Bryants Maritime Blog
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking comment on the list of nominations of existing marine protected areas (MPAs) for inclusion in the National System of Marine Protected Areas. Comments should be submitted by February 22. 75 Fed. Reg. 972 (January 7, 2010).
January 5, 2010 by David L. Wochner, Benjamin Norris
Yesterday Massachusetts released the final version of its Ocean Management Plan that provides for marine spatial planning in Massachusetts state waters. The plan allows for offshore wind turbines near Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard but protects certain environmentally sensitive areas from commercial development. Read more in the Cape Cod Times.
After hearings in Providence and around the nation, the Obama administration has moved closer to developing a new federal policy that aims at protecting oceans.
The Providence Journal / Bob Thayer
In September, more than 250 people from Maine to South Carolina packed a room in the Rhode Island Convention Center to offer their suggestions to Obama administration officials working on a new ocean policy for the nation.
Last week, following similar hearings held around the nation, President Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force released an interim report calling for managing coastal waters through a zoning-like process called marine spatial planning.
Over the past decade, researchers have developed a variety of reliable real-time and archival instruments to study sounds made or heard by marine mammals and fish. These new sensors are now being used in research, management and conservation projects around the world with some very important practical results. Among them is improved monitoring of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an effort to reduce ship strikes, a leading cause of their deaths.
This is a list of materials on the COINAtlantic website that contains references to marine spatial planninge
http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/COINAtlantic/reference/icom-themes/marine-spatial-planning-related-materials
Marine Spatial Planning Related Materials
This is a list of materials on the COINAtlantic website that contains references to marine spatial planninge
Draft Business Plan
COINAtlantic Business Plan 2009
Draft Report for the ACZISC DETERMINING THE ONLINE NEEDS OF ICOM PRACTITIONERS workshop
Report from Third Party Evaluation – March 31, 2009
COINAtlantic Phase II proposal for GeoConnections Data publishing RFP
Report on Next Steps Workshop February 3-4th, 2009
Schroeder et al. 2001 paper on Gulf of Maine Information Exchange (GOMInfoEx)