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Ceremony marks 40th anniversary of Coastal Zone Management Act

A ceremony was held at Gloucester Point Monday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of establishment of the federal Coastal Zone Management Act. Speakers said the act has helped monitor water quality, promote living shorelines, and restore habitats for submerged aquatic vegetation and oyster reefs.

During presentations on the Virginia Institute of Marine Science campus at Gloucester Point and later on a boat tour of the Goodwin Islands portion of the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the approximately 40 federal, state and local officials invited to participate were informed about many of the successes that the CZM, as it is often referred to, has seen so far.

In Virginia, passage of the act for CZM has led to healthy coastal waters and communities, said John Wells, dean and director of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. CBNERR, based on the VIMS campus, was the first reserve to be administered in conjunction with a school of higher education.

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