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Monterey Bay marine sanctuary to soon include large undersea mountain

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on September 27, 2008 at 8:51 am

From the Los Angeles Times:

The Monterey Bay marine sanctuary off California’s Central Coast will expand its borders to include one of the largest undersea mountains in U.S. waters, President Bush announced Friday.

Speaking at the Smithsonian’s new Ocean Hall exhibit in Washington, D.C., Bush vowed to proceed with the long-awaited expansion of the sanctuary to include the Davidson Seamount, a dormant undersea volcano, and its coral forests. “This 585-square-nautical mile addition will safeguard one of the largest seamounts in the U.S. waters and will protect an extraordinary array of ocean creatures,” Bush said to the applause of ocean regulators and activists.

Once it becomes part of the sanctuary, the seamount will be permanently off limits to offshore oil drilling and mining, and protected from dumping.

This would be the first significant boundary expansion of an existing national marine sanctuary under the Bush administration.

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September 27, 2008 · Filed Under Other Oceans & Beaches Stories

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