[Coral-List] Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary proposed fishing rules

[Douglas Fenner]

May I suggest this is an illustration why we haven't managed to stem the
decline of coral reefs?  For everything that people do that impacts reefs,
there is someone who is benefiting from the action that impacts the reefs.
The result is opposition to action to save reefs.

Sanctuary's proposed changes to fishing rules draw ire in Key West.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article235417577.html


Good management can be done, it has been done many places, but it's not
easy.

Cheers,  Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Ocean Associates, Inc. Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science

A call to climate action  (Science editorial)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6443/807?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2019-05-30&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2840296

New book "The Uninhabitable Earth"  First sentence: "It is much, much worse
than you think."
Read first (short) chapter open access:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/read-a-chapter-from-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-dire-warning-on-climate-change