PROGRAM 1: Natural Resource Sustainability
Goal: Natural Resources are utilised in a way that can be maintained indefinitely.
Strategic Priorities
Support Projects that:
- Define resources and create objective measures of the health of resources that can then be used as a benchmark against which changes in the health of the resources can be measured.
- Define threats to resources and create objective measures of the magnitude of each threat.
- Develop ways to manage the threats to resources.
- Predict how changing a threat affects the health of the resource.
- Enhance governance arrangements for more innovative, responsive and effective management of the resources.
Targeted Priorities
- Environmental protection (social/economic/environmental interactions).
- Effects/mitigation of pollution on fisheries habitat/ecosystems.
- Stocks assessment/sustainability/management.
- Stock enhancement.
- Accurate measurement of fishing effort.
- Improved environmental monitoring systems.
- Develop codes of environmental best-practice.
