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Originally Posted by davisd
Why do we need to use the "Striper" to clean up our bays and rivers? The feds have this covered?
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Can you imagine a non-profit conservation organization named Marshlands Unlimited, or Streams Unlimited, or Estuaries Unlimited, or Bunker/Herring/Sand Eels Unlimited??? it just wouldn't fly, as sadly, most people could give a rat's arse for water or forage. now, you put a species name that we know and love in there and you've got something.
Ducks Unlimited has saved many marshlands and nunmerous habitats for that species of fowl and others in its decades of operation and it has been 85%+ driven by its membership of hunters and NRA associates.
Trout Unlimited has realized the same types of victories for our streams and rivers across America in an effort to preserve their "named" species ~~by taking care of where they swim and spawn, as well as informing the public and its member anglers about regulatory limits that have effected positive change to the betterment of both fish and water.
if ya think that the FEDS have our estaurine systems covered, i would ask you to look again, my friend.
the Peugot Sound Orcas, the multiplying dead zones of the Chesapeake Bay, the increasing pcb counts that lace the Hudson River, and the diseased Stripers of the Outer Banks would beg to differ with you on the current biostasis of their respective waters. and these are only our inshore haunts, fogeddah bout the ways in which the EPA got handcuffed by the Reagan Administration with regard to our oceans ~~along with our estuaries!!!
somethin's got to GIVE, we need to begin somewheres~~~and, imho, 20 years ago WAS too late. hopefully, some proactive measures will move us forward and our current administration will hear the cries of the phd's/professionals/peoples concerning the myriad of issues that face the health and welfare of our estuaries and the marine life that calls them HOME. problem is, there aren't enough of us speaking up yet, and his plate is mighty full with the Economy,,,,,,,rightly so, yet it would be nice to see some STEPS in the right directions from the EPA, big industry in Seattle, Purdue/Tyson along the CHSPKE, and Omega Protein outta the OBX.
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