3 MPA's COMING TO NC

[Russell A. Jost]

Put this on mix it up b/c it gets the most attention this time of year. The link shows the 32 proposed new MPA's to go into effect next month. 3 are in Noth Carolina.
http://mpa.gov/pdf/national-system/n...s_jan_2010.pdf
on the right side of the page click on the second round of nominated MPA's

[Fritz]

Unless you are a scuba diver or bird watcher, you are screwwwwwwwed!

[Bird Dog]

The economy of Hatteras would go under

unbelievable

[gottaflylee]

Alittle help here. I get "OOPS" page and then redircted to another page, from there I can not move to another page, I sure it is the internet connection that I have here on Oriental.

Can someone post it on here?

[Bird Dog]

Alittle help here. I get "OOPS" page and then redircted to another page, from there I can not move to another page, I sure it is the internet connection that I have here on Oriental.

Can someone post it on here?

Mine goes to the Oops page but then gets directed to a different site. Here is the direct link to the nominated areas.

http://mpa.gov/pdf/national-system/n...s_jan_2010.pdf

[BarryTurano]

Who nominates these areas? What criteria do they use for nomination? What can we as taxpayers do to counteract nominations? Obviously it is not voted on by the public. I am not sure that joining RFA and other organizations is enough.

[Russell A. Jost]

Who nominates these areas? What criteria do they use for nomination? What can we as taxpayers do to counteract nominations? Obviously it is not voted on by the public. I am not sure that joining RFA and other organizations is enough.

Barry, you can go to http://mpa.gov home page were the whole process is well detailed. You will need a couple of hours to get thru it all and then another couple to try and understand the whole convoluted process.
What wearies me the most is I have not been able to find (in all the posted information) the specific geographic boundaries for the MPA's and what restricted fishing means.

[BarryTurano]

Barry, you can go to http://mpa.gov home page were the whole process is well detailed. You will need a couple of hours to get thru it all and then another couple to try and understand the whole convoluted process.
What wearies me the most is I have not been able to find (in all the posted information) the specific geographic boundaries for the MPA's and what restricted fishing means.

Thank you. I will see what I can find out. My son works for North Carolina Sea Grant. I think that he would have some idea.

[blckbart]

What does fishing restricted mean? Are they going to designate where and when fishing can take place on Hatteras and Lookout?

WOW

[gottaflylee]

What really sucks is how hard they make it to find the info. On my laptop I have to zoom in and out to read anything. I never did find it, that sucked. Thanks for the link, I will look again tomorrow...