National Reports and Initiatives

National Ocean Policy (Final Recommendations document is particularly useful for framing the major U.S. ocean issues): 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/oceans/policy 

Final report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (which concluded in 2004; articulates many of the major U.S. ocean challenges; this effort paved the way for the work of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force that developed the National Ocean Policy): 
http://www.oceancommission.gov/documents/full_color_rpt/welcome.html 

Pew Oceans Commission (which concluded in 2003; final report "America's Living Oceans: Charting a Course for Sea Change" articulates many of the major U.S. ocean challenges; this effort also helped to pave the way for the subsequent development of the National Ocean Policy): 
http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_detail.aspx?id=130 

Draft National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy (which articulates climate impacts and adaptation options for marine systems and other natural systems): 
http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/public-review-draft.php