172: American Freedom?
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Length: 05:25
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to destroy the program that has enabled the recovery of six endangered species through a successful regulatory scheme called “catch shares” by which regional fish councils set overall limits on annual harvest and then apportion the catch among individual fishermen. And by the same action, the House voted against a long-overdue and publicly supported National Ocean Policy that would address other problems that lie at the core of the continuing degradation of U.S. inland and coastal waters and the deep ocean. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that we are drowning in these politics and will ask, "Who are the real subversives in this situation? How do we protect ourselves from this corruption of our basic values? Is this how we really mean to define American freedom?"
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Transcript
Do you know that the recovery of several marine species historically over-fished and at risk of depletion is “an assault on American Freedom?” Do you know that the haddock and summer flounder now readily available in your fish market case is subversive and a threat to the “American way?” Well, you know it now because the US House of Representatives has voted this week to destroy the program that has enabled the recovery of six endangered species through a successful regulatory scheme called “catch shares” by which regional fish councils set overall limits on annual harvest and then apportion the catch among individual fishermen.
Oh, and incidentally, by the same action, they voted against a long-overdue and publicly supported National Ocean Policy that would address myriad other problems that lie at the core of the continuing degradation of US inland and coastal waters and the deep oc...
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Peter Neill, Host; Trisha Badger, Associate Producer
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