Our Changing World: The thorny issue of the long-spined sea urchin A native urchin species is grazing the Poor Knights Islands down to bare rock. But what can be done?

Great read - if worrying. I used to do most of my diving at the #PoorKnights - best diving in NZ. Good to see #kina under control but awful for these other critters to get out of hand.
Our Changing World: The thorny issue of the long-spined sea urchin
#MarineReserve
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Stuff

I’ve put this up again recently - its worth thinking about what happens when you create a #MarineReserve (stop fishing) and then when you lose it.

Silverlining squandered as #AstrolabeReef decimated again after #Rena
#MarineConservation #greensky
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NZ’s first marine reserve is turning 50 – the lessons from its recovery are invaluable The recovery of kelp forests brought many fish species back. But fish stocks in the reserve remain far below those present before commercial fishing took off.

#GoatIs marine reserve - magical.🥰
At 18 I did my sea test here for my dive ticket, long before I lived nearby. My kids grew up snorkelling with blue maomao/snapper/crays 🐟🦞

NZ’s first #MarineReserve is turning 50 – the lessons from its recovery are invaluable theconversation.com/nzs-first-ma...

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Long-standing marine reserves need continued support
->Nature | #MarineReserve | More from BigEarthData.ai

Enric Sala is helping heal the ocean one marine reserve at a time On the small boat, salt water slaps my face as we travel 15 minutes in search of a buoy that alerts us of where the line of five BRUVs begins. As the buoy drifts toward our reach, a scientist hands...

Enric Sala is helping heal the ocean one marine reserve at a time
->National Geographic | #Ocean #MarineReserve | More info from BigEarthData.ai

Commercial fisherman caught trawling through protected marine reserve A commercial fisherman has been fined $15,000 for trawling in a marine reserve last year.

Just stop it.
Commercial fisherman caught trawling through protected #MarineReserve
#marineconservation
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Kelp Forests in Marine Reserves Resist Heatwaves New research finds that Marine Protected Areas can boost the recovery of globally important kelp forests following marine heatwaves. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology. Using four decades of satellite images, University of...

Kelp Forests in Marine Reserves Resist Heatwaves
->Mirage News | #Heatwave #ClimateChange #MarineReserve #Forest | More info from EcoSearch

Court blocks commercial fishing in massive Pacific marine reserve “We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”...

Court blocks commercial fishing in massive Pacific marine reserve
->The Daily Climate | #MarineReserve | More info from EcoSearch

#solutions #greatnews4u #greatnews #optimism #oceans #oceanconservation #indigenousrights #oceanprotection #biodiversity #fishing #conservation #greenfuture  #melanesia #policy #marinereserve

First Indigenous-led marine reserve to span southwestern Pacific A six-million-square-kilometre expanse of ocean and islands across the southwestern Pacific is to become the first multi-national ocean reserve on Earth to be led solely by Indigenous people, encompassing the national waters of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Papua New...

First Indigenous-led marine reserve to span southwestern Pacific
->Oceanographic | #MarineReserve | More info from EcoSearch

World leaders back ocean treaty and new marine reserves, but critics say action still lags “We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”...

World leaders back ocean treaty and new marine reserves, but critics say action still lags
->The Daily Climate | #Ocean #MarineReserve | More info from EcoSearch

Environmental DNA scale-up protects world's vital marine reserves Plans to scale up the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) technology to help survey and protect some of the planet’s most precious World Heritage marine reserves are now being hatched between the philanthropic organisation, the Minderoo Foundation and UNESCO, following...

Environmental DNA scale-up protects world's vital marine reserves
->Oceanographic | #MarineReserve #Environment | More info from EcoSearch

[6/6] Seules des aires réellement interdites à la pêche peuvent aider les stocks à se reconstituer. Les gestes individuels comptent peu sans mobilisation collective. Pour Pauly, défendre l’océan, c’est défendre notre avenir commun. #geography #overfishing #marinereserve #AMP #MPA

[5/6] Pauly réclame la fin des subventions à la pêche industrielle (30 milliards $/an) et une régulation forte par les États. Il critique l’hypocrisie française et les "aires protégées de papier" où la pêche commerciale continue, comme en Nouvelle-Calédonie. #geography #overfishing #marinereserve

[6/6] Pour Claire Nouvian, il ne s’agit plus d’un choix mais d’une nécessité absolue : si l’on veut sauver la biodiversité océanique, il faut interdire la pêche industrielle dans les #AMP et en créer de nouvelles, réellement protégées, connectées et bien surveillées. #geography #MPA #marinereserve

