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Charleston council backs resolution calling for protection of Blake Plateau; coalition highlights 89,000 deep-sea coral mounds
Summary
Council adopted a resolution expressing support for durable protection of the Blake Plateau; a Carolina Ocean Alliance representative described NOAA mapping that revealed tens of thousands of deep-sea coral mounds and urged the city to serve as a gateway community for scientific research and conservation.
Mayor William S. Cogswell Jr. read a resolution Feb. 10 expressing the City of Charleston’s support for durable protection of the Blake Plateau, a deep-sea region approximately 80 to 200 miles offshore of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.
Gray Gowder of the Carolina Ocean Alliance, invited by the mayor, said recent NOAA high-resolution mapping…
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