These
slide shows are especially created for the web site to give
our constituents tutorials on ocean and coastal legal issues,
and details regarding specific projects. Information on
the slide shows is available in full graphic or text-only
format. Click below to access the slide shows.
This
presentation presents Marine Zoning for open ocean aquaculture
as an option for offshore aquaculture to be used in the open
ocean while providing for access to other users. This was
presented to the Open Ocean Aquaculture IV Conference in St.
Andrews, News Brunswick, on June 18, 2001.
This
show gives a history of the public trust doctrine as it
is used in the United States and Mississippi and an analysis
of the 1996 Secretary of State's exchange of public trust
tidelands off the Mississippi coast to a casino for 4,225
acres of coastal wetlands.
With
the 1996 Congressional mandate for increased attention to
fish habitat, the new statutory and regulatory tool in fishery
management became Essential Fish Habitat or EFH. This show
describes EFH and dispels the myths about this new tool.
