At a recent press conference on the Anacostia River in Washington DC, EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson described the administration’s plan to restore the oyster, a critical natural filtering system, to the Chesapeake Bay in an effort to restore the bay itself. In an article in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Bay Daily, environmental writer Tom Pelton describes the Obama Administration’s steps toward oyster restoration, starting with ‘rigorous’ enforcement of current clean water laws. The plan, the result of a lawsuit brought against the federal government by a consortium of environmental entities, also takes steps toward increasing regulation and enforcement of stormwater and agriculture runoff. Included is an effort to restore native oyster populations to 20 Chesapeake Bay tributaries by 2025. Oyster harvests today are less than one percent of what they were in the 1880’s.
To read the whole article, or to download a copy of the whole plan, go to:
https://cbf.typepad.com/bay_daily/2010/05/the-chesapeakes-battered-oysters-will-get-aboost-from-the-new-federal-bay-restoration-plan–epa-administrator-lisa-jack
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