Supporting priority habitat conservation work for fish along the Pacific coast…
The Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership (PMEP) is one of 18 nationally recognized partnerships that seeks to advance regional and national goals relating to fish habitat. Specifically, the fish habitat partnerships will support existing efforts in targeted priority areas and encourage new efforts as needed to:
- Protect and maintain intact and healthy aquatic systems
- Prevent further degradation of fish habitats
- Reverse declines in the quality and quantity of aquatic habitats
- Increase the quality and quantity of fish habitats that support a broad natural diversity of fish and other aquatic species
Our vision is to provide for healthy native fish populations in functional, resilient estuarine and nearshore marine ecosystems in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Our mission is to work with partners to protect, enhance, and restore ecological processes and habitats within estuaries and nearshore marine environments to sustain healthy native fish communities and support sustainable human uses that depend on healthy fish populations.
Our priorities are to protect, restore, and enhance:
- juvenile fish habitat in nearshore marine and estuary habitats;
- tidal wetland-intertidal-subtidal-nearshore connectivity; and
- water quality and quantity in estuaries and nearshore marine environments.
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