WASHINGTON — March 19, 2012 – Responding to a plan by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to do away with federal aid to marine mammal stranding programs, U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., is appealing to fellow legislators to preserve the funds.
"My district bore witness to the vitality of the Prescott Grant Program this past winter," Keating wrote to congressional colleagues, referring to funding that NOAA last month proposed to eliminate as part of its budget request for the 2013 fiscal year.
Several Cape organizations have received Prescott funds, including the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Yarmouthport, the National Marine Life Center in Buzzards Bay and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This has been a record year for dolphin strandings, according to IFAW.
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