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Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts)
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 09:48 PM Jun 2017

US Agency Kills Proposal to Protect Endangered Sea Life From Fishing Nets

Source: VOA News


June 12, 2017 9:01 PM
VOA News


The Trump administration is throwing out proposed rules aimed at keeping endangered whales, turtles and other sea life from getting caught in Pacific Coast fishing nets.

The regulation was proposed under the Obama White House in 2015 by not only government experts, but also members of the Pacific fishing industry. It would have shut down what is called drift gillnet fishing for swordfish for as long as two seasons if too many endangered animals are caught in the nets and killed.

The fishing boats drag the 1.6 kilometer-long nets along the Oregon and California coasts for swordfish.

The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, which decided to kill the proposal, said it would create "a much more substantial impact on the fleet than we originally realized."



Read more: https://www.voanews.com/a/us-agency-kills-proposal-to-protect-endangered-sea-life-from-fishing-nets/3898006.html

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US Agency Kills Proposal to Protect Endangered Sea Life From Fishing Nets (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2017 OP
Can't wait until they make it legal to kick orphans in the crotch. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2017 #1
The motto of this administration should be aquamarina Jun 2017 #2
It wouldn't suprise me at all if he launched some nukes Matthew28 Jun 2017 #3
Soon there will be no fish! SCVDem Jun 2017 #4
Another reason to hate this administration. / Wind On The Water... Number9Dream Jun 2017 #5
The only word and the only "policy" that matters to Trump: "OBAMA." Republicans seek obliteration. WinkyDink Jun 2017 #6
The hits just keep coming. We don't need no whales! sinkingfeeling Jun 2017 #7
totally unbelievable bluestarone Jun 2017 #8
We don't stop Rump, Bluestarone. Most of what rump does Hortensis Jun 2017 #9

Matthew28

(1,798 posts)
3. It wouldn't suprise me at all if he launched some nukes
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 10:05 PM
Jun 2017

and released some small pox on the population,. Knowing that, "if it's bad we're going to do it". The guy is evil and heartless to the core.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
4. Soon there will be no fish!
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 10:18 PM
Jun 2017

Art imitates life once again.

Soylent Green!

Avoid the Soylent Orange at all costs!

I find increasing solace in the check out clinic which E.G. Robinson went to. Peaceful and painless.

Put a "T"" on THAT building!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. We don't stop Rump, Bluestarone. Most of what rump does
Tue Jun 13, 2017, 10:03 AM
Jun 2017

is actually directed by ultraconservative and big-money powers who've gotten control of the Republican Party and who have persuaded him to pack his cabinet and WH with their people.

Although he seems genuinely bigoted and xenophobic, he's given no other indication of any real political ideology. He has no idea what a gillnet is and doesn't give a flip about fish one way or the other. He's merely a buffoon, a bundle of I-wants, who learned how to play on populist resentments to draw the biggest, most enthusiastic crowds to feed his need for adulation.

We've got to stop THEM, and we're not going to do that any time soon. Removing him will change none of this with the possible exception of allowing their destruction of government to proceed more efficiently.

Itm, we need to take a deep breath and settle in for a long war, as the pros on our front lines have, and help our increasingly not-so-secret weapons work for us--his idiocy and the others' dangerously destructive and inhumanly callous greed.

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