New York
Of Fish and Flexibility
June 12,
2009
www.nytimes.com
Senator Charles Schumer has introduced a bill
called The Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act. Flexibility, in
this case, means bending to the will of fishermen who want to keep vacuuming up
depleted fish populations before they have a chance to recover.
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full article
here.
Draft List Includes Artificial Reefs And A Model Ship Testing Facility
March 27, 2009
thecommunityalliance.blogspot.com
If you had nearly $25 billion dollars at hand -- as in the amount of
federal dollars New York will receive under the Economic Recovery and
Reinvestment Act -- how would you use it?
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here.
Mystery Ship Found in Lake Ontario
AP
December 13, 2008
news.aol.com
Two explorers conducting underwater surveys of Lake Ontario have
uncovered an aquatic mystery - a rare 19th-century schooner sitting
upright 500 feet under the waves.
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here.
Green Your Routine - Next Stop: Under The Sea
Today Show
November 21, 2008
Today show video of New York Subway cars sunk for underwater reefs.
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here.
Weiner Proposes Using Retired Subway Cars As Barrier Reefs
NY1 News
November 10, 2008
www.ny1.com
A local congressman wants to change the final resting place for retired subway cars.
Congressman Anthony Weiner held a news conference yesterday to call on the state to
revise environmental codes to allow the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to
dump retired subway cars into city waters.
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here.
New York NGOs
New York State Divers Association
Contact: James Sears, President
Email: jos3@cornell.edu
Artificial Reef Program Web Sites
http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/7896.html