Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability

Rising Sea Level Predictions Should Spur a Global Initiative to Start Planning Now for ways to Protect the Productivity of our Precious Marine Coastal and Estuarine Habitats from the Coming Rising Tide

Sea Port’s business survival is dependent upon productive and sustainable wild fisheries and aquaculture.  With the warming of our oceans there will come a myriad of disruptions that the seafood industry will most likely take in stride and find creative ways to adapt.

However, the disruption caused by a possible rising sea level due to global warming may
present the most difficult challenge to adapt to without incurring a tremendous loss of property
and social stability within our global seafood industry and beyond.

Even though sea level rising predictions vary widely between 1-4 feet by the end of the century, it is

nevertheless prudent to plan now for this risk to our seafood industry and indeed the entire world.

World governments should all work together now to proactively
confront this possible rising tide by:

• Establishing global land use planning initiatives that create undeveloped natural buffer
   zones along coastlines, estuaries, and low- lying salt marshes that are currently still
   undeveloped and underdeveloped 

• Establishing comprehensive global fallback plans for relocating infrastructure that is currently
  entrenched on or near coastlines and estuaries such as ports, farms, manufacturing, power
  generation, and all the other structures associated with functioning urban areas

• Establishing flexible fishery management plans that can react accordingly

   in the face of rising sea levels and the transformation of river systems

In Short:  If the 1-4 foot sea level rise does not actually ever happen, it is still in the world’s
best interest to establish commonly agreed upon comprehensive plans now that protect our Earth's precious coastlines and estuaries from further degradation due to poor spatial planning and poor ecological understanding of their vital roles in keeping both wild fisheries and aquaculture
productive and sustainable for future generations.

Go Blue !  For Our Environment  -  For Sustainability – For Our Health

Sincerely, Dave Glaubke

Sea Port’s Director of Sustainability Initiatives