« Religious Freedom In Iran: Discrimination, Forced Mass Conversions | Main | Islamic Scholar Says Koran Has Flaws - Needs To Be Reinterpreted For Today »
October 4, 2006
Bush Seeks Ban On Bottom Trawling
Topics: National News
President Bush, a champion of saving the environment? He called for a halt to destructive fishing on the high seas yesterday, and said the United States will work to eliminate or better regulate practices such as bottom trawling that devastate fish populations and the ocean floor:
Bush directed the State and Commerce departments to promote "sustainable" fisheries and to oppose any fishing practices that destroy the long-term natural productivity of fish stocks or habitats such as seamounts, corals and sponge fields for short-term gain.Related: Bottom Trawling: Reason for Concern
Hat tip - Harry Owens
Posted by Richard at October 4, 2006 9:20 AM
Articles Related to National News:
- Officials 'Probe' Semi-trucks Plow Into Rail Station That KIlled 2 - Apr 26, 2008
- Student in Wheechair Faces Assault Charges for Running Over Classmate's Toe - Apr 24, 2008
- Pregnant Kids And A Whacko Cult - Apr 18, 2008
- Father of Beaten Lakeland Girl: No Choice But to Homeschool - Apr 09, 2008
- How Those Federal Banking Laws Brought Down Eliot Spitzer - Mar 12, 2008
- Mayor of New Orleans A 'Vagina Friendly Mayor' - Mar 08, 2008
- Lauren Burk Murder May have Been Seen by Witnesses - Mar 06, 2008
- Second University Student Shot And Killed - Mar 06, 2008
- Military Recruiting Station at New York's Times Square Hit By Explosion - Mar 06, 2008
- Auburn Student Found Fatally Shot (Updated) - Mar 05, 2008
