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Challenges in Ocean Policy
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... A 1998 report from the National Research Council's Ocean Studies Board, Opportunities in Ocean Sciences: Challenges on the Horizon, highlighted three critical research areas that "present great opportunities for advances in the ocean sciences and will lead to concrete improvements for human life on this planet." The topics identified were understanding coastal ocean processes, sustaining marine ecosystems, and predicting climate variations. Although support for the research enterprise continues to be critical, this document provides a different emphasis.
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... Federal agencies can play a useful role in developing a consistent nationwide program for monitoring nutrient pollution in coastal settings. Because a significant component of the problem involves watersheds under multiple jurisdictions, addressing these areas may require changes in the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, or the Coastal Zone Management Act.
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... , a system that has been proposed as one way to eliminate the "race for fish" and create incentives to rebuild depleted stocks and conserve healthy ones. A 1999 OSB report, Sharing the Fisl: Toward a National Policy on Individual Fish id Quotas, concluded that, with careful planning, IFQs can serve as a useful tool for regional management
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... In many instances, solutions have been limited more by the decision-making process than by lack of basic understanding. The newly mandated Commission on Ocean Policy will be examining questions of coastal and ocean management in the United States, and the National Research Council looks forward to working with that body when it is established.
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... National Research Council. National Academy Press, 1998.
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... Wulf are chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the National Research Council. THE OCF^N STUDIES BOARD is a unit of the National Research Council created to advise the federal government on issues of ocean science, engineering, and policy.
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Key Terms

  • marine fisheries
  • coastal waters
  • sustainable fisheries
  • ocean studies
  • sustaining marine

  • ocean issues
  • fisheries data
  • marine ecosystems
  • urban runoff
  • fisheries management

  • marine protected
  • osb report
  • individual fishing
  • fishing quotas
  • monitoring nutrient

  • calls attention
  • issues described
  • newly mandated
  • exercising leadership
  • clean air

  • waterways trom
  • marine resources
  • appropriate observing
  • create incentives
  • broad ocean

  • involves watersheds
  • executive order
  • fisheries science
  • remains controversial
  • indepth reports


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