Can marine protected areas save the oceans? Under certain circumstances, maybe.
David Shiffman • Conservation, fisheries, marine science, Natural Science, Science • January 20, 2011
Although marine fish face many threats, one of the greatest is large-scale modern commercial fishing. Technology makes it all too easy for so-called “factory ships” to remove enormous numbers of fish from the oceans, sometimes with devastating effects on the populations of those fish and their habitat. Marine conservationists have proposed a variety of policies […]