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The Society talks Ocean Policy in D.C.

10/4/2016

Ocean advocates meet with Federal agencies,
discuss National Ocean Policy, regional ocean planning, and beyond

The Healthy Oceans Coalition (HOC), which the American Littoral Society acts as lead for, recently visited Washington, D.C. to meet with leaders at the National Ocean Council (NOC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) about the importance of our National Ocean Policy (NOP) and ocean planning. The HOC team consisted of the Society's Ocean Policy Program Director, Sarah Winter Whelan and Jenna Valente, the Healthy Oceans Coalition Coordinator; Jennifer Felt, Ocean Campaign Director for the Conservation Law Foundation, Lindsay Hirt, a marine biologist from the Northeast, Sarah Lavenhar, Co-Director of the Mangrove Action Project, Sheryl Gilmore Director of the Acadia Institute of Oceanography, and Danielle Duncan, Policy Advisor for the Colorado Ocean Coalition.

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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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United States developing role of offshore wind in its energy future

3/3/2016

This is an interesting article about the future of offshore wind in the United States.

Written by Karl Grossman for enformable.com
25 February 2016
http://enformable.com/2016/02/united-states-developing-role-of-offshore-wind/

... "Deepwater Wind has emerged as the leading offshore wind company in the United States.

It is seeking to follow its Block Island project, to be in operation this year, with what it calls Deepwater ONE, 30 miles southeast of Montauk, Long Island. Deepwater ONE would initially involve 15 turbines but the goal is for eventually 200—and their generating a significant portion of electricity for Long Island and southern New England.

And Deepwater Wind is working to follow that up with Garden State Offshore Energy—a joint venture with the New Jersey utility PSEG—with ultimately 200 wind turbines off Cape May, New Jersey. They would produce electricity for New Jersey."
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