• A Reasoned Solution To the Global Fisheries Disaster -- The free market is not the solution to the fisheries problem. Instead, four things are needed: (1)"Buy-backs" - a commitment by both government and industry to reduce the size of the fishing fleet; (2)"Limited Entry" - only so many people in a given fishery; (3)"Undersea Reserves" - or Marine Protected Areas; (4)“End to Conflicts of Interest" - Fisheries management must be taken away from people with a direct stake in killing the resource (the private sector). (Added: 16-May-2003 Hits: 580 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It

• Commission's 3-year study cites dire need for MPAs -- A commission studying US oceans concludes that government oversight, ecosystem managers, and MPAs are needed to reverse our ocean crisis. The Pew Commission report called for "a serious rethinking of ocean law." It urged Congress to enact a National Ocean Policy Act to streamline the government's approach. The panel said a new oceans agency should take over the NOAA and marine-related programs run by Interior and Agriculture and the EPA. (Added: 6-Jun-2003 Hits: 432 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Farming the Ocean (PERC) -- Describes a private sector plan to increase the number of fish in the ocean through the use of farming and iron enrichment (to raise phytoplankton levels). (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 208 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Marine Protected Areas & Atlantic Cod -- (National Geographic Explorer) "Increasingly, scientists are realizing that fishing regulations alone may be not be sufficient to protect and restore fish populations. In the case of Atlantic Cod, for example, habitats and populations have been so severely reduced that some areas off the coast of New England are being considered for status as marine protected areas." (Added: 19-May-2003 Hits: 364 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Marine Protected Areas as Fishery Policy -- A Discussion of Potential Costs and Benefits of MPAs. (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 549 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Marine Protected Areas: An Overview -- The Clinton Administration took several actions to increase protection at designated marine sites, referred to as marine reserves or marine protected areas (MPAs). Congress is likely to examine both the recent Clinton Administration actions and the concepts behind MPAs, and consider any Bush administration views, especially as it considers appropriations and reauthorization legislation. This report will be updated as events warrant. (Added: 5-Jun-2003 Hits: 431 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Marine Reserves Found to Boost Nearby Fishing Grounds -- In 1995 the Caribbean island of St. Lucia created a marine reserve and banned fishing in 35 percent of their fishing grounds. Today, the country is reaping the rewards of its gamble as its catch sizes double and triple in waters neighboring the sanctuary. (Added: 27-May-2003 Hits: 325 Rating: 7.50 Votes: 2) Rate It

• MPAs - Advantages -- The advantages of MPAs include: helping protect vulnerable habitats and threatened species; increasing fishery productivity by protecting critical breeding, nursery, and feeding habitats such as estuaries, mangroves, seagrass beds, and coral reefs; protecting breeding populations which can help restock and restore overexploited areas; reducing the impact of tourism and other direct human activities; providing local communities with alternative livelihoods such as well-managed tourism... (Added: 27-May-2003 Hits: 527 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• New, Vast and Wonderful Yellowstone of the Se -- On December 4, President Clinton issued an executive order creating an underwater preserve around northwestern Hawaii. The order prohibits oil exploration and dumping. More controversial is the limitation of fishing, which would close many fisheries. But environmentalists had hoped for the designation of the area as a national monument under the Antiquities Act. (Added: 5-Jun-2003 Hits: 149 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Reserve Site Selection in a Limited Entry Fishery (Added: 27-Jun-2003 Hits: 142 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Scallop comeback evidence of protection at work -- The success of the Georges Bank project is often hailed by advocates of marine protection areas, where fishing is either prohibited or greatly restricted, as evidence that they can work quickly to turn around declines in fish populations. (Added: 27-May-2003 Hits: 154 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Scientists demand 'fish parks' -- A hundred and fifty leading scientists are calling for a ban on fishing in vast areas of the world's oceans. The experts say large numbers of fish and other aquatic species are on the verge of extinction and the only realistic way of saving them is to create specially protected marine reserves, or "national fish parks", covering as much as 20% of the Earth's seas. (Added: 22-May-2003 Hits: 248 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Scientists urge protection of Hecate Strait as MPA -- Scientists with Fisheries and Oceans Canada released a new report recommending that the sponge reefs found in Hecate Strait urgently need marine protected area status under the Oceans Act. (Added: 26-Aug-2003 Hits: 153 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• The dollars and sense of protecting the ocean -- (Groundbreaking research released on the economics of marine protected areas) For the first time anywhere, the analysis of leading economists and ecologists has been brought together in one place, to examine the economics of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). (Added: 26-Aug-2003 Hits: 332 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• The Impact of Marine Reserves on Limited Entry Fisheries (Added: 27-Jun-2003 Hits: 244 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

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