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ODFW Nearshore Pre-Comments Comments Mon, October 31, 2005 The following are Surfrider Foundation's verbal comments to the ODFW Commission on October 7th regarding ODFW's Nearshore Planning Strategy document http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/nearshore/draft.asp. This version was summarized for the Commission, and the five-minute comment time limit. The thrust is that Surfrider endorses the document and its philosophy of acknowledging the need for inter-agency collaboration, habit-species linkages, and the need for Ecosystem-based Management solutions to our nearshore environment. For a great (and short) explanation of Ecosystem-based Management, check out the consensus paper: http://compassonline.org/files/inline/EBM%20Consensus%20Statement_FINAL_Mar%2021%2005_v9.pdf Following comments by PMCC, Portland Audubon, Oregon Ocean, Surfrider, and Oregon Anglers, the Commission advised staff to address Ecosystem-based Management, and Marine Protected Area linkages. THIS IS HUGE. By managing our nearshore via ecosystems, not species-specific management, our surfing areas (which usually happen to be the best habitat areas as well) could be considered important to our commercial harvest and/or non-harvest (but also important species) habitat. This is a new arena, and a huge positive step. Please supply ODFW with comments. They can even be as simple as telling them what you see while surfing (all the critters and birds) and that it makes you want to keep surfing and supporting local businesses, as complex as taking some of Surfrider's comments, or drafting your own analysis/response to the document. Whatever you do, do something to help protect your coast! If you have any questions, please call myself, or ODFW staff. Markus
Brett
Wiedoff Cristen
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