Environment/Science
First on CNN: Environmental group files SEC complaint about mining company stock trades days before major EPA announcement CNN by Scott Bronstein, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Audrey Ash - October 21, 2019 Washington (CNN) An environmental group on Monday called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate possible insider trading involving a mining company that is pursuing a massive gold and copper mine in Alaska near the world's most valuable salmon fishery. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/politics/pebble-mine-alaska-insider-trading-invs/index.html Notorious warm water 'Blob' in Pacific weakening, but will that save fish and ecosystems? Salem Statesman Journal by Zach Urness - October. 22, 2019 When scientists announced the return of a notorious expanse of warm water in the Pacific Ocean in September, it alarmed both the Northwest scientific and fishing communities. https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2019/10/22/the-blob-pacific-ocean-west-coast-salmon-steelhead/4056881002/ Pumping Oxygen In A Lake To Try To Save Fish Facing Climate Change KUCB by Jes Burns - October 14, 2019 You'd never suspect it on a whisper-still morning, with the mountains and marsh reflecting off the water, but Upper Klamath Lake in southern Oregon is a tough place to be a fish. https://www.kucb.org/post/pumping-oxygen-lake-try-save-fish-facing-climate-change#stream/0 Federal Register Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod by Non-American Fisheries Act Crab Vessels Operating as Catcher Vessels Using Pot Gear in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska A Rule by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 10/21/2019 NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by non-American Fisheries Act (AFA) crab vessels that are subject to sideboard limits, and operating as catcher vessels (CVs) using pot gear, in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2019 Pacific cod sideboard limit established for non-AFA crab vessels that are operating as CVs using pot gear in the Western Regulatory Area of the GOA. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/21/2019-22856/fisheries-of-the-exclusive-economic-zone-off-alaska-pacific-cod-by-non-american-fisheries-act-crab Fisheries Off West Coast States; Modifications of the West Coast Recreational and Commercial Salmon Fisheries; Inseason Actions #6 Through #27 A Rule by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 10/21/2019 NMFS announces 22 inseason actions in the ocean salmon fisheries. These inseason actions modified the commercial and recreational salmon fisheries in the area from the U.S./Canada border to the U.S./Mexico border. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/21/2019-22772/fisheries-off-west-coast-states-modifications-of-the-west-coast-recreational-and-commercial-salmon Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; General Provisions for Domestic Fisheries; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Application for an Exempted Fishing Permit A Notice by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 10/22/2019 NMFS announces the request for renewal of a 2019 exempted fishing permit application titled, “Year-round Coastwide Midwater Rockfish EFP: Monitoring and Minimizing Salmon Bycatch When Targeting Rockfish in the Shorebased IFQ Fishery” for the 2020 fishing year (herein referred to as the “Trawl Gear EFP”). The application, submitted by the West Coast Seafood Processors Association, Environmental Defense Fund, Oregon Trawl Commission, and Midwater Trawlers Cooperative, requests a permit to test whether removing certain gear, time, and area restrictions for vessels fishing under the Trawl Rationalization Program's Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota Program may impact the nature and extent of bycatch of prohibited species (e.g., Chinook salmon). https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/22/2019-22977/magnuson-stevens-act-provisions-general-provisions-for-domestic-fisheries-pacific-coast-groundfish
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