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cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='background:white;padding:8.25pt 8.25pt 8.25pt 8.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-variant:small-caps;color:black'>New NOAA Fisheries Draft Plan Aims For Ecosystem-Based Management Principles On West Coast</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <br>Posted on Friday, July 13, 2018 (PST) <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='background:white;padding:8.25pt 8.25pt 8.25pt 8.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>NOAA Fisheries’ West Coast Region, with its Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., and Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, have released a new blueprint for how the agency will put ecosystem-based management principles into practice on the West Coast.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The draft Western Roadmap Implementation Plan (WRIP), tiered off NOAA Fisheries’ national Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management Policy and Roadmap, “offers a distinctly different way of thinking about fisheries in the California Current Ecosystem,” says a NOAA Fisheries press release. “Instead of considering and managing species in isolation, fisheries managers will weigh the role of species in an ecosystem when making decisions.”</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The shift from single species to a systems approach represents “a logical next step as NOAA Fisheries strives to balance long-term ecosystem protection with economic and human benefits while refining predictions and management advice.”</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>NOAA Fisheries scientists have used their growing understanding of ecosystem-scale relationships to develop a new system called EcoCast, which helps inform fishermen in the drift gillnet and other fisheries where they have the best chance of catching the species they’re after with the least risk of entangling or otherwise harming protected species such as sea turtles and porpoises.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>To learn more about West Coast ecosystem-based fisheries management and review the draft plan, go to </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ecosystems/ecosystem-based-fishery-management-draft-implementation-plans"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ecosystems/ecosystem-based-fishery-management-draft-implementation-plans</span></a></span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>.</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>. You can share your comments on the draft WRIP via email at </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:nmfs.westcoast-ebfm@noaa.gov"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>nmfs.westcoast-ebfm@noaa.gov</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>. The WRIP is open to public comment until September 30, 2018.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>“This draft plan highlights the commitments we’ve made to our partners, our stakeholders, and the public, to develop science and management practices that better account for the interactions we humans have with the marine environment, and that marine species have with each other, with their environment, and with us,” said Yvonne deReynier, coordinator of the plan for the West Coast Region.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>As an example, the plan mentions how unusually warm ocean conditions off the West Coast have had a cascade of effects throughout the California Current Ecosystem, from lean salmon returns to whales foraging closer to shore than they had in more typical conditions and then becoming entangled with fishing gear. These cascading effects reverberate through fisheries management, through cutbacks in salmon catches and more focus on measures to keep whales from getting entangled in lines of Dungeness crab traps.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>“Fortunately, the long-term ocean ecosystem monitoring along the West Coast enabled us to understand what was happening and make sense of how it fit into and, in some cases, buffeted the larger ecosystem,” said Toby Garfield, Acting Deputy Director of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center and coordinator of the new implementation plan for the center.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The WRIP outlines six guiding principles, including implementing ecosystem-level planning, prioritizing vulnerabilities and risks to ecosystems and their components, incorporating ecosystem considerations into management advice, and finally, maintaining resilient ecosystems.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>“Ultimately, that’s what it’s all about,” said Chris Harvey, a research scientist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and coordinator of the implementation plan for the center. “We are part of these ecosystems, so we want to make sure they are resilient both for us and for everything else that depends on them.”</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4a73074e66d2b0b0"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#663366;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=125 height=16 id="Picture_x0020_12" src="cid:image012.gif@01D41AAE.CFEA7DB0" alt="Bookmark and Share"></span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='background:white;padding:8.25pt 8.25pt 8.25pt 8.25pt'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:8.25pt 8.25pt 8.25pt 8.25pt'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td width=154 valign=top style='width:115.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td width=154 style='width:115.5pt;background:#5C3C74;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=3 valign=top style='width:2.25pt;background:#5C3C74;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:15.75pt'></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=553 height=10 id="Picture_x0020_13" src="cid:image013.gif@01D41AAE.CFEA7DB0" alt="http://www.cbbulletin.com/ThemeImages/CBBulletin/Themes/Default/columbiabasin8x1.gif"></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td nowrap style='padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Columbia Basin Bulletin, Bend, Oregon. 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