RECREATIONAL
BOATING: Educational programmes. Waste management onboard and
in marinas.
Minimal
Impact Boating Project, Tasmania,
Australia. A project co-ordinated by the Tasmanian Environment
Centre to encourage boaters to adopt practices which reduce
the adverse impact of small boat use on the marine and coastal
environments. It is about things that users of boats in, with
and from their boats can do to ensure that the sea and coasts
are kept clean from litter, pollution and introduced marine
pests. It is also about ensuring the health of the marine environment,
so that it can continue to harbour a wide diversity of ecosystems.
The strategy consists of a working document acting as a reference
tool for boating and fishing groups to use as the basis for
their own minimal impact codes of practice; the "Afloat
and Aware" brochure sent to every registered small boat
user in Tasmanian as an easy guide to becoming minimal impact
boat users; and the Minimal Impact Boat Pledge and Pennant,
which encourages boat users to sign up to adopt minimal impact
practices and fly the pennant as ambassadors for clean, healthy
seas.
A
Practical Guide to Good Practice: Managing Environmental Impacts
in the Marine Recreation Sector. Published by The Center
for Environmental Leadership in Business (CELB), established
by Conservation International (CI) and Ford Motor Company "to
engage the private sector worldwide in creating solutions to
critical global environmental problems in which industry plays
a defining role". This Guide contains one section on how
to handle sewage and garbage.
National
Clean Boating Campaign, United States.
The National Clean Boating Campaign is a nationwide program
of the Marine Environment Education Foundation. See, e.g., the
Boating
Litter & Fish Waste Fact Sheet and Best
Management Practices Fact Sheet.
Boating
Clean & Green Campaign, California
Coastal Commission. The Boating Clean and Green Campaign
is an education and outreach program that promotes environmentally
sound boating practices to marine business and boaters in California.
See, e.g., 10
Tips for Boating Clean & Green, and the Catalog of Marina
and Recreational Boater Pollution Education
Materials.
Florida
Clean Marina Programme, Florida Department
of Environmental Protection. The aim of the CMP is prevention.
The goal is Clean Marina Designation. Designation lets boaters
that use the marina know that these businesses adhere to Marina
Environmental Measures, which are simple, innovative solutions
to day-to-day marina operations that protect the environment.
They have been developed through examination of best management
practices around the country and the partnership of Florida's
marinas, boatyards, boaters and government.
Environmental
Boater's Guide, Ohio Department of
Natural Resources. "This booklet is intended to
guide you in being an environmentally aware boater." Contains
information on how to recycle on board, about trash on the water,
about sewage, how to adopt a waterway, legislation, etc.
Tampa
Bay Estuary Program, United States:
Boating and Marine debris. Information on how boaters can help
avoid littering the Bay and thus improve the marine environment.
Vessels
Assist Association of America
Environmental
and Safety Foundation,
United States. Here one finds articles
addressing boat owners, like 'Treat the Ocean like your Home:
Keep it Clean', 'Trash Away! The Marine Environment...Enjoy
It, Protect It'. and 'Reducing Marine Pollutants'.
EPA
Vessel Sewage Discharge Program, United
States, dealing primarily with sewage but also with other
types of environmental stressors that affect navigable U. S.
waterways, including marine
debris, and what can be done to control wastewater discharges
from ships or educating vessel passengers about coastal and
ocean waters.
Good
Mate Program - A Clean Boating Program, United
States. A program by the Ocean Conservancy. Good Mate
information and educational materials have been incorporated
nationally into the safe boating and environmental training
programs of The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and the U.S. Coast
Guard Sea Partners Campaign. Good Mate is designed to raise
awareness and promote environmentally responsible boating and
marina operations. See also press info.
Managing
Boat Wastes: A Guide for Hawai'i Boaters.
A booklet published by the University of Hawaii's
Sea Grant Program, School of Ocean and Earth Science
and the Hawai'i State's Departments of Health and Land and Natural
Resources. It presents solid ideas on how boat owners can have
the least harmful impact on the marine environment, while still
enjoying and maintaining their vessels. |
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