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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (4730)	4/17/2005 5:57:13 PM
From: D_I_R_T	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Not really. Senator Murkowski is just following a history of support for environmentally safe fisheries from Alaska senators. Senator Stevens helped initiate some of the first and most significant legislation for over site and protection of fisheries in all American water, the Magnuson/Stevens Act. Prior to this act it was possible to watch foreign vessels fishing just over 3 miles from American shores. We had no real ability to manage fish stocks for sustainability as vessels from overseas looked at our waters as simply areas to plunder until there were no fish left and then move on. It is still common for longline fishermen in Alaska to snag on to and haul up gear that was lost from this era. Japanese gear, especially, is different than American gear and is instantly recognized when hauled up. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is the governing authority for all fishery management activities that occur in federal waters within the United States 200 nautical mile limit, or Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Originally passed and signed into law in 1976, the Magnuson Act, as it was then called, established the U.S. 200 nautical mile limit and by implication legitimized a 200 nautical mile EEZ for all other maritime nations. It also created a system for the monitoring and management of the fish stocks in these waters and set in motion a process that eventually "Americanized" the fisheries, allowing American vessels and companies to take over harvesting and processing from the fleets of other nations.