


Finalized November 2017 NOAA plays a significant leadership role in enhancing the resilience of America's coastal communities to change.
NOAA plays a significant leadership role in enhancing the resilience of America’s coastal communities to change. However, MAFAC was asked to provide advice on how NOAA Fisheries could better meet fishing community resilience needs, with respect to resources, habitat, and socio-economic resiliency – from the direct perspective of communities and stakeholders. MAFAC created an ad-hoc Resilience Working Group to examine habitat, aquaculture, community socio-economic issues, fishery management processes, and how NOAA communicates forecasts and information that communities and stakeholders need. The final reports provides an executive summary with recommendations to guide overall policy to achieve resiliency goals, and includes five stand-alone reports on specific topics and a set of detailed comments on a programmatic strategic plan.