Can Fishermen be Compensated for Climate Change? PCFFA Sues Oil Companies to Find Out
The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) has sued a number of oil companies in a California state court for damages arising from the excessive burning of fossil fuels.
The fishermen, focusing mostly on losses during Dungeness crab season, say that due to harmful algae blooms caused by warming water, officials in California and Oregon barred dungeness harvesting for most of the fishing season in 2015, again closed or delayed the season inn 2016, again in 2017, and also this year, as ...
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