1 December 2009

An international team of scientists has set sail aboard the Duke University vessel ‘Cape Hatteras’ to study the giant cold-water coral mounds off North Carolina.

Read daily updates from the cruise at:

http://fl.biology.usgs.gov/DISCOVRE/discovre_2009/discovre_09_cruise_4.html

CHARLESTON, South Carolina, September 28, 2009 (ENS) - Protection for over 23,000 square miles of complex deepwater corals located off the coasts of the Carolinas, Georgia, and eastern Florida was advanced last week by a unanimous vote of the members of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, SAFMC, a federal government advisory body. 

For more information see:

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/2009-09-28-092.asp