Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
A Thousand Ways Denied
Author: John T. ArnoldPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174424
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
From the hill country in the north to the marshy lowlands in the south, Louisiana and its citizens have long enjoyed the hard-earned fruits of the oil and gas industry’s labor. Economic prosperity flowed from pioneering exploration as the industry heralded engineering achievements and innovative production technologies. Those successes, however, often came at the expense of other natural resources, leading to contamination and degradation of land and water. In A Thousand Ways Denied, John T. Arnold documents the oil industry’s sharp interface with Louisiana’s environment. Drawing on government, corporate, and personal files, many previously untapped, he traces the history of oil-field practices and their ecological impacts in tandem with battles over regulation. Arnold reveals that in the early twentieth century, Louisiana helped lead the nation in conservation policy, instituting some of the first programs to sustain its vast wealth of natural resources. But with the proliferation of oil output, government agencies splintered between those promoting production and others committed to preventing pollution. As oil’s economic and political strength grew, regulations commonly went unobserved and unenforced. Over the decades, oil, saltwater, and chemicals flowed across the ground, through natural drainages, and down waterways. Fish and wildlife fled their habitats, and drinking-water supplies were ruined. In the wetlands, drilling facilities sat like factories in the midst of a maze of interconnected canals dredged to support exploration, manufacture, and transportation of oil and gas. In later years, debates raged over the contribution of these activities to coastal land loss. Oil is an inseparable part of Louisiana’s culture and politics, Arnold asserts, but the state’s original vision for safeguarding its natural resources has become compromised. He urges a return to those foundational conservation principles. Otherwise, Louisiana risks the loss of viable uses of its land and, in some places, its very way of life.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishery law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
Committee documents
Author: Louisiana. Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Louisiana Register
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Data and Management Strategies for Recreational Fisheries with Annual Catch Limits
Author: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and MedicinePublisher:
ISBN: 9780309671576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Marine recreational fishing is a popular activity enjoyed by more than 9 million Americans annually and is a driver of the American ocean-or blue-economy. To ensure that fish populations are not overexploited, the NOAA Fisheries' Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) monitors recreational catch through a variety of in-person, telephone, mail-in, and other surveys. NOAA Fisheries' management of recreational catch also must take into account annual catch limits (ACLs) established to prevent overfishing for all managed species in federal waters. While MRIP has worked to improve recreational catch surveys over the past decade, the surveys were never designed to meet the demands of in-season management of ACLs. In some cases, estimates of harvest have triggered accountability measures such as early season closures and reductions in future recreational ACLs, which have been a source of contention with the recreational fishing community. This report presents approaches for optimizing MRIP data and complementary data for in-season management and considers alternatives for managing recreational fisheries with ACLs to better serve both social and economic management objectives.
Shrimp Landings
Author: United States. National Marine Fisheries ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shrimp fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Protecting America's Estuaries: Florida
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Conservation and Natural Resources SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Estuarine area conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
Book Description
Review of Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030910193X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Recreational fishing in the United States is an important social and economic component of many marine fisheries, with an estimated 14 million anglers making almost 82 million fishing trips in 2004. Although each individual angler typically harvests a small number of fish, collectively these sport fisheries can take a significant fraction of the yearly catch-in some cases more than commercial fisheries. For example, in 1999, recreational fishing accounted for 94% of the total catch of spotted sea trout, 76% of striped bass and sheephead, and 60 percent of king mackerel. It is important that systems used to monitor fishing catch are adequate for timely management of recreational fisheries. However, the large number of anglers and access points makes monitoring recreational fishing much more difficult than monitoring commercial fishing. This report reviews the types of survey methods used to estimate catch in recreational fisheries, including state/federal cooperative programs. The report finds that both telephone survey and onsite access components of the current monitoring systems have serious flaws in design or implementation. There are also several areas of miscommunication and mismatched criteria among designers of surveys, data collectors, and recreational fisheries. The report recommends that a comprehensive, universal sampling frame with national coverage should be established, and that improvements should be made in statistical analysis of the data collected and in the ways the data are communicated. A permanent and independent research group should be established and funded to evaluate the statistical design and adequacy of recreational fishery surveys and to guide necessary modifications or new initiatives.
NOAA.
Author: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description