Last days for Ritidian ocean exhibit
Pacific Daily News
“Our Ocean Heritage,” the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s special exhibit at the Guam National Wildlife Refuge’s Ritidian Unit Nature Center, will be available through July 18.
The exhibit features the relationships our community has with our island’s surrounding waters, such as fishing traditions, stories and legends, and scientific discoveries.
The center and exhibit will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. during the unit’s operational hours. The unit is open Wednesday to Sunday between 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and closed on federal holidays.
The exhibit is a collaboration with Guam Department of Agriculture’s Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources, Guam Bureau of Statistics and Plans, Humanities Guåhan, NOAA Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center, Guampedia, Humåtak Community Foundation, and Ritidian volunteers.
Ritidian exhibit showcases ocean heritage
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The public can head to the Guam National Wildlife Refuge at the Ritidian Unit Nature Center for an exhibit, Our Ocean Heritage.”
The exhibit, which lasts from June 12 to July 18, celebrates World Oceans Month in June, according to a news release. It features the relationship between people and water, fishing, legends and science discoveries.
The Nature Center and exhibit open from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. during the Ritidian Unit’s operational hours. The Ritidian unit opens from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday but closes on federal holidays.
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Duenas, 63, has been president of the Guam Fishermen s Cooperative Association since 1995. He s been fishing most of his adult life, and was taught the trade by his uncle and others. He said the live-fire training range under construction at Ritidian, and its associated surface danger zone, diminishes fishing. We ve always been known as a seafaring community. Now the ocean is being closed off to us.
The danger zone, currently under review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, would be about 3,660 acres, extending into the Pacific Ocean about 2.8 miles from the north coast of Guam along the Guam National Wildlife Refuge. It would intermittently restrict all access to the zone to ensure public safety during small arms training activities up to 75% of the year, or 273 days annually.