Ocean Canyons and Seamounts Map
 
You are invited to lend you voice to our call on President Obama to by proclamation protect the most pristine ocean places in the Gulf of Maine and beyond Georges Bank out 200 miles into the Atlantic Ocean.

We are advocating for permanent protection of a wondrous ocean place consisting of five ocean canyons that plunge 10,000 feet deep off Georges Bank (Oceanographer, Gilbert, Lydonia, Nygren, and Heezen Canyons), four deep ocean seamounts (Bear, Physalia, Mytilus, and Retriever), and the Cashes Ledge Closed Area.  
 
In these ten beautiful sea places with pristine ocean floors, you will find more than a dozen essential benthic habitats.  An underwater mountain range (Cashes Ledge), these canyons and seamounts are unspoiled wilderness in the midst of the most heavily fished and exploited portion of America's waters.
 
A protection proclamation would demonstrate the unwounding of a damaged ocean sutured by the most collaborative, best-informed regional planning body in the world.
 
The Northeast Regional Planning Body consists of eleven federal authorities including the New England Fishery Management Council, eleven state agencies from all six New England states, and ten tribal members.  Their good work must continue unfettered by Congress.
 

Cod illustration by Dina Chapeau, ORI 2013
Cod fish by Dina Chapeau for ORI

The Gulf of Maine is astonishing.  Captain John Smith, Rachel Carson with her nephew Roger, and many others have found it wondrous.  Many of the marine life connections beneath the waves remain a mystery.  Efforts to look at the inner-clock workings, the causal gearing of ecosystems, are frustrated by changes in wind, weather, currents and seasons unseasonable.  Understanding the ocean is paradoxical. The more observations made, the more questions arise. The more that's discovered, the more mystery remains.
 
Why do authors of a recent Science article, citing empirical evidence that the cod stock collapsed due to climate change, believe that a 100% reduction in the cod catch (instead of the 78% cut taken) would have enabled the cod stock to have "kept up with the climate changes?"... Click here to find out.

Harper, Ryan and Rob at SF Green Fest
Harper, Ryan, and Rob at SF Green Festival 2014

We'll be back in San Francisco on Friday morning for the 3-day Green Festival, educating and engaging people in ocean conservation.
 
Festival attendees will be invited to add their voices to the four thousand from 52 states and territories to complete letters to President Obama. We're calling on the President to protect the most pristine ocean places in the Gulf of Maine and beyond Georges Bank out 200 miles into the Atlantic Ocean by proclamation.
 
We are advocating for permanent protection of a wondrous ocean place consisting of five ocean canyons that plunge 10,000 feet deep (Oceanographer, Gilbert, Lydonia, Nygren, and Heezen Canyons), four deep ocean seamounts (Bear, Physalia, Mytilus, and Retriever), and the Cashes Ledge Closed Area.
 
Come on down to the Cow Palace into the Rotunda, the Main Area, to find us centrally located at Booth #1327. We look forward to seeing you. 

 
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