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ANEWFUTURE BUILDING


The announcement of a unique partnership between CCA and Shell Oil Company sets the stage for an underwater building boom.


By Ted Venker


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ARINE HABITAT projects are rarely a pretty sight under construction. They almost always involve


mud and hard work and sweat, and a box of Band-Aids is never far away. There is always a shovel, or a heavy bag of oyster shells, or rocks, or old, abandoned, sharp, crab traps slopping slime into your boat. Somehow, though, those projects


The Independence Island Reef is being made possible by a $250,000 donation from the CCA


Building Conservation Habitat Program and matching


funds from the state. www.joincca.org


never fail to attract an army of volun- teers. When all the ingredients come together to tackle a problem in the marine environment, anglers and their families willingly pull out the old, ripped jeans, find some shoes they don’t mind leaving stuck in the muck, grab the Band-Aids and head for the coast. So it was a strange sight last December when the folks who gath- ered for the biggest habitat project in


TIDE


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