Tag Archives: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
Push for 35-mile-long canyon off Virginia coast to become marine sanctuary is suddenly put on hold
For more than a year, the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center built a case for naming a vast canyon in the Atlantic the next national marine sanctuary. There were dozens of meetings held, hundreds of letters written and thousands of signatures gathered from supporters on a petition. Suddenly and quietly last month, however, an aquarium task force that had been pushing to make the Norfolk Canyon a sanctuary put everything on hold indefinitely. To make a long story short, what happened was Donald Trump. The Republican presidential candidate was elected, and the chances for a lot of conservation initiatives suddenly looked much iffier. “We’re not really sure where this new administration is going to go with environmental protection,” said Mark Swingle, the Virginia Beach aquarium’s director of research and conservation. “The timing just doesn’t look right now. So we just decided to take a pause here to see what’s going to happen.” Read the story here 08:15
Scallop Industry Set Aside Program Funds Mid-Atlantic Loggerhead Turtle Research – Northeast Sea Turtle Collaborative tagged 20 deploying two solar-powered test units.
The research team worked from two commercial sea scallop vessel, the 91-foot F/V Kathy Ann and the 85-foot F/V Ms Manya, both based in Barnegat Light, New Jersey. The project was funded through the sea scallop industry’s research set-aside program awarded to CFF, providing an opportunity for the research organizations to collaborate in this year’s project as they have in previous tagging work. [email protected] 15:59
