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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:54 AM

Subject: Trouble down Bimini way??

Good morning All!  Now that we are finished with the holidays and the dust is settling, I am enquiring about the fate of a letter that Teresa and the Trust Council wrote after my presentation about the Bimini Bay project on October 31, 2003.  As I recall, a draft was circulated and it was agreed that the letter would go to the PMs office straight away.

Since October little has changed.  Capo is on a huge advertising campaign at all the boat shows across the USA but there has been little progress or construction at Bimini.  I had several meetings with Livingston Marshall who suggested that he would keep me in the loop regarding the Bimini Bay situation but I have heard nothing from him as well.  The two may be related:  Since not much is going on in Bimini there is not much to report.  However the latest setback where Capo and Hon Obadiah Wilshcombe signed a holiday card and presented the residents of Bimini with Christmas turkeys in concert suggests that plans are in the offing (see attached).

My great concern now is that permits or not, Capo will begin to encroach further in the North Sound and start dredging there.  I have repeatedly stressed with compelling scientific data that the North Sound is a highly fragile environment and can't take much more.  I hope I made the point in October--and indeed the council seemed to agree.

I look forward to your reply.

Dr. Samuel H. Gruber   

Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

University of Miami 33149-1098

               and

Bimini Biological Field Station

9300 SW 99 St

Miami FL 33176-2050

305 274 0628 fax or phone

sgruber@rsmas.miami.edu

http://www.miami.edu/sharklab

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