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Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary: Great Lakes: 1,722 sq mi (4,460 km 2) September 6, 2024 [15] Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary: Atlantic: 18 sq mi (47 km 2) September 3, 2019 [16] Monitor National Marine Sanctuary: Atlantic: 0.785 sq mi (2.03 km 2) February 5, 1975 [10] Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Pacific
The Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary implemented the National Marine Sanctuary program's first zoning system in 1983. [11] In 1984, it hosted the first annual underwater music festival. [ 11 ] Research at the sanctuary between 1983 and 1985 demonstrated a marked increase in fish populations after the prohibition of spearfishing . [ 12 ]
The Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary was a National Marine Sanctuary in the waters in the Florida Keys in Florida in the United States that existed from 1975 to 1990. It was the second national marine sanctuary, and it protected the portion of a barrier reef beyond Florida state waters in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park . [ 1 ]
This is the first tribal nominated national marine sanctuary in the United States. A view of Los Osos with Los Osos Middle School at lower right. The Northern Chumash Tribal Council organized an ...
Monterey Bay Aquarium helped create momentum for the establishment of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 1992, one of the largest marine protected areas in the United States. [ ah ] In 2004, the aquarium created a formal division to become involved in United States ocean policy and law, working with the Pew Charitable Trusts and the ...
Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary (2 P) Pages in category "National Marine Sanctuaries of the United States" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) is a federally protected marine area offshore of California's Big Sur and central coast in the United States. It is one of the largest US national marine sanctuaries and has a shoreline length of 276 miles (444 km) stretching from just north of the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco to Cambria in ...
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