May 15th, 2002 Meeting minutes
4-6PM Freeland - Trinity Lutheran Church
Present: Tom Roehl, Vice Chair acting as Chair, Phyllis Kind, Mike Gallion, Don Meehan, Jeff Tate, Marty Behr, Roger Sherman, Hi Bronson, Technical Advisors - Julie Buktenica. Sharon Hart (EDC) Guests: Jan Holmes, Susan Berta, Howie Garrett, and Bill White. Executive Director Gary Wood. Admin. Assistant: Kate Poss. Absent: Tom Campbell, Dick Toft
Called to order at 4:03PM with a quorum by Tom Roehl.
Agenda approved as submitted by consent.
Action: Approval of Minutes of 5-1-02 without changes; moved by Phyllis Kind, 2nd by Marty Behr.
Program: Liam Antrim, planner - Nearshore Zoning Strategies of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary - 1 hour (summary to follow minutes)
Gary Wood reported on the Salmon Recovery Funding Boards' re-evaluation
of the MRC second round of nearshore funding. He noted that as far as
he knew no actual evaluation had been done on the proposal we submitted.
Proposal value is 227,000 dollars.
Meehan reported the June 1st Derelict Gear media training was cancelled. He also reported the Port of Coupeville position held by Sharon Hart had still not been filled, but would be soon.
Graphic artist Phillip Williamson of Coupeville was working a logo design on and the committee will be presented with a few designs to provide input on. Don hopes to have the draft versions soon.
Tom Roehl informed the MRC of the need by the Port of South Whidbey for forage fish data on a south end beach the Port was seeking to acquire. Gary Wood indicated he could provide that to the Port.
Jeff Tate reported that the Island County Planning and Community Development Department had been seeing a number of project proposal referencing the Video survey of eelgrass done by the MRC and that project proponents were finding this information on their own.
Meeting was adjourned at 6PM.
Brief summary of program by Liam Antrim:
Antrim passed out a document on various kinds of Marine
Zoning Classifications considered by NOCS.
Much of what the Sanctuary does is to tighten and coordinate existing
protections, of which most are federal. The entire process is quite different
from local MRC situations in that the process is very top down.
Native Americans operate under different rules in the Sanctuary than do
non-Native Americans. All planning excludes tribal uses in the planning
process.
All forms of protection zoning involves:
Reducing stressors
Eliminating injury to sensitive areas
Protecting areas suffering declines in populations
Protecting contiguous habitat
Separating recreational uses for other uses
Preventing over uses
Providing undisturbed monitoring sites
Focusing management on select portions of the site
The Sanctuary uses the Shorezone Atlas as a guide coupled with Grad students doing thesis work to further characterize the nearshore.
Coast Guard is one of the enforcing agencies along with land-based rangers on the outer coast.
Field scientists who have done work on the outer coast were solicited for input into what should be protected.
There is no economic analysis being done on the Sanctuary
to determine level of impact protections have.