"Next Steps Toward Coastal Stewardship:
A look at the U.S. Oceans and Pew Commissions Reports"

A Webcast of The Coastal Society 19th Biennial Conference
Plenary Session
and
Cascadia Regional Response Panel

The Cascadia Chapter of the Coastal Society is proud to host multiple west coast live webcasts of the second plenary of the Coastal Society's 19th Biennial Conference, to be held in Newport, Rhode Island. The webcast is made possible by grants from the Washington, Oregon and California Sea Grant Programs.

For the first time since the 1969 Stratton Commission Report, stakeholders, scientists, and planners have been engaged in a dialogue to develop recommendations for a comprehensive national ocean policy. The plenary session will focus on the Pew Oceans Commission report, America's Living Oceans: Charting a Course for Sea Change, issued in May 2003; and, the report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, just released.

A panel of speakers including Commission members and staff, and experts in marine resource management and policy, will offer their thoughts on the "next step" of implementing the recommendations. A web-cast of the Cascadia regional breakout session in response to the plenary will be presented following the plenary. Experts from universities, non-governmental organizations, state coastal management agencies, the Northwest Straits Commission and a National Ocean Policy Commissioner will discuss the regional ramifications of the two commissions' findings.

Participants at the web-casts will have the unique opportunity to pose questions to the speakers via an internet "chat space."

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