Environmental Advocates, Fishermen At Odds Over Turning Cashes Ledge Into National Monument

“About 80 miles off the coast of Cape Ann, a cold-water kelp forest grows from the tip of a ridge that rises from the ocean floor known as Cashes Ledge.

‘This was kelp quite unlike anything I’d seen anywhere, and not only the height and thickness and lushness — but the colors,’ said Brian Skerry, an underwater photographer who has explored some of the most stunning ocean environments in the world.”

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