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Conserve Special Oceans Places

July 3, 2007 – 10:17 am

The Ocean Conservancy’s Strategic Priority # 3: Conserve Special Ocean Places
Priority Activities
A majority of ocean scientists agree that marine protected areas are proven tools for conserving ocean ecosystems. Both the Pew Oceans Commission and the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy endorsed the increased use of marine protected areas and marine reserve networks. Nevertheless, marine protected [...]

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Earth’s Bountiful Oceans?

May 29, 2007 – 3:30 pm

Francis Scudellari at Caught in The Stream gave me an excellent link to an article on overfishing.
Wired Magazine Issue 15.06
I read the article and realized just how devastating a crisis this is.
We are now living in an Omega3 crazed world. Many marine ecologists think that the biggest single threat to marine ecosystems today is overfishing. [...]

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