There's quite a fashion now for creating enormous ocean nature reserves, write Peter J S Jones & Elizabeth De Santo. The UK kicked off the trend last year at Pitcairn Island, and now the US has followed up with a 1.5m sq.km reserve around Hawaii. But while these look like big conservation gains, the more serious task is to manage sustainably the intensely exploited seas close to home.
Vast remote ‘marine protected areas’ - a diversion from the real job? Peter J S Jones Elizabeth De Santo | 8th September 2016 News Oceans Conservation Fishing USA UK …