Collegues,
Here is a pivotal quote from a UCSB research article in the Current. The link
will follow for the entire article. Paul
Currently, only 2.5% of the ocean is covered by highly protected MPAs. The
study found that strategically protecting an additional 5% of the ocean could
increase future catch by 20%, or 9 to 12 million metric tons of fish.
The most promising locations tended to cluster around the South Pacific,
southeast Africa and the temperate coasts of North and South America. These are
regions where well-placed MPAs have the greatest potential for increasing local
catch, whether due to the ecology of the stocks, poor fishery regulation or a
combination of the two.
The results offer a rubric for determining what the best strategies will be and
what regions will yield the best return. It’s a gestalt look at the interplay
between marine protected areas and fisheries that can be further developed in
the future.
Paul Petrich Jr
ppetrich39@xxxxxx
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your
years.”…Anonymous
