La Jolla Town Council coastal forum airs concerns about sea lions, bluffs and Gliderport
La Jollan John Leek contends that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration signs warning of sea lion pup abandonment were not created by scientists. NOAA has not responded to the claim.
(Elisabeth Frausto)
March 15, 2021 9 AM PT
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The March 11 meeting of the La Jolla Town Council included a forum reviewing several coastal issues pertinent to the area.
Sea lions
Sea lions have “invaded The Cove, polluting the water,” La Jollan John Leek said as he asked the Town Council to encourage the city of San Diego to review the program protecting sea lions that was implemented five years ago.
Former Anchorage shop owner sentenced in Alaska Native art misrepresentation case Published March 10
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Print article The former owner of a downtown Anchorage gift shop was sentenced to probation Wednesday for misrepresenting hundreds of his own carvings as being made by an Alaska Native artist, violating federal law. Lee Screnock, 60, was first charged with misrepresentation of Indian produced goods and products and violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 2018. The charges against stemmed from Screnock’s time as the owner of Arctic Treasures, a Fourth Avenue shop that sold Alaska Native carvings and other art. The case against Screnock represents a rare federal prosecution for “Misrepresentation of Indian Produced Goods and Products,” under the Indian Arts and Crafts Act, created to protect Alaska Native and American Indian artisans from having customary artwork copied and sold as authentic by non-Native people or companies.
Lobstermen say NOAA’s proposed whale rule won’t work, conservationists agree
ELLSWORTH A Feb. 24 public hearing on a proposed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rule aimed at reducing the risk of North Atlantic right whale entanglements in fishing lines raised questions of relevant data used in drafting the rule and its outcome for lobstermen and right whales.
These conversations have been going on between conservationists, lobstermen, NOAA and the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) since 2019, when NOAA held its first public meetings on how lobstermen could adapt fishing methods to reduce the risks.
The Take Reduction Team, operating under NOAA Fisheries, is tasked with upholding the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The North Atlantic right whale has been on the endangered species list since 1970, and the ESA determines a right whale mortality rate that will not further diminish their po
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There are fewer than 366 surviving specimens, according to a new assessment.
Vessel strikes and entanglements in fishing nets remain the biggest threat to the massive marine mammals, but climate change is leading to rising ocean temperatures that endanger the krill the whales eat to survive.
The saddening trend can still be reversed, experts say, with focused efforts to protect the whales safety and increase their reproduction.
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There are fewer than 366 remaining North Atlantic right whales on Earth, according to a new assessment aggregating monitoring data from tagging studies, aerial and vessel photography, animal sampling and other sources