The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is changing a rule that governs this place, and is taking comments.
The agency files it as “Coral, Coral Reefs, and Live/Hardbottom Habitats of the South Atlantic and the Shrimp Fishery of the South Atlantic Region; Amendments 11/12”
19 days leftcloses November 17
Places to check
1
People it would take
3
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
October 10
Window closes
November 17
Evidence
Nothing filed yet.
No photograph has been filed on this mission yet. The first one lands here with its fingerprint, where its location came from, and how far inside the agency’s own boundary it was taken. The places to check are below.
The objective
What we are testing.
Oculina Bank Habitat Area of Particular ConcernWildlife sign
The agency has published no document here with a sentence a photograph could settle, only a notice. The line below is read from that notice.
Get out over the eastern edge of Oculina Bank's northern extension and photograph what is living there now: fish schooling over the bottom, any coral branch pieces that come up, with your date and position in the frame.
Open. Anything filed before November 17 goes into the comment file the agency has to answer. After that it backs the formal objections, goes to the lawyers on the fight, and is the story.