It's a start. U.S. Representative Sam Farr introduced a sweeping piece of legislation that incorporates many of the recommendations of the Pew and U.S. Oceans reports. There is no hope of it going anywhere this year given the timing, but at least it has now been introduced. Oceana quickly gave its endorsement to the bill, calling it, "CPR for the Oceans." (Santa Cruz Sentinel, PR Newswire).
Posted by Randy Olson at July 29, 2004 04:50 AM