Saving Seafood

  • Coronavirus
  • Home
  • News
    • Alerts
    • Conservation & Environment
    • Council Actions
    • Economic Impact
    • Enforcement
    • International & Trade
    • Law
    • Management & Regulation
    • Regulations
    • Nutrition
    • Opinion
    • Other News
    • Safety
    • Science
    • State and Local
  • News by Region
    • New England
    • Mid-Atlantic
    • South Atlantic
    • Gulf of Mexico
    • Pacific
    • North Pacific
    • Western Pacific
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • Fishing Terms Glossary
  • Join Us
    • Individuals
    • Organizations
    • Businesses

Marine Sanctuaries Program is Bad for Fishermen, California Fishing Captain Tells Senate Subcommittee

WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) — July 10, 2017 — Marine sanctuaries are hurting commercial and recreational fishermen and overruling the fisheries management process created under the Magnuson-Stevens Act, said Capt. Jeremiah O’Brien, vice president of the Morro Bay Commercial Fishermen’s Organization, at a Senate hearing June 27.

Speaking before the Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard at a hearing convened by chairman Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Mr. O’Brien criticized marine sanctuaries for their “weak science capabilities” and “poor, self-serving public process.” He said that policymakers are interpreting the National Marine Sanctuaries Act in a way that steadily limits human uses of marine resources, violating the principles of ecosystem-based management and the law’s mandate for comprehensive and coordinated management.

“For fishermen and fishery managers, the fact that sanctuaries can overrule the Regional Fishery Management Councils, with eight National Standards serving as the council’s guide, is disconcerting, and not in the best interest of ocean health,” Mr. O’Brien said. “I hope Congress will make it clear that the Magnuson-Stevens Act is the nation’s law for fisheries and habitat management.”

Read the full testimony here

Alaska Senator Sullivan Examines Magnuson-Stevens Act

Anchorage, AK — February 25, 2016 — U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan chaired a Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard hearing, coined, “Magnuson-Stevens Act at 40,” that examined the law’s effect on directing the country’s fisheries.

Senator Sullivan stated, “As I have mentioned at this Committee many times before, Alaska’s fisheries are by far the largest in the nation…Through the MSA’s guiding principles—the ten national standards, as applied by the eight Regional Fishery Management Councils who manage the fisheries off America’s coasts in a science-based and open and transparent stakeholder-driven process —the MSA has resulted in the world’s best managed fisheries, particularly in Alaska.”

The legislation is named after Alaskan U.S Senator Ted Stevens.  Senator Sullivan also examined issues that may improve the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), which was previously reauthorized in 2006.

Read the full story at Alaska Link

Recent Headlines

  • A Growing Number Of New England Lobstermen Wear Life Jackets While At Sea
  • ASMFC 2021 Winter Meeting Final Agenda and Materials Now Available
  • LAURA DEATON: One key to moving the Biden agenda: Bring all three sectors to the table
  • NEFMC January 26-28, 2021 – By Webinar – Listen Live, View Documents
  • Scottish seafood industry seeks government support in wake of Brexit fallout
  • Trident Seafoods reports 4 COVID-19 cases at plant in Alaska
  • President Biden to review Trump’s changes to national monuments
  • Biden to rejoin Paris agreement, revoke Keystone XL permit

Most Popular Topics

Alaska Aquaculture ASMFC Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission California China Climate change Cod Coronavirus COVID-19 Donald Trump Florida groundfish Gulf of Maine Gulf of Mexico Illegal fishing IUU fishing Lobster Maine Massachusetts Mid-Atlantic National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NEFMC New Bedford New England New England Fishery Management Council New Jersey New York NMFS NOAA NOAA Fisheries North Carolina North Pacific offshore energy Offshore wind Pacific right whales Salmon Scallops South Atlantic Western Pacific Whales wind energy Wind Farms

Daily Updates & Alerts

Enter your email address to receive daily updates and alerts:
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Tweets by @savingseafood

Copyright © 2021 Saving Seafood · WordPress Web Design by Jessee Productions