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How are you and your organization currently involved in Ecosystem-Based Management?
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1.Fri, 9/7/07 11:55 AMWe do not call what we do EBM, however, we take an integrated and ecosystem-based approach to decision making involving land use and development approvals.
2.Mon, 9/10/07 2:58 PMDeveloping indicators based on entire ecosystem.
3.Tue, 9/11/07 3:00 PMWorking in Muscongus Bay to develop local interest in marine area management and local involvement in modeling the ecosystem
4.Mon, 9/17/07 3:41 PMMaine developed a Bay Management Plan and is implementing EBM in Taunton Bay as a pilot project.
5.Tue, 9/18/07 2:36 PMWe are informal sci. education facility and want to be able to include EBM information in our programming.
6.Tue, 9/18/07 7:36 PMresearch related
7.Tue, 9/18/07 9:02 PMhabitat restoration
8.Tue, 9/18/07 9:04 PMUsing for assessment of salt marsh restoration and watershed management
9.Wed, 9/19/07 12:40 PMWe are operating under the auspices of a comprehensive conservation plan and a habitat management plan, both of which are ecosystem based.
10.Wed, 9/19/07 2:02 PMI am a Ph.D student researching the potential for ecosystem-based governance in the Gulf of Maine region
11.Wed, 9/19/07 3:36 PMUndertaking scientific research which hopefully will support EBM
12.Fri, 9/21/07 8:31 AMGoM Area Program of CoML is formualting a framework and developing a demonstration project of a model that goes from process science to management measures.
13.Fri, 9/21/07 1:19 PMSet up experimental aquaculture site for a short-term stop gap protecting bays and inlets
14.Fri, 9/21/07 1:34 PMThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)is implementing the report "Strategic Habitat Conservation"(July 2006). For more information ,please see the FWS website
15.Fri, 9/21/07 5:10 PMI do research in the science branch of the institute and EBM goes under the umbrella of managers.
16.Fri, 9/21/07 5:37 PMintersted in assessing EBM as integration tool
17.Fri, 9/21/07 6:05 PMIt is concept frequently discussed.
18.Fri, 9/21/07 6:34 PMAdvise others who manage lands and resources.
19.Fri, 9/21/07 6:38 PMIt is a long path but in fisheries management the logical progression is from single species to multi-species to elements of ebm.
20.Fri, 9/21/07 7:39 PMWe are on a committee set up to advise the DMR oommissioner on management policies for the local bay.
21.Fri, 9/21/07 8:15 PMwe have been using it in our association bay management agreements since 2002 agreements
22.Fri, 9/21/07 8:44 PMplanning, participating in, and conducting monitoring and research on coastal wetland restoration projects
23.Fri, 9/21/07 11:16 PMStudying the concept of EBM
24.Sun, 9/23/07 2:59 AMReseach, visioning--serving in advisory capacity to NEFMC and ASMFC
25.Tue, 9/25/07 3:18 PMWe talk about it, but not really getting any closer.
26.Tue, 9/25/07 5:10 PMAdvocating for implementation of EBM
27.Tue, 9/25/07 5:43 PMthere is resistence here to pointing to EBM as a cure-all, but at the same time we have worked on marine reserves in other parts of the world.
28.Tue, 9/25/07 6:46 PMDeveloping EBM research program
29.Tue, 9/25/07 6:52 PMscience support
30.Thu, 9/27/07 1:02 PMDealing with EBM through New England Fishery Management Council, Stellwagen Bank Advisory Council and own state waters initiatives.
31.Thu, 9/27/07 6:46 PMEBM will be a part of the Coastal Managment Framework the Province of Nova Scotia is currently developing