Write a commentRepresentatives of the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, Oswego County, New York Sea Grant (NYSG), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) National Marine Sanctuary Great Lakes Program share thoughts on the proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary in a recently-aired story produced by WPBS- TV, Watertown, New York.
The story originally aired on August 23rd at 7:30 p.m. as part of WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories, a weekly current affairs show. The full story can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CCiNAQ71fo.
NYSG Coastal Recreation and Tourism Specialist David G. "Dave" White II, Oswego County Administrator Philip Church, Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Vice Chair and Member-at-Large Katie Malinowski, and NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Great Lakes Regional Coordinator Ellen Brody are interviewed in the 8-minute story that highlights the environmental, recreational, economic, and maritime cultural value of the proposed project.
The NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries manages a national network of the sanctuaries in U.S. and Great Lakes waters. The proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary designation area includes the waters offshore of Wayne, Cayuga, Oswego and Jefferson counties.
The proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary area includes 43 known shipwrecks, dating to the late 1700s, and one submerged aircraft, with the potential to add more. For example, the David W. Mills, offshore of Oswego, is New York State's first Submerged Cultural Preserve and Dive Site in the Great Lakes region. The St. Peter, located offshore of Pultneyville in Wayne County, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
