Briefly, the restoration projects are as follows:

• Net Removal Project. Abandoned fishing nets cause injury to shoreline, intertidal, and subtidal habitats by smothering or crushing organisms and by abrading the ocean bottom and shoreline areas. This causes mortality in fish and invertebrates, sea turtles, and marine mammals that become entangled in them. In October 2001, with trustee oversight, Tesoro Corporation implemented the approved net removal plan, removing 20.68 tons of abandoned nets on the eastern side of Kauai. The final report for this project is available in four files: File 1, File 2, File 3, color photos.
• Predator control in Newell's Shearwater Colonies on Kauai. Colony sites for this project are at three relatively low-elevation areas on Kauai, where predation is a known problem and is responsible for a dramatically decreasing population size. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the state of Hawaii are comanaging this project on behalf of the trustees.
• Predator control and habitat enhancement on offshore islands in the Hawaii Seabird Sanctuary. The state of Hawaii manages 15 offshore islands that serve as seabird sanctuaries within the area potentially affected by the oil spill. To increase seabird survivorship and reproductive performance for tropical seabird colonies, these islands will be the target of restoration activities to control alien predators and invasive, non-native vegetation. FWS and the state of Hawaii are comanaging this project on behalf of the trustees.
• Extension of the predator fence at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on Kauai. This refuge is one of the few sites on the main Hawaiian Islands where seabirds can nest successfully thanks to the installation of a predator-proof fence. The fencing protects roosting and nesting seabirds from disruption by dogs, cats, and rats. FWS and Kilauea Point NWR are managing this project on behalf of the trustees.
• Beach cleanup. The trustees have placed $10,000 into the state of Hawaii's beach debris cleanup fund to be used to clean recreational beaches in areas affected by the spill.