Ocean policy development in the State of Oregon

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The Oregon Ocean Resources Management Program is an unprecedented effort by a state to protect the long‐term values and benefits of renewable ocean resources and activities. The program extends Oregon's comprehensive statewide planning and coastal zone management program seaward to provide a coordinated, comprehensive policy and management framework for state and federal agencies and Oregon's local governments. Its objective is to produce a framework for decisions that recognize both the environmental links between the marine ecosystem and ocean resources and the economic importance of ocean resource use to coastal communities and the nation. Oregon's initiative is an attempt to redefine the relationship between the federal and state governments with respect to resource management within a part of the U.S. exclusive economic zone. The Oregon program asserts the state's right and responsibility to plan for and jointly manage ocean resources and uses that affect the state, through creation of an Ocean Stewardship Area.

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