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Shipwrecks as Environmental Threats to California's National Marine Sanctuaries
Currently there are thirteen National Marine Sanctuaries in the United States; four are located in California waters, Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank. Combined, California sanctuaries occupy over 8,000 square miles of bottomlands. NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program mandate is to manage and protect marine and archaeological resources, beginning with the establishment of the USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary in 1975, and the most recent Great Lakes shipwreck sanctuary, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve in Lake Huron. The archaeological remains of shipwrecks are among the most fragile in the underwater environment, because, unlike many natural resources, they are nonrenewable. The National Marine Sanctuary Program is now faced with a new challenge of identifying and monitoring historic shipwrecks that may pose environmental threats to sanctuary marine resources.
Shipwrecks as Environmental Threats to California's National Marine Sanctuaries
Currently there are thirteen National Marine Sanctuaries in the United States; four are located in California waters, Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank. Combined, California sanctuaries occupy over 8,000 square miles of bottomlands. NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program mandate is to manage and protect marine and archaeological resources, beginning with the establishment of the USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary in 1975, and the most recent Great Lakes shipwreck sanctuary, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve in Lake Huron. The archaeological remains of shipwrecks are among the most fragile in the underwater environment, because, unlike many natural resources, they are nonrenewable. The National Marine Sanctuary Program is now faced with a new challenge of identifying and monitoring historic shipwrecks that may pose environmental threats to sanctuary marine resources.
Shipwrecks as Environmental Threats to California's National Marine Sanctuaries
Schwemmer, Robert V. (author)
California and the World Ocean 2002 ; 2002 ; Santa Barbara, California, United States
California and the World Ocean '02 ; 785-796
2005-03-16
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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