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Not All Marine Protected Areas Are Created Equal (1 of 2)

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Not All Marine Protected Areas Are Created Equal (1 of 2)

image: Info graph on trawling intensity and relative shark, ray and skate (elasmobranch) abundance inside and outside marine protected areas (MPAs). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 21 Dec. issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Dureuil at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Elevated trawling inside protected areas undermines conservation outcomes in a global fishing hot spot." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Dr. Kristina Boerder]


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