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The Blue Frontier Campaign held two Summit Planning Gatherings of some 60 heads of marine organizations in the fall of 2008 in Washington DC and San Francisco.

Decisions reached at these Leadership Gatherings shaped the agenda for the second Blue Vision Summit in Washington DC. The first Summit (in 2004) drew 250 participants. The 2009 Summit brought together nearly 500 key leaders and activists from over 200 marine conservation organizations, aquariums, science centers, public agencies, maritime labor, ocean-dependent businesses, public health groups, coastal tribes and others.

The three key themes of the 2009 Summit were:

• Solutions that are working at the local, state and regional level and how to expand them
• Climate and Oceans. How the Marine Community can develop a common voice and plan of action to address fossil fuel fired climate change impacts on the ocean and coastal environment.
• Federal Legislation. The state of the Ocean Act and how to build an effective national constituency for ocean governance reform.

This summit demonstrated to the new Obama administration and Congress that there is a strong and diverse constituency ready to work for ocean and coastal protection and restoration. The summit helped build a nationwide network of ocean activists ready to act at the local level to assure passage of effective ocean legislation and encourage the good administrative and agency policies they support.

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