9414

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9414
• Author: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
• Title: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Annual Report.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

paying for the first complete review of
coral reefs in the Western Pacific to see
if the Western Pacific Regional Fishery
Management Council needs to imple-
ment a coral reef management plan.
In Palau, the project will yield a man-
agement plan for a marine protected
area, the first in Palau, the home of
some of the world's most important
coral reefs. Both NOAA and NFWF
plan to expand this new partnership
targeting imperiled coral reefs.
The projects described above
are just some of the highlights
from a record year for the Fisheries
Conservation and Management
Initiative. The 120 projects funded in
1997 range from the major programs

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discussed above to support for
the Whirling Disease
Foundation in their efforts to
combat a disease threatening
blue-ribbon trout fisheries
throughout the United States.
Like the Marshall Plan, which
confronted a European econo-
my nearly shut down by world
War II, the Fisheries Conservation and Management Initiative is
often asked to deal with situations that desperately require funds to
carry out the necessary work. But just as the hostilities of World War
II had to cease before the Marshall Plan could be effective, so must an
atmopshere of cooperation be created if we are to solve the crises of
natural resource conservation. NFWF is lucky enough to have federal
funds to bring to the table and only funds projects where partnerships
exist or can be created. The war is over, the rebuilding has com-
menced.