Humpbacks feeding
Gulf of Maine: Urban Sprawl; Managing Crowded Waters
By Kerry Crisley – Nature Conservancy
“Over there! There, there!!”
Sally Yozell, a marine conservation director for The Nature Conservancy, is the first to spot the humpback whale.
I shriek — yes, as if I am six years old — when I see the mammal bend her back in an impossibly acute angle and dive, waving goodbye with her fluke. She’s dining on sand lance, a fish rich in fat that is found here in abundance.
It’s a warm, sunny day, and Yozell and I are on the Sea Keeper with John Williamson, a former fisherman from Maine. We’re in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, a 638-square mile area that Williamson calls “the ecological jewel of the Gulf of Maine.”
Read the whole story on Nature.org >>
Zoning Busy Ocean Waters to Avoid Conflicts
By Richard Harris
August 10, 2009
In the traffic lane
Anyone who has tried to dodge around Boston’s notorious streets can tell you that the city is one bustling place. But it might come as surprise that the same can be said for the waters that extend off Boston’s shore, out into Massachusetts Bay.
The oceans may seem endless, but in fact we’re starting to run out of elbow room. Now, both the federal government and the state of Massachusetts are making plans to zone the oceans, much as planners zone our cities.
Instead of trying to allocate space for schools and skyscrapers, ocean planners are trying to keep harmony between fishermen, wind farmers, aquaculture developers, freighter traffic and, of course, the rich sea life that depends on this space.
To tell this story, Sally Yozell of the Nature Conservancy has invited us out to sea with her friend, Capt. John Williamson.
Read the whole story on NPR.org >>
Fleet in port
The Future of Fishing
By Laura Knoy on Thursday, February 25, 2010 – New Hampshire Public Radio LISTEN on NHPR.org>>
Federal regulations continue to tighten fishing quotas for New England’s small fisheries, and some fear the measures could put half of the state’s fishing boats out of business. The concern was enough to launch a march on Washington yesterday to seek congressional support for family fishermen. We’ll look at the new regulations and the effect they could have in New Hampshire.
Guests
- John Williamson, consultant in sustainable fishing, longtime commercial fisherman, former member of the New England Fishery Management Council and owner of the Sea Keeper charter boat
- Erik Anderson, president of the New Hampshire Commercial Fishermen’s Association, former member of the New England Fishery Management Council and a longtime fisherman
We’ll also hear from
- David Goethel, longtime New Hampshire fisherman and member of the New England Fishery Management Council; he was the lone dissenter in the recent vote to overhaul fishing regulations for the region
- Sally McGee, New England fisheries policy director for the Environmental Defense Fund
The Fate of Our Fish
By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 – New Hampshire Public Radio LISTEN on NHPR.org >>
After years of dwindling fish populations, anew report from the UNH shows some success stories in our seas. Certain fish stocks are up and scientists feel more confident that sustainability could be a reality in the future. We’ll look at the state of our region’s fishing industry.
Guests
* Andrew Rosenberg director of the Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory at the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, former dean of the College of Life Sciences at the University of New Hampshire and former northeast regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service
* John Williamson, fish conservation manager for the Ocean Conservancy, former member of the New England Fishery Management Council and formerly a fisherman for 20 years
We’ll also hear from
* Erik Anderson, president of the New Hampshire Commercial Fishermen’s Association
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Hi, John –
This looks really good (I truly respond to your opening page). Good amount of white space to pics and text. Most informative and very simple to navigate.
I would suggest you find a good editor who can help you tighten your prose. I understand how hard it is not to use jargon in a world where jargon assists in precision, but you should attempt to avoid it at all costs. Also work to keep sentences short (my editors always advised me that few sentences needed to be more than 18 words. It’s turned out to be reasonably good advice) and avoid the passive tense.
I wonder whether it might make more sense to have a separate tab for News?
I think the log tab is very good. The links are thoughtful.
All in all, very well done.
We’re off to Morocco manyana.
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Appy, thank you very much for this. Unfortunately, good editors are hard to come by — but you are welcome to take a stab at it. One person’s jargon is another person’s “key word” in this search engine world we’ve entered, but I take your point.