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Armored Shorelines Impact Aquatic Life

“it’s obvious how much we’re impacting the shoreline,” said Rob Magnien, director of the Centers for Coastal Ocean Science at NOAA. “It’s pretty rampant here in the Chesapeake and other areas. We see the effects of hardened shorelines much more, declines in populations of fish. There definitely is a relationship between hardened shorelines and the number of fish species.” - excerpt from article in The Washington Post.

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