Advisory Council Meetings, Announcements and Actions

Find dates, locations, agendas, minutes and other materials for this year's Sanctuary Advisory Council meetings.

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Sanctuary Advisory Council meetings are normally held on the third Tuesday of every other month (February, April, June, August, and October). The Council also meets on the second Tuesday of December. To be notified of upcoming meetings, please sign up for our email list here.

Meetings are open to the public and you are invited to attend and provide comments.

2018 Meetings

• February 20, 2018

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  Hyatt Place
  1996 Overseas Highway
  Marathon, FL 33050
   
  

  Agenda and Minutes

      Final Agenda (18 kb)
      Final Minutes (222 kb)

   

  Materials and Presentations

      FWC Focus on Marine Fisheries Management (1.1 MB)
      Federal Fishery Management in South Florida and the Keys (1.5 MB)

   

  Actions

      Resolution of FKNMS SAC in Response to the Call for Comments on the Draft Proposed Five-Year Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing (40 kb)

   

  Meeting Summary

      SAC Meeting Summary – February 2018 (45 kb)

   

• April 17, 2018

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  Hyatt Place
  1996 Overseas Highway
  Marathon, FL 33050
   
  

  Agenda and Minutes

      Final Agenda (16 kb)
      Meeting Summary (60 kb)
      Final Minutes (270 kb)

   

  Materials and Presentations

      Administrative Updates (335 kb)
      Boater Education Course Update (656 kb)
      Engagement and Outreach Strategy (323 kb)
      Goal: Clean Seas Florida Keys (2.3 MB)
      Hurricane Irma Debris Removal Updates (6.5 MB)
      Sector Key West Waterways Management (4.2 MB)

   

• June 19, 2018

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  Hyatt Place
  1996 Overseas Highway
  Marathon, FL 33050
   
  

  Agenda and Minutes

      Draft Agenda (16 kb)
      Final Minutes (310 kb)

   

  Materials and Presentations

      Bluestar Fishing Update (686 kb)
      Clean Seas Update (1.4 MB)
      Coral Disease Update (5.1 MB)
      Summary of a Workshop to Share and Improve Benthic Habitat Mapping Data Products (2 MB)
      Monroe County Emergency Management (3 MB)
      Hurricane Season 2018 (5.5 MB)
      Boating Activity in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctury (12.7 MB)
      Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Core Group Update (194 kb)

   

• October 16, 2018

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  Hyatt Place
  1996 Overseas Highway
  Marathon, FL 33050
   
  

  Agenda and Minutes

      Final Agenda (18 kb)
      Meeting Summary (45 kb)
      Final Minutes (321 kb)

   

  Materials and Presentations

      Florida Bay Restoration and the Combined Operational Plan (COP) (3.6 MB)
      Mutli-agency response to address Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease throughout the Florida Reef Tract (4.5 MB)
      Mangrove Damage and Recovery Following Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys (3.1 MB)
      Harmgul Algal Blooms and Implications for the Florida Keys (2.5 MB)
      The Effect of Hurricane Irma on FWC's Sponge Nurseries and a Near-Shore Sponge Community (1 MB)
      Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Core Group Update (136 kb)
       (1.9 MB)

   

  Actions

      A Resolution from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council on the Ecological Conditions and Restoration Needs of Everglades National Park and Florida Bay (16 kb)

   

• December 4, 2018

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  Hyatt Place
  1996 Overseas Highway
  Marathon, FL 33050
   
  

  Agenda and Minutes

      Final Agenda (109 kb)

      Final Minutes (16 kb)