Lake Champlain Sea Grant

**Our Program Goals** Our goals support ecosystem-based approaches to planning and management that consider the lake and its entire drainage basin as a whole interconnected, complex system. Through outreach, education, and applied research, Lake Champlain Sea Grant strives to meet the following goals: **Resilient Communities and Economies** - Sustain and protect water resources to meet emerging needs of the communities, economies, and ecosystems of the Lake Champlain basin. - Improve resilience of coastal communities and economies to changing environmental conditions. **Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development** - Inform an environmentally literate, engaged, and diverse public to improve community well-being in a changing Lake Champlain basin. - Enable a diverse and skilled workforce to engage in the science and management of watershed and coastal resources in the Lake Champlain basin. **Healthy Coastal Ecosystems** - Protect, enhance, and restore the Lake Champlain basin’s habitat, ecosystems, and the services they provide. - Apply sound science, tools, and services to sustain land, water, and living resources. **Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture ** - Fisheries, aquaculture, aquaponics, and other freshwater resources supply food, jobs, economic and cultural benefits in the Lake Champlain basin. - Natural resources are sustainably managed to support fishing communities, industries, recreation, subsistence fisheries, aquaculture, and aquaponics in the Lake Champlain basin.