Whats the new thinking about how to save fisheries and protect marine reserves?
It sounds curious from the point of innovation, but the paradigm of fishery management is that all of the seas are open to fishing, and we can exploit everywhere all of the time. We need to turn that assumption on its head and say all of the sea is protected from fishing except for certain places where certain kinds of fishing are licensed. The best way to improve fishery production is to allow the sea more space to produce. The idea is to set aside large areas of the sea as a refuge from fishing. By large, I mean 20% to 30% of the sea being fully protected. Marine reserves have in the past been more closely associated with conservation, but evidence is building that they can help sustain fisheries. Marine reserves offer refuges from fishing mortality and the collateral damage done by fishing gears like trawls. Within them, animals live longer, grow larger, and produce more eggs. That production can be exported to fisheries as ocean currents carry eggs and larvae from reserves to fishi
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