the national marine sanctuary program moving america: ensuring safe marine transportation in olympic...
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The National Marine Sanctuary Program
Moving America: Ensuring Safe Marine Transportation
in Olympic Coast National Marine SanctuaryGeorge Galasso NOAA Olympic Coast National NMSPort Angeles, WA
Ensure that the transportation of Ensure that the transportation of commodities through the commodities through the sanctuaries sanctuaries remains compatible with the protection of sanctuary resources!
The Challenge
Presentation Overview• Marine Transportation in
National Marine Sanctuaries– Authority– Confluence of shipping
lanes and sanctuaries
• Olympic Coast Example
• Future Efforts
Ensuring Safe Marine Transportation
National Marine Sanctuary Act• provides authority for
conservation and management of sanctuaries, and activities affecting them
• facilitate to the extent compatible with the primary objective of resource protection, all uses of sanctuary resources not prohibited by other authorities
Ensuring Safe Marine Transportation
• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act of 1990
• Created an Area to be Avoided (ATBA)
Ensuring Safe Marine Transportation
• National Marine Sanctuary Program Amendments Act of 1992
• Required NOAA and the Coast Guard to report to Congress on the necessity of regulating vessel traffic in the Monterey Bay NMS
Ensuring Safe Marine Transportation
• 3,300 miles2 of diverse habitats• high biological productivity• 29 species marine mammals• large seabird colonies• cultural and historic resources• protected status of coastline
and islands• valuable commercial fisheries• U&A tribal fishing areas • Pacific Rim Trade
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
Major Marine Safety Initiatives• Area to be Avoided (ATBA) designation • Neah Bay Rescue Tug• North Puget Sound Long-term Oil Spill
Risk Management Panel• Port Access Route Study (PARS)• ATBA & Traffic Lanes reconfigured
TSS and ATBAPrior to December 2002
TSS and ATBACurrent Configuration
• lanes moved 10 nm offshore• inbound lane moved to North• sea room between ATBA and traffic lanes• ATBA applies to more vessels
Entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Area to be Avoided (ATBA)
• 1994-2002– ATBA applied to tank
vessels
• Effective 12/2002– ATBA applies to tank
vessels– ATBA applied to all
vessels over 1600 GT
• Automated Information System (AIS)
• Carriage requirements
• Development of a national infrastructure-USCG
• NMSP efforts
• USCG - National Data Buoy Center
Future Efforts
• Vessel traffic monitoring
• Law enforcement• Evaluate wildlife
and shipping interactions
• Evaluate user conflicts
NMS Uses of AIS Data
Fishing vessel density
Tug/Barge density