BY LINDA BEHNKEN AND MIKE CONROY, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 02/16/21 10:30 AM EST 80
The Hill
Fishermen have been invited to be partners with the Biden administration on ocean policy and we are prepared to engage. Hard work, honest dialog and commitments to justice and equity will ensure that we remain at the table and not on the menu.
January’s executive order tackling climate change includes ambitious provisions that set agencies on a course to climate mitigation. Most importantly for America’s commercial fishing families, the order established two parallel processes to secure direct input from fishermen on, respectively the appropriate ways to conserve 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030, an initiative known as 30x30, and ways to make our fisheries more resilient to climate change.
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