This annual report highlights progress and challenges for the Lake Ontario Lakewide Management Plan over the past year, and outlines planned activities including outreach, monitoring, protection and restoration actions. It includes an overview, accomplishments, challenges, next steps, and contacts.

Through State of the Great Lakes Reporting, Canada and the United States establish and maintain comprehensive, science-based ecosystem indicators to assess the state of the Great Lakes, to anticipate emerging threats and to measure progress in relation to achievement of the General and Specific Objectives of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

Through State of the Great Lakes Reporting, Canada and the United States establish and maintain comprehensive, science-based ecosystem indicators to assess the state of the Great Lakes, to anticipate emerging threats and to measure progress in relation to achievement of the General and Specific Objectives of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.