Data integration - birds, mammals, fish, and invertebrates

The Office of National Marine Sanctuary Program (ONMS) updates and revises the management plans for each of its 13 sanctuaries. This process, which is open to the public, enables each site to revisit the reasons for sanctuary designation and assess whether they are meeting their goals, as well as to set new goals consistent with the mandates of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. Issues raised by the public during this process are evaluated and a determination is made as to whether they will be incorporated into the updated plan. Many of these issues focus on topics such as the implementation of marine zoning or sanctuary boundary adjustments, both of which require information on the distribution of resources within and around the sanctuary. Recognizing this, ONMS and NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) formalized an agreement to collaborate in the revision process by developing such information through a series of biogeographic assessments conducted in selected sanctuaries. The resulting products are then supplied to sanctuary managers and staff for use in the policy and decision making process. This collaborative effort began along the west coast of the U.S. with the Cordell Bank, Gulf of Farallones, and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries, and is herein centered on the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS).

国家海洋保护区项目办公室（Office of National Marine Sanctuary Program, ONMS）负责更新并修订其下辖13个海洋保护区的管理计划。该流程面向公众开放，可推动各保护区重新审视自身的设立初衷，评估现有目标的达成情况，并依据《国家海洋保护区法案》（National Marine Sanctuaries Act）制定新的发展目标。公众在此流程中提出的议题将被逐一评估，相关机构将研判是否将其纳入更新后的管理计划。此类议题多聚焦于海洋区划实施或保护区边界调整等内容，而这两类工作均需掌握保护区内部及周边的资源分布信息。意识到这一需求后，ONMS与美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA）下属的国家海岸海洋科学中心（National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, NCCOS）正式达成合作协议，通过在选定保护区开展一系列生物地理评估来获取所需信息，以此助力管理计划修订工作。所生成的相关成果将被提交给保护区管理人员及工作人员，用于政策制定与决策流程。此项合作最初始于美国西海岸的科德尔班克、法拉隆斯海湾及蒙特雷湾国家海洋保护区，本次研究则聚焦于海峡群岛国家海洋保护区（Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, CINMS）。