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The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), administers the 17 national marine sanctuaries. The program began after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill off the coast of California brought the plight of marine ecosystems to national attention.
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 Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, an element of NOAA, administers the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary jointly with the Government of New York. [1] [3] [6] Upon designation of the sanctuary, NOAA took steps to create a new 15-member Sanctuary Advisory Council to inform the governance of the sanctuary. [6]
The Biden administration, members of Congress and Native tribes commemorated the designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on Monday — the first such preserve in California ...
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will protect 4,543-square-miles of the Pacific Ocean from just south of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County to Naples ...
The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary was the 17th national marine sanctuary and sixth on the United States West Coast. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was designated only five weeks after the designation of the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary on September 6, 2024, [ 5 ] which in turn was the first since the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast ...
NOAA’s proposal for the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary “potentially opens up a 30-mile corridor of ‘anything goes,’ ”one Indigenous leader said.