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Council Announces Policies on Non-Fishing Activities that Threaten Fish Habitat

3/3/2016

 
New policies announced by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council for activities which threaten habitat. The policies can be found here.
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council  via mafmc.org
17 February 2016
http://www.mafmc.org/newsfeed/2016/council-announces-policies-on-non-fishing-activities-that-threaten-fish-habitat
"The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council has released a series of policy documents focused on non-fishing activities that threaten fish habitat. These documents outline the Council’s positions on five anthropogenic (human) activities: wind energy, offshore oil, marine transport, liquefied natural gas, and coastal development.Productive commercial and recreational fisheries are inextricably linked to healthy habitat. Multiple factors are contributing to the degradation or destruction of fish habitat, such as coastal development, land-based pollution, and dams and other blockages that restrict the movement of migratory fish species and can alter the delivery of freshwater to estuaries." ...

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