Publications

Current AIC Plans  |  Historical AIC Plans  | AIC Chair’s Reports | Jurisdictional Reports to Congress | USCRTF Resolutions

AIC PLANS AND DOCUMENTS – Current

AIC Strategic Plan, 2016-2020

The 2016-2020 strategic plan sets out effective and worthwhile goals addressing three key needs in the jurisdictions and Freely Associated States: 1) Sufficient capacity, 2) Adequate and sustained funding for coral reef management, and 3) Jurisdiction/FAS-federal integration towards resource-focused outcomes. The fourth goal is specific to capacity and effectiveness of the AIC itself. These goals are balanced against the realistic limitations of the AIC. This plan builds on the AIC’s previous plans and helps define the focus and direction of the Committee over the next five years. Learn more about our plan here.

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AIC Communications Plan

The AIC Communications Plan was developed by the Points of Contact in 2006 as a blueprint for ensuring efficiency, clarity, and responsibility for AIC members, the Committee as a whole, and the Executive Director of the Secretariat. The plan was updated in 2015.

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AIC Charter

The AIC was developed by the AIC and Secretariat in 2007 and clarifies the duties of committee members and provides for implementation of initiatives, including establishment of the AIC Secretariat, membership, and roles of committee officers. The charter was updated in 2014.

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AIC PLANS AND DOCUMENTS – Historical

Blue Book

Summary Report of the U.S. Islands Coral Reef Initiative Workshop, 1997 (“Blue Book”)

A workshop was held on Maui, Hawai’i, September 25-26, 1997 with representatives from American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and federal agencies. They met to discuss the status of the Coral Reef Initiative and to explore future directions for improving the management of coral ecosystems. Participants considered the future coral reef ecosystems and management, and formulated additional ideas for updating their regional plans and developing activities that would facilitate achievement of their shared visions. The information contained within this report, represents the accumulation of knowledge from local people working with various aspects of local coral reef initiative implementation.

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Green Book

U.S. All Islands Coral Reef Initiative Strategy, 1999 (“Green Book”)

This document is the official 1999-2000 update to the 1997 U.S. Islands Coral Reef Initiative Workshop Summary Report. It reflects the island visions for coral reef management strategies through projects and programs that are jurisdiction-specific as well as regional, national, and international in scope. Through the islands’ partnership with federal agencies, the strategics and products herein are not only important to each jurisdiction. and to the islands as a whole, but to the U.S. Coral Reef Initiative effort as well.

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Interim Strategy for Calendar Year 2006

This Interim Strategy builds upon the Local Action Strategies and served as a transition to the islands planning process for a long-range plan. The Interim Strategy contains local state, territorial, and commonwealth priorities and project and regional project intended to meet the needs of more than one jurisdiction.

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AIC Strategic Plan

AIC Strategic Action Plan, 2008-2013, published 2007, updated 2010 (“Yellow Book”)

The U.S. All Islands Coral Reef Committee (AIC) Strategic Action Plan (2008-2013) was produced by the AIC and Secretariat in 2007, in cooperation with the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Coral Reef Conservation Program of the National Ocean Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. The plan was updated in 2010 and the AIC agreed to extend the plan for a year (2008-2014) in August 2013.

Download: 2007 version (“Yellow Book”) | 2010 version

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AIC CHAIR’S REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS TO THE U.S. CORAL REEF TASK FORCE (USCRTF)

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JURISDICTIONAL REPORTS TO CONGRESS

The Reauthorized Coral Reef Conservation Act specifies that each year on a rotating basis, one coral reef jurisdiction will submit a Report to Congress describing the status of the jurisdiction’s coral reefs, a summary of recent management and restoration activities, and estimates of the economic benefits derived from the jurisdiction’s coral reef ecosystems. The first report was published in 2024.

  • Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Coral Reef Report to Congress, 2025 [PDF]
  • Guam Coral Reef Report to Congress, 2024 [PDF]

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USCRTF RESOLUTIONS

Click here to view all USCRTF resolutions adopted by the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force since 1998.

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