The Northeast Regional Ocean Council today announced that the upcoming virtual Ocean Policy Committee meeting will feature an abbreviated agenda and will be one part of a series of webinars to replace the previously scheduled in-person meeting. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held in-person but was changed to webinar due to the pandemic.
The webinar will include an update on the Committee’s projects and activities, federal progress implementing the nation’s new ocean policy and recent activities of the federal Ocean Policy Council, an update on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan revision, and NROC’s role in providing data and supporting best practices for decision-making in the context of offshore wind in the Northeast.
A future webinar(s) will cover other topics including offshore wind research and monitoring in the Northeast, ocean planning activities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine, offshore aquaculture and potential co-location with offshore wind, fisheries management, and cable projects.
NROC is a regional ocean partnership formed in 2005 by the Governors of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut to provide a voluntary forum for states and federal partners to coordinate and collaborate on the development of goals and priorities and address regional coastal and ocean management challenges with creative solutions that support balanced uses and conservation of the Northeast’s ocean and coastal resources.
