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  2. First Landing State Park - Wikipedia

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    The park includes cabins, areas for camping, fishing, and swimming, a public beach, and over 19 miles (31 km) of trails for hiking and biking. Virginia's most popular state park, it's visited by over a million people each year. Its main entrance is located on Shore Drive across from the beach camping entrance.

  3. Lesner Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Lesner Bridge in Virginia Beach, Virginia connects the bay area to the Virginia Beach shore via Shore Drive ( U.S. Route 60) — crossing the Lynnhaven Inlet at the mouth the Chesapeake Bay. The bridge lies approximately three miles from the southern terminus of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The first bridge in the same location, a draw ...

  4. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Virginia is located in the independent city of Virginia Beach. Established in 1938 in an isolated portion of the former Princess Anne County, it is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The administrative office is located on Sandbridge Road at Sigma ...

  5. Fish factory - Wikipedia

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    A fish factory, also known as a fish plant or fish processing facility, is a facility in which fish processing is performed. They are commonly located near bodies of water but can be located inland and on fishing vessels. The availability and variety of fish influences the scale of fish factories and the processing methods they utilize.

  6. Chesapeake Beach, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Chesapeake Beach, Virginia. Coordinates: 36°54′56″N 76°07′13″W. Chesapeake Beach, also known as Chic's Beach or Chick's Beach [1] is a small beach in a residential neighborhood running on the east and west sides of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. What originated as a lookout post during war ...

  7. Hampton Roads - Wikipedia

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    Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.

  8. Offshore aquaculture - Wikipedia

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    Offshore aquaculture uses fish cages similar to these inshore cages, except they are submerged and moved offshore into deeper water. Lukas Manomaitis, managing director, Seafood Consulting Associates [ 1] Offshore aquaculture, also known as open water aquaculture or open ocean aquaculture, is an emerging approach to mariculture ( seawater ...

  9. Woman, 104, still works trapping lobsters, shares simple tips ...

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    Lobsters can’t hide from 104-year-old Virginia Oliver — Maine’s famous “Lobster Lady.” She’s been trapping the crustaceans for almost a century and is ready to catch some more this summer.