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05-21-07, 09:43 PM
Public Artificial Reef Monitoring Project
It is a common desire of fishermen and divers to have more permitted areas off our coast. While there are several criteria considered by the Corps of Engineers when they determine what is needed in any given area, one of their very important considerations is if our currently permitted areas are being monitored.
Monitoring is a very expensive task and our county’s access to funding is very limited. This creates a dilemma, should the funding that is available be spent on deploying more reefs or spent on monitoring what we already have.
The Emerald Coast Reef Association has started a Public Artificial Reef Monitoring Project. Any diver can volunteer to participate in the project to help us collect data. We, as local divers, are visiting the Public Artificial Reefs on our dives anyway so it will cost us nothing to observe and report on their conditions.
When we have compiled the entire report and it is ready to turn over to the County Artificial Reef Office, every person that contributed to the report will be listed as contributors to the report.
If you would like to help us monitor our Public Artificial Reefs, please read the instructions in the Forum titled “Public Artificial Reef Monitoring Project”
The Emerald Coast Reef Association would like to thank all the volunteers that contribute to this project. You are doing something that will have tremendous impact on our area’s ability to secure more permitted areas. THANK YOU!
It is a common desire of fishermen and divers to have more permitted areas off our coast. While there are several criteria considered by the Corps of Engineers when they determine what is needed in any given area, one of their very important considerations is if our currently permitted areas are being monitored.
Monitoring is a very expensive task and our county’s access to funding is very limited. This creates a dilemma, should the funding that is available be spent on deploying more reefs or spent on monitoring what we already have.
The Emerald Coast Reef Association has started a Public Artificial Reef Monitoring Project. Any diver can volunteer to participate in the project to help us collect data. We, as local divers, are visiting the Public Artificial Reefs on our dives anyway so it will cost us nothing to observe and report on their conditions.
When we have compiled the entire report and it is ready to turn over to the County Artificial Reef Office, every person that contributed to the report will be listed as contributors to the report.
If you would like to help us monitor our Public Artificial Reefs, please read the instructions in the Forum titled “Public Artificial Reef Monitoring Project”
The Emerald Coast Reef Association would like to thank all the volunteers that contribute to this project. You are doing something that will have tremendous impact on our area’s ability to secure more permitted areas. THANK YOU!