NEWS ADVISORY National Press Club To Host Sea Grant Marine Coastal Policy Experts At "Morning Newsmaker" May 18
Contact: Ben Sherman of the National Sea Grant College Program,
202-662-7095 or [email protected]
Event: "Morning Newsmaker" News Conference with Professors Robert Knecht and Biliana Cicin-Sain, of the University of Delaware Center for the Study of Marine Policy
When: Monday, May 18 at 9:30 a.m. (Editors please note time is 9:30 a.m.)
Where: The National Press Club - Peter Zenger Room, (13th Floor)
14th & F Streets, Washington, D.C. 20045
Details: With Memorial Day and the unofficial kick-off of the U.S. beach season approaching, Knecht and Cicin-Sain will discuss critical issues facing U.S. coastal tourism and recreation industries as the largest and fastest growing economic segments of the U.S. service industry. They are the co-authors of a report on coastal tourism and recreation prepared for Dr. D. James Baker, Department of Commerce Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and NOAA Administrator, as part of a larger report on ocean issues which will be discussed at the National Conference on the Oceans in Monterey, CA. June 11-12 . Vice President Gore will chair the conference's opening plenary, and President Clinton is tentatively slated to speak to the closing session.
The United Nations has declared 1998 as the "International year of The Ocean." The United States has more than 95,000 miles, and one out of every six jobs in the U.S. is marine-related with one third of our GNP produced in coastal areas. Over one half the population lives and works within 50 miles of coastal areas adjacent to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes, and that population has been the fastest growing sector of the U.S. About 180 million people visit our coastlines each year, and most Americans spend at least 10 days a year near a coast.
Several research projects at The University of Delaware Center for the Study of Marine Policy are currently funded by the National Sea Grant College Program.
Copies of "Year of The Ocean Discussion Papers" as prepared by U.S. Federal Agencies with ocean-related programs and published by NOAA will be available at briefing.
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