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PROTECTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Goal P5: Improve the health of fish and other living marine resource
stocks.
FY99 Target: Maintain fish and other living marine resource stocks by
maintaining a 95% or better compliance with federal regulations.
Measure: Observed rate of compliance with federal fisheries regulations.
Measurement Issues: The Coast Guard closely coordinates with the National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to achieve the common outcome of improving
and sustaining the health of our living marine resources. In this
partnership, NMFS develops biologically effective living marine resource
management plans and establishes regulations that guide the enforcement of
these plans. The Coast Guard assists in developing the regulations and is
the primary agency for carrying out enforcement activities. This is an
interim measure that gauges Coast Guard enforcement performance; it seeks
to measures the reduction in regulation violations due to Coast Guard
activity. This measure supports the NMFS performance objectives "Maintain
all stocks known to be healthy at levels that support the maximum
sustainable yield" and "Increase observed compliance with spatial and
temporal regulations for fisheries." The Coast Guard is working with NMFS
to develop cross cutting goals that will measure success in achieving the
outcome of improved living marine resources. The Coast Guard Data is
collected from field units through the Coast Guard Planning and Assessment
System; it is validated by program managers. Confidence in the measure is
high. In the interim, until a more accurate indicator is developed,
observed compliance rate will be used. This should be established in FY98.
Selected Program Standards/Customer Service Standards:
Monitor high threat areas to detect 80% of all significant violations
or suspected violations.
Intercept every known suspect detected.
Respond to all known significant violations in progress.
Causal Factors to be Addressed:
Overfishing of stocks reduces overall health and abundance.
Environmental factors, and pollution causes health to decline.
Strategies to Achieve Targets:
Ongoing Strategies:
Enforce living marine resource regulations.
Develop enforcement plans in conjunction with the National Marine
Fisheries Service.
Use research and development to improve vessel detection capability.
This will facilitate monitoring and boarding of vessels and assist in
ensuring compliance.
New Strategies:
Acquire an additional cutter, and update sensors and equipment to
maintain an effective presence in fishery areas to deter regulation
violations.
Pursue regulatory activity regarding ballast water management practices
for ships, including ships claiming no ballast on board, that will help
protect native living marine resources from harm by invasive species.
Efficiency Strategies:
Partner with the National Marine Fisheries Service to pursue violations.
Work with the fisheries industry to develop efficient and effective ways
of management and enforcement.
Continue the Coast Guard's Deepwater project to award up to three
contracts to develop an integrated system of surface, air, command and
control, intelligence, and logistics systems to provide the functional
capability to carry out the Coast Guard's statutory mandates in the
deepwater area of responsibility. Concurrent with this effort, the
Administration will begin a Presidential Roles and Missions review of
future Coast Guard missions. The Coast Guard will avoid one-for-one
replacement of its existing assets, and achieve efficiencies by
capitalizing on better technology.
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