Akyla
Contributor
If you operate anywhere near the coastal NC area you may be interested in taking a look at what I have posted in the NC Wreck Diver forum.
In the draft management plan for the presently small Monitor Marine Sanctuary, there is a provision to begin the process of expanding the sanctuary to include additional sites and potentially be a huge area. NOAA has been doing all the background work on this for several years and is now making it official.
The desire to expand this small sanctuary has many issues asociated with it, only one of them being the desire to preserve the shipwreck sites.
An expanded sanctuary will bring with it a number of restrictions, rules and regulations that may effectively prevent access or full use of the resources.
Many of you may already operate in or near a Marine Sanctuary and I would like to hear your thoughts about the good and bad of this. If you wish to make comments to NOAA about their draft plan, the methods to do so are linked to in my post on NC wreck diver forum.
In the draft management plan for the presently small Monitor Marine Sanctuary, there is a provision to begin the process of expanding the sanctuary to include additional sites and potentially be a huge area. NOAA has been doing all the background work on this for several years and is now making it official.
The desire to expand this small sanctuary has many issues asociated with it, only one of them being the desire to preserve the shipwreck sites.
An expanded sanctuary will bring with it a number of restrictions, rules and regulations that may effectively prevent access or full use of the resources.
Many of you may already operate in or near a Marine Sanctuary and I would like to hear your thoughts about the good and bad of this. If you wish to make comments to NOAA about their draft plan, the methods to do so are linked to in my post on NC wreck diver forum.