1)  FLORIDA AREAS IMPACTED

• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

  -                     22 SPAs (Special Protection Areas) – “No Fishing Zones”
  – footprints of all major reefs along Florida Keys reef tract

  -                     Western Sambos “No Fishing Zone” Ecological Reserve

  -                     Dry Tortugas (NFZs) North & South – 200+ sq. miles

  -                     Dry Tortugas National Park – Additional 75 sq. miles (NFZ Proposed)

• Gulf of Mexico Federal Fishery Council

  -                     Gag Grouper NFZ’s – 200+ sq. miles – “bait and switch” tactic

  -                     3 more NFZs proposed – 650 sq. miles

• South Atlantic Federal Fishery Council

  -                     19 MPA/NFZs proposed for Florida ’s east coast

• Biscayne & Everglades National Parks

  -                     Undergoing “management plan review and development”

• National Wildlife Refuges – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

  -                     Merritt Island (Mosquito Lagoon)

  -                     Ding Darling “Annexation” of Pine Island Sound in Lee County

  -                     New federal law requiring all NWRs to develop revised management plans – process beginning in 2001.

2)  ORGANIZATIONS LEADING THE MPA – NFZ CAMPAIGN        

-                     Center for Marine Conservation (Ocean Conservancy)

-                     Environmental Defense

-                     National Audubon Society

-                     Reef Keeper International

-                     Legal representation provided by Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund, Inc.