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 (2006)

• Alaska Conservation Foundation

  To provide emergency bridge funding to ensure that the Alaska Oceans Program work continues for the next six months.

• Alaska Marine Conservation Council

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

• Center for Biological Diversity

  To continue to apply pressure on federal agencies during regulatory processes in order to achieve the strongest possible protections for the North Pacific right whale, the Aleutian sea otter and the polar bear. (Over two years)

• Cook Inletkeeper

  To protect fish and the people who depend on them from the adverse effects of oil and gas development in Alaska. (Over two years)

• National Environmental Trust Action Fund

  To conduct a strategic legislative campaign in support of Alaskan fisheries reform that will stop efforts to weaken the conservation reforms in the Magnuson Act, strengthen it during the reauthorization process, and protect any gains during the process of implementing a new statute.

• National Wildlife Federation

  To support a campaign to cultivate a greater public appreciation for the natural environment and a stronger sense of environmental stewardship among the people of Prince William Sound, Alaska.

• Oceana Inc

  To build, plan, and ensure implementation of ecosystem-based management measures for the Bering Sea Large Marine Ecosystem.

• Pacific Environment

  To protect the globally important North Pacific ecosystem from offshore oil and gas development, unregulated international shipping, and mining at the headwaters of important watersheds. (Over two years)

• Pew Charitable Trusts

  To plan and implement ecosystem-based management measures for the US Arctic Large Marine Ecosystems. (Over two years)

• Trustees for Alaska

  To protect the health of Alaska’s marine ecosystem, particularly the threatened areas of Cook Inlet and the North Pacific/Bering sea. (Over two years)

• World Wildlife Fund, Inc

  To protect marine wildlife and their habitat in the Bering Sea by reducing threats presented by unsustainable fisheries management and shipping. (Over two years)

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