Oak Foundation’s Bering Sea and North Pacific Programme Goals

To enact, implement and enforce policies and agreements that compel and facilitate ecosystem management of coastal and marine living resources.

In Canada and the United States we support research, advocacy, policy, communications, and grassroots education activities that:

• Reduce and eliminate bycatch and destructive fishing practices;
• Inform fisheries management, including the establishment of marine reserves; and
• Promote effective participation of fishermen and communities in decision-making and resource management.

Bering Sea and North Pacific Programme Grants (2005)

• Alaska Marine Conservation Council

  To foster opportunities in rural communities for marine ecology education to inform and support conservation advocacy. (Over two years)

• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – BC Chapter

  To ensure the long-term protection of issues focusing on the ground fish industry. (Over two years)

• Living Oceans Society

  To coordinate with the Canadian government to design an effective process for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area. (Over two years)

• Wild Salmon Center Inc.

  To advance the development of a network of protected areas targeting salmon by leading a comprehensive conservation effort on Sakhalin Island, and assisting other local conservation efforts in the Russian Far East. (Over two years)

Active grants from previous years:

• Alaska Conservation Foundation

  To co-ordinate the Alaska Oceans Network, to provide re-granting support to Alaska’s marine conservation NGOs working towards an ecosystem-based fisheries management plan and the protection of sensitive habitats, and to raise national awareness of Alaska’s oceans. (Second year of two-year grant)

• The Nature Conservancy

  To support the Pribilof Islands Collaborative and the Nature Conservancy's project to identify information gaps and develop strategies and recommendations to prevent degradation of the biological resources of the Pribilof Islands in the Russian Far East. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Nushagak Mulchatna-Wood Tikchik Land Trust

  To provide core support to the Land Trust. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Pacific Environment and Resources Center

  To build greater international awareness of sustainable management of the Bering Sea and to provide support for grassroots initiatives of directly impacted communities. (Second year of two-year grant)

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