The water surrounding New Bedford harbor contains a wide variety of marine life. The building of a natural gas plant on popes island would upset the local fisherman and could possibly disrupt one of the most productive fishing industries in the country. Which netted a total of $160. 4 million of seafood was landed in new Bedford harbor in 1990 which was the top national average. The building of a natural gas plant would disturb the local fisherman who lay out lobster traps all around popes island. With barges and tankers coming through all the time there would be no possible way for these fisherman to lay their traps without them being sucked away or ruined.
If ships are constantly flowing in and out of the harbor than the quality of water around popes island would be in severe jeopardy. If one of the tankers from the natural gas plant should happen to have an oil spill than there would be a very big problem. The fishing industry that brings in over 100, 000 pounds of seafood daily which accounts for one third of the city’s economy would be crushed. The marine life would be devastated. The harbor is home to the sea scallop which is the main catch, flounder, haddock, cod, herring, lobster, harbor seals, egrets, seagulls, crabs, jelly fish, whales and some endangered species.
Nearly all of these animals would have a population decrease. Another problem that might occur in the harbor is an abundance of ships. There are 113 scallop vessels, 150 daggers and 50 smaller vessels. If there is going to be tankers coming in and out all of the time there would be some conflict with the locals and the 2, 000 + fisherman that call new Bedford home.
The Term Paper on Pearl Harbor 7
The bombing of pearl harbor could have been avoided and many lives could have been saved if the united states didn't have over confidence in themselves, if the Americans would have kept better tract of Japanese intelligence, and if Roosevelt would of warned pearl harbor of his knowledge of it going to be attacked. Many things led up to the bombing of pearl harbor. The things that led up to the ...
