In February 2008 the National Marine Fisheries Service issued what they call a "Guidance" for salmon harvest management to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. The purpose is to execute commercial fisheries in a benign way so that at risk populations, especially those listed as

Collapse of Bluefin Tuna in the Western Atlantic

Thanks to my friend Carl Safina for allowing us to reproduce this fine report.

The Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus

thynnus)

Dam Stupid

  • By: Ted Williams

When it comes to the "new" Columbia/Snake salmon plan, the courts have had it with federal arrogance.

$6.2 Million Will Go to 38 Native American Projects in 18 States for


Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced more than $6.2
million in grants will go to 38 Native American projects in 18 states to
fund a wide range of conservation