A recent federal court suit by Healthy Gulf and the Center for Biological Diversity resulted in a settlement that requiries the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop delaying the listing determination under the Endangered Species Act for two map turtles. These turtles are endemics in the Pearl and Pascagoula River systems, and have been surveyed recently for the health of their populations.
Plan 2 for BP Oil Spill NRDA restoration money will spend three quarters of its fifteen million dollars on building up oyster spawning reefs along coastal Mississippi.
Join us in marking World Oceans Week by telling the Trump administration to protect our water, marine life and coastal communities. Trump recently signed an executive order that paves the way for the rapid development of offshore industrial fish farms in the Gulf and elsewhere. This is a recipe for an environmental disaster.
.png)
In response to “‘We’re screwed’: The only question is how quickly Louisiana wetlands will vanish, study says” published May 22, 2020 by Mark Schlefstein
NRDA Restoration Plan 2 for Mississippi has been published for comment by the Mississippi Trustee Implementation Group and MDEQ. Three quarters of the spending in Plan 2 is focused on restoring oysters: placing cultch material on water bottoms to create reefs, and four years of new funding for the Mississippi oyster gardening volunteer program, managed by MS-AL Sea Grant Program.
This was the year. The one in which the Florida legislature was going to get serious about fixing the state’s toxic algae crisis. Actually, I said that last year, when Florida’s elected officials convened on the heels of a devastating 15 months of blue green algae and red tide fouling waterways on both the Gulf …
Disappointments and small wins: the 2020 FL Legislature Read More »
Two weeks ago, I attended a very spirited and well-attended demonstration and public hearing on the proposed Kampachi Farms offshore industrial fish farm’s water pollution permit. The project off the coast of Sarasota involves the concentrated cultivation of finfish in net pens, pods, and cages…
[UPDATED] This original blog was posted in June 2019 before the collapse of Gulf oysters in the wake of historic flooding on the Mississippi River. That flooding led to the Bonnet Carre Spillway being opened twice in one season for the first time ever. Gulf oyster beds east of the Mississippi River were devastated along with fish and marine mammals all along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The last of three Floodplain Resilience presentations was given in Madisonville, La. to engage citizens and decision makers about the 2014-2018 wetland loss trends in the Parishes in the Lake Pontchartrain drainage basin.
A blog article on USM’s “Sturgeon in the Watershed” curriculum, presented at MDEQ’s Restoration Summit in Biloxi, along with a look at the recently published Biological Opinion on the impacts of the One Lake Project in Jackson, Ms to two protected species living in the Pearl River.