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A U.S. National Marine Sanctuary is a federally designated area within United States waters that protects areas of the marine environment with special conservation, recreational, ecological, historical, cultural, archeological, scientific, educational, or aesthetic qualities. [3]
The Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary [1] is a National Marine Sanctuary in the United States located in the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland. [2] It is best known for the "Ghost Fleet," 118 historic shipwrecks in Mallows Bay in the sanctuary's northeast corner which is the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western ...
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a national marine sanctuary [2] administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce; NOAA co-manages the sanctuary jointly with the State of Wisconsin. It is located in Lake Michigan along the coast of Wisconsin.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is in charge of the research on the changes of the marine environment that are caused by humans. [9] The U.S. Coast Guard is in charge of the surveillance of ocean dumping. [9] The NOAA National Marine Sanctuary program manages a network of underwater areas that are protected by the US.
The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary [1] is a sanctuary off the coast of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in Southern California 350 miles (563 km) south of San Francisco and 95 miles (153 km) north of Los Angeles. It was designated on October 2, 1980, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and was expanded in 2007. [2]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the final environmental impact report for the sanctuary this month, and the agency is expected to designate the sanctuary in December ...
The National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (formerly the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary [1]) is a federally-designated underwater area protected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. This sanctuary is the largest and most remote in the National Marine Sanctuary system ...
The Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Ontario off the coast of the U.S. state of New York. It protects 41 known historically significant shipwrecks spanning 200 years of American maritime history, as well as 19 potential shipwreck sites.