Save Our Sound

Nantucket Sound Won’t Stay a National Treasure Without Your Support

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of Nantucket Sound by designating it as a National Historic Landmark.

Threats

Nantucket Sound faces many threats: coastal erosion, diminished water quality, habitat degradation, and industrial development, among others.

Federal Action

The Alliance is seeking federal legislation to permanently protect and preserve Nantucket Sound as well as safeguard traditional uses like fishing and recreation.

Education

The goal of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound’s education program is to spread awareness of the importance of Nantucket Sound, its unique environmental, historic and economic values, and the need to protect it for future generations.

A National Treasure

Nantucket Sound is the body of water between Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The Sound includes 750 square miles of federal and state waters that possess significant marine habitat for a diversity of ecologically and economically important species.

Map of Nantucket Sound showing Federal and State waters

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What’s New

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2024 End-of-Year Newsletter

The generosity of our supporters has been the driving force behind our progress and success in protecting Nantucket Sound. Click below to review our 2024 end-of-year newsletter to see the progress we have made this past year.

ACONS Webinar: Oysters & the Waters of the Cape & Islands

Dan Martino, co-owner of Cottage City Oysters, has farmed the ocean on Martha’s Vineyard for over a decade. The Cottage City Oyster Farm Tour, which Dan hosts, is internationally recognized as one of the best oyster tour experiences available, and was the driving motivation for him to write The Oyster Book: A Chronicle of the World’s Most Fascinating Shellfish―Past, Present, and Future. Dan will talk about his celebrated book and farming oysters in the past, present and future of the Cape and Islands, including in the waters of Nantucket Sound.

MVY Radio’s segment on the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

MVYRADIO Reporter Joe Stickles interviews Audra Parker from the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

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