| Are there other areas where you would be interested in developing additional capacity to help plan for or implement Ecosystem-Based Management? |
| # | Response Date | Comment |
| 1. | Fri, 9/7/07 12:28 PM | Basic information/education for the general public; facilitating data layer sharing for GIS |
| 2. | Mon, 9/10/07 8:25 PM | Inter-agency communication. |
| 3. | Tue, 9/18/07 2:46 PM | The Seacoast Science Center would be very willing to host meetings, workshops, seminars (etc.). Our new Gregg Interactive Learning Studio has extensive video conference/distance learning capabilities if you want to link to other groups. |
| 4. | Tue, 9/18/07 7:14 PM | Honestly, we need more people who are biologists or have biological/statistical training. |
| 5. | Tue, 9/18/07 9:17 PM | Understanding the linkages between land-use and the ecology of estuaries and the open waters of the Gulf of Maine |
| 6. | Wed, 9/19/07 12:51 PM | The USFWS has certain "trust species" for which it has a high responsibility. A recent document on Strategic Habitat Conservation takes a regional approach to supporting the needs of these species. If your EMB could incorporate at least some links to this process, it would be extraordinarily useful to us. |
| 7. | Fri, 9/21/07 1:34 PM | No |
| 8. | Fri, 9/21/07 5:49 PM | Extend the experience :(Canadian maritimes and Quebec provinces, New england states) |
| 9. | Fri, 9/21/07 7:28 PM | I think the technical / scientific aspect of EBM is minimized in your list - I think we are still too far from predicatbility to start jumping on the human aspect, and even in your list there is a hint that EBM will somehow let humans "do more" of the presently limited activities with less resistance from environmental protection regulations. |
| 10. | Fri, 9/21/07 7:45 PM | GOod survey. Can you make it available as part of the council's web site so that people can consider these questions beyond the framework of the current compilation? |
| 11. | Fri, 9/21/07 7:53 PM | Volunteers are scarce and require training and supervision. We do not have sufficient organizational bulk to sustain a stakeholder program that can be truly effective. |
| 12. | Fri, 9/21/07 11:20 PM | Above covers it... |
| 13. | Sun, 9/23/07 3:27 AM | Vision and values. I think we need to more broadley engage the american public in this debate. This in not a NMFS issue, a commerical fishing issue, this is debate should be approached in the same context as that of drilling for oil in Alaska, fighting a war in Iraq.... |
| 14. | Sun, 9/23/07 3:11 PM | raise people's overall knowledge and understnading of how the ecosystem works and how management decisions may affect it |
| 15. | Tue, 9/25/07 3:24 PM | Questions 9 and 10 are answered from an agency perspective, not personal. My personal views would be strong interest in every area for question #9. |
| 16. | Tue, 9/25/07 5:19 PM | No. |
| 17. | Tue, 9/25/07 5:58 PM | public education & outreach |
| 18. | Thu, 9/27/07 1:27 PM | No comment |
| 19. | Thu, 9/27/07 7:05 PM | Although ecosystem management is critical and central to coastal managment Nova Scotia also needs to consider how industry and communities needs can also be addressed as sustainably as possible. All about balance. |