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National Estuarine Research Reserve System Biogeographic Regions
| Biographic Region |
Biographic Sub-region |
Reserve |
| Acadian |
Northern Gulf of Maine |
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Southern Gulf of Maine |
Wells, ME |
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Great Bay, NH |
| Virginian |
Southern New England |
Narragansett Bay, RI |
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Waquoit Bay, MA |
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Hudson River, NY |
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Middle Atlantic |
Jacques Cousteau, NJ |
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Delaware |
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Chesapeake Bay |
Chesapeake Bay, MD |
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Chesapeake Bay, VA |
| Carolinian |
Northern Carolinas |
North Carolina |
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North Inlet/Winyah Bay, SC |
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ACE Basin, SC |
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South Atlantic |
Sapelo Island, GA |
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East Florida |
Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL |
| West Indian |
Caribbean |
Jobos Bay, PR |
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West Florida |
Rookery Bay, FL |
| Louisianan |
Panhandle Coast |
Apalachicola, FL |
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Weeks Bay, AL |
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Mississippi Delta |
Grand Bay, MS |
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Western Gulf |
Mission-Aransas, TX
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| Californian |
Southern California |
Tijuana River, CA |
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Central California |
Elkhorn Slough, CA |
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San Francisco Bay |
San Francisco Bay, CA |
| Columbian |
Middle Pacific |
South Slough, OR |
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Washington Coast |
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Puget Sound |
Padilla Bay, WA |
| Great Lakes |
Lake Superior |
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Lakes Michigan and Huron |
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Lake Erie |
Old Woman Creek, OH
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Lake Ontario |
St. Lawrence River, NY |
| Fjord |
Southern Alaska |
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Aleutian Islands |
Kachemak Bay, AK |
| Sub-Artic |
Northern Alaska |
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| Insular |
Hawaiian Islands |
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Western Pacific Islands |
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Eastern Pacific Islands |
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Italics = Proposed Reserves
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