Yes, and legal requirements under the nation’s primary federal fisheries law remain. The reduced ability to provide necessary science, management and enforcement will only reduce fisheries production and access in commercial and recreational fisheries across the country.

All of these cuts undermine our economic productivity as a nation. Getting less attention is that commercial and recreational fisheries alone are worth over $500 billion annually. NOAA science, management and enforcement sustain those fisheries. By law, if they slow down, the fisheries lose.

So, we are talking at most about the US portion of the greater Gulf of Mexico images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;...
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“…. area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the State of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.” (3/4)

Requires the Secretary of Interior to “take all appropriate actions to rename as the ‘Gulf of America’ the U.S. Continental Shelf….” Has he done that yet? (2/4)

And protects sustainable fisheries worth hundreds of billions of dollars in commercial and recreational fisheries value and millions of jobs.
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www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Does that include our water and our farmland?

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