Protecting Our Atlantic Legacy Reports

Testing The Waters: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches	8/3/2006
In 2005 there were more beach closings and advisories than at any other time in the 16 years the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been tracking them.
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Turning a Blind Eye: The ‘See No Evil’ Approach to Wasteful Fishing	7/6/2006
Every year, the vast ﬂeet of trawlers, seiners, longliners, charter and private sportﬁshing boats, and other vessels that catch ﬁsh in our nation’s waters discard a large proportion of their catch, often dead or dying. Virtually all ﬁsheries, no matter how selective the equipment used or area ﬁshed, catch and subsequently discard signiﬁcant numbers of non-targeted species, referred to in ﬁsheries jargon as “bycatch.”
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Shell Game: How The Federal Government Is Hiding The Mismanagement Of Our Nation’s Fisheries	4/12/2006
Ocean fish are the last wild creatures that humans hunt for food on a large scale. The oceans once supplied a seemingly unending bounty of seafood, with codfish so plentiful off the coast of New England, fishermen merely needed to dip baskets into the water to catch them.
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