Five Waquoit Bay Management Objectives (Text Version)

Five management objectives that were established for Waquoit Bay, based on the management goal, are:

• Reduce or eliminate hypoxic or anoxic events.
• Prevent toxic levels of contamination in water, sediments, and biota.
• Restore and maintain self-sustaining native fish populations and their habitat.
• Reestablish viable eelgrass beds and associated aquatic communities in the bay.
• Reestablish a self-sustaining scallop population in the bay that can support a viable sport fishery.

  Relevant guidelines section(s): Text Box 2.6