Pushing the potential Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary’s boundary far north enough to protect waters coveted by the oil industry between Santa Cruz and San Francisco was a priority in the lat…
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the Herald is publishing columns by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, along with Sam Farr, Dan Haifley, Fred Keeley and Dr. Lisa Wooninck telling the story of the Sanctuary.
State and federal laws approved in the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and the 1990 American Trader spill off Huntington Beach, provided tools to prevent, and respond to, future disasters. Equally powerful were the televised images from those spills, which fueled public concern.
Chabot built a map of the region’s biology to gauge what would be harmed by offshore oil development. It supplemented biotic inventories kept by resource managers. It also boosted the case for stretching the sanctuary’s boundary north from Santa Cruz to the southern boundary of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. A key argument involved the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, north of Half Moon Bay.
Public hearings on the proposed sanctuary were held in Monterey, Half Moon Bay, Sacramento and Santa Cruz. The Center for Marine Conservation had funded, and the Environmental Working Group designed and mailed, an “action alert” to thousands of people to engage them in the hearings and written input on the plan, in the pre-internet age. Nearly all supported the largest boundary and, as Coastal Commission manager Les Strnad said in his testimony, “Public opinion drives public policy.
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