When: July 23 from 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Where: Nimitz Marine Facility
397 Rosecrans St
San Diego, CA 92106
Launched in 2009, Clean Water Ambassador trainings highlight Coastkeeper's
work, and the critical issues facing the San Diego Region. The next forum
will focus on current State efforts to protect our ocean ecosystems with the
establishment of marine protected areas along our coastline. Joining
Coastkeeper's Marine Conservation Campaign staff will be marine ecologist
Dr. Ed Parnell from Scripps Institute of Oceanography and others. Contact
Sarah Blakeslee for more information and to RSVP Sarah@sdcoastkeeper.org.
Learn more about the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/content/programs/marineCon/areas.htm
Why is all of this so important?
-Fishermen are now catching less than half of what they did in 1990 and the
fish they do catch are 45 percent smaller.
-Some fish populations in California are depleted to 10 percent of historic
levels.
-Seventy percent of California¹s kelp forests, key breeding habitat for
certain types of fish, have vanished in the last 50 years.
-Many fish off California¹s coast are in such decline that some species will
take 50-80 years to recover to healthy levels. If current conditions
persist, some never will.
MPAs provide safe refuge for fish to grow and thrive because human impacts
are limited resulting in more diverse, abundant and larger marine animals
and ecosystems that provide a more reliable source of food for larger
animals such as marine mammals, sharks, and even humans where allowed.
(PB Middle Students attending the Clean Water Ambassador trainings with
their parents earn double service hours.)
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