by John Davis | Mar 15, 2011
On 1 January of this year, in a move to protect the world’s last large stocks of tuna from overfishing, a 4.5 million-km2 area in the western tropical Pacific Ocean was closed to purse seine fishing. The vast closure, in which limited longlining will still be...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2011
Dear MPA News, In your January/February 2011 issue, Jay Nelson responded to remarks that I previously made regarding global MPA coverage and the role of large MPAs in ocean protection (“Letters to the Editor: Large MPAs are essential”, MPA News 12:4). He...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2011
Measures taken to halt expansion of bottom fisheries in 16 million square miles of North Pacific In March 2011, negotiations among seven nations to formalize fisheries management in the North Pacific resulted in several interim conservation measures to protect...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2011
The November/December 2010 issue of MPA News reported conclusions from the latest assessment of MPA coverage worldwide – Global Ocean Protection: Present Status and Future Possibilities, published in October by IUCN, UNEP, The Nature Conservancy, and other...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Feb 22, 2011
In the view of many ocean stakeholders, the terms "ocean zoning" and "marine spatial planning" are often taken to mean the same thing: that is, lines on a map showing where some ocean uses are allowed and others are not. However, there are in fact...
