April 28, 2009 at 5:00 am by Mike Sowden
Ban Fishing, Say Conservationists – or Fish Are Sunk
For everyone’s good, we need to leave the oceans well alone for a while.
That’s the recommendation of over 100 scientific papers assessed by the Professor of Marine Conservation at the University of York, England. All these papers suggest that the demonstrably successful marine protected area (MPA) scheme should be dramatically expanded until it covers at least 20% of the world’s oceans – and maybe even up to one-third of them.
Why? Because many fish stocks are in deep crisis – not just depleted but at such dangerously …
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