Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Promote education and awareness
to ensure a healthy and sustainable working harbour
Objective 1A. Develop a communications plan and promote awareness in the
communities of the Ucluelet Harbour project.
Objective 1B. Act as the collection agency for information and as a distribution
office to ensure that the communities have access to the best information
on environmentally sound practices around their homes and businesses.
Objective 1C. Establish effective lines of communication and coordinate
activities with community groups and main regulatory agencies.
Objective 1D. Promote environmental education activities in the harbour
and promote wide community participation in the actions to clean up and
protect the ecological integrity of the harbour.
Goal 2: Improve and protect habitat quality
while maintaining a healthy and sustainable working harbour
Objective 2A. Inventory and map shoreline and aquatic habitats and conditions.
Objective 2B. Identify, assess, and rate ecologically valued portions
of the harbour.
Objective 2C. Identify habitat degrading activities.
Objective 2D. Assist the community with the development and implementation
of alternatives that reduce or halt the input of deleterious substances
into the harbour, and/or that reduce or halt actions that damage habitat
in the harbour.
Objective 2E. Identify and implement habitat enhancement opportunities
in the harbour
Goal 3: Decrease contaminant inputs into the harbour
Objective 3A. Inventory point and non-point source discharges.
Objective 3B. Evaluate the quality, and extent of existing point and non-point
source discharges.
Objective 3C. Identify and develop remedial measures for identified contaminant
inputs.
Objective 3D. Partner with community groups and other agencies to implement
remedial measures.
Goal 4: Work in partnership with local community
members, organizations and businesses to define, fund and implement new
environmental guidelines for a healthy and sustainable working harbour
Objective 4A. Establish and maintain a steering committee for the harbour
project on which sit a wide representation of people from organizations
in the communities and appropriate agencies.
Objective 4B. Ensure that mechanisms for community input are available
and functioning (examples include public open houses, surveys etc).
Objective 4C. Work with people, community groups and local businesses
to pursue funding for changes in operations or other improvements that
will also serve to improve the quality of the harbour.
Objective 4D. Work with municipalities to develop land use plans and policies
that protect the environmental quality of the harbour while promoting
sustainable development.
Objective 4E. Participate in the project review and referral process to
reduce the environmental impact of development.
Goal 5: Monitor environmental quality so
that we may gauge our progress towards a healthy and sustainable working
harbour
Objective 5A. After Identifying the critical and/or important habitats
within the harbour, implement a long term monitoring project for these
areas.
Objective 5A. In partnership with the communities, resource decision making
bodies and other groups define a water use plan for all parts of the harbour.
Objective 5B. Set objectives for water, sediment, habitat and other environmental
features of the harbour and implement a monitoring strategy for these
parameters.
Objective 5C. Link proposed objectives to appropriate regulation and enforcement.
Objective 5D. Prepare and promote stewardship guidelines for improved
environmental quality.
