DECLINES IN FISH STOCKS WORLDWIDE_the ecology of exinction

But what's 25 square miles. The area of ocean is not far off 200 million square miles. That looks like a local investment to keep a local industry going. It's an eighth millionth of the surface of ocean and probably shallower than most of it. And near at hand. Possibly politically sensitive like the pH in a pork barrel is to the type of lumber the cooper used.

But what's 25 square miles. The area of ocean is not far off 200 million square miles. That looks like a local investment to keep a local industry going. It's an eighth millionth of the surface of ocean and probably shallower than most of it. And near at hand. Possibly politically sensitive like the pH in a pork barrel is to the type of lumber the cooper used.

Tell me fm--you said the boats cost millions as did also the rigs--given that money already spent what is the cost of mounting an expedition to catch fish. The cost of boat and rigs is yesterday's cold potatoes isn't it? Would going out tomorrow imply a confidence that fish stocks in the ocean were not as much in decline as some people, for whatever reason, were claiming them to be.

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Who is putting their money where their mouth is and who is having an emotional orgasm for free?

Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery, MD and VA
Background: Maryland oyster populations have declined dramatically since the turn of the 20th century, largely due to parasitic diseases. Oyster restoration is critical to the economic and environmental survival of the Chesapeake Bay and is a high priority for the State of Maryland and the hesapeake Bay Program.
FACT SHEET as of January 6, 2010
Authorization: Section 704(b) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, as amended
Type of Project: Environmental Restoration
Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Contributions: Meets 5 out of 10 CBP keystone commitments: reduce nutrient and sediment inputs; restore and/or protect wetlands; restore and/or protect submerged aquatic vegetation; achieve a 10-fold increase in native oysters; and develop and/or implement watershed management lans.
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Project Phase: Construction
Congressional Interest: Representatives Kratovil (MD-01), Sarbanes (MD-03), Hoyer (MD-05), Wittman (VA-01), Nye (VA-02), and Scott (VA-03); Senators Mikulski nd Cardin (MD), and Senators Warner and Webb (VA)
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Non-Federal Sponsor: Maryland Department of Natural Resources
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Project elements include: (1) disease-free spat from State-owned hatcheries; (2) creation of new oyster habitat; (3) rehabilitation of existing non-productive oyster habitat; (4) construction of seed bars for production and collection of spat; (5) planting spat on the new and rehabilitated bars; and (6) monitoring of project performance. The non-Federal sponsor for the Maryland portion is the Maryland Department f Natural Resources (MDNR).
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Status: The Maryland project cooperation agreement was executed February 27, 1997, with an amendment in July 2002. To date, placement locations have been in Kedges Strait, Eastern Bay, and the Chester, Choptank, Magothy, Patuxent, and Severn Rivers. Some of these oyster bars were left for natural recruitment; others received hatchery-raised spat (773 million to date). Starting in 2001, the program was opened up to the Commonwealth of Virginia and the program goal has focused on a 10-fold increase in oyster habitat in the Chesapeake Bay. The FY 01-09 funds have been split between the Norfolk and Baltimore Districts to support activities in Virginia and Maryland, respectively. In Virginia to date, activities have been focused on oyster bar creation in Tangier Sound, Pocomoke Sound, the Great Wicomico River, and the Lynnhaven River, creating a total of 298 acres. Through summer 2009, we have constructed approximately 437 acres of new Maryland oyster bars in the Magothy, Severn, Choptank, Patuxent, and Chester Rivers, as well as Kedges Strait and Eastern Bay. Construction was just completed on approximately 13 acres of oyster bar in the Severn River, using
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alternative substrate materials (concrete, steel slag, and stone). Spat will be placed on these bars in late spring 2010. Monitoring of these projects will continue for the next several years. In addition, funds are being used to prepare a long-term master plan for the program which is expected to cover ctivities for 2010 through 2020.
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Budget:
Cost Estimate by Phase ($1,000’s) Construction
Current Estimate (MD+VA) 66,6001
Federal Cost 50,000
Non-Federal Cost (In-Kind Services) 16,600
Project Cost Estimate ($1,000’s) Federal Non-Federal Total
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truction 7,500 2,500 10,0001
Funds Data ($1,000’s) Total
Allocation Through FY 09 (MD+VA) 23,641 FY 10 Allocation 2,0002
FY 11 Capability TBD

But the "new era" doesn't come cheap.

Bay cleanup efforts have already been estimated to cost more than $15 billion, and actions to restore oyster bars and other habitats, or to protect lands from development, would likely cost billions more.

In a letter to President Obama, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley asked for an extra $365 million from the president's 2011 budget, which will be released in February, to start implementing the federal strategy.

Such an investment, they said, "would return enormous dividends to both the economy and the environment. Alternatively, without help, the Bay will continue to face stagnating or deteriorating ecological conditions, decreasing economic value and increasing restoration costs."

The costs associated with this comprehensive effort are necessarily large.

In January 2003, the Chesapeake Bay Commission conducted the first-ever attempt to catalog the costs associated with the overall restoration in its publication, The Cost of a Clean Bay: Assessing Funding Needs Throughout the Watershed. Looking at just the states of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Commission calculated a restoration price tag of almost $19 billion.
Shortly thereafter, the states compiled their tributary strategies, detailing all the actions that would be necessary to restore water quality to the Bay and its tidal waters.
In October 2004, the Bay Program's Blue Ribbon Finance Panel looked across the entire 64,000-square-mile watershed and estimated the total water quality restoration cost, based on these new state estimates, to be $28 billion"more than $200 per year for every watershed resident through 2010.
Just two months later, the Bay Commission followed up the release of the Blue Ribbon Finance Panel's report with the timely Cost-Effective Strategies for the Bay: Six Smart Investments for Nutrient and Sediment Reduction. The Commission's report showed that the majority of pollution benefits could come from a more modest investment than the costs associated with every restoration activity outlined in the tributary strategies.
Significant investment in Bay restoration and preservation is already well established. Approximately three-quarters of the direct spending on Bay restoration and preservation activities comes from state governments throughout the watershed, according to a 2005 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Over a ten-year period ending in 2004, an estimated $3.7 billion in direct funding was provided to restore the Bay. Maryland , Virginia , Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia invested $2.7 billion during that period while eleven federal agencies combined for an additional $972 million . This funding was provided for water quality improvements, sound land use, vital habitat protection and restoration, living resource protection and restoration, and stewardship and community engagement.

Hawkeye is just another "big lie"purveyor. The overqall project for oyster restortion has been a resounding success and has cost about 100 million since 1997

you can't handle the truth though,

QWe still dont know how to handle that pollution load in means other than adjusting the pH with ground limestone.

Fish stocks declining worldwide is a clear example of how thinking globally acting locally has failed miserably.

I don't think you've answered my question yet

what practical, do-able global action can realistically be applied to the problem of overfishing

Why do you keep coming back to it then. An apology is all that is required and not a grudging one either.

You could complain the the moderators

Come on, MsOlga, be honest. You simply disguise the same behavior behind a frilly chiffon dress.