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"Our oceans are home to a great diversity of marine life and clean beaches and oceans are vital to West Coast fishing communities, recreation and tourism. We know that isolated local efforts cannot adequately address the breadth of degradation to our oceans. By cooperating, our three states will combine our resources and influence to make a real difference in the fight to clean and protect the oceans." - Governor Gregoire |
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West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health
Eight Final Work Plans |
Final Action Plan |
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04/15/2011 The WCGA announces its biannual report and executive summary are now available. 12/13/2010 The Sustainable Coastal Communities ACT draft work plan is available for public comment. 12/10/2010 Proposals Submitted for Regional Ocean Partnership Funding: View the Area 1 and Area 2 funding proposals submitted by the WCGA 12/1/2010 View the presentation PDF or full video from the Nov. 30 web meeting "Concepts Informing the West Coast Response to the Federal Funding Opportunity." 11/24/10 Pacific Coast Collaborative Announces Actions on Pacific Coast Environment and Economy at Governors' Global Climate Summit 3. Leaders Forum Addresses Ocean Protection, High Speed Rail and Clean Energy 11/12/10 To submit general ideas or comments, please visit the contact page for the online ROPFP comment form. You can view all public comments here. 11/5/10 The Scoping Document, FAQs, and Agenda for the three west coast regional ocean partnership funding workshops are now available. |
On September 18, 2006 the Governors of California, Oregon and Washington announced the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health. The Agreement launched a new, proactive regional collaboration to protect and manage the ocean and coastal resources along the entire West Coast, as called for in the recommendations of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission.
The Agreement seeks to advance the goals of:
Clean coastal waters and beaches
Healthy ocean and coastal habitats
Effective ecosystem-based management
Reduced impacts of offshore development
Increased ocean awareness and literacy among the region’s citizens
Expanded ocean and coastal scientific information, research, and monitoring
Sustainable economic development of coastal communities
The Agreement also underscores the importance of managing activities that affect our oceans on an ecosystem basis. That is, managing human activities and their impact on ocean resources in a way that accounts for the relationships among all ecosystem components, including people and other species and the environment in which we all live.
Olympic Coast, Washington
The Agreement directs staff of the three Governors to take certain immediate actions, and to develop a more extensive action plan within one year. The three states prepared a discussion paper to guide public input on actions for consideration during development of the action plan and sponsored a series of meetings to obtain public and stakeholder input on the Agreement. The public comment period on the draft Action Plan is now closed. Thank you for your input. The draft Action Plan was released on October 19, 2007 and public comments were accepted through December 1, 2007. The Governors released the final Action Plan in July 2008 (6.8 Mb / 2.2 Mb). View the press release or watch the video.
We invite you to sign up for the WCGA Update to receive email updates about meetings, plans, and actions under the Agreement (see box above left).