The Northeast Regional Planning Body today announced the availability of an agenda and the opening of registration for its upcoming April 8 Ecosystem-Based Management Workshop in Durham, NH.
The workshop is intended to help establish a framework and context for considering existing ocean planning projects and activities and define immediate and long-term next steps. In considering options to address in the Northeast ocean plan at its last formal meeting in November 2014, rather than explore options for an ecosystem-based approach to identifying important ecological areas, the RPB instead decided to establish a work group to explore options for an adaptive ecosystem-based approach to managing healthy ocean and coastal ecosystems.
Established in 2012 pursuant to the National Ocean Policy Executive Order, the Northeast RPB was formed to develop a coastal and marine plan for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
