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Oyster spawning reefs and Oyster Gardening featured in NRDA Plan 2 for Mississippi

Andrew Whitehurst

NRDA Restoration Plan 2 for Mississippi has been published for comment by the Mississippi Trustee Implementation Group and MDEQ. Three quarters of the spending in Plan 2 is focused on restoring oysters: placing cultch material on water bottoms to create reefs, and four years of new funding for the Mississippi oyster gardening volunteer program, managed by MS-AL Sea Grant Program.

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Oil & Gas in the Gulf of Mexico 2020

Dustin Renaud

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One Lake Sponsors Play Hide and Seek with Project Costs and Benefits

Andrew Whitehurst

Economic justification for the One Lake project will be tough to examine if Corps agency technical reviews and independent peer reviews of the project are not released when the Final Environmental Impact Statement is published later this year. The Rankin Hinds Drainage District has jealously guarded access to these reviews so far.

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Standing together for a healthy Gulf

Raleigh Hoke

In these trying times, we’re thinking about all the Gulf residents and people around the world who are suffering due the Covid-19 virus and associated economic disaster...

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Disappointments and small wins: the 2020 FL Legislature

Christian Wagley

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Pearl River One Lake Sponsors Keep Information Tight as Final Project Review Begins

Andrew Whitehurst

A recently released document from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service goes into detail about why a lake dredging alternative for flood control on the Pearl River in Jackson Mississippi is the most environmentally damaging alternative the project sponsor could choose. Yet it is pushing this plan forward for approval by the Army Corps of Engineers.

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Florida residents say no to offshore fish farm

Raleigh Hoke

Two weeks ago, I attended a very spirited and well-attended demonstration and public hearing on the proposed Kampachi Farms offshore industrial fish farm’s water pollution permit. The project off the coast of Sarasota involves the concentrated cultivation of finfish in net pens, pods, and cages...

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Across the Gulf, oysters are in trouble

[UPDATED] This original blog was posted in June 2019 before the collapse of Gulf oysters in the wake of historic flooding on the Mississippi River. That flooding led to the Bonnet Carre Spillway being opened twice in one season for the first time ever. Gulf oyster beds east of the Mississippi River were devastated along with fish and marine mammals all along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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How about the gift of clean water?

Christian Wagley

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Protecting the Sponge: Community meetings on Floodplain Resilience in the Pontchartrain Basin

Andrew Whitehurst

The last of three Floodplain Resilience presentations was given in Madisonville, La. to engage citizens and decision makers about the 2014-2018 wetland loss trends in the Parishes in the Lake Pontchartrain drainage basin.