Commercial shellfish farmers still inhabit the waters of the adjacent Assateague Island National Seashore, harvesting millions of clams and oysters annually before shipping them off to wholesalers and restaurants. And vacationers still bask in the tranquility of Assateague Island’s beach, home to panoramic sunset views, a forest full of warblers and horned owls, and perhaps most important, up to 1,000 parking spots right by the shoreline.
But now two powerful federal agencies want to change — or, obliterate, depending on which “Teaguer” is talking — the delicate arrangement. The National Park Service wants to wind down commercial fishing in Assateague’s waters for an unspecified period that could be, in the agency’s words, “as long as a generation.” And the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to relocate Assateague’s popular-yet-eroding beach to higher ground about 1 1/2 miles north, depriving swimmers of gorgeous views of the Atlantic Ocean and, to the west, Tom’s Cove.
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This has always struck me as a strange thing, if you take a shell, rock or anything out of a National Park, it is against the federal law, yet firemen are allowed to take horses. I guess another double standard.
ReplyDeletethey aren't taking anything they didn't put there in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThey are their oysters they seeded and tended if anything it's cleaning the bay. darden is a typical obummer appointee once again telling us we work for them! damn shame!
They tend to the heard keeping them healthy and viable, they are the real caretakers.
ReplyDeleteGET the GOVERNMENT OUT NOW.
ReplyDeleteWho trust the gov't anyhow?
ReplyDeletebut they are here to HELP!
ReplyDeleteThey want to do this so we won't notice how much their GD underwater explosions and sub-audible sonar pulses are affecting the aquatic life.
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