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Stellwagen Alive!

Stellwagen Alive! — The Friends of Our National Marine Sanctuary has a mission through programs of scientific research, monitoring, and exploration to educate and develop citizen knowledge of Stellwagen’s natural wonders, ocean resources and ecosystem-based management issues.

Stellwagen Alive!’s and NOAA’s constituency-building dialogue defines emerging management goals,

Coast Guard Cutter Bibb
Coast Survey Steamer Bibb, Henry Stellwage, Captain

addresses collaborative research needs, coordinates Sanctuary education & outreach efforts, and the development of a stewardship ethic essential for ocean life.

I consider I have made an important discovery in the location of a 15 fathom bank lying in a line between Cape Cod and Cape Ann -- with 40 and 50 fathoms inside and to northward of it and 35 fathoms just outside it. It is not on any chart I have been able to procure. We have traced nearly five miles in width and over six miles in length, it no doubt extending much further.

--Navy Lt. Commander Henry Stellwagen, 1854

The hydrographer in Massachusetts Bay had been rewarded for his labors by the discovery in the entrance of an extensive bank, of which he had given the position and defined the limits, with from ten and a half to fourteen and a half fathoms on it, lying across the entrance, and serving thus as an excellent mark for navigators entering this important bay. I propose to call this, from the name if its discoverer, Stellwagen's Bank.

--Alexander Bache, Superintendent of the Coast Survey

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Some current projects and resources include:

Stellwagen Alive! For more information please visit stellwagenalive.org

Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Map of Selected Massachusetts Ocean Projects (high resolution 5.5 MB pdf file) pdf icon

USGS Relief Map of Mass Bay, Cape Cod Bay, the Bank, and the Sanctuary

State of Stellwagen Marine Sanctuary Complete Report, 2002 pdf icon

Stellwagen Bank whale watch surface whale
Whale watching on Stellwagen Bank


 
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