Links to additional information on MPAs

Washingon State Agencies and Organizations

Washington State Deptartment of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)

• Science of MPAs: http://wdfw.wa.gov/science/articles/marine_sanctuary

City of Seattle Parks and Recreation

• City Park Marine Reserves Rule: http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/parks/Publications/MarineReserveRule.htm

Puget Sound Action Team (PSAT), Office of the Governor

• What Marine Protected Areas are, and links to more information: http://www.psat.wa.gov/Programs/MPA.htm

Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR)

• Aquatic Reserve Program's Home page: http://www.dnr.wa.gov/htdocs/aqr/reserves
• Aquatic Reserve Program's page on aquatic Lands: http://www.dnr.wa.gov/htdocs/aqr

Northwest Straits Commission

• Marine Protected Areas along the shoreliness of the northwest straits
  http://www.nwstraits.org/PageID/144/default.aspx

National Ocean Service (NOS)
An office of NOAA

• MPA site: http://www.nos.noaa.gov/topics/oceans/mpa

National Marine Protected Areas Center of the United States

• Links to information on MPAs: http://mpa.gov
• Marine Managed Areas Inventory Atlas: http://gis.mpa.gov/website/mma/viewer.htm
• West Coast Pilot: A Regional Partnership to Advance Ecosystem Approaches to Marine Protected Areas: http://mpa.gov/national_system/westcoast_pilot.html

The SeaDoc Society, at the School of Veterinary Medicine, U. of California, Davis.
Their mission is "Ensuring the health of marine wildlife and their ecosystems through science and education.

• SeaDoc Society home page: http://mehp.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
• Preservation efforts in Washington and British Columbia: http://mehp.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/mpainlandwaters.html

The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
http://nature.org/initiatives/marine/work

Race Rocks partnership MPA site
http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/ecohistory.htm

Fisheries and Oceans Canada Marine Protected Areas home page
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/mpa/default_e.htm

Australia's Department of the Environment and Heritage MPA site
http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/mpa

New South Wales Fisheries MPA site
http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/marine_protected_areas

Helsinki Commission's Baltic Sea Protected Areas (BPSA) site
http://www.helcom.fi/environment2/biodiv/en_GB/bspas