• National Coastal Condition Report

http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/nccrfs.html

• America’s Living Oceans: Charting a Course for Sea Change

http://www.pewoceans.org

• The US Ocean Commission on Ocean Policy http://oceancommission.gov/

Coastal States Organization (CSO)

35 coastal states, commonwealths and territories

• http://www.coastalstates.org;

• http://www.coastalstates.org/pages/its.html

• http://ciceet.unh.edu/report on 35 coastal state management issues and technology/science needs

Identified coastal management issues:

Priority Coastal Management Issues

US Coastal Zone Management Act

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/bpercival/casebook/chap7_links.asp

http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/about/czma.html#anchor206089

Acts of Congress

• Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 1976 (MSA)

- Claim rights over EEZ, 200 nautical mile limit

- Establish 8 regional fisheries management councils

- Used to promote long-term sustainable use of marine resource

“Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions aboutthem. As soon as things become too complex, science can’t deal withthem. The reason why physics can achieve such depth is that it restrictsitself to extremely simple things, abstracted from the complexity of theworld. As soon as an atom gets too complicated, maybe helium, theyhand it over to chemists. When problems become too complicated forchemists, they hand it over to biologists. Biologists often hand it over tothe sociologists, and they hand it over to the historians, and so on.

But it’s a complicated matter: Science studies what’s at the edge ofunderstanding, and what’s at the edge of understanding is usually fairlysimple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way toocomplicated. In fact even understanding insects is an extremelycomplicated problem in the sciences. So the actual sciences tell usvirtually nothing about human affairs.” N.CHOMSKY

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