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AUTHORS: Kristen Bronger, Integrated Statistics in support of NOAA Fisheries; Tara Trinko - Lake, NOAA Fisheries; Kim Damon - Randall, NOAA Fisheries
ABSTRACT: The International Year of the Salmon in 2019 will be a celebration of salmon restoration and recovery. The overall theme is "Salmon and people in a changing world". During the International Year of the Salmon, our outreach efforts will raise awareness of what humans can do to better to ensure salmon and their varied habitats are conserved and restored in light of increasing environmental variability. The International Year of the Salmon will also stimulate an investment in research and leave a legacy of knowledge, data/information systems, tools and a generation of scientists better equipped to provide timely advice to inform rational management of salmon. Planning, promotion and outreach for the International Year the Salmon has begun and will continue through 2018. Countries who are participating include the U.S., Canada, Norway, EU, Russia, Japan and Korea. NOAA's Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office is working on ways to integrate outreach and communication for the International Year of the Salmon into our existing research and management actions for the critically endangered Gulf of Maine population of wild Atlantic salmon. These actions are focused on the overarching themes of climate change, watershed and habitat connectivity, and fish migration. At the presentation you will: - learn more about the International Year of the Salmon - learn about the promotion of research, management actions and outreach through International Year of the Salmon - have the opportunity share ideas for potential collaboration.
