“Fisheries management around the world has failed. We now have the capacity to be able to catch the last fish, the last whale, the last dolphin, the last shell.”
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Stuart Green, director of the Philippines Program for Rare, discusses how Marine Protected Areas, and No-Take Zones specifically, can help protect the world’s fisheries and the Coral Triangle.
Green says that most marine conservation efforts have failed, but that NTZs show real promise.
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