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Marine protections

It’s a sad truth – as concluded in James Fair’s review of the State of Nature 2019 (The current state of nature, November 2019). The ocean has been neglected by conservation authorities in Britain, Ireland and most of the world. As stated by Jean-Luc Solandt (Truth or fiction? August 2019), there is only one Marine Conservation Zone in Britain (Lundy) that is a no-take zone.

A recent paper showed commercial fishing is common in most so-called Marine

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