Awareness and application of long-term monitoring data in the Pacific Islands

This request is for a new information collection to better understand the awareness, application and gaps of existing socioeconomic data in the US-affiliated Pacific island region. This data collection may be repeated every four to five years in order to provide updated relevant information. The Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), developed under the authority of the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-562; 16 U.S.C. 6401 et seq.), launched the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) in 2012. The goal of the NCRMP is to track socioeconomic and biophysical changes to better coral reef management. NRCMP monitors island level changes among the US-affiliated islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, and American Samoa. Additionally, over the past 20 years, numerous socioeconomic surveys and assessments have been conducted in the West Pacific. These include monitoring of regional fisheries by NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) and site-based socioeconomic assessments supported by the CRCP-supported Socioeconomic Monitoring for Coastal Management in the Pacific Island Region (SEM-Pasifika), the Pacific Islands Managed and Protected Areas Community (PIMPAC) and conservation and resource management partners. Recently efforts have been made to find ways to integrate social and biophysical monitoring to better inform ecosystem-based management decisions and to safeguard the ecological and social systems of island communities. This data collection will help synthesize the disparate data collection efforts to make recommendations for a coordinated long-term socioeconomic monitoring program.

The latest form for Awareness and application of long-term monitoring data in the Pacific Islands expires 2022-04-30 and can be found here.

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