Strategy for Evaluating and Improving the Rules for Managing Releases from Lakes Ontario and Superior & 2025 Annual Work Plan

Strategy updated October 7, 2024 - Original strategy developed September 1, 2020

This paper describes a flexible strategy developed by the GLAM Committee for the ongoing evaluation and improvement of the regulation plans through adaptive management. Adaptive management is a structured, iterative cycle for improving actions through long-term monitoring, modelling, and assessment. The GLAM Committee is responsible for implementing many components of the adaptive management cycle, providing scientifically sound data, knowledge, and technologically advanced tools for supporting management decisions. Based on the information and tools provided by the GLAM Committee, the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River (ILOSLRB) and the International Lake Superior Board of Control (ILSBC) may recommend to the IJC that revisions to the regulation plans be made. The IJC, with public input and government concurrence, will decide whether to modify the regulation plans. The GLAM Committee also supports the International Niagara Board of Control as necessary.