by John Davis | Mar 15, 2006
Ballantine’s view on New Zealand MPA policy Dear MPA News: As reported in the February 2006 issue of MPA News (7:7), the New Zealand government has issued a Marine Protected Areas Policy and Implementation Plan, available at...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2006
New Zealand proposes large no-trawl zone in EEZ Deep-sea fishing industry leaders and the New Zealand government have proposed that a total of 1.2 million square kilometers of the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) be placed off-limits to bottom trawling and...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2006
When no-take marine reserves are designated, fishing effort that formerly occurred within those areas must move elsewhere. The displaced fishing effort can lead to increased pressure on non-protected areas, and ecological degradation can result in some cases –...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2006
The Australian government released a proposal in December 2005 for a MPA network covering 171,000 km2 of Commonwealth waters in the southeast marine region of Australia. The Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell, called the proposed network...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2006
Editor’s note: Elliott A. Norse is president of Marine Conservation Biology Institute in Bellevue, Washington, USA, and a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation. He and Larry B. Crowder are editors of Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the...
