NCMC's newsletter, Marine Bulletin, is widely recognized as one of the most informative and authoritative marine conservation newsletters available.  A subscription is just one of the benefits of NCMC membership. Here are the contents of the latest issue, Summer 2010, volume 129:  (view PDF version)

• Oil and Water
  
• Bookends: CITES Forces ICCAT Action Before...and After (?)
• Bunker Down: New Science Shows Overfishing, Need for More Conservative Management
• Fishery Councils Take Up River Herring & Shad Bycatch
  
  
• PLUS. . .

OCEAN VIEW -- Ten Years After

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"Ocean View," a marine conservation column written by NCMC President Ken Hinman, provides regular commentary on current, and usually controversial, events.

"Ten Years After" June 2010

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7/10  NCMC President writes to NOAA chief for help with gulf oil spill

6/10  Pacific Council Takes a Step Closer to Ecosystem-Based Management for Forage Fish

6/10  Mid Atlantic Council addresses river herring and shad bycatch

5/10  NCMC Challenges Use of Chemical Dispersants on Gulf Oil Spill

5/10  States Vote for More Conservative Approach to Managing Menhaden.  

3/10  Trade ban rejected for Atlantic bluefin tuna; conservation measures also rejected for 8 shark species

1/10  Predator Needs Overlooked in Proposed Catch-Setting for Atlantic Sea Herring.

11/09  Commerce Committee Clears Shark Conservation Act of 2009 for full Senate Vote.

11/09  ICCAT Slashes Bluefin Tuna Quota, But Is It Enough?

10/09  Conservationists meet with the Pacific Fishery Management Council to discuss ways to protect the coastal food web

9/09   Read NCMC President Ken Hinman's testimony on offshore aquaculture before the U.S. House of Representatives' subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife

9/09  American Shad Stocks at All-Time Lows.  ASMFC considering conservation measures.

6/09  100 Stakeholder Groups Call on U.S. Secretary of Commerce to Take Emergency Action and Restore River Herring

6/09  Special Conservation Zone Designated in the Gulf of Mexico to Protect Bluefin Tuna

4/09  Pacific Council Votes No on High Seas Longlining

3/09  NCMC is re-appointed to the U.S. ICCAT panel and continues to fight for the conservation of Atlantic bluefin tuna

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