Blue Vision Summit in Washington: May 20-23

The Blue Vision summit is a gathering of 500 leaders from the marine community including government officials, advocates and scientific experts. Restoring the Gulf will be a major theme of this year’s Blue Vision summit, which takes place in Washington D.C. May 20-23, 2011. Other themes include protecting endangered waters and seeing the President’s new Ocean Policy enacted in areas where people are already working for change and making the links between a healthy ocean and healthy economy.

The summit aims to strengthen the coalition of advocates for healthy oceans, and will include a Capitol Hill Ocean Advocacy Day on Monday. For more information and registration, visit www.bluefront.org.