Tuesday, January 6, 2009

photo released by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, coral is seen off Jarvis Island


In this photo released by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, coral is seen off Jarvis Island, one of seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, in this photo, date unknown. Parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside by President George W. Bush as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction and commercial fishing in what will be the largest marine conservation effort in history. The three areas totaling some 195,280 square miles include the Mariana Trench and the waters and corals surrounding three uninhabited islands in the Northern Mariana Islands , Rose Atoll in American Samoa and seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific Ocean

(AP Photo/USFWS, Jim Maragos)

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