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The refuge is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) as part of the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, headquartered in Charlestown, Rhode Island; the complex includes all five National Wildlife Refuges in Rhode Island: Chafee NWR, Block Island NWR, Ninigret NWR, Sachuest Point NWR, and Trustom Pond NWR. [6] [4]
Quonochontaug (KWAHN-uh-kon-tog [1]) is a coastal lagoon in the towns of Charlestown and Westerly, both in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. [2] It is the most saline of nine such lagoons (often referred to as "salt ponds") in southern Rhode Island. [3]
The state contains hundreds of bodies of water, totaling to 20,749 acres (8,397 ha) of freshwater. The 237 largest lakes and ponds make up 91% of all inland freshwater area in the state. Most lakes in Rhode Island are manmade, only 25% are natural, five of these are greater than 100 acres (40 ha) in area. [1]
Point Judith Pond is a shallow, four-mile (6 km)-long salt body of water lying behind the barrier beaches and sand dunes that form Point Judith Harbor, which lies immediately west of Point Judith in Narragansett, Rhode Island at the southwestern tip of Narragansett Bay. [1]
It is one of nine coastal lagoons (often referred to as "salt ponds") in southern Rhode Island. [2] [3] According to the Rhode Island Sea Grant program, "[i]ts breachway is only intermittently open to the sea", and it receives large quantities of freshwater from Moonstone Stream; only two other salt ponds, Point Judith and Greenhill, have significant streams flowing into them.
Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex is a National Wildlife Refuge complex in the state of Rhode Island.Its headquarters is in Charlestown, Rhode Island.Dotted along the Rhode Island's Atlantic coastline, the five refuges that make up the complex (Ninigret, Trustom Pond, John H. Chafee at Petaquamscutt Cove, Block Island and Sachuest Point) offer a wide variety of natural settings.
(fresh water) Micropterus floridanus: 2007 [11] Atlantic sailfish (salt water) Istiophorus albicans: 2007 [12] Georgia: Largemouth bass: Micropterus salmoides: 1970 [13] Southern Appalachian brook trout (cold water game fish) Salvelinus fontinalis: 2006 [14] [15] Red drum (salt-water fish) Sciaenops ocellatus: 2006 [16] [17] Hawaii ...
Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago.Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.