AllOnGeorgia Source: GA DNR
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today that Recreational and commercial oyster harvesting in Georgia will close at 6:00 a.m. June 1 and re-open for the year at 7:00 a.m. October 1.
This routine closure meets the requirements of Georgia’s Vibrio parahaemolyticus (Vp) control plan, which protects public health.
“This closure ensures that Georgia meets the requirements of the National Shellfish Sanitation Program to protect public health by implementing a Vp control plan,” explained Dominic Guadagnoli, shellfish fish and water quality manager for the Coastal Resources Division of DNR. “We expect this closure to have little adverse impact on recreational and commercial oyster harvesters, since most individuals refrain from eating freshly harvested wild oysters during the summer months when the combination of spawning and warm water makes oysters less desirable as seafood.”
Beijing’s Olive Branch Rejected as Taiwan to Secure Qualified Vaccine: Scholar
While Taiwan strived to speed up COVID-19 vaccine deliveries from its international allies in a recent surge of availability, Beijing’s offer to help did not win the confidence of Taiwan people who considered the proffered vaccine to be a political ploy, a Taiwanese scholar said.
Recently, Su Tzu-Yun, director of the Defense Strategy and Resources Division of the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taiwan, told The Epoch Times the reasons behind Taiwan’s reluctance to receive Chinese-made vaccines.
Taiwan, a model territory once known for successfully handling the Covid-19 outbreak, reported 295 new cases and one death on May 20, making it the sixth consecutive day of over 100 domestic infections, official data shows.
The tax system of a country has two key elements: tax policy and tax administration. The political economy analysis is vital to understand the factors responsible for facilitating and hindering tax reforms in tax policy and administration in a country and taking reform measures.
FACTORS INHIBITING TAX REFORMS IN BANGLADESH
Article 83 of the Bangladesh Constitution stipulates that no tax shall be levied or collected except by or under the authority of an act of Parliament. This highlights that taxation is a political phenomenon in Bangladesh.
The political economy of tax reforms has to be understood in the broader context of governance in Bangladesh. Significant recent research has focused on the paradox of Bangladesh, with continued economic growth despite problems of governance, including a high level of corruption as shown by different governance indicators.
One year after the failures of the Edenville and Sanford dams, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) continues to assist the community in recovery efforts and planning for the future of the affected communities.
Wednesday marks a year since the dams failed during a torrential rain event, displacing thousands of residents, damaging businesses and livelihoods, destroying property and natural resources, and illuminating the chronic problem of deferred maintenance of Michigan s infrastructure. A year has passed, but for the families and businesses affected by the dam failures it surely feels like only yesterday, said Liesl Clark, EGLE director. We had personnel literally on the dam just prior to its failure, and since then we ve engaged continually with community leaders to provide scientific, logistical and technical support to help them recover from this disaster.
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â Whether it is a landscape snacking animal or a critter coming too close for comfort, many people have had some sort of human-wildlife conflict issue. But why are wildlife, such as deer, coyotes, bears, raccoons, foxes and skunks, near your home in the first place? It is most commonly because of easy access to âfood,â according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resourcesâ Wildlife Resources Division.
âWildlife can, and will, take advantage of âeasy foodâ opportunities. So, it is our job, as homeowners to ensure that we are keeping these non-natural foods away from wildlife â for our safety, the protection of our homes, and for wildlife,â Kaitlin Goode, the Urban Wildlife Program Manager for the DNRâs Wildlife Resources Division, said in a news release.