Several years before the Pew Oceans Commission and the U.S. Oceans Commission, the state of Florida had its own Florida Oceans Committee. It had great recommendations, but most of them got lost in the transition between the Chiles and Jeb Bush administrations.
From a recent editorial in the Naples Daily News:
But regarding the Chiles report and the more than 100 specific recommendations that considered what agencies would implement them and how the state would pay for them, diver Alex Brylske was disappointed that much of it was simply ignored. Brylske said the excitement at the committee's inception was palpable, but, for him at least, that excitement has dissolved over the years.
Posted by Randy Olson at May 4, 2004 04:03 AM