Required Reading for Everyone Interested in Oceans

I've been blogging less, traveling more, and taking on some exciting new responsibilities which I'll be sharing soon. But in the mean time, I'd like to point readers to the work of my brilliant friend and former colleague Michael Conathan. He's sharp, articulate, and has tremendous experience working on U.S. oceans policy. In 2006 when I served in Senator Bill Nelson's office, Mike was the Knauss Sea Grant Fellow on the Senate Commerce Committee. Perhaps our greatest accomplishment that year was contributing to the long-overdue reauthorization of the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act--the primary law governing marine fisheries management in the U.S. Michael recently joined the Center for American Progress as the the Director of Ocean Policy and they are very lucky to have him on board. He's also writing a terrific column called Fish on Fridays which I've been following over the past weeks. Here's a sample from March 11 entitled Waking from the Gluttony: