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According to One Study, Half of the Marine Protected Areas Are Illegally Exploited by Industrial Fisheries.
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A French study published on Wednesday shows that two thirds of industrial fishing vessels are jamming their tracks when they enter marine protected areas.
According to a study published in the scientific journal Science, marine protected areas are not really protected. Of the 6,000 marine protected areas studied, scientists have detected the presence of huge industrial fishing vessels in half of them. However, fishing remains the main source of destruction of marine biodiversity.
A study by the University of Montpellier reveals that two-thirds of fishing vessels do not give their position on marine protected areas while they are present on half of the MPAs. A global observation...
How can we better protect biodiversity at sea? France hosted last June the UN Summit on the Ocean in Nice, and prides itself on having established more than 500 marine protected areas, i.e. one third of its territorial waters, a status that does not protect from intensive fishing.
"One of the problems with the activity at sea is that it is difficult to know what the ships are doing," although there are tools such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS) that merchant ships are obliged to carry so that they know where they are at every moment, explains in an interview with EFE the marine ecologist, Enric Sala. Sala, is author of one of the two investigations published this Thursday in Science magazine that demonstrate …
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