{"id":375,"date":"2009-09-24T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T18:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-09-24T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T18:44:48","slug":"safmc-protects-deep-water-corals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/09\/24\/safmc-protects-deep-water-corals\/","title":{"rendered":"SAFMC Protects Deep Water Corals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-396\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2009\/09\/dwcoral-sross6-51608.JPG\" alt=\"Deep water corals off the southeastern U.S.\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"293\" height=\"220\" align=\"right\" \/>Big news\u00a0comes from\u00a0the U.S. Southeast, where\u00a0the regional fishery management <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/pressrelease.cfm?contentID=10422\" target=\"_blank\">council voted<\/a> last\u00a0Thursday to protect what is likely the planet&#8217;s largest deepwater coral ecosystem, covering nearly 25,000 square miles, stretching from North Carolina to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>This final action culminates ten years of active collaboration between scientists (including EDF Oceans Chief Scientist,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=853\" target=\"_self\">Doug Rader<\/a>), managers, environmentalists and fishermen to protect this recently discovered world treasure. While rulemaking in the U.S. Department of Commerce will extend into next year, the vote last week was a major conservation milestone. In combination with the establishment of national marine monuments in the distant Pacific in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/pressrelease.cfm?contentID=9042\" target=\"_self\">January<\/a>, this action truly establishes 2009 as the year of the oceans!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Press:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/local\/story\/956750.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/volusia\/orl-deepwater-corals-protected-091809,0,1693773.story\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2009\/sep\/18\/east-coast-deep-water-coral-reefs-studied-at\/\" target=\"_blank\">TCPalm (Florida)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Steven Ross<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news\u00a0comes from\u00a0the U.S. Southeast, where\u00a0the regional fishery management council voted last\u00a0Thursday to protect what is likely the planet&#8217;s largest deepwater coral ecosystem, covering nearly 25,000 square miles, stretching from North Carolina to Florida. This final action culminates ten years of active collaboration between scientists (including EDF Oceans Chief Scientist,\u00a0Doug Rader), managers, environmentalists and fishermen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[657,509,567,651,470],"coauthors":[5171],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corals","tag-fishing","tag-golden-crab","tag-reefs","tag-south-atlantic"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SAFMC Protects Deep Water Corals - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/09\/24\/safmc-protects-deep-water-corals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SAFMC Protects Deep Water Corals - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Big news\u00a0comes from\u00a0the U.S. Southeast, where\u00a0the regional fishery management council voted last\u00a0Thursday to protect what is likely the planet&#8217;s largest deepwater coral ecosystem, covering nearly 25,000 square miles, stretching from North Carolina to Florida. 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