The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) enforces certain provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). These payments are often referred to as “lost time” or “lost wage” payments, but some unions may attach different labels to such payments. These officials often receive payments from the union as reimbursement for wages lost while conducting business for the union. LOST’s controls on fish management are written from the standpoint of “optimum utilization” of fish stocks rather than sustaining food webs or avoiding harvests altogether in an effort to protect an environment, according to a report written by the Congressional Research Service.Sometimes union officers, stewards, or committee members (“officials”) must take time off from their regular jobs to investigate a grievance, negotiate a contract, attend a safety meeting, or perform other work for the union.
LOST does not look at the ocean as an ecosystem, never mind provide for conservation corridors. The predator highway across the sea could be zoned as a conservation corridor. We also need specific ways of addressing very important spots in the sea so that a watery nursery, for example, could be protected by being designated part of UNESCO’s Marine World Heritage. In their report, the researchers say we need policies that treat the oceans as whole ecosystems rather than a set of national boundaries.
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(For a summary of what they found, download the Nature paper here.) All of this activity enmeshes the predators with each other and with their prey, the currents, temperatures, and food. To the north, there’s a big east-west fish highway along the boundary between the cooler currents and the warmer ones.
The researchers also found underwater gathering places, like the “shark cafe” between Baja California and Hawaii. The researchers were surprised to find that animals like the elephant seal, which had seemed to be a coastal hanger-on, actually spent a long time far from land. The initiative’s collaborative of researchers spent 10 years tagging and tracking 4,306 critters at the top of the Pacific Ocean’s food chain. The global tagging initiative’s research suggests we’ll need to do considerably more than that to keep the leatherback turtles chugging along. These observations do not mean that ratifying LOST will make the world right. And then there are the leatherback turtles that commute between California and Indonesia. White sharks, which seem to spend their time cruising the coast to bite surfers for Animal Planet programs, turn out to take frequent trips to Hawaii. The wild wanderings of 1002010 can be seen on the interactive map at the Global Tagging of Pelagic (deepwater) Predators project’s website.Īt California’s Año Nuevo State Park, a 640-pound elephant seal set off from the beach and made it pretty close to the Aleutians in Alaska before turning around and hauling its great floppy mass back to Año Nuevo. The most prominent voice against the treaty is that of Donald Rumsfeld, who testified that it is a “sweeping power grab.” He wrote a recent editorial saying that the treaty is “fundamentally incompatible with the basic tenets of capitalism.” He worried that establishing world ownership of the deep seabed could create a similar argument for outer space.īut how do the fish feel? I was thinking about LOST when I found a biography of a Pacific bluefin tuna named “specimen 1002010,” a yard-long fish that crossed the Pacific Ocean three times in two years and apparently liked to winter in Southern California and spend summers near Japan.
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