Two weeks ago, environmentalists' collective jaw dropped as President Bush designated 140,000 square miles in the Hawaii Islands a national monument. Not to be upstaged, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries countered today with an announcement it was protecting more than 370,000 square miles of seafloor in Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
NOAA's decision establishes the largest protected area in U.S. waters, and the third largest such area in the world. This designation is the result of five years of intense work by Oceana and others to stop destructive trawling.
Now, the question remains: Can President Bush beat 370,000 square miles?
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caniscandida Posted 9:16 pm
29 Jun 2006
This is a job very well done. The Alaskan marine biota and I thank you. Latest word from the anemones is, they are baking you a cake.
Next project: save the cetaceans from those pointless sonar drills off Hawaii. How could NOAA sign off on even modified sonar tests? Surely US intel knows about every single submarine in the world, and knows exactly where each one is? So why murder whales and dolphins just to put these sailors through their paces?
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amazingdrx Posted 12:26 am
30 Jun 2006
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