by MARCO | Dec 2, 2014 | Home Page News Item, News
Image above: Members of the Shinnecock Nation, along with non-Native American volunteers, help move a canoe from the beach in Hampton Bays, New York. Photo: Michael Heller/The Sag Harbor Express By Kris Ohleth Engaging the Native American tribes indigenous to...
by MARCO | Nov 25, 2014 | Home Page News Item, News
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) has been selected by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) to receive a grant award of $340,000 to implement a program that will disseminate...
by MARCO | Oct 6, 2014 | Home Page News Item, News
Download Media Release 6 October 2014 | by Arlo Hemphill BALTIMORE. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) has recently adopted a Course of Action to consider and develop recommendations to strengthen federal protection of submarine canyon habitats....
by MARCO | Oct 6, 2014 | MARCO Blog, News
PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA | By Michelle Lennox and Arlo Hemphill The tugboat, towboat and barge industry is the largest segment of the U.S. domestic maritime industry, employing more than 33,000 American mariners aboard its vessels. In the Mid-Atlantic alone, Waterways...
by MARCO | Oct 5, 2014 | MARCO Blog, News
Trash in the ocean, also called marine debris, is far more than just an aesthetic problem. Trash that ends up in the ocean, especially plastic, can be a serious survival risk for ocean wildlife. Sea turtles often die from ingesting balloons and plastic bags, dolphins...
