Proposed Marine Protected Areas and sites surveyed with sonar along the edge of the continental shelf

Proposed Marine Protected Areas (red boxes) and sites surveyed with sonar (white boxes with bottom images) along the edge of the continental shelf.  An additional area on the Charleston Bump, which is an important deepwater coral and fish habitat, was also surveyed. Image courtesy of South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources, NOAA.

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