The Blue Plan is intended to prioritize the protection of existing natural resources and uses such as fishing, aquaculture, and navigation from future conflicting or incompatible activities, and to minimize conflicts between marine life and human uses in the Sound.
What are the uses of the Long Island Sound? New maps provide all the details.
John Moritz
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The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection recently published a trove of data about the human and ecological uses of Long Island Sound.Bryan Haeffele / Hearst Connecticut Media
Stand anywhere along the coast of Connecticut facing south and the miles of seemingly empty blue space stretching before you can be deceiving, according to Nathan Frohling.
Frohling, a Guilford resident and staffer at the Nature Conservancy, said that’s what he realized after examining a trove of data recently mapped and published by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as part of a years-long effort to better understand Long Island Sound.