![]() The area possibly includes scores of yet-to-be-discovered shipwrecks, according to NOAA. That history includes being home to indigenous people who once lived there, its role as a hub on the Underground Railroad, and a maritime history as hosting the nation’s largest fleet of steamboats before the Civil War. It would attract federal funding to help find and preserve shipwrecks in the lake and boost education and outreach around the area’s history. The designation would apply to an approximately 740-square-mile (1,917-square-kilometer) area of water off Pennsylvania’s 75 mile-long (120-kilometer-long) shoreline. The announcement sets up a public comment period before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration writes a draft plan for the sanctuary. President Joe Biden’s administration took the first step Thursday toward designating the Pennsylvania-owned section of Lake Erie as the state’s first national marine sanctuary.Ī formal designation could take several years, and it wouldn’t change existing regulations around the use of the lake. ![]()
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