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Recent/Upcoming meeting information including WEB CAST Announcements Request for Services - Dungeness Task Force Consultant Requesting Nominations for the Dungeness Task Force Request for Proposals - California Fisheries Challenge 2009 OPC approves Ocean Litter Implementation Strategy OPC approves new program priorities and funding guidelines The OPC-funded report Developing Wave Energy in Coastal California: Potential Socio-Economic and Environmental Effects is now available for download. The Ecotrust report Commercial and recreational fishing grounds and their relative importance off the North Central Coast of California - A Report to the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative is now available for download OPC Resolution Regarding Low Impact Development Collaborative Fisheries Research Workshop Summary Memo is available for download. Electric Grid Reliability Impacts from Regulation of Once-Through Cooling in California, a joint study by the OPC and State Water Resources Control Board, is now posted on the Water Board website. Morro Bay and Port San Luis Commercial Fisheries Business Plan - March 2008 The OPC-funded report California's Coastal Power Plants: Alternative Cooling System Analysis is now available for download. OPC Public Forum on Fisheries - Meeting Follow Up Susan Golding, CEO and president of the Golding Group and the chair of the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force, and Geraldine Knatz, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles and one of the founding trustees of the California Ocean Science Trust, were recently appointed as new public members to the Ocean Protection Council. These appointments are a result of legislation (SB 1845) that was signed into law last year that amended the statutory membership of the council. Resolution of the California Ocean Protection Council on Climate Change - Adopted 6/14/2007 California Coast State Waters Mapping Project Releases New Seafloor Mapping Data Ocean Protection Council Adopts Resolution on Reducing and Preventing Marine Debris - Adopted 2/8/2007 A Vision for Our Ocean and Coast, the Ocean Protection Council's Five-Year Strategic Plan now available for download - 8/30/2006 Resolution Regarding the Use of Once-Through Cooling Technologies in Coastal Waters - Adopted April 20, 2006 Ocean Protection Council Initiatives on Ecosystem-based Management - 1/27/2006 Joint Ocean Commission Initiative commends California's ocean research strategy - 11/23/05   California Ocean and Coastal Information, Research, and Outreach Strategy adopted - 9/23/05   Letter from OPC Chair to U.S. Committee on Ocean Policy - 11/15/05   Letter from Joint Ocean Commission Leaders to U.S. Committee on Ocean Policy - 11/17/05   Press release from Joint Ocean Commission Initiative - 11/21/05 Second council letter to congressional leaders regarding federal energy policy- 9/27/2005 Council letter to congressional leaders regarding federal energy policy- 4/4/2005 To subscribe/unsubscribe from the Ocean Protection Council's public e-mail list server, visit the list info page here: http://lists.ceres.ca.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oceanpublic and fill in the appropriate information. If you have any problems, please email owner-oceanpublic@resources.ca.gov to be added to the list server.

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