Proposal addresses ongoing, emerging challenges to regional conditions
Today, NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries released a draft proposal recommending a range of potential changes to existing boundaries, regulations, and marine zones in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, to better address long-term declines to the region’s marine resources as well as ongoing and emerging threats due to changing ocean conditions.
![Coral reefs like this one in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary buffer shorelines from wave action, storms, and erosion, and protect wetlands and harbors. (Image credit: NOAA/Matt McIntosh) Coral reefs like this one in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary buffer shorelines from wave action, storms, and erosion, and protect wetlands and harbors.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Aug/34136062951_899bac3442_k%20%281%29.jpg?itok=e9H9mGGb)
Coral reefs like this one in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary buffer shorelines from wave action, storms, and erosion, and protect wetlands and harbors. (Image credit: NOAA/Matt McIntosh)