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Written by csh on 2025-01-07 at 19:36

A former shrimper tries to revive Matagorda Bay and its fishing industry with $50 million pollution settlement

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/03/texas-pollution-settlement-formosa-plastics-diane-wilson-matagorda-bay/

Five years after Diane Wilson’s landmark settlement with Formosa Plastics, she’s directing the money toward reviving “the bay and the fishermen.”

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Written by csh on 2025-01-07 at 19:38

Now, five years later, that money is beginning to flow into some major development projects on this mostly rural and generally overlooked stretch of Texas coastline. Through the largest of them, the Matagorda Bay Fishing Cooperative, formed in February, Wilson dreams of rebuilding this community’s relationship with the sea and reviving a lifestyle that flourished here before global markets cratered the seafood industry and local economies shifted to giant chemical plants.

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Written by csh on 2025-01-07 at 19:41

Other projects include

... a marine science summer camp at the Port Lavaca YMCA, a global campaign to document plastic pollution from chemical plants, a $500,000 study of mercury pollution in Lavaca Bay and the $10 million development of a local freshwater lake for public access.

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