{"id":208,"date":"2004-04-21T00:07:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T00:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2004-04-21T00:07:54","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T00:07:54","slug":"ocean_policy_report_released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Policy Report Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virtualproperties.com\/ca2003\/th_dscn1243.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/20\/science\/20CND-OCEA.html?hp=&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1082504463-SymwNMIQselG4a+zd5pbnw\">Felicity Barringer writes<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/oceancommission.gov\/\">Ocean Commission&#8217;s<\/a> new strategy for safeguarding the sea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Our oceans and coasts are in serious trouble,&#8221; the commission&#8217;s chairman, Adm. James D. Watkins, a former chief of naval operations, said at a news conference here today. The existing management system, which spreads responsibility across what he called &#8220;a Byzantine patchwork&#8221; of federal and state agencies and local fishing councils, &#8220;is simply not up to the task&#8221; of preventing degradation, Admiral Watkins said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicity Barringer writes about the Ocean Commission&#8217;s new strategy for safeguarding the sea: &#8220;Our oceans and coasts are in serious trouble,&#8221; the commission&#8217;s chairman, Adm. James D. Watkins, a former chief of naval operations, said at a news conference here today. The existing management system, which spreads responsibility across what he called &#8220;a Byzantine patchwork&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}