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NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan
Foundations for Stewardship
Underlying and supporting our stewardship of living marine resources are ongoing activities which have no end point or defined result, but which are necessary for the fulfillment of our mission. These include our scientific research capabilities, communication with our constituents, our partnerships with other organizations, enforcement of our regulations and management regimes, and internal coordination and infrastructure, including our dedicated workforce.
It is impossible to define stewardship results and performance measures for these activities because they contribute to our management ability in general rather than to any particular resource or objective. Nonetheless, we felt that this plan would not be complete without discussing and defining our strategy in these areas, which are so central to our mission and our day-to-day work. This was especially true after meeting with our constituents, who repeatedly emphasized to us the importance of collaboration and partnerships to the fulfillment of our mission. In this section, we describe initiatives for the following five foundations, which underpin all the work that we do:
- Science which is of the highest quality and which advances our ability to make living marine resource management decisions
- Communication and collaboration with constituents
- Strong and productive partnerships
- Enforcement and regulatory effectiveness
- Agency management, infrastructure, and workforce
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