The New Hampshire Business Review has just featured the Northeast Ocean Plan.
“When, as expected, the Northeast Ocean Plan is approved later this year, New England will lead the nation in developing guidelines and an online database to provide framework for all future development and decision-making regarding the sea.
Originating from a 2010 presidential executive order, the national ocean policy instructs nine regions bordering the ocean or Great Lakes to form regional planning bodies consisting of representatives appointed from federal, state and regional entities and tribes to hold several hearings with a variety of stakeholders. (In New England, the New England Fishery Management Council and two ex-officio members from New York and Canada were also included.) The input is used to develop guidelines for how to proceed, for instance, in the case of a proposed offshore wind farm.”
The ultimate goal for the plan is to encourage more informed, scientific and transparent decisions about ocean uses in the Northeast, a theme central to the foundation’s Marine Conservation Initiative.
Read the full story by Liisa Rajala here.
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