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Action Plan 2007-2012
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Action Plan 2001-2006
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- Goal 1: Protect and restore coastal and marine habitats
Coastal and marine habitats throughout the Gulf of Maine are healthy and support Gulf’s diversity of plant and animal species.
Objectives:- Increase awareness and improve management of regionally significant habitats
- Increase habitat protection
- Increase habitat restoration
- Increase awareness and improve management of aquatic nuisance species
- Enhance citizen stewardship
- Goal 2: Protect human health and ecosystem integrity
Contaminants in the Gulf of Maine are at sufficiently low levels to ensure human health and ecosystem integrity.
Objectives:- Increase awareness and improve management of priority contaminants
- Identify reduction strategies for priority contaminants
- Enhance citizen stewardship
- Goal 3: Encourage sustainable maritime activities
The Council’s vision for 2025 is that marine research and nature-based tourism provide unique and significant economic opportunities for the region. During the next five years, the Council will create strategies to achieve these new objectives.
Objectives:- Create and implement a marine research and monitoring strategy that responds to pressing management issues and supports regional economic development
- Develop and implement a nature-based tourism strategy that sustains the environment and the well-being of local people
Action Plan 1996-2001
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