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    MARINE PROTECTED AREAS CAN BENEFIT MARINE LIFE, BUT IMPACTS ARE UNEVEN

    Jun 11, 2018 2 minutes
    Imran Ahmad

    By closing off areas of the ocean to fishing and other extractive activities, MPAs, especially marine reserves that ban all or most such activities, are expected to help species recover.

    A great deal of research has looked into whether they do, although much of it is not of the highest quality: Many studies do not have rigorous designs and cannot definitively attribute observed changes to the MPA itself.

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