2009

December 15, 2009 Joint Ocean Commission Initiative: Joint Initiative Supports Ocean Policy Task Force Interim Framework for Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (PDF) The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative supports the White House Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force’s Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning, released Monday, December 14. In September, the Task Force

December 14, 2009 Hawaii Ocean Law: White House Ocean Policy Task Force Releases Framework for Spatial Planning News Flash – the Executive Office of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality just published the Ocean Policy Task Force’s Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning …

Ocean Policy Task Force Releases Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (December 14, 2009)

November 17, 2009 ESPN Outdoors: MLPA Could Hit Coast Fishing Hard During the past few months, the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force has earned most of the attention for the threat that it poses to angler access …

September 21, 2009 Environment News Service: White House Proposes National Ocean Council to Chart Course for Ocean Health The White House is offering for public comment a new plan to better govern and protect the nation’s ocean waters, coasts and the Great Lakes. Under the plan, a new interagency National Ocean Council would be created

Obama Administration Officials Release Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force Interim Report (September 17, 2009)