Two for Tuesday: Bahamas Update and a Bit of Montana Clean Water Politics

by Mark McGlothlin on July 28, 2015

in Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Bahamas Conservation Update from the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust

BTT just yesterday published a Bahamas Conservation Update with this lede –

Given all of the recent conversation about the state of bonefishing in the Bahamas, we thought it timely to share an update on the progress that has been made by our Bahamas Initiative collaborations toward science-based conservation of the Bahamas bonefish fishery.

The story goes on to, after listing collaborating agencies, lodges and guides, overview various recent projects covering habitat use, catch-and-release angling, population connections, bonefish behavior, human environmental impacts and education.

Solid, up-to-date and credible science along with accurate economic data should be guiding policy decisions in Bahamas. Here’s to hoping BTT sticks to their guns in the Bahamas debate.

Montana TU’s Bruce Farling Talks Clean Water Act

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (long the red-headed step child of Montana’s newspapers) has a nice piece up just this morning by Montana TU’s Executive Director, Bruce Farling, taking a poke at the extraction and big-ag industry’s recent attacks on the Clean Water Act.

Farling addresses a somewhat unique Clean Water Act wrinkle in Montana as well – the fact that many enforcement decisions in Montana have been ceded to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, opening the door to…gaps…in coverage.