Morning Consult ran a survey, on behalf of the Walton Family Foundation, focusing on favorability and support for the protections in the Clean Water Act, as well as general views of water issues and who should set standards for water quality in the United States
Climate change is causing fish stocks to shift and is altering their productivity and availability. This is already creating issues with access to stocks and the allocation of harvest opportunity to fishers. The changing access to fishery resources creates problems at the social and economic level, such as issues of fairness among fishermen. These problems feed back into management systems which are often already strained, and can adversely impact fishery participants, processors and related communities.
