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BoatUS Foundation Wants More Butts Out of the Water Looks for More Marinas for 2011 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 16, 2012 – Boaters are keeping their butts out of the water – and we’re not talking about the kind in swim trunks. In just the past three years the BoatUS Foundation has [...]

A bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to establish a grant program to to acquire working piers and other points of waterfront access and provide funding for waterfront planning. The program is designed to allow states and local communities to support and protect places along the coast where commercial fishermen, boat [...]

THE YEARS 1935 through 1943 were very productive in the fields of research and publication on America’s maritime heritage. During this period the Federal Writers Program, a New Deal depression relief effort intended to aid out-of-work writers, produced over fifty guidebooks to the then forty-eight states, three territories, and several major cities. Teams of researchers [...]

The Port District encompasses the region within 25 miles radius of the Statue of Liberty. The Port of NY-NJ supports: Over 279,000 jobs, $6.9 billion in business activity and over $1.3 billion in tax revenues in the region. In New Jersey: Over 206,900 jobs, nearly $9.1 billion in personal income, over $29.3 billion in business [...]