American Fisheries Society Strongly Objects to EPA’s Recent Effort to Reverse its Own Protection of Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Peggy Parker - October 16, 2017
Last Friday the American Fisheries Society (AFS) sent a strongly worded letter to Administrator Scott Pruitt of the Environmental Protection Agency in response to a proposal to withdraw the EPA’s July 2014 Clean Water Act 404(c) Proposed Determination to “restrict the use of certain waters as disposal sites for dredged or fill material associated with mining the Pebble deposit in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed.”
The group, representing over 7,500 professional fishery scientists and resource managers, objects to the withdrawal and recommends that the EPA “use its authority to prevent the elimination and/or impairment of waters and wetlands supporting the extraordinarily prolific, sustainable, all-wild Bristol Bay salmon fisheries."
AFA urged the EPA to consider its own report...
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