NOAA Awards $1.275 Million To Support Marine Debris Cleanup

摘要

The NOAA Marine Debris Program awarded $1,275 million through NOAA's Restoration Center to groups across the country to support locally-driven, community-based marine debris prevention and removal projects. Eleven groups received funding to remove derelict vessels, trash, debris from natural disasters, derelict fishing gear, and other harmful marine debris from shorelines and coastal waters. The groups are: the Alaska Marine Stewardship Foundation, Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association, Lake Worth Lagoon Environmental Defense Fund Inc., Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, American Littoral Society, Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, Alliance for the Great Lakes, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, the Coral Bay Community Council Inc., the Student Conservation Association Inc. and the Nature Conservancy.