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NOP Bad – FisheriesNOP destroys fisheriesWinn 11 - Pete Winn joined CNSNews.com in October of 2007 and has reported on key legal, cultural, political, scientific and religious topics at the national level for online, magazine, radio/TV and print publications. His work has been quoted by, or appeared in, The Washington Times, ABC News, AP, UPI, MSNBC and The New York Times, (Pete Winn, “Fishermen to Congress: Please Scuttle Obama’s National Oceans Policy”, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fishermen-congress-please-scuttle-obama-s-national-oceans-policy (CNSNews.com) – The nation’s commercial fishermen say the Obama administration is trying to impose top-down bureaucratic regulation on the use of the oceans and the nation’s fisheries, which they say will put fishing jobs at stake.¶ A group calling itself the Seafood Coalition is calling on Congress to do what it can to scuttle President Obama’s National Ocean Policy National Ocean Policy, which the president unilaterally imposed by executive order in 2010.¶ In a letter to the House Natural Resources Committee, the Seafood Coalition said that the president’s plan adds a needless level of top-down bureaucracy and regulation on fisheries.¶ “The National Ocean Policy creates a federal ocean zoning regime that will likely result in substantial new regulations and restrictions on ocean users,” Nils Stolpe, spokesman for the Seafood Coalition, told CNSNews.com on Monday.¶ The coalition says it is also concerned that the administration is going to take money away from programs that are currently working well to pay for the new layer of bureaucracy.¶ “What we’ve asked for in our letter to the chairman was for Congress to use whatever funding capacity they have to stop this,” Stolpe said. The Seafood Coalition describes itself as a “broad national coalition of commercial fishing interests, seafood processors, and coastal communities” that includes members from every region of the U.S. and “accounts for about 85 percent of the fish and shellfish products landed annually in the U.S.”¶ In July of 2010, President Obama signed the order establishing a National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes.¶ The order directs all federal agencies to implement the Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, which was created by White House Council on Environmental Quality.¶ The National Ocean Policy identifies nine objectives and outlines a “flexible framework” for how bureaucrats will “effectively address conservation, economic activity, user conflict, and sustainable use of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes.”¶ One of the key objectives is called “coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP)” -- which the executive order defines as “a comprehensive, adaptive, integrated, ecosystem-based, and transparent spatial planning process, based on sound science, for analyzing current and anticipated uses of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes areas.”¶ It added: “In practical terms, coastal and marine spatial planning provides a public policy process for society to better determine how the ocean, our coasts, and Great Lakes are sustainably used and protected -- now and for future generations.”¶ But Stolpe and the Seafood Coalition said CMSP essentially means the imposition of top-down federal planning boards to govern ocean use.¶ “It establishes a number of regional boards that in essence are in charge of what goes on in the oceans of those particular regions -- from a fishing perspective, from an energy development perspective, from a transportation perspective, from a recreational use perspective,” Stolpe said. NOP Bad – BiodiversityNOP doesn’t allow for effective management of the oceans – existing domestic laws crumblingBiron 13 - Carey L. Biron for IPS, part of the Guardian Environment Network theguardian.com, (Carey Biron, “US has failed to protect marine life, say conservationists”, July 9th 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/09/us-failed-protect-marine-life “The Obama administration has put more focus on creating a comprehensive framework for managing our oceans,” Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group, told IPS.¶ “That said, one of the pieces that fell short was using powerful existing laws to protect the oceans, and the Endangered Species Act is an example of legislation that was probably underutilised in the National Oceans Plan.”¶ Taking advantage of a provision within the Endangered Species Act that allows for science-based petitions from the public, the WildEarth Guardians request builds upon the assessments of two international wildlife observer groups, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a 1973 global agreement.¶ All 81 species included in the new petition have been deemed endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN and CITES. As such, environmentalists see the new petition as a way to test U.S. regulators’ seriousness following President Obama’s 2010 order.¶ “If [the government] won’t take action in situations as dire as those faced by these critically imperilled species,” Jay Tutchton, WildEarth Guardians’ general counsel, said Monday, “it signals the agency doesn’t really want to do anything but talk about declining ocean health.”¶ Importantly, the Endangered Species Act allows the U.S. government to offer protections to species not living within the country’s territory. Doing so can assist in, for instance, cutting down on U.S. demand for certain wildlife products and making available funding for overseas management activities.¶ “There is certainly increased awareness of the significance of the threats to marine health and ocean ecosystems, but we’ve repeatedly seen action at the international level become stymied by politics,” Bethany Cotton says.¶ “Just as the most politically volatile such discussions on terrestrial animals revolve around elephants, because of the money involved in the ivory trade, this is also true of the coral used in jewellery and the sharks killed for the lucrative fin trade. That’s why it’s particularly important that the United States, which has supported protection efforts on sharks and coral at the international level, to do whatever it can under domestic laws to protect those species.” Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2014 2014 -> For want of a nail 2014 -> Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act of 2014 2014 -> Ihbb asian Championships 2014 middle school bowl Round 4 First Quarter 2014 -> Ihbb european Championships 2014 Bowl Round 4 First Quarter 2014 -> International History Bee and Bowl 2013-14 Asian Division Question Set Bowl Round Six 2014 -> United states patent and trademark office 2014 -> Coffs harbour eisteddfod vocal syllabus 2014 -> Listen News Programs Schedule pledge now 2014 -> Slow club announce third album complete surrender Download 413.33 Kb. Share with your friends:
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