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Jarvis Island, where blue plate coral thrive, is part of the national marine monuments being created by President Bush and is home to Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge. Shallow reefs surround the island, but a broad submerged reef terrace extends off the eastern shore. Live coral covers about 50 percent of the reef terrace, and about 50 species of corals have been reported at Jarvis, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
(James Maragos / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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White House News
Bush designates 3 marine monuments in Pacific: Briefing by Teleconference with Jim Connaughton, Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
CHAIRMAN CONNAUGHTON: Good afternoon, everybody, this is Jim Connaughton, the Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. I'm here today to brief you on an action the President is going to take tomorrow with respect to ocean conservation.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090105-7.html
San Francisco Chronicle
Bush designates 3 marine monuments in Pacific
Rose Island is one of two islands within the lagoon of Rose Atoll in America Samoa now protected in a 195,274-square-mile monument. (Jean Kenyon / AP)
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Los Angeles Times
Bush to create three marine monuments
President Bush will create three national monuments in the Pacific Ocean today, protecting waters near U.S.-controlled islands that contain some of the world's richest diversity of corals, fish and other sea life as well as unusual geological formations in the deepest undersea trench.
(Story) http://www.latimes.com/news/science...acific-conservation-2009jan06,0,6922666.story
A researcher counts fish near a coral reef at Palmyra Atoll, south of the Hawaiian Islands. The monument designations will ban most commercial fishing and will vastly limit recreational fishing, or fishing by indigenous people or researchers. In all of the protected areas, seafloor mining will be prohibited. Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times
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Jarvis Island, where blue plate coral thrive, is part of the national marine monuments being created by President Bush and is home to Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge. Shallow reefs surround the island, but a broad submerged reef terrace extends off the eastern shore. Live coral covers about 50 percent of the reef terrace, and about 50 species of corals have been reported at Jarvis, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
(James Maragos / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-01/44371838.jpg
Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge is a nesting and roosting habitat for 10 seabird species and 8 shorebird species, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is home to threatened green turtles and endangered hawksbill sea turtles as well as hundreds of species of fish and corals. Howland Island will become part of the national marine monuments being created by President Bush.
(Cindy Newton)
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