SAVE DISCOVERY BAY ROUGH NOTES

Quite. It's flawed, for every single land use decision in Jamaica is flawed due to the absence of planning.

So they've invested a lot, and the government has blindly approved their plans. How would it be not to have them sue the government for going back on their approval and causing them to incur huge infrastructure and other expenses? I'm not on their side, by any means. People who torture animals get what they get. But this sort of mess results when there is no national or community planning.

If there was a St. Ann Coastal Planning District, there would have to be plan for the coast. That plan would need consistency between its parts. If the plan promoted healthy fisheries for the entire coast, a dolphinarium would not be consistent with that. (The objections of the dep of Fisheries should make that clear.) While marine sanctuaries are a proven way to promote healthy fisheries, dolphinariums are known to do just the opposite. A coherent, consistent plan for the coast would rule out locating a dophinarium along the coast in the first place, but it would take very little thought to rule out any being located immediately adjacent to a marine sanctuary. What would be the economic cost of such contradictory planning?

To the extent that it won't detract from this groups purpose, I'm looking at how environmental mismanagement through the years might already have jeopardized Discovery Bay's marine health. If it's clear that thoughtless developments, especially regarding river flow, have damaged marine resources already, it could strengthen the case for not making things worse with a dolphinarium.

But I'm very uninformed about the issue. Which rivers and creeks flow into the bay? What was their role regarding mineral and other beneficial supplied for ocean health?

Jinx McDonald While I know of no natural river or creeks that flow from the Dry Harbour Mountains into Puerto Seco, I have been there immediately after a storm and seen every imaginable form of filth and nastiness wash down the man-made concrete gully and into the bay. Can we try to clean this too?
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