Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands
Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Aleutian Waterway Safety Committee
Stakeholders across the Aleutians have established an Aleutian Islands Waterways Safety Committee. The new committee convenes diverse waterway users to discuss and recommend safe navigational practices in a non-regulatory setting. Following a public meetings and work sessions, the group nominated a first Board of Directors, which will carry the work forward through establishing the committee and various workgroups.
ABSI LCC is serving on the Convening Work Group that will be helping to shape this important committee to promote safe vessel transit in this remote and economically-critical area.
The Aleutian Islands Waterways Safety Committee follows on the founding of both an Arctic Waterways Safety Committee and Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee in the past three years. These committees join dozens of others nationwide. Facilitation of the group’s founding and first full year of operations is being funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation with settlement funds from the motor vessel Selendang Ayu oil spill in 2004.
For more information on the group in the Aleutians, see: http://aleutianislandswsc.org.
ABSI LCC is serving on the Convening Work Group that will be helping to shape this important committee to promote safe vessel transit in this remote and economically-critical area.
The Aleutian Islands Waterways Safety Committee follows on the founding of both an Arctic Waterways Safety Committee and Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee in the past three years. These committees join dozens of others nationwide. Facilitation of the group’s founding and first full year of operations is being funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation with settlement funds from the motor vessel Selendang Ayu oil spill in 2004.
For more information on the group in the Aleutians, see: http://aleutianislandswsc.org.