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Habitat Destruction : Solutions-Government
- New, Vast and Wonderful Yellowstone of the Sea
-- On December 4, President Clinton issued an executive order creating an underwater preserve around northwestern Hawaii. The order prohibits oil exploration and dumping. More controversial is the limitation of fishing, which would close many fisheries. But environmentalists had hoped for the designation of the area as a national monument under the Antiquities Act.
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- NOAA and National Fisheries Institute Announce Habitat Restoration Plan
-- (Nov. 2001) "The National Marine Fisheries Service, an agency of the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has renewed its pilot habitat restoration partnership with Ocean Trust and the National Fisheries Institute. A total of $200,000 in combined funding will be available for restoration projects during the first year of the new, three-year agreement."
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- NOAA delivers early warning of coral bleaching
-- Coral bleaching sucks the life out of coral reefs, taking away their vibrant color and often rendering them useless in the marine ecosystem. But a new program developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will soon arm researchers with an early-warning monitoring system to alert them to bleaching episodes.
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- Ocean Habitat Protection Act
-- "A bill to protect diverse and structurally complex areas of the seafloor in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone by establishing a maximum diameter size limit on rockhopper, roller, and all other groundgear used on bottom trawls, and for other purposes."
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- Saving deep-sea coral
-- In the United States, the Sustainable Fisheries Act requires sea-coral research and management through the National Marine Fisheries Service, a department of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It is up for reauthorization, but scientists are concerned that revisions of the act will make requirements for essential status too stringent to provide for conservation of deep-sea coral.
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- South Carolina's Marine Artificial Reefs
-- Artificial reef development in South Carolina's coastal and offshore waters is managed through the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division (MRD).
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- U.S. Coral Reefs—Imperiled National Treasures
-- (U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet)
"Coral reefs are home to 25% of all marine species. However, they are dying at alarming rates. If this trend continues, in 20 years the living corals on many of the world’s reefs will be dead. As part of the effort to protect our Nation’s reefs, U.S. Geological Survey scientists are working to better understand the processes that affect the health of these ecologically and economically important ecosystems."
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