[3/3] Port-Cros montre qu'une protection stricte, même en zone très fréquentée, fonctionne. Le parc régule navigation, plongée et pêche. Il offre un modèle vertueux que beaucoup aimeraient voir appliqué aux 565 AMP françaises. #geography #marinereserve #biodiversity

[2/3] Grâce à l’interdiction de la pêche dans le cœur du parc, la population de mérous est passée de 40 à près de 1.000. La taille moyenne des poissons a augmenté. C’est l’« effet réserve » : la biodiversité prospère mieux qu’ailleurs. #geography #marinereserve #biodiversity

L'instant + : Port-Cros, la plus vieille aire marine protégée d'Europe érigée en modèle Les activités humaines, qu'il s'agisse de navigation ou de pêche, sont strictement réglementées dans la plus vieille aire marine protégée d'Europe, à Port-Cros, dans le sud-est de la France. Un modèle...

[1/3] AFP - Créé en 1963, Port-Cros est la plus ancienne aire marine protégée d’Europe. Ses 2.900 ha marins sont strictement régulés, permettant le retour de nombreuses espèces comme le mérou ou la posidonie. Un modèle unique entre Saint-Tropez et Marseille. #geography #marinereserve #biodiversity

#solutions #greatnews #greatnews4u #puertorico #marinereserve #optimism #conservation #biodiversity

The #baliholiday continues in the beautiful tranquil Gili islands.
I found on the main beach a derelict sign showing that it's actually a #marinereserve.

People don't know obviously as I see many people with fishing lines. So I get the word out.

In red areas, even snorkeling is out.

Aqaba Marine Reserve Advances UNESCO Nomination, Expands Coral Conservation Efforts ...

Aqaba Marine Reserve Advances UNESCO Nomination, Expands Coral Conservation Efforts
->MSN News | #Conservation #MarineReserve #Coral | More info from EcoSearch

After the storm, the kelp forest breathes again!

A week ago, a storm struck the waters of #GoatIsland #MarineReserve, Aotearoa.

The marine life vanished, scattered or hidden for shelter. But today, an old friend swam beside me for a few peaceful, unforgettable minutes.

#OceanLife #StingrayMoments

The seafloor around the remote British Overseas Territory of Ascension Island just got mapped, some of it for the first time ever...Looking at this cheerful looking crew in shorts , I wonder what it would be like to be one of the Ascension Island Government […]

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Moored above the #NylonPool near #BuccooReef
#Trinidad and #Tobago #WestIndies
photo by Steve Spanoudis
from the collections at theotherpages.org

White #Coral #sand and warm, perfectly clear water

#travel #swimming #snorkeling #reef #Carribbean #ocean #marinepark #marinereserve #buccoo #ecosystem

Tanzania's marine reserves offer long-term benefits to communities, study finds The Tanzanian government established five marine protected areas (MPAs) in the 1990s to safeguard falling fish populations. Over nearly 20 years, villages near these protected areas became less dependent on fishing and agriculture and saw their standard of living rise...

Tanzania's marine reserves offer long-term benefits to communities, study finds
->Mongabay | #MarineReserve | More info from EcoSearch

New marine reserve established off Zanzibar Zanzibar has welcomed its latest marine reserve – the Changuu-Bawe Marine Conservation Area – around Bawe Island in the Zanzibar Channel. The country’s sixth Marine Protected Area now prohibits all fishing activities and hopes to grant coral reefs better protection...

New marine reserve established off Zanzibar
->Oceanographic | #MarineReserve | More info from EcoSearch

@cnn.com @kaitlancollins.bsky.social With Elon,African born president of United States has #FAA fined #StarShip rocket blow up over #TurksAndCaicos #MarineReserve, scattering debris across it,needing to be cleaned.This task would take years,how does he have time to destroy US airline infrastructure?

Nature : les îles Marshall inaugurent leur première réserve maritime, plus grande que la Suisse La présidente des îles Marshall, dans le Pacifique ouest, a annoncé mardi la création de la première réserve marine...

[1/3] Les îles Marshall annoncent la création de leur première réserve marine nationale couvrant 48.000 km², soit 7000 km² de + que la Suisse. Cette réserve protège les atolls de Bikar et Bokak importants par ex. pour la nidification des tortues vertes. #geography #marinereserve

🧪 #Science #Marine #MarineReserve #Reserves #Protection