[Occupymendocino] FW: [OPC] NOAA Comment sent today

Fri Jun 27 13:17:33 PDT 2014

The 30th of June is the deadline for submitting a comment to NOAA, and here is my submission.  Lots of us must speak up, as only 550 comments were sent as of today when I wrote!  It is important so please write something, even if it is not very wordy.  (I'm not sure why this printed twice--)  Ann

From: annxpress at live.com
To: opcsteering at lists.mcn.org; opc at lists.mcn.org
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:04:48 -0700
Subject: [OPC] NOAA Comment sent today

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Comment: The expansion of the Cordell Bank and Gulf of the 
Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries is important for protection of the 
fragile marine life on the California Coast, but I feel it should be extended 
past Pt. Arena up to the Oregon border. Congressman Jared Huffman recently wrote 
an article addressing Ocean acidification on the North Coast of California, 
which is especially dangerous in the areas of natural upwelling of organic 
matter toward the surface, where it absorbs CO2 from the air. This absorption of 
excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is lowering the Ph level in the Ocean, 
and is having a huge impact on the seafood industry in California, which has 
been supporting 146,000 jobs and is a $24-billion industry. There are several 
marine scientists studying the acidification problem in Bodega Bay and the 
Tomales Bay Oyster Co. and the entire fishing industry is now at risk. The 
oceans absorb a quarter or more of all the carbon dioxide humankind puts into 
the atmosphere, estimated at 22 million tons a day, in addition to the estimated 
525 billion tons absorbed over the past two centuries. This is causing oysters 
and starfish to die off from acid eating the calcium carbonate in their shells 
and membranes. There has been an alarming rise in the number of seals and sea 
lion pups that have been stranded and are starving, for unknown reasons. This 
year 446 stranded marine mammals had to be rescued and taken to the Marine 
Mammal Rescue Centers in Sausalito and San Rafael, and that was as of May. 
Congressman Huffman is introducing bills to address these problems, but the 
science is in the early stages and we must act fast to protect and study our 
Ocean, or there will be huge dead zones where we now have upwellings that 
produce huge amounts of food for the planet. Due to the drought in California, 
our Salmon fishery is also in danger, and there is only a 11 day window for 
fishing for Salmon this year, as the fry had to be trucked from hatcheries and 
dropped in the ocean before they were grown to a size which would guarantee many 
would survive. The entire fishing industry is at risk, given that the role of 
calcium carbonate synthesis in skeletal development. This acidification could 
disrupt the entire food web, from the lowest phytoplankton on up to the largest 
fish and whales. We do not want to see Oysters or Salmon become extincted! If we 
allow the Ocean to die, we are truly doomed! There are many problems caused by 
human impacts, such as pollution, areas of low oxygen and rampant overfishing. 
This puts the need to protect our North Coast all the way up to Oregon in a high 
priority. 
Please extend the National Marine Sanctuary up to the Oregon 
border, so we can scientifically study the solutions to the problems caused by 
Ocean industrialization, and stop killing the ocean with pollution, overfishing, 
CO2, plastics, agricultural dumping, and all the other causes of the decline in 
the health of the ocean. If we lose our ocean we will not survive as a 
planet.
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Comment: The expansion of the Cordell Bank and Gulf of the 
Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries is important for protection of the 
fragile marine life on the California Coast, but I feel it should be extended 
past Pt. Arena up to the Oregon border. Congressman Jared Huffman recently wrote 
an article addressing Ocean acidification on the North Coast of California, 
which is especially dangerous in the areas of natural upwelling of organic 
matter toward the surface, where it absorbs CO2 from the air. This absorption of 
excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is lowering the Ph level in the Ocean, 
and is having a huge impact on the seafood industry in California, which has 
been supporting 146,000 jobs and is a $24-billion industry. There are several 
marine scientists studying the acidification problem in Bodega Bay and the 
Tomales Bay Oyster Co. and the entire fishing industry is now at risk. The 
oceans absorb a quarter or more of all the carbon dioxide humankind puts into 
the atmosphere, estimated at 22 million tons a day, in addition to the estimated 
525 billion tons absorbed over the past two centuries. This is causing oysters 
and starfish to die off from acid eating the calcium carbonate in their shells 
and membranes. There has been an alarming rise in the number of seals and sea 
lion pups that have been stranded and are starving, for unknown reasons. This 
year 446 stranded marine mammals had to be rescued and taken to the Marine 
Mammal Rescue Centers in Sausalito and San Rafael, and that was as of May. 
Congressman Huffman is introducing bills to address these problems, but the 
science is in the early stages and we must act fast to protect and study our 
Ocean, or there will be huge dead zones where we now have upwellings that 
produce huge amounts of food for the planet. Due to the drought in California, 
our Salmon fishery is also in danger, and there is only a 11 day window for 
fishing for Salmon this year, as the fry had to be trucked from hatcheries and 
dropped in the ocean before they were grown to a size which would guarantee many 
would survive. The entire fishing industry is at risk, given that the role of 
calcium carbonate synthesis in skeletal development. This acidification could 
disrupt the entire food web, from the lowest phytoplankton on up to the largest 
fish and whales. We do not want to see Oysters or Salmon become extincted! If we 
allow the Ocean to die, we are truly doomed! There are many problems caused by 
human impacts, such as pollution, areas of low oxygen and rampant overfishing. 
This puts the need to protect our North Coast all the way up to Oregon in a high 
priority. 
Please extend the National Marine Sanctuary up to the Oregon 
border, so we can scientifically study the solutions to the problems caused by 
Ocean industrialization, and stop killing the ocean with pollution, overfishing, 
CO2, plastics, agricultural dumping, and all the other causes of the decline in 
the health of the ocean. If we lose our ocean we will not survive as a 
planet.
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