Impacts on Fishing

 

Brownsville and Port Isabel together are the largest commercial fishery in Texas, and were ranked as the thirteenth most productive port in the U.S. in 2013.  The shallow and hypersaline Laguna Madre is the most productive marine nursery on the Texas coast, largely because of its extensive sea grasses and high water quality. The LNG plants will destroy acres of wetlands which are nursuries for young fish and shrimp, and their emissions will acidify and pollute these vital waters.

 

This is in turn would threaten the thousands of jobs that depend on a healthy fishery.