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Rule change to affect snapper, grouper fishery

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The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration’s "Islands in the Stream 2002: Exploring Underwater Oases" hosted four scientific investigations geared toward learning more about high-relief areas along the continental shelf break and slope from the eastern coast of Florida to North Carolina - an area known as the South Atlantic Bight. These important and understudied habitats peppered throughout the region provide critically important habitat for a wide variety of marine organisms.

Deepwater reef communities form important feeding and spawning habitat for large predators such as snowy grouper.

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