Estuary Programs News Today

Contingent on federal funding, the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program plans projects to improve oyster habitat, reduce erosion and bolster storm protection.

The Morro Bay National Estuary Program, a non-profit dedicated to protecting and restoring Morro Bay, received just over $900,000 annually for the next five years through the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

January’s completion of the Cousins River Fields and Marsh project in Yarmouth, a $2.19 million effort that was years in the making, exemplifies the desirability of protecting Maine’s tidal wetlands. The Cousins River marsh, like other salt marshes along the southwest coast, provides important habitat for many of the fish and shellfish that support Maine’s […]

Under the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden on Monday, the Delaware Inland Bays located near Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach, Bethany Beach and the South Bethany could see up to $4.5 million in additional restoration dollars over five years, through the EPA’s existing funding vehicles.

What do medical labs, fishermen, migratory birds and local rockfish have in common? They absolutely depend on horseshoe crabs to lay billions of springtime eggs along the Delaware bays. Locally, the crab population around Delaware’s inland bays is remaining steady. But it’s not increasing. Overharvesting already caused a 90-percent decline in population since about 1990. At the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, keeping an accurate count is the first step to ensuring we can continue...

Congress moves to invest in the Nation’s estuaries Portsmouth Herald DURHAM — Congress reaffirmed its support and strong commitment to the National Estuary Program; a time tested, non-regulatory program that enables communities to protect and restore the bays and estuaries they call home. Here in coastal New Hampshire and southern Maine, The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) is one of 28 programs designated under the National Estuary Program as having “estuaries of national ...