Open en O Ocea ean Trus ustee I Implement ntation n Group up - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Open en O Ocea ean Trus ustee I Implement ntation n Group up Annual Meeting November 5, 2020

• If you’re using a phone, turn off your computer’s microphone and speakers. • Click on the handout link for a PDF fact sheet. • Please use the “Questions” box to type questions for the Q&A session. • Presentation will be posted on www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov.

• The Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group (TIG) Overview • Open Ocean TIG Activities and Project Updates • How to Find More information • Questions and Answers

NOAA AA USDA DA EPA PA DOI DOI Chris Doley Ron Howard Gale Bonanno Debora McClain Laurie Rounds Ben Battle Treda Grayson Ashley Mills

Projects by Restoration Goal REST STOR ORATION ON ST STATUS STURGEON • Completed 2 Early Restoration projects to enhance recreational use. FISH • Implementing 3 Early Restoration 29 projects. PROJECTS DEEP • Implementing 21 restoration projects SEA BENTHIC TURTLES for all resource types. • Implementing 3 Monitoring and BIRDS MARINE MAMMALS Adaptive Management (MAM) activities. REPLENISH AND PROVIDE AND MONITORING AND PROTECT LIVING ENHANCE ADAPTIVE COASTAL AND RECREATIONAL MANAGEMENT MARINE OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCES

• Committed approximately $326 million for projects and planning activities as of May 2020. • The total allocation is $1.2 billion.

Open en OO MA MAM M Upda dated O d OO OO MA MAM S M Str trategy Ocean MA MAM M Imp mpleme mentation MAM S MA M Str trategy Imp mpleme mentation Strategy gy Plans ns [Priorit [P ities] 3 A Activ ivit itie ies 2020 2021 2019 Restoration P n Plan n 1: Restoration P n Plan n 2: Fish a h and nd Water Birds ds & & S Sturgeon Fish, S Sea ea Turtles es, Column I Inver erteb ebrates es Restor oration on 3 P Project ects Marine M Mamma mmals, and d Strategic P Planni nning ng Plan 3 n 3 Mes eso/D /Deep 18 P Project ects

Participation by State 15 10 5 0 2017 2018 2019 2020 FL LA Total Photo: Jay Fleming Photography

Bef efore Beach Enhancement Project at Gulf Islands National Seashore After er

Bike and Pedestrian Use Enhancements Project, Davis Bayou, Mississippi District, Gulf Islands National Seashore

Gulf sturgeon restoration

Black tern restoration in North and South Dakota

Imp mpleme mentation Restoration P n Planni nning ng Imp mpleme mentation Compl plete Planni nning / / Ini nitiation on Moni nitoring ng

PROJECT PROJECT START COMPLETION • Stakeholder • Establish Technical • Presentations at Existing Identification Work Groups Venues • Establish • Conducting • Conferences / Symposia Steering Workshops • Preparation of Technical Committees • Working One on One Reports & Publications • General / Small Groups • Holding Webinars and Engagement • Project Participation Annual Meetings • Collecting Community Feedback

Fishing For Our Future www.sportfishcenter.org

Web ebsite, Inter eractive M e Map

www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov

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Quest stions? s?

Please type your questions • in the “Questions” box. Remember to take a look • at the Open Ocean fact sheet handout. We’ll do our best to get to • as many as possible.

Tha hank nk y you www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov