North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
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The estuarine system of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve is the third largest in the country, encompassing more the two million acres (8,000 km²). This system is of prime economic importance to the coastal area—90 percent of the commercial seafood species caught in the state spends 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.
The state is representative of two major biogeographic regions located north (Virginian) and south (Carolinian) of Cape Hatteras. Therefore, NOAA and the state of North Carolina created a multi-component reserve with the following sites: Currituck Banks (960 acres near Corolla), Rachel Carson (2,625 acres near Beaufort), Masonboro Island (5,097 acres near Wrightsville Beach) and Zeke’s Island (1,165 acres near Kure Beach).
See Also
http://www.formasonboroisland.org
Reference
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the NOAA.
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Categories:
- Protected areas of North Carolina
- National Estuarine Research Reserves of the United States
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