by John Davis | Feb 15, 2000
The government of the Bahamas has announced a plan to create five no-take reserves in its waters this year — the first step in a process that could eventually close 20% of the country’s marine environment to fishing, according to scientists and NGOs in...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2000
An advisory council to the Australian state of Victoria has released a draft recommendation that the state create a system of “highly protected” marine areas (i.e., no-take reserves) to protect fish breeding areas and other key habitats. The draft...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2000
In the last issue of MPA News (December/January), we initiated a discussion on the topic of MPA nomenclature. We reprinted the IUCN’s and national definitions for “marine protected area”, and provided a list of terms that had previously appeared in...
