Type: Reserve
Filed Under: Cultural
Filed Under: Cultural
North Carolina's estuarine system is the third largest in the country, encompassing more the two million acres. This system is of prime economic importance to the coastal area -- 90 percent of the commercial seafood species caught in the state spend at least part of their lives in an estuary. The North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve was established to preserve these fragile natural areas and the variety of life they support.
Map
http://www.ocrm.nos.noaa.gov/nerr/map.html
Directions
The reserve is comprised of four sites located near Corolla (Currituck Banks), Beaufort (Rachel Carson) and Wilmington (Masonboro Island and Zeke's Island) in North Carolina.
References and External Links
Posted by: recreation2 and last modified on Jul 05, 2007 by thoos
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