The Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan (CCMP) serves as a long-term place-based plan and science blueprint as a guide to future decisions that establishes priorities for activities, research and funding for the estuary. The CCMP focuses on restoring and conserving habitat (enhancing the health, diversity, and resilience of key marsh habitat and other coastal, estuarine, and marine habitats) and water quality, protecting living coastal and marine resources, enhancing community resilience and revitalizing the regional economy. National Estuary Program
This initiative will be a community-based process to develop consensus on a roadmap for the protection, restoration and preservation of the St. Andrew Bay and St. Joseph Estuary system. The Comprehensive Conservation management plan (CCMP) to be completed in three years, will seek to align and build consensus on the conservation and economic priorities, implement projects to improve the Bays and monitor outcomes and adapt strategies through the ongoing work of the Estuary program. This plan will seek to improve the overall health of the estuary and support the investment of resources to make the St. Andrew and St. Joe Bays Estuary program one of the best in the country.