NOAA seeks input on enforcement priorities
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The following was released by NOAA:
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Battle against fishing overregulation nets some national support
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On Thursday, a group of six U.S. senators and two congressmen, headed by Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, wrote to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco seeking more focus on the needs of communities affected by catch shares and expressing concern about their "potential disproportionate impacts on smaller fishing communities."
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Snowe's Red Tide Legislation Approved by Senate Commerce Committee
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Olympia
J. Snowe (R-Maine) to reauthorize a program that serves as the federal
government’s research and response framework for harmful algal blooms
was voted out of the Senate Commerce Committee today. It now proceeds
to the Senate floor for consideration. The Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2011
enhances the research programs established in the Harmful Algal Blooms
and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 and reauthorized in 2004.
Senator Snowe was joined by Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) in
introducing the bill, which was also cosponsored by Senators Mark Begich
(D-Alaska), John D. Rockefeller IV (D-West Virginia), Sheldon
Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), Benjamin
Cardin (D-Maryland), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.),
and Barbara Boxer (D-California).
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Senators Begich and Murkowski Take Action Against "Frankenfish"
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WASHINGTON, DC – In their latest efforts to stop Genetically Engineered
(GE) fish from being a reality, U.S. Senators Mark Begich and Lisa
Murkowski yesterday filed two separate pieces of legislation – Begich by
introducing the Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States (PEGASUS) Act
to ban the interstate commerce of GE fish, Murkowski by filing an
amendment to the 2012 Agriculture Appropriations bill that would
prohibit funds from being used by the FDA to approve the application for
GE fish, or ‘Frankenfish.’ Each Senator co-sponsored the other’s
efforts.
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Sides gear up for catch share spending fight
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The congressional battle over NOAA's catch shares fishery management —
which has raged nearly from the day the Senate confirmed Jane Lubchenco
as NOAA administrator in early 2009 — has become frenzied.
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