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Gulf of Maine Council. Coastal Awareness Forums-Marine Debris: How Can We Stop Trashing Our Coastline? (Forum Report and Marine Debris information booklet) January 1998.

The Marine Environmental Research Institute, in cooperation with the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment sponsored a series of three Coastal Awareness Forums during the Fall, 1997 on the following topics: Marine Debris: How Can We Stop Trashing Our Coastline? Claming: Can the Fishery Be Restored? and Co-management: Can Fishermen Manage Themselves? This series of Coastal Awareness Forums was patterned after the model of the National Issues Forums to encourage public dialogue about coastal Issues of pressing concern. Each issue book, in conjunction with the forum, offered the public an opportunity to deliberate alternative choices, with the intent that participants identify a common ground for action. The proceedings of the first forum entitled Marine Debris: How Can We Stop Trashing Our Coastline? are summarized in this report. This resource documents the proceedings of this forum by presenting the welcome remarks, slide show discussion, panelist presentations, community discussion, forum wrap-up, and forum participants from the forum.

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