The insurance program, begun in 1968, was designed to restrict shoreline development by providing coverage only to property in communities with stringent building codes.

Today, Pelican Island is also threatened by shoreline development.

Many beds in which other shellfish, such as clams, survived have been closed because of pollution blamed on increasing shoreline development.

Many of the lands around those waters are managed for recreational use, which ensures conservation and restricts shoreline development.

Suggestions for the conservation of this species include reducing shoreline development and aggregate demand in its habitat.

This in turn gradually changed the nature of our shoreline development.

Tests have shown that longstanding shoreline development and fertilizer use are causing increasing issues.

Recent shoreline development has been limited to residential construction.

BUT local municipalties generally favor shoreline development for the taxes it brings.

The baymen blame shoreline development for spurring the algal blooms.