9. Wetlands and Real Estate
The biggest problem with managing the marsh and mangrove wetlands that are the nursery for juvenile shrimp is that managers cannot always protect wetlands from pollution or politically well-connected real estate developers. It’s easy to beat up on the small commercial fishermen, but land use is controlled by wealthy, powerful politicians and real estate developers, some of whom are political appointees sitting on the fisheries councils. Many freshwater wetlands, in particular, have been stripped of much of their previous legal protection by recent Supreme Court decisions, contributing to degraded water quality in coastal wetlands.
It’s been shown again and again that when land speculators move in, wetlands and shrimp ...
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