Oceana Sounds Alarm Over Potential Changes to NOAA
Oceana, an international advocacy entity focused on ocean conservation, voiced concerns on Feb. 10 about threats to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration if the Trump administration moves to downsize the agency.
“NOAA is the federal agency that manages our national fisheries, monitors and forecasts our weather, charts our oceans and protects our coastal communities and infrastructure,” Beth Lowell, vice president for U.S. Oceans at Oceana, said. “Millions of people rely on healthy oceans and without a strong NOAA, our oceans, Great Lakes and coastal economies will suffer severe consequences.”
Scaling back NOAA’s resources could lead to consequences including overfishing, delayed life-saving alerts about severe weather and allowing endangered or threatened marine wildlif...